2 - Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2 y 1The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com (yA idcipan Baumy 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-41-411a ext. 1241 pjnhahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandailyecom EAT UP Prof. acheives German honors Andrei Markovits is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Profes- sor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the Univer- sity. In 2012, The Federal Repub- lic of Germany honored him with the Federal Cross of the Order of Merit, an award recognizing indi- viduals who have done a "service to the nation" of Germany. What's your favorite class to teach? My sports class (German 379: Sports, Politics and Society). I love the topic, I love the scope. I just love it. You've written a lot of books in your career. Which are you most proud of and why? Probably "Offside: Soccer & American Exceptionalism" because when I wrote that, very few academics wrote serious books on sports. In the mean- time, it's become very normal. But when I published that and worked on that, it was still quite rare. What does winning The Federal Cross of the Order of Merit in 2012 mean to you as a scholar of German studies? It's the highest honor that the Center Republic of Germany gives to anybody. I'm not quite believing that I got it. That's a very, very high honor. And it was not only for my scholar- ship on Germany, but also for my helping lots of German aca- demics and German students but also helping many Ameri- cans. It's basically for German- American relations. It's not an academic award. It also includes my work as an academic, but it's also not for what I did but for who I am, so to speak. 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Investment be made in the educa tem, renewable ene repaying pensioners. , FOR MORE, SEE OPINIO ate bud- 7 billion 2013 fis- s should tion sys- rgy and N, PAGE 4 fight get your d before the Expo. eer Center g today rt any aily to michi- NBC News reported that three people were injured when a helicop- ter was forced to make an emergency landing in Ant- arctica yesterday. They are currently being treated by the crew of a second helicop- ter that was flying in tandem. Supreme Court works to reach Trial continues for German decision on recess appointments man accused of murder Administration's lawyer is hard pressed to defend the system WASHINGTON (AP) - Just back from their own long break, Supreme Court justices set out Monday to resolve a politically charged fight over when the Sen- ate's absence gives the president the power to make temporary appointments to high-level posi- tions without senators' approval. The legal battle is the out- growth of partisan rancor over presidential appointees that has characterized Washington over the past 20 years, and especially since President Barack Obama took office in 2009. Recess appointments have divided Democrats and Repub- licans, with views changing depending on which party holds the White House. But during more than 90 minutes of argu- ments Monday, the Obama admin- istration was hard pressed to find support for its stand in favor of recess appointments from justices named by Republicans and Demo- crats alike - including Obama. Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama nominee, seized on the politi- cal dispute to make the point to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. that "congressional intransi- gence" to Obama nominees may not be enough to win the court fight. Kagan, Verrilli's predecessor as Obama's top Supreme Court law- yer, suggested that it "is the Sen- ate's role to determine whether they're in recess." The court is writing on a blank slate as it considers for the first time the Constitution's recess appointments clause. That clause allows the president to fill vacan- cies temporarily, but only when the Senate is in recess. The constitutional issue maybe new to the court, but two justices H-o- lived through the political tussle over nominations. Both Chief Jus- tice John Roberts and Kagan were nominated to the federal appeals court in Washington, but saw their nominations blocked in the Senate. Roberts eventually won confirmation, but Kagan did not. And one of the lawyers involved in Monday's case withdrew his nomination to the same court. The Senate has "an absolute right not to confirm nominees that the President submits," Rob- erts said. The administration was "latch- ing onto" the constitutional pro- vision to combat the Senate's refusal to act, even though it was written to deal with an era when horseback was the fastest mode of transportation and Congress was absent from Washington for long periods, Roberts said. Even Justice Ruth Bader Gins- burg, perhaps Verrilli's most sym- pathetic questioner, said at one point, "I think to be candid, the Senate is always available. They can be called back on very short notice." Monday's case, the first argu- ment at the court in more than a month, is a dispute over Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012. Republicans and employers who objected to NLRB decisions made by those Obama appointees say the Senate was not in recess when Obama acted, and so any decisions made by the board were illegitimate. There are three questions before the court - whether recess appointments can be made only during the once-a-year break between sessions of Congress, whether the vacancy must occur while the Senate is away in order to be filled during the same break and whether brief, pro forma ses- sions of the Senate, held every few days to break up a longer Senate hiatus, can prevent the president from making recess appoint- ments. - The latter question offers the court a narrower way to rule on recess appointments. 49-year-old Muth allegedly killed 91-year-old wife WASHINGTON (AP) - Jurors in the trial of a German man charged with killing his 91-year-old wife were shown bloody crime scene photo- graphs Monday and a portion of an interview with homicide detectives in which he referred to the couple's relationship as a "marriage of convenience." Albrecht Muth, 49, also describes in matter-of-fact fashion how he found the life- less body of his wife, Viola Drath, in a bathroom of their home but decided that it would be futile to even try to resusci- tate her. "The obvious was obvious," Muth can be heard telling the pair of detectives. Muth is charged with first- degree murder in the August 2011 beating and strangulation death of Drath, a German jour- nalist and socialite. He faces life in prison if convicted. The interview, recorded in a cramped police interroga- tion room in the days between the discovery of Drath's body and her husband's arrest, gave jurors their closest look yet at the defendant: Muth has been absent from the trial, partici- pating passively through vid- eoconference, after doctors said his self-imposed starvation made him too weak to appear in court. He has been fasting off-and-on for what he says are religious reasons. The case is expected to go to the jury later this week. Muth's lawyers say he is innocent and that there's no evidence he killed his wife. Prosecutors, meanwhile, say Muth lived off a monthly allow- ance from his wife that had recently been reduced and that he killed Drath in hopes of col- lecting a portion of her estate. In the segment of the video jurors saw, the detectives asked Muth to walk them through the discovery of Drath's body but did not ask whether he had anything to do with her death. When one of the detectives noted the large age difference and asked whether the couple were intimate, Muth replied, "We had a marriage of conve- nience." Muth called police early on Aug. 12, 2011, to report finding his wife dead in a third-floor bathroom of the home they shared in Georgetown, a posh Washington neighborhood. Investigators initially treat- ed the death as one of natural causes but settled on Muth as the suspect after finding no signs of forced entry and deter- mining that he and Drath were the only ones home at the time she died. A crime scene techni- cian testified Monday that none of the windows to the home had been opened. Another inves- tigator said he found Inter- net searches on Muth's laptop computer for flights to Iceland, crossing the Canadian border, extradition arrangements with Mexico and challenging a pre- nuptial agreement. Also Monday, Latoya Jamison, a forensic investigator with the D.C. medical examin- er's office, said Muth appeared anxious and fidgety but oth- erwise emotionless after she came to the home to take pho- tographs and inspect the body. She said he seemed especially curious to know the cause of death and whether any trauma was found that could explain it. One of Drath's daughters testi- fied that Muth told her that her mother had been having bal- ance problems, but she said that surprised her since her mother had been in excellent physical health. With Drath's daughters and other relatives present in the courtroom, prosecutors pre- sented graphic photographs of Drath sprawled out dead on the bathroom floor. A large, bloody gash covered her neck, another wound was found on the back of her neck and aifngernail had been nearly ripped off, Jamison said. She said the position of Drath's body struck her as peculiar for someone who would have died from a fall, as Muth had maintained, or of natural causes. She said it appeared likely that Drath had died somewhere else in the house and then been placed in the bathroom, which prosecu- tors contend is what happened. One of Drath's daughters, Connie Drath Dwyer, also testi- fied that Muth had begun pres- suring her mother for money and insisted that he be able to keep items of household furni- ture upon her death. She recalled how he was wearing eye patch the first time they met - he said he lost his eye to injury - and made refer- ence to having been a merce- nary soldier in South America. She said she never again saw him with a patch and never noticed problems with his eye. Prosecutors contend the patch was part of a web of elaborate fictions that Muth spun about his professional career and connections. He had claimed to be a brigadier gen- eral with the Iraqi army, but the military uniform he would wear around the neighborhood was actually purchased and he had no authentic army connec- tions, prosecutors say. Drath's daughter also testi- fied that Muth balked when she asked him to compose an obitu- ary for her mother, even though he wrote about his wife all the time and regularly prepared speeches for her. She said she ultimately wrote up an obituary that said her mother had died after being injured in a fall, con- sistent with what Muth had told the family. "The papers always like to have a cause of death," she explained. "I thought I had to put something in." r