Professor fired after likening Sept. 11 victims to Nazi
BOULDER, Colo. – The University of Colorado’s governing board on Tuesday fired a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi leader led to an investigation of research misconduct.
The research allegations stem from some of Ward Churchill’s other writings, although the investigation began after the controversy over his Sept. 11 essay.
In his writings, Churchill argued that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were a response to a long history of U.S. abuses. Churchill said those killed in the World Trade Center collapse were “a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire” and called them “little Eichmanns.”
Churchill has said Adolf Eichmann was a bureaucrat who carried out Nazi policies like the Holocaust that were planned by others but was still responsible for his own actions.
D.C.: Trucker hours shortened
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a Bush administration decision to allow long-haul truckers to drive up to 11 hours straight, up from the 10 hours allowed for the last 60 years. The decision repealing the 2005 rule takes effect Sept. 14.
FEMA to review trailer sale policy
Days after the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s chief spokesman said concerns about formaldehyde levels would not stop it from selling or donating surplus disaster trailers, the agency said Tuesday that it is reviewing that policy. Formaldehyde, a common preservative and embalming fluid, sometimes is found in building materials that are used in manufactured homes.
Schools increase math, reading
Roughly two-thirds of U.S. elementary schools surveyed by the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy reported increasing math and reading time since the No Child Left Behind law was passed in 2001, the center said Tuesday. Elementary schools are spending on average 37 minutes more per day on reading, math or both since the law was passed.
VA can’t find computer equipment
More than a quarter of the computer equipment at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington could not be found by investigators, government auditors reported Tuesday. Three other VA facilities could not locate between 6 percent and 11 percent of their equipment, including computers, hard drives, monitors and other devices. In all, the four facilities audited by the Government Accountability Office reported more than 2,400 missing items originally worth $6.4 million.
Connecticut: Lethal home invasion
Two men with rap sheets listing more than 20 burglaries each were on parole when they broke into a doctor’s home in Cheshire, strangled his wife and killed the couple’s two daughters, ages 17 and 11, in a fire they set to cover their tracks, authorities said Tuesday. Joshua Komisarjevsky, 26, and Steven Hayes, 44, were arraigned Tuesday on charges of assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, arson, larceny and risk of injury to children. Bail was set at $15 million each. Dr. William Petit Jr., 50, who escaped the blaze, remained hospitalized with head injuries.
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