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Search for Way Through Fiscal Impasse Turns to the Senate
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
With little more than a week left to avert huge tax increases and spending cuts, attention moved to the less polarized chamber where several Republicans openly back an agreement.
Gun Makers Use Home Leverage in Connecticut
By RAY RIVERA and ALISON LEIGH COWAN
A cradle of the American gun industry, firearm companies have defeated past gun-control measures by warning that they will close factories in the face of tighter regulations.
In Reviving Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Despite billions of dollars spent - and billions more allocated for Haiti but unspent - rebuilding has barely begun and 357,785 Haitians still languish in 496 tent camps.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"If you ask what went right and what went wrong, the answer is, most everything went wrong. There needs to be some accountability for all that money."
MICHÈLE PIERRE-LOUIS, a former prime minister of Haiti, where 350,000 people still live in tent camps nearly three years after an earthquake, despite billions of dollars in aid.