CMYK Nxxx,2015-02-25,A,001,Bs-4C,E2 Late Edition Today, sunny to partly cloudy, not as cold, high 37. Tonight, partly cloudy, very cold, low 16. Tomorrow, a much colder day, cloudy, high 24. Weather map, Page A24. VOL. CLXIV . . . No. 56,788 $2.50 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 © 2015 The New York Times G.O.P. CONCEDES FIGHT TO OBAMA ON INTERNET RULE In Greek Crisis, Rare Moment Of Consensus Conflict Set Aside as Bailout Is Extended NO FAST AND SLOW LANES An Advance for Net Neutrality, the Web Seen as a Utility By JIM YARDLEY ROME — For the past month, as Greece once again emerged as a threat to the global economy, a new generation of populist Greek leaders vowed to shatter Europe’s austerity politics in what threatened to become an unbridgeable divide with the European establishment, especially Germany. There were insults, predictions of calamity and accusations of double-dealing and deceit. Until Tuesday, when, with surprising ease, Greece and Europe suddenly made nice — at least for the moment. Eurozone finance ministers and other creditors agreed to extend the Greek bailout program for another four months, with caveats, after signing off on a reform plan hurriedly put forward by the Greek government. A tough confrontation that symbolized the polarized politics and deep economic divisions of Europe had taken a Kumbaya pause. It will probably not last long, and the fact that both sides are claiming victory underscores the fuzziness and fragility of the new agreement. Tuesday’s accord does not resolve Greece’s dire economic situation and pushes many of the major problems down the road. Nor has this latest Greek crisis forced Europe’s leaders to address the fundamental problems of the economic and political structure of the eurozone. Yet the political dynamic has undeniably changed. The new Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, and his leftist Syriza party were elected last month as insurgents, promising to end austerity in Greece and inspire a broader backlash across Europe. But to avoid a banking crisis and keep the loan money flowing, Mr. Tsipras discarded his confrontational stance and is now committed to pushing through structural reforms and tougher tax collections: positions long advocated by European creditors. In turn, Mr. Tsipras is claiming a measure of victory, symbolic and tangible, by forcing Europe to revise, if modestly, the terms of the bailout program and winning some commitments to address the “humanitarian crisis” created by austerity. His close advisers Continued on Page A3 By JONATHAN WEISMAN STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES A Senate Bid to Break an Impasse Mitch McConnell, third from left, proposed splitting legislation on Homeland Security funding and immigration. Page A14. Once ‘Fixed,’ Teenage Girl Leaves for ISIS, and Others Follow girls, Shamima Begum, had sent Now Pensions Twitter message to a woman on Quiet Young Scot Is aFeb. 15, a couple of days before LONDON — Aqsa Mahmood’s Haunt Christie family they left Britain, but declined to saw her as an intelligent Now Called a Top By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA By KATE ZERNIKE TRENTON — Four years ago, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey signed bipartisan legislation to overhaul public employee pensions and declared he had “fixed” the problem that was crushing state and local governments across the country with enormous debts. He held up New Jersey as a model. On Tuesday, he was back at the State House here talking about public employee pensions, pushing again “a bipartisan solution” that he vowed would be a “national model” to “once and for all fix this problem.” The broad outlines of his plan, like his language, were much the same as what he signed in 2011 — public employees will give up benefits, the state will promise to make full payments into the pension system. “We will not push this off,” he declared. “We will not leave it for another day, for another year, for another generation.” The fact that he was making essentially the same case about Continued on Page A20 and popular teenager who helped care for her three younger siblings and her grandparents at her home in Scotland. She listened to Coldplay, read Harry Potter novels and drank Irn Bru, a Scottish soft drink. She aspired to be a pharmacist or a doctor, and they did not expect her to leave her home in Glasgow in November 2013 to go to Syria, where the authorities now say she is one of the most active recruiters of young British women to join the Islamic State. The authorities are investigating possible links between Ms. Mahmood, who goes by the name Jihadi Recruiter Umm Layth (meaning Mother of the Lion), and the disappearance last week of three teenagers from London. They, too, are believed to have traveled to Syria to join the terrorist group also known as ISIS or ISIL. The apparent trend of studious, seemingly driven young women leaving home to join violent jihadists has become disturbingly familiar. A Metropolitan Police official said on Monday that one of the disclose her name. Experts who track jihadist activity online, including Audrey Alexander at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization, in London, have identified that woman as Ms. Mahmood, 20. She is now thought to live in Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of the Islamic State, where she married a jihadist and acts as a virtual den mother offering sometimes stern advice to peers who would follow in her footsteps. As the families of the three missing girls made tearful apContinued on Page A5 Cause Célèbre, Scorned by Troops WASHINGTON — Senior Republicans conceded on Tuesday that the grueling fight with President Obama over the regulation of Internet service appears over, with the president and an army of Internet activists victorious. The Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to approve regulating Internet service like a public utility, prohibiting companies from paying for faster lanes on the Internet. While the two Democratic commissioners are negotiating over technical details, they are widely expected to side with the Democratic chairman, Tom Wheeler, against the two Republican commissioners. And Republicans on Capitol Hill, who once criticized the plan as “Obamacare for the Internet,” now say they are unlikely to pass a legislative response that would undo perhaps the biggest policy shift since the Internet became a reality. “We’re not going to get a signed bill that doesn’t have Democrats’ support,” said Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. “This is an issue that needs to have bipartisan support.” The new F.C.C. rules are still likely to be tied up in a protracted court fight with the cable companies and Internet service providers that oppose it, and they could be overturned in the future by a Republican-leaning commission. But for now, Congress’s hands appear to be tied. The F.C.C. plan would let the agency regulate Internet access as if it is a public good. It would follow the concept known as net neutrality or an open Internet, banning so-called paid prioritization — or fast lanes — for willing Internet content providers. In addition, it would ban the intentional slowing of the Internet for companies that refuse to pay broadband providers. The plan would also give the F.C.C. the power to step in if unforeseen impediments are thrown up by the handful of giant companies that run many of the country’s broadband and wireless networks. Republicans hoped to pre-empt Continued on Page A3 Oil Pipeline Bill Vetoed By DAVE PHILIPPS Nearly two dozen soldiers from an Army platoon were on patrol in a dangerous valley in southern Afghanistan when a motorcycle sped toward them, ignoring commands to stop. As he tells it, First Lt. Clint Lorance, the platoon leader, ordered his men to fire just seconds before the motorcycle bore down on them that July day in 2012. But the Afghans were unarmed, and two died. The next year, Lieutenant Lorance was found guilty at a court-martial of second-degree murder, one of the few times an American soldier has been convicted of a crime for actions in PHOTOGRAPHS BY METROPOLITAN POLICE, VIA REUTERS combat in Iraq or Afghanistan. He is serving a 19-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. But the case is far from over. Mr. Lorance, who was dismissed from the Army, has become a cause célèbre for conservative commentators, including Sean Hannity of Fox News, who say the Obama administration punished a soldier for trying to defend his troops. Three Republican House members — Duncan Hunter of California, Matt Salmon of Arizona and Ryan Zinke of Montana — have asked the secreContinued on Page A17 Security images at Gatwick Airport near London showed, from left, Kadiza Sultana, 16, Amira Abase, 15, and Shamima Begum, 15, as they headed to a flight to Turkey last week. After Babies Are Switched in France, a Lesson in Maternal Love By MAÏA de la BAUME GRASSE, France — When Sophie Serrano finally held her daughter, Manon, in her arms after the newborn, suffering from jaundice, had been placed under artificial light, she was taken aback by the baby’s full head of glossy hair. “I hadn’t noticed it before, and it surprised me,” Ms. Serrano said in an interview at her home here in southern France, not far from the Côte d’Azur. Ms. Serrano, now 39, was baffled again a year later, when she noticed that her baby’s hair had grown frizzy and that her skin NATIONAL A11-17 INTERNATIONAL A4-10 BUSINESS DAY B1-10 Conviction in ‘Sniper’ Case A Russian Warning to Ukraine Marketing Disease, Then Drug Eddie Ray Routh, a mentally disturbed veteran, was found guilty of murder in the death of Chris Kyle, left, the former Navy SEAL who inspired the movie “AmeriPAGE A11 can Sniper.” Russia told Ukraine it could run out of natural gas in two days because of a dispute over payments, and the bitter feud has become a subplot of a wider political conflict between Moscow and Kiev over PAGE A7 the past year. Critics say Shire’s strategy for marketing its drug to treat binge eating, Vyvanse — which hinges on raising awareness of the disorder — goes too far because the drug, an amphetamine, has a high potential for abuse. PAGE B1 NEW YORK A18-21, 24 FOOD D1-6 Out of Staten Island Obscurity A Vegetarian Expansion Daniel Donovan Jr., the prosecutor who handled the inquiry into the chokehold death of Eric Garner, defended his record as he seeks the congressional seat Michael Grimm vacated. PAGE A18 Dirt Candy, where the chef and owner Amanda Cohen serves dishes including vegetable ice cream salad, has a new and larger PAGE D1 Lower East Side location. No Charges in Florida Killing The Justice Department closed its investigation into the shooting death three years ago of Trayvon Martin without filing hate-crime charges against the gunman, George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder in a PAGE A11 state court in 2013. Chicago Mayor in Runoff Rahm Emanuel, who was easily elected mayor of Chicago four years ago, came in first among the five candidates on the ballot but failed to seal a second term after getting too few votes to avoid a riskiPAGE A11 er runoff election in April. President Obama rejected a Republican challenge, vetoing legislation to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline. Page A16. SPORTSWEDNESDAY B12-16 Sharing DNA and a Dream The identical twins Lexi and Tori Weeks, the country’s top female prep pole-vaulters, are aiming for the Olympic trials. PAGE B12 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 Thomas L. Friedman PAGE A23 U(D54G1D)y+"!}!@!#!, color was darker than hers or her partner’s. But her love for the child trumped any doubts. Even as her relationship unraveled — in part, she said, over her partner’s suspicions — she painstakingly looked after the baby until a paternity test more than 10 years later showed that neither she nor her partner was Manon’s biological parent. Ms. Serrano later found out that a nurse had accidentally switched babies and given them to the wrong mothers. The story made headlines in France for the first time this month, when a southern court orContinued on Page A10