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Lama Sarhan and her family moved to Amman, Jordan, after a rocket hit their home in Syria.

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

MAFRAQ, Jordan — Wateringthe plants on her balcony backhome in Syria this spring, WedadSarhan took delight in how theywere stirring to life after the win-ter months. A jasmine tree filledthe small balcony with its sweetscent. An apricot tree, plantedeight springs earlier, was blos-soming for the first time.

A rocket exploded on the balco-ny minutes later. Ms. Sarhan wasstanding inside. Two of her

granddaughters were wounded.Their father, Hasan, quickly car-ried one girl to a nearby clinic,unaware that the other lay moregrievously wounded under a pileof clothes.

Ms. Sarhan found her. “I pulledher out by her shirt,” she re-called. “I took her in my arms,and then I started screaming,‘There’s no leg!’”

That evening, the Sarhans fledDara’a, their hometown in south-western Syria, and crossed intoJordan, three generations of refu-gees. Their large clan, already

torn apart by the Syrian civil war,was now scattered across Jordanand Syria.

Today, the Sarhans in Jordan,like other Syrian refugees castinto an increasingly unwelcom-ing region, make vague plansabout returning to a homelandthat has all but vanished. But thewar, raging just half an hour’sdrive from here, relentlesslyforces the Sarhans to remaketheir lives in this new home.

They are venturing uneasilyinto their new neighborhoods,

Scattered by War, Syrians Struggle to Start Over

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By JONATHAN WEISMAN and ASHLEY PARKER

WASHINGTON — Congres-sional Republicans conceded de-feat on Wednesday in their bitterbudget fight with President Oba-ma over the new health care lawas the House and Senate ap-proved last-minute legislationending a disruptive 16-day gov-ernment shutdown and extend-ing federal borrowing power toavert a financial default with po-tentially worldwide economic re-percussions.

With the Treasury Departmentwarning that it could run out ofmoney to pay national obliga-tions within a day, the Senate vot-ed overwhelmingly on Wednes-day evening, 81 to 18, to approve aproposal hammered out by thechamber’s Republican and Dem-ocratic leaders after the Houseon Tuesday was unable to moveforward with any resolution. TheHouse followed suit a few hourslater, voting 285 to 144 to approvethe Senate plan, which wouldfund the government throughJan. 15 and raise the debt limitthrough Feb. 7.

Mr. Obama signed the billabout 12:30 a.m. Thursday.

Most House Republicans op-posed the bill, but 87 voted to sup-port it. The breakdown showedthat Republican leaders werewilling to violate their informalrule against advancing bills thatdo not have majority Republicansupport in order to end the shut-down. All 198 Democrats votingsupported the measure.

Mr. Obama, speaking shortlyafter the Senate vote, praisedCongress but said he hoped thedamaging standoff would not berepeated.

“We’ve got to get out of thehabit of governing by crisis,” saidMr. Obama, who urged Congressto proceed not only with new

SHUTDOWN IS OVER Obama Swiftly Signs

Measure Lifting the

Debt Limit

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Speaker John A. Boehner before voting Wednesday night. He told his members to hold their heads high, go home and regroup.

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By JEREMY W. PETERS

WASHINGTON — For the Re-publicans who despise PresidentObama’s health care law, the lastfew weeks should have been asingular moment to turn its prob-lem-plagued rollout into an argu-ment against it. Instead, in a fu-tile campaign to strip the law offederal money, the party focusedharsh scrutiny on its own divi-sions, hurt its national standingand undermined its ability to winconcessions from Democrats.Then they surrendered almostunconditionally.

“If you look back in time andevaluate the last couple of weeks,it should be titled ‘The Time ofGreat Lost Opportunity,’” saidSenator Lindsey Graham ofSouth Carolina, among the manyRepublicans who argued thatsupport for the health care lawwould collapse once the publicsaw how disastrous it really was.

“It has been the best twoweeks for the Democratic Partyin recent times because theywere out of the spotlight anddidn’t have to showcase theirideas,” Mr. Graham added.

Now, near the end of a govern-ing crisis that crippled Washing-ton and dismayed a nation al-ready deeply cynical about its po-litical leaders, Republicans arestruggling to answer even themost basic questions about thecause and effect of what has tran-spired over the last few weeks.

They disagree over how, oreven whether, they might growfrom the experience. Many couldnot comprehend how they failedto prevent such avoidable, self-in-flicted wounds. Others could notexplain why it took so much dam-age, to their party and the mil-lions of people inconveniencedand worse by the shutdown, toend up right where so many ofthem expected.

“Someone would have to ex-plain that to me,” said SenatorJohn McCain, Republican of Ari-zona. “I knew how it was going to

Losing a Lot

To Get Little

NEWS ANALYSIS

This article is by Annie Lowrey,Nathaniel Popper and Nelson D.Schwartz.

WASHINGTON — Containersof goods idling at ports. Reducedsales at sandwich shops in down-town Washington. Canceled va-cations to national parks and todestinations abroad. Reducedcorporate earnings forecasts.Higher interest payments onshort-term debt.

Even with the shutdown of theUnited States government andthe threat of a default coming toan end, the cost of Congress’sgridlock has already run well intothe billions, economists estimate.And the total will continue to

grow even after the shutdownends, partly because of uncer-tainty about whether lawmakersmight reach another deadlockearly next year.

A complete accounting willtake months once the govern-ment reopens and the Treasuryresumes adding to the country’sdebt. But economists said thatthe intransigence of House Re-publicans would take a bite out offourth-quarter growth, which willaffect employment, businessearnings and borrowing costs.The ripple from Washington willbe felt around the globe.

“We saw huge effects duringthe summer of 2011, with consum-er confidence hitting a 31-yearlow in August and third-quarter

G.D.P. growing just 1.4 percent,”said Beth Ann Bovino, chief Unit-ed States economist at Standard& Poor’s, referring to earlierbrinkmanship over the debt ceil-ing. “Given that this round ofdebt ceiling negotiations” tookplace during a shutdown, shesaid, “the impact on the economycould be even more severe.”

Economists say the shutdownand near breach of the debt ceil-ing would be unlikely to derail therecovery, now that Congress re-

solved the impasse late Wednes-day. In the weeks after the gov-ernment reopens, there should bea modest rebound as employeesspend their paychecks for thedays they were on furlough andthe government rushes to pro-cess backlogged orders.

Still, many businesses mightnot recover all the money theywould have made had the gov-ernment operated normally, saidShai Akabas of the BipartisanPolicy Center, a research groupbased in Washington.

The two-week shutdown hastrimmed about 0.3 percentagepoint from fourth-quartergrowth, or about $12 billion, the

Gridlock Has Cost U.S. Billions, and the Meter Is Still Running

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INVESTORS’ TEMPERED RELIEF

Stocks rallied, but investors fret-ted that the budget dispute waslikely to be back. Page B1.

By VINDU GOEL

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebookhas loosened its privacy rules forteenagers as a debate swirls overonline threats to children frombullies and sexual predators.

The move, announced onWednesday, allows teenagers topost status updates, videos andimages that can be seen by any-one, not just their friends or peo-ple who know their friends.

While Facebook described thechange as giving teenagers, ages13 to 17, more choice, big money isat stake for the company and itsadvertisers. Marketers are keento reach impressionable youngconsumers, and the more publicinformation they have aboutthose users, the better they areable to target their pitches.

“It’s all about monetizationand being where the public dia-logue is,” said Jeff Chester, exec-utive director of the Center forDigital Democracy, a group thatlobbies against marketing to chil-dren. “To the extent that Face-book encourages people to puteverything out there, it’s incredi-bly attractive to Facebook’s ad-vertisers.”

But that public dialogue nowincludes youths who are growingup in a world of social media and,often, learning the hard way that

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Facebook Eases

Privacy Rules

For TeenagersBy KATE ZERNIKE

Mayor Cory A. Booker of New-ark easily won New Jersey’s spe-cial Senate election on Wednes-day, finally rising to an office thatmeasures up to his national pro-file.

He will arrive in Washingtonalready one of the country’s mostprominent Democrats, and itsbest-known black politician otherthan President Obama, whobacked him aggressively. Mr.Booker’s fund-raising prowessputs him on course to lead hisparty’s campaign efforts in theSenate, and he has been men-tioned as a possible vice-presi-dential pick for 2016.

With 99 percent of the pre-cincts reporting, Mr. Booker had55 percent of the vote to 44 per-cent for Steve Lonegan, a Repub-lican former mayor of Bogota,N.J., and state director of the con-servative group Americans forProsperity, according to The As-sociated Press. Still, the cam-paign gave a wider audience tocertain facets of Mr. Booker thatlong ago began to prompt eye-rolling among his constituents.

With a Twitter following sixtimes as large as the city he hasled, Mr. Booker was known out-side Newark largely for his ap-pearances on late-night televi-sion and his heroics: rescuing aneighbor from a burning build-ing, shoveling out snowbound

cars, living on a food stamp diet.The campaign gave him less

flattering national attention forhis Twitter exchanges with adancer in a vegan strip club, andrenewed old questions aboutwhether he embellished an oft-told story about a moving en-counter with a drug dealer, whomay or may not have existed(Mr. Booker called him “anarchetype”). He had to resignfrom a media company that Sil-icon Valley investors had paidhim millions to start — but notbefore the resignation of the 15-year-old son of a television exec-utive, whom Mr. Booker had puton the company’s board.

Having started his political ca-reer by moving into a Newark

Victorious in Rocky Senate Bid, Booker Gets Job to Fit His Profile

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Cory A. Booker at a victoryparty on Wednesday night.

REPUBLICANS BACK DOWN, ENDING BUDGET CRISIS

A session on the country’s nuclear pro-gram was called substantive. PAGE A4

Seeing Promise in Iran Talks

A Moscow judge suspended a five-yearsentence against Aleksei A. Navalny, ananticorruption crusader. PAGE A10

INTERNATIONAL A4-17

Putin Opponent Is Spared

The billionaire Pierre Omidyar is back-ing a“mass media” venture. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-13

From eBay to Journalism

Part of Water Tunnel No. 3, which cansupply all of Manhattan, is open afterdecades of fitful work. PAGE A26

NEW YORK A26-31

New Route for City’s Water

Michael Kimmelman envisions changein the look of New York. PAGE C1

At a Mayoral Crossroads

Duke Riley’s pigeons tempt fate and le-gal barriers as they fly from Cuba bear-ing cigars and cameras. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

A Traveling Exhibition. Really.

In the N.L. playoffs, the Dodgers avoid-ed elimination by defeating the Cardi-nals, 6-4. The A.L. series is tied after theTigers beat the Red Sox, 7-3. PAGE B14

SPORTSTHURSDAY B14-18

Dodgers Still Alive; Tigers Win

The rooms of Giorgio Armani’s expan-sive home in Milan helped fill in theblanks that remained after an interviewwith the designer. PAGE E1

THURSDAY STYLES E1-10

At Home With Armani

Nicholas D. Kristof PAGE A33

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A32-33

A novelist finds that the secret to happi-ness is collecting. PAGE D1

HOME D1-10

Confessions of a Collector

The government for the first time is tell-ing a defendant that evidence camefrom warrantless spying. PAGE A3

NATIONAL A3, A18-25

A Legal Shift on Wiretaps

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