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Northwestern U's Web Flap

Arthur Butz, an engineering professor at Northwestern University, just outside Chicago, is an outspoken proponent of the view that the Nazi slaughter of millions of European Jews never happened. His beliefs, and the fact that they're published on a World Wide Web page affiliated with Northwestern, have raised old questions of free speech in a new medium. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

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