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Jury: Colorado school wrongly fired professor

DENVER – A jury ruled Thursday that the University of Colorado wrongly fired the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi, a verdict that gives the professor $1 and a chance to get his job back. “What was asked for and what was delivered was justice,” Ward Churchill said outside the courtroom.

Churchill said claims including plagiarism were just a cover and that he never would have been fired if it weren’t for the essay in which he called World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader who helped orchestrate the Holocaust. Jurors agreed.

clipped from www.latimes.com

Hit ’send,’ then hit the door

The farewell e-mail has suddenly become commonplace, a new art form in the electronic age. Yet like so many aspects of the Internet era — how to unfriend on Facebook, how much to reveal on a personal blog — the technology has gotten ahead of the etiquette. There are, quite simply, no rules.