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...Freedom of speech is central in both of these controversies. The PCC is investigating the complaints against Moir's column, but the incident is likely to end with a slap on the wrist. Even as the outrage over her column continues, there's a growing backlash against her leading critics. Comedic actor, writer and Twitter pioneer Stephen Fry has come in for the most censure. Columnist Brendan O'Neill wrote that Fry had used Twitter as a "virtual lynch mob" that had set press and speech freedoms back...
That's why the Disney Channel's ability to mint teen stars is so central to the company's future and why Rich Ross, former head of the Disney Channel, was recently tapped to replace longtime studio chief Dick Cook. In many ways, Ross ran his outfit like an old-school movie studio. The channel has always found young stars. Shia LaBeouf got his first break there, as did Hilary Duff and - way back in 1993 - Britney Spears. But only in the past few years has Disney mastered how to hang on to them, to keep them from getting away...
...White House is at the same time trying to use the appearance with Corzine as another opportunity to focus on its own central domestic message: the need for more jobs. "President Obama will campaign on behalf of candidates, like Governor Corzine, who share the President's commitment to implementing the Recovery Act, creating jobs and laying a new foundation for America's long-term economic strength," explains Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman...
Mila Valdez, 40, lives near the central bus station in Tel Aviv. It is thousands of miles from where she was born, in the Philippines. She and her 7-year-old son live a cramped existence in three small rooms plus kitchen and bathroom - plus eight other people. But she is fighting for the right to stay in Israel...
...half of them are illegal, as Valdez is now. She went to Israel legally but her visa lapsed at about the time she gave birth to her son Jerry. Her apartment is among the Eritrean cafés, Sudanese restaurants and Filipino bars in the streets around the old central bus station - underneath a police advertisement inviting residents to inform on their neighbors' visa status. "I am working as a house cleaner because I'm now illegal," Valdez tells TIME. "My husband was caught in 2007 and he was deported. My son Jerry loves Israel. We're hoping to stay...