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By ASHLEY PARKER and JONATHAN MARTIN WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved the most significant overhaul of the na- tion’s immigration laws in a gen- eration with broad support gen- erated by a sense among leading Republicans that the party need- ed to join with Democrats to re- move a wedge between Repub- licans and Hispanic voters. The strong 68-to-32 vote in the often polarized Senate tossed the issue into the House, where the Republican leadership has said that it will not take up the Senate measure and is instead focused on much narrower legislation that would not provide a path to citizenship for the 11 million un- authorized immigrants in the country. Party leaders hope that the Senate action will put pres- sure on the House. Leading up to the final votes, which the senators cast at their desks to mark the import of the moment, members of the biparti- san “Gang of Eight,” who drafted the framework of the legislation, took to the Senate floor to make a final argument for the measure. Among them was Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, who is one of his party’s leading Hispanic voices. When Mr. Rubio finished, the other senators in the group surrounded him on the floor, patting him on the back and offering words of encourage- ment. “Good job,” one said. “I’m proud of you,” another offered. The future will show whether voters in Republican presidential SENATE, 68 TO 32, PASSES OVERHAUL FOR IMMIGRATION RARE BIPARTISAN EFFORT Issue Goes to the House, Which Will Look at a Narrower Bill Continued on Page A18 By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM The economy is the victim of a little misunderstanding, Federal Reserve officials said on Thurs- day, telling investors who have sent borrowing costs soaring that they are misguided in believing the Fed’s stimulus campaign is about to wane. The message, delivered in three separate but similar speeches, reflects the Fed’s frus- tration with a broad rise in in- terest rates that began in May and accelerated after remarks last week by the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke. “I don’t want to be too cute about a serious matter,” Dennis P. Lockhart, president of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said in Marietta, Ga., “but to make an analogy, it seems to me the chairman said we’ll use the patch — and use it flexibly — and some in the markets reacted as if he said ‘cold turkey.’” The speeches, including one by William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and one of Mr. Bernanke’s closest allies, appeared to make an impression, helped along by upbeat domestic economic data and an easing of concerns about Chinese financial conditions. Stocks rose modestly, ending up for the third day in a row, while interest rates ticked downward, inverting the recent pattern. On Wall Street, the broad Standard & Poor’s 500-stock in- dex had risen for most of the first five months of the year, bringing Continued on Page A3 FED OFFICIALS TRY TO EASE CONCERN OF STIMULUS END MOVE TO CALM MARKETS Shares Rally on Vows That Economic Data Will Guide Policy Continued on Page A23 By J. DAVID GOODMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO The Bloomberg administration immediately came out swinging on Thursday against a pair of bills approved by the City Council intended to oversee or curtail the Police Department, vowing to veto the measures and to do what it could to ensure that at least one of the vetoes would stand. In separate appearances, May- or Michael R. Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, sought to portray the bills — one aimed at increasing oversight of the Police Depart- ment and the other at expanding the ability to sue over racial pro- filing by officers — as divisive tools that would undermine the police’s efforts to get guns off the streets and continue to lower the murder rate. The threat of lawsuits, the city fears, could end the department’s broad use of stop-and-frisk meas- ures, the crime-fighting tool most closely associated with the Bloomberg administration. Behind the scenes, the mayor’s office was already strategizing how to undo the profiling bill. Aides to the mayor — who made little attempt to hide their fury over the two bills, which are known together as the Communi- ty Safety Act — conceded there was little chance of derailing the inspector general bill, which passed by a sizable margin. But they are determined to scuttle the profiling legislation; it drew Mayor’s Office Moves to Undo Bill Aimed at Police Profiling ROBERT STOLARIK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Raymond W. Kelly, the New York police commissioner. U(D54G1D)y+?!.!,!#!@ Antagonists over same-sex marriage prepare to resume state-by-state battles. Page A16. What’s Next President Obama suggested that frus- tration with China and Russia for appar- ently helping Edward J. Snowden, who leaked government secrets, evade ex- tradition was not worth hurting rela- tions with those countries. PAGE A6 INTERNATIONAL A4-11 Obama Plays Down Snowden President Mohamed Morsi moved to preserve order and confront opponents who are planning mass protests calling for his ouster this weekend. PAGE A9 A Show of Power in Egypt NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, is finally near the edge of the so- lar system, but it turns out that figuring out where that border lies is trickier than scientists thought. PAGE A19 NATIONAL A12-19 Going, Going, Not Quite Gone Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Bos- ton Marathon bombing suspect, was in- dicted on 30 counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction. PAGE A12 Charges Filed in Bombing Case The Obama administration plans to sus- pend trade privileges for Bangladesh over concerns about factory safety and labor rights. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-9 Trade Pressure on Bangladesh A symbol of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its colorful metal admission tags that many visitors wore with pride, will be dropped as of Monday. PAGE C21 WEEKEND C1-28 The Met Sheds Its Buttons The Port Authority Bus Terminal in Mahattan could soon see its most signif- icant overhaul since the late 1970s, when it was expanded to keep pace with rider- ship, the authority announced. PAGE A21 NEW YORK A21-25 Plan to Spruce Up Bus Hub Paul Krugman PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 By MICHAEL D. SHEAR DAKAR, Senegal — Barack Obama had been a United States senator for just weeks in early 2005 when Oprah Winfrey offered to carry a message for him to Nelson Mandela, the iconic South African leader. Mr. Obama disappeared into a back room in Ms. Winfrey’s tele- vision studio to write the note, but he was gone so long that his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, popped his head in after half an hour. “You’ve got to give me some time here,” Mr. Obama, pen in hand, told Mr. Gibbs, who re- called the moment recently. “I can’t just wing a note to Nelson Mandela.” Mr. Obama had been hoping to have his first face-to-face meet- ing as president with the ailing 94-year-old leader during a three- country, weeklong trip to Africa that began on Wednesday. But Mr. Mandela was hospitalized on June 8 for a chronic lung in- fection, and on Thursday he re- mained in critical but stable con- dition. A meeting between Mr. Man- dela and Mr. Obama would have been rich with symbolism and symmetry for people on both con- tinents: two men from different generations who made history as the first black presidents of na- tions with deep racial divides. Both embraced a cool pragma- tism in their attempt to be post- racial leaders, and both have in- spired as well as disappointed many supporters. Mr. Mandela has long been a beacon for Mr. Obama, who re- counted again on Thursday how the revolution unleashed by Mr. Mandela a world away had in- spired his own activism. Friends of Mr. Obama say that for him and many of his contemporaries, the fight against apartheid was the equivalent of the civil rights movement of an earlier genera- tion. “My first act of political activ- ism was when I was at Occidental College,” Mr. Obama said Thurs- day at a news conference here in Dakar, referring to a brief speech he gave at the time. “I got in- volved in the anti-apartheid movement back in 1979-80 be- cause I was inspired by what was In Mandela, Obama Found a Beacon Who Inspired From Afar DAVID KATZ Barack Obama met Nelson Mandela in Washington in 2005. Continued on Page A8 By SIMON ROMERO RIO DE JANEIRO — One poli- tician was elected to Brazil’s Con- gress while under investigation for murder after having an ad- versary killed with a chain saw. Another is wanted by Interpol af- ter being found guilty of diverting more than $10 million from a pub- lic road project to offshore bank accounts. And Brazil’s highest court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal, con- victed another congressman of having poor female constituents, who could not afford more chil- dren, surgically sterilized in ex- change for their votes. Across the nation, protesters keep taking to the streets by the thousands, venting their anger at a broad range of politicians and problems, including high taxes and deplorable public services. But a special ire has been re- served for Congress and its pen- chant for sheltering dozens of generously paid legislators who have been charged — and some- times even convicted — of crimes like money laundering, bribery, drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder. “Congress is without a doubt the most despised institution in Brazil,” said Maurício Santoro, a political scientist. “A good deal of this hatred is related to the fact that Congress has a tradition of preventing its own members con- victed of crimes from ever going to jail.” Almost 200 legislators, or a third of Brazil’s Congress, are facing charges in trials overseen by the Supreme Federal Tribunal, according to documents compiled by Congresso em Foco, a promi- nent watchdog group. The charges range from siphoning off public funds to far more serious claims of employing slave labor on a cattle estate or ordering the kidnapping of three Roman Cath- olic priests as part of a land dis- pute in the Amazon. Scholars of Brazil’s judicial Public Rage Catching Up With Brazil’s Congress PAULO WHITAKER/REUTERS A protester faced off against the police before a soccer match in Fortaleza, Brazil, on Thursday. Continued on Page A3 President Obama visited a site in Senegal where slaves were led onto ships for America. Page A4. The President in Africa A lawsuit said Jon Corzine failed to “dili- gently supervise” MF Global. PAGE B1 Suit Faults Corzine in Failure VOL. CLXII .. No. 56,181 © 2013 The New York Times NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013 Late Edition Today, cloudy skies, showers, thun- derstorms, high 81. Tonight, show- ers, thunderstorms, low 70. Tomor- row, a shower or thunderstorm, high 84. Weather map, Page B9. $2.50 The Nets have agreed to a deal that will bring them the Celtics’ Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, a trade that could make the Nets a title contender and Boston a rebuilding team. PAGE B12 SPORTSFRIDAY B12-18 Nets to Acquire Celtics Stars By ADAM LIPTAK WASHINGTON — Viewed in isolation, the Supreme Court term that just ended had ele- ments of modesty. The court de- clined to do away with affirma- tive action, gave Congress an- other shot at salvaging the Vot- ing Rights Act and refused to find a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. But glancing at an end-of term snapshot can be misleading. The more meaningful way to look at the court is as a movie, one star- ring Chief Justice John G. Rob- erts Jr. as a canny strategist with a tough side, and his eyes on the horizon. He is just 58 and is likely to lead the court for another two decades or more. Chief Justice Roberts has proved adept at persuading the court’s more liberal justices to join compromise opinions, allow- ing him to cite their concessions years later as the basis for close- ly divided and deeply polarizing conservative victories. His patient and methodical ap- proach has allowed him to estab- lish a robustly conservative record while ranking second only to Justice Anthony Kennedy as the justice most frequently in the majority. “This court takes the long view,” said Kannon K. Shanmu- gam, a lawyer with Williams & Connolly in Washington. “It pro- ceeds in incremental steps.” On Tuesday, when the court struck down a part of the Voting Rights Act, Chief Justice Roberts harvested seeds he had planted four years before. In his 2009 Steady Move To the Right Roberts Pulls Court Along Step by Step NEWS ANALYSIS Continued on Page A16 The N.F.L. player Aaron Hernandez is accused in one killing and is being in- vestigated in two others. PAGE B12 Player Linked to 2 More Deaths
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By ASHLEY PARKER and JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON — The Senateon Thursday approved the mostsignificant overhaul of the na-tion’s immigration laws in a gen-eration with broad support gen-erated by a sense among leadingRepublicans that the party need-ed to join with Democrats to re-move a wedge between Repub-licans and Hispanic voters.
The strong 68-to-32 vote in theoften polarized Senate tossed theissue into the House, where theRepublican leadership has saidthat it will not take up the Senatemeasure and is instead focusedon much narrower legislationthat would not provide a path tocitizenship for the 11 million un-authorized immigrants in thecountry. Party leaders hope thatthe Senate action will put pres-sure on the House.
Leading up to the final votes,which the senators cast at theirdesks to mark the import of themoment, members of the biparti-san “Gang of Eight,” who draftedthe framework of the legislation,took to the Senate floor to make afinal argument for the measure.Among them was Senator MarcoRubio, Republican of Florida,who is one of his party’s leadingHispanic voices. When Mr. Rubiofinished, the other senators in thegroup surrounded him on thefloor, patting him on the back andoffering words of encourage-ment. “Good job,” one said. “I’mproud of you,” another offered.
The future will show whethervoters in Republican presidential
SENATE, 68 TO 32,PASSES OVERHAULFOR IMMIGRATION
RARE BIPARTISAN EFFORT
Issue Goes to the House,
Which Will Look at
a Narrower Bill
Continued on Page A18
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
The economy is the victim of alittle misunderstanding, FederalReserve officials said on Thurs-day, telling investors who havesent borrowing costs soaring thatthey are misguided in believingthe Fed’s stimulus campaign isabout to wane.
The message, delivered inthree separate but similarspeeches, reflects the Fed’s frus-tration with a broad rise in in-terest rates that began in Mayand accelerated after remarkslast week by the Fed’s chairman,Ben S. Bernanke.
“I don’t want to be too cuteabout a serious matter,” DennisP. Lockhart, president of the Fed-eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta,said in Marietta, Ga., “but tomake an analogy, it seems to methe chairman said we’ll use thepatch — and use it flexibly — andsome in the markets reacted as ifhe said ‘cold turkey.’”
The speeches, including one byWilliam C. Dudley, president ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork and one of Mr. Bernanke’sclosest allies, appeared to makean impression, helped along byupbeat domestic economic dataand an easing of concerns aboutChinese financial conditions.Stocks rose modestly, ending upfor the third day in a row, whileinterest rates ticked downward,inverting the recent pattern.
On Wall Street, the broadStandard & Poor’s 500-stock in-dex had risen for most of the firstfive months of the year, bringing
Continued on Page A3
FED OFFICIALS TRYTO EASE CONCERNOF STIMULUS END
MOVE TO CALM MARKETS
Shares Rally on Vows
That Economic Data
Will Guide Policy
Continued on Page A23
By J. DAVID GOODMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO
The Bloomberg administrationimmediately came out swingingon Thursday against a pair ofbills approved by the City Councilintended to oversee or curtail thePolice Department, vowing toveto the measures and to do whatit could to ensure that at least oneof the vetoes would stand.
In separate appearances, May-or Michael R. Bloomberg and hispolice commissioner, RaymondW. Kelly, sought to portray thebills — one aimed at increasingoversight of the Police Depart-ment and the other at expandingthe ability to sue over racial pro-filing by officers — as divisivetools that would undermine thepolice’s efforts to get guns off thestreets and continue to lower themurder rate.
The threat of lawsuits, the cityfears, could end the department’sbroad use of stop-and-frisk meas-ures, the crime-fighting tool mostclosely associated with theBloomberg administration.
Behind the scenes, the mayor’soffice was already strategizinghow to undo the profiling bill.
Aides to the mayor — whomade little attempt to hide theirfury over the two bills, which areknown together as the Communi-ty Safety Act — conceded therewas little chance of derailing theinspector general bill, whichpassed by a sizable margin. Butthey are determined to scuttlethe profiling legislation; it drew
Mayor’s Office Moves to Undo
Bill Aimed at Police Profiling
ROBERT STOLARIK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Raymond W. Kelly, the NewYork police commissioner.
U(D54G1D)y+?!.!,!#!@
Antagonists over same-sexmarriage prepare to resumestate-by-state battles. Page A16.
What’s Next
President Obama suggested that frus-tration with China and Russia for appar-ently helping Edward J. Snowden, wholeaked government secrets, evade ex-tradition was not worth hurting rela-tions with those countries. PAGE A6
INTERNATIONAL A4-11
Obama Plays Down Snowden
President Mohamed Morsi moved topreserve order and confront opponentswho are planning mass protests callingfor his ouster this weekend. PAGE A9
A Show of Power in Egypt
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launchedin 1977, is finally near the edge of the so-lar system, but it turns out that figuringout where that border lies is trickierthan scientists thought. PAGE A19
NATIONAL A12-19
Going, Going, Not Quite Gone
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Bos-ton Marathon bombing suspect, was in-dicted on 30 counts, including use of aweapon of mass destruction. PAGE A12
Charges Filed in Bombing Case
The Obama administration plans to sus-pend trade privileges for Bangladeshover concerns about factory safety andlabor rights. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-9
Trade Pressure on Bangladesh
A symbol of the Metropolitan Museumof Art, its colorful metal admission tagsthat many visitors wore with pride, willbe dropped as of Monday. PAGE C21
WEEKEND C1-28
The Met Sheds Its Buttons
The Port Authority Bus Terminal inMahattan could soon see its most signif-icant overhaul since the late 1970s, whenit was expanded to keep pace with rider-ship, the authority announced. PAGE A21
NEW YORK A21-25
Plan to Spruce Up Bus Hub
Paul Krugman PAGE A27
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
DAKAR, Senegal — BarackObama had been a United Statessenator for just weeks in early2005 when Oprah Winfrey offeredto carry a message for him toNelson Mandela, the iconic SouthAfrican leader.
Mr. Obama disappeared into aback room in Ms. Winfrey’s tele-vision studio to write the note,but he was gone so long that hisspokesman, Robert Gibbs,popped his head in after half anhour.
“You’ve got to give me sometime here,” Mr. Obama, pen inhand, told Mr. Gibbs, who re-called the moment recently. “Ican’t just wing a note to NelsonMandela.”
Mr. Obama had been hoping tohave his first face-to-face meet-ing as president with the ailing94-year-old leader during a three-country, weeklong trip to Africathat began on Wednesday. ButMr. Mandela was hospitalized onJune 8 for a chronic lung in-fection, and on Thursday he re-mained in critical but stable con-dition.
A meeting between Mr. Man-dela and Mr. Obama would havebeen rich with symbolism andsymmetry for people on both con-
tinents: two men from differentgenerations who made history asthe first black presidents of na-tions with deep racial divides.Both embraced a cool pragma-tism in their attempt to be post-racial leaders, and both have in-spired as well as disappointedmany supporters.
Mr. Mandela has long been abeacon for Mr. Obama, who re-counted again on Thursday howthe revolution unleashed by Mr.Mandela a world away had in-spired his own activism. Friendsof Mr. Obama say that for himand many of his contemporaries,the fight against apartheid wasthe equivalent of the civil rightsmovement of an earlier genera-tion.
“My first act of political activ-ism was when I was at OccidentalCollege,” Mr. Obama said Thurs-day at a news conference here inDakar, referring to a brief speechhe gave at the time. “I got in-volved in the anti-apartheidmovement back in 1979-80 be-cause I was inspired by what was
In Mandela, Obama Found a Beacon Who Inspired From Afar
DAVID KATZ
Barack Obama met Nelson Mandela in Washington in 2005.
Continued on Page A8
By SIMON ROMERO
RIO DE JANEIRO — One poli-tician was elected to Brazil’s Con-gress while under investigationfor murder after having an ad-versary killed with a chain saw.Another is wanted by Interpol af-ter being found guilty of divertingmore than $10 million from a pub-lic road project to offshore bankaccounts.
And Brazil’s highest court, theSupreme Federal Tribunal, con-victed another congressman ofhaving poor female constituents,who could not afford more chil-dren, surgically sterilized in ex-change for their votes.
Across the nation, protesterskeep taking to the streets by thethousands, venting their anger ata broad range of politicians andproblems, including high taxesand deplorable public services.But a special ire has been re-served for Congress and its pen-chant for sheltering dozens ofgenerously paid legislators whohave been charged — and some-times even convicted — of crimeslike money laundering, bribery,drug trafficking, kidnapping andmurder.
“Congress is without a doubtthe most despised institution inBrazil,” said Maurício Santoro, apolitical scientist. “A good deal ofthis hatred is related to the fact
that Congress has a tradition ofpreventing its own members con-victed of crimes from ever goingto jail.”
Almost 200 legislators, or athird of Brazil’s Congress, arefacing charges in trials overseenby the Supreme Federal Tribunal,according to documents compiledby Congresso em Foco, a promi-nent watchdog group. Thecharges range from siphoning offpublic funds to far more seriousclaims of employing slave laboron a cattle estate or ordering thekidnapping of three Roman Cath-olic priests as part of a land dis-pute in the Amazon.
Scholars of Brazil’s judicial
Public Rage Catching Up With Brazil’s Congress
PAULO WHITAKER/REUTERS
A protester faced off against the police before a soccer match in Fortaleza, Brazil, on Thursday.
Continued on Page A3
President Obama visited a sitein Senegal where slaves were ledonto ships for America. Page A4.
The President in Africa
A lawsuit said Jon Corzine failed to “dili-gently supervise” MF Global. PAGE B1
Suit Faults Corzine in Failure
VOL. CLXII . . No. 56,181 © 2013 The New York Times NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013
Late EditionToday, cloudy skies, showers, thun-derstorms, high 81. Tonight, show-ers, thunderstorms, low 70. Tomor-row, a shower or thunderstorm,high 84. Weather map, Page B9.
$2.50
The Nets have agreed to a deal that willbring them the Celtics’ Kevin Garnettand Paul Pierce, a trade that could makethe Nets a title contender and Boston arebuilding team. PAGE B12
SPORTSFRIDAY B12-18
Nets to Acquire Celtics Stars
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — Viewed inisolation, the Supreme Courtterm that just ended had ele-ments of modesty. The court de-clined to do away with affirma-tive action, gave Congress an-other shot at salvaging the Vot-ing Rights Act and refused to finda constitutional right to same-sexmarriage.
But glancing at an end-of termsnapshot can be misleading. Themore meaningful way to look atthe court is as a movie, one star-ring Chief Justice John G. Rob-erts Jr. as a canny strategist witha tough side, and his eyes on thehorizon. He is just 58 and is likelyto lead the court for another twodecades or more.
Chief Justice Roberts hasproved adept at persuading thecourt’s more liberal justices tojoin compromise opinions, allow-ing him to cite their concessionsyears later as the basis for close-ly divided and deeply polarizingconservative victories.
His patient and methodical ap-proach has allowed him to estab-lish a robustly conservativerecord while ranking second onlyto Justice Anthony Kennedy asthe justice most frequently in themajority.
“This court takes the longview,” said Kannon K. Shanmu-gam, a lawyer with Williams &Connolly in Washington. “It pro-ceeds in incremental steps.”
On Tuesday, when the courtstruck down a part of the VotingRights Act, Chief Justice Robertsharvested seeds he had plantedfour years before. In his 2009
Steady Move
To the Right
Roberts Pulls Court
Along Step by Step
NEWS ANALYSIS
Continued on Page A16
The N.F.L. player Aaron Hernandez isaccused in one killing and is being in-vestigated in two others. PAGE B12
Player Linked to 2 More Deaths
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