The Chicago Tribune is suing the University of Illinois in the hope of uncovering information showing the school gave preferential admissions treatment to hundreds of college applicants who had help from insiders. Click here for the news story from the Tribune. WSJ Law Blog June 16, 2009

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NYT: How Trillion-Dollar Deficits Were Created
"To understand the looming deficits, The New York Times analyzed Congressional Budget Office projections of the budget surplus or deficit for the years 2009-12, President Obama’s current term. The budget office has been making estimates for these years for nearly a decade now. The numbers that appear [here] are the average annual deficit or surplus for this four-year period." Related Times article: America’s Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making">How a Sea of Red Ink Spread From a Puddle.
Anatomy of a Crash

A federal district judge in Manhattan ruled on June 17 that Holden Caulfield, the querulous, precocious protagonist of J. D. Salinger’s most famous work, “The Catcher in the Rye,” will exist at least a little longer solely in a state of permanent adolescence, unburdened by the cares and recriminations of age. The judge, Deborah A. Batts, said a new book that contains a 76-year-old version of Caulfield cannot be published in the United States for 10 days while she weighs a copyright infringement.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/judges-delays-publication-of-updated-catcher-in-the-rye/

Frankfurt
In English, this city's name translates into "Frankfurt on the Main" (pronounced like "mine"). A part of early Franconia, the inhabitants were the early Franks. The city is located on an ancient ford on the river Main, which is a shallow crossing. The German word is "Furt". Thus the city's name receives its legacy as being the "ford of the Franks".
Frankfurt is one of only three cities in the European Union that have a significant number of skyscrapers. With 10 skyscrapers (i.e. buildings taller than 150 m (492 ft)) in early 2009, Frankfurt is second behind Paris with 14 skyscrapers, and on par with London which also has 10 skyscrapers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_am_Main

Frankfurter
The word frankfurter comes from Frankfurt, Germany where sausages in a bun originated, similar to hot dogs, but made of pork. Wieners, refers to Vienna, Austria, whose German name is "Wien", home to a sausage made of a mixture of pork and beef. In German speaking countries, except Austria, hot dog sausages are called Wiener or Wiener Würstchen (Würstchen means "little sausage"). In Swiss German, it is called Wienerli, while in Austria the terms Frankfurter or Frankfurter Würstel are used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog

We will cruise the Rhine, a “mighty mountain child,” June 21 to July 4—see information below:

The Alpine Rhine: Its two headstreams, the Vorderrhein (anterior Rhine) and the Hinterrhein (posterior Rhine) are fed by tributaries from side valleys before meeting at Reichenau. From here to Lake Constance, it is known as the Alpine Rhine.
Lake Constance Rhine: The river travels 43 miles within Lake Constance from its delta in Rheinau to Stam am Rhein. At Konstanz, it leaves the main basin for the Lower Lake and continues to the island of Reichenau. The length of the river is official recorded from the bridge over the Rhine in Konstanz.
The High Rhine: from Stam am Rhine to the Gates of Basel
The Upper Rhine: from Basel to Mainz
The Middle Rhine: from Mainz to Cologne
The Cologne Bay: bordered by Bergisches Land to the east and Eifel foothills to the west
The Lower Rhine and the Delta: It emerges from the highlands on to the plains and to the Dutch border. The Erft flows into it from the left—and the Wupper, Ruhr, Emscher and Lippe from the right. Immediately beyond the Dutch border, the Rhine divides into several branches. Eventually, the arms flow into the North Sea.
“The Rhine: Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe” by Roland Recht

Bordered by Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Lake Constance is about 42 miles long and 8 miles wide. The Rhine flows through it, and researchers estimate that it takes an average of two months for the river to emerge from the lake.
“The first humans to depend on the Rhine for their livelihood were hunters and gatherers who, around 8000 B.C., built the first permanent settlements on the shores of Lake Constance.” Tribes from the Balkan region moved in around 5000 B.C. and, by 800 B.C., the Rhineland was populated by the Celts, the first major culture to settle there. In the early centuries A.D., German tribes (referred to as barbarians) battled the Romans. “Barbarian” is Greek in origin. When people from northern Europe did not understand classic Greek, they were thought to be illiterate. Greeks thought their speech sounded like “Bar-bar-bar.”
Around the year 253, Germanic tribes known as Franks, or Free Men, began to conquer territory along the Lower and Middle Rhine that had been held by Rome for hundreds of years. Tribes from North Africa and Europe poured in with Franks dominating as Rome lost control. In 768, the Frankish king Charlemagne established his court in Aachen near Cologne. His empire was split into three sections by the Treaty of Verdun in 877. The Rhine was a dividing line between the East Frankish Kingdom (now Germany and Austria) and the West Frankish Kingdom (now France).
Powerful knights built castles along the Rhine and were opposed by traders. Various rulers fought among themselves, and groups of merchants in larger cities formed local governments, declaring independence from outside rule. The bubonic plague (Black Death) followed the Rhine trade route in 1348. Ironically, the plague, anarchy and hysteria loosed feudalism’s grip—leading to increased freedom for the survivors.
“The Rhine” (Rivers of the World Series) by Stuart A. Kallen