The never-ending Ward Churchill saga continues. Pirate Ballerina has a four-page rant reportedly from one of his ex-wives, “Dr. M. Anne Jaimes” of San Francisco. She essentially accuses him of stealing her work and says he is guilty of “being Indian careerism.” (Links are to PDF pages.) It’s a wacky enough diatribe that it rings true.

Meanwhile, the highly-publicized buyout talks between CU and Churchill have been halted:

DENVER — Settlement talks between the University of Colorado and the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a notorious Nazi broke down Friday after a newspaper reported the teacher had once been accused of plagiarism.

David Lane, attorney for ethnic studies Professor Ward Churchill, said the school broke off the talks, which were prompted by Churchill’s 2001 essay calling some World Trade Center victims ”little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who orchestrated the Holocaust.

University regent Michael Carrigan declined to comment on the negotiations but said he had ‘’substantial concern” about a report in Friday’s Rocky Mountain News that Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia had accused Churchill of plagiarizing the work of one of its professors eight years ago.

”I personally was not comfortable proceeding until I knew more,” Carrigan said. He declined to comment further.

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