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(AP) -- Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners. These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall, over the protests of more than 60 state legislators. Jones is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University whose mainstream academic job has made him a hero to conspiracy theorists. Five years after the terrorist attacks, a community that believes widely...

Indian Country weighs in on professor's Native claim Churchill has few defenders, many detractors DENVER CO Native American Times 2/8/2005 The controversy over University of Colorado professor Ward continues to generate strong opinions ranging from the dismissive to the outright confrontational. While the national media has focused on Churchill’s essay regarding the 9/11 tragedies, Indian County appears more intrigued by the fact that Churchill, who for years has positioned himself as a spokesman for Native issues, very likely does not even have any Indian heritage. One of the few to defend Churchill is Don Trent Jacobs, an associate professor at...