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 **** __Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care__ **** By JEFF ZELENY The meeting would mark the first time in the long health care debate that leaders from both sides would be allowed to air their ideas publicly.

**** __Irked, Wall St. Hedges Its Bet on Democrats__ **** By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Bankers, unhappy at the president’s proposals for tighter financial regulations, are shifting donations to Republicans.

****SAINTS 31, COLTS 17**** **** __Champs? The Saints, Dat’s Who__ **** By JUDY BATTISTA The Saints, long associated with losing and disappointing their fans, defeated Peyton Manning and the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV and gave New Orleans a reason to cheer. ****SAROBI JOURNAL**** **** __Afghans Don’t Let a White-Knuckle Highway Slow Them__ **** By DEXTER FILKINS A road that runs through a mountain gorge between Kabul and Jalalabad holds its own terrors.

**** __Cry for Self-Rule by Tamils Is Muffled by Reality__ **** By LYDIA POLGREEN After decades of war, any hope of self-rule among Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority appears to have been dashed by last month’s presidential election.

**** __A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person__ **** By ELISABETH BUMILLER A new group of soldier-writers explore the futility of war — but wars that they for the most part support. **** __For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw__ **** By TAMAR LEWIN Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students.

**** __A Federal Effort to Push Junk Food Out of Schools__ **** By GARDINER HARRIS To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.

****SALT LAKE CITY JOURNAL**** **** __Huge Church Project Renews Downtown, and Debate__ **** By KIRK JOHNSON A $1 billion Mormon church-financed redevelopment project and a wave of recent church purchases in Salt Lake City have put a new focus on the line between culture and economics. **** __European Central Bank in a Squeeze__ **** By JACK EWING As alarm about Greek debt increases, a weakness of the European monetary union has been exposed: its lack of a strong political arm.

**** __Asia Sails Smoothly Through Debt Waters__ **** By VIKAS BAJAJ and KEITH BRADSHER The Asian financial crisis of 1997 led many countries to be more conservative about borrowing and spending than Western nations.

**** __Toyota Is Expected to Add 2010 Prius to Recalls__ **** By HIROKO TABUCHI The decision to recall at least 311,000 2010 Prius cars will be announced early this week, adding to the automaker’s woes after recalls of other models.