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 **** __Senate, Weakly, Backs New Term for Bernanke__ **** By SEWELL CHAN The Senate vote, 70-30, was a victory for President Obama, but signaled how much the Fed has become the object of outrage over high unemployment and bailouts.

**** __His Health Bill Stalled, Obama Juggles an Altered Agenda__ **** By CARL HULSE and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Democrats will try to act first on jobs, deficits and bank regulation before returning to the president’s top priority from last year, an overhaul of health care.

**** __Doctor’s Killer Puts Abortion on the Stand__ **** By MONICA DAVEY Scott Roeder’s lawyers want jurors to consider his opposition to abortion as a valid motive for murder. **** __Israel Signals Tougher Line on West Bank Protests__ **** By ISABEL KERSHNER The Israeli Army and security forces have recently begun clamping down, arresting scores of local organizers and activists and conducting nighttime raids on the homes of others.

**** __Battling an Image and Reality, Berlusconi Takes on the Mafia (Real and Fictional)__ **** By RACHEL DONADIO Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy unveiled a 10-point plan to fight organized crime and praised his government’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.

**** __War Plan for Karzai: Reach Out to Taliban__ **** By MARK LANDLER and ALISSA J. RUBIN At an international conference, Afghanistan’s president began a delicate diplomatic process that will carry great risks for both Afghanistan and the U.S. ****NEW ORLEANS JOURNAL**** **** __Bursting Pride in Super Bowl Team Replenishes a City__ **** By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON In a city that has been associated over the last four and a half years with divisiveness and suffering, the delirium over the Saints is pretty much unanimous.

**** __Administration Considers Moving Site of 9/11 Trial__ **** By SCOTT SHANE and BENJAMIN WEISER The Justice Department, facing mounting pressure from New York politicians, is exploring contingency sites for the trial of alleged terrorist conspirators.

**** __Preschools Add Brush-and-Spit to Day__ **** By KATIE ZEZIMA Massachusetts is the first state to require that toothbrush time be part of the color-nap-snack-and-play routine of preschools, and a debate has ensued. **** __Ford Profit Comes as Toyota Hits a Bump__ **** By NICK BUNKLEY Alan R. Mulally steered Ford to profitability after liberally borrowing from Toyota’s playbook.

**** __U.S. House Committee Plans Hearing on Toyota Recall__ **** By MICHELINE MAYNARD The committee wants Toyota and the highway safety agency to discuss when they first learned about potential safety defects and what they have done to resolve them.

**** __Europe Weighs Possibility of Debt Default in Greece__ **** By STEPHEN CASTLE and MATTHEW SALTMARSH After a decade of debt-fueled profligacy, Greece is confronting what amounts to a run on the bank, and European leaders are quietly weighing what to do.