A note to FR, from summer: I was reading the Sunday NYT, and almost fell off my chair when I read a full-page ad in today's NYT, signed by a long list of Germans, praising the USA and thanking the USA for all this country has done for Germany. The ad was titled "A Message From Germany." I then did a google search for news about the ad. Here is what I found, first, in English: radio.weblog: Message from Germany: On Saturday, the influential "club" named Atlantikbrücke (Atlantic Bridge) will pay $140,000 to buy a page in the New York...