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HIGH-POWERED TRIO: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Wendi Murdoch and Queen Rania of Jordan gathered on Monday at the Carlyle Hotel to discuss initiatives on maternal mortality, part of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals on education, health, poverty and environmental sustainability the organization set forth to achieve by 2015. The meeting of the three — with Bruni in Dior and Murdoch in Alberta Ferretti and Queen Rania in a blouse by Derek Lam and skirt by Graeme Black — was a precursor to a dinner on Wednesday hosted by Queen Rania, Murdoch and Sarah Brown, wife of the British prime minister, to call for action and collaboration with the U.N. on maternal mortality. Christy Turlington, Katie Lee Joel, Elle Macpherson, Liya Kibede, Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Murdoch and Portfolio editor in chief Joanne Lipman are among the 100 women invited to attend the dinner.