Word: moir
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...star in the Irish band Boyzone, which has sold about 30 million records since forming in 1993. Gately, 33, died on Oct. 10 of an acute pulmonary edema while vacationing on the Mediterranean island of Majorca with his civil partner Andrew Cowles. Amid gushing eulogies for Gately, Jan Moir, a columnist with conservative British newspaper the Daily Mail, wrote a piece that questioned whether the singer's death was, as the coroner had ruled, due to natural causes. Moir speculated that Gately's gay lifestyle may have played a part. "Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just...
...Outrage over Moir's column was instantaneous and - thanks to Twitter - widespread. More than 22,000 people protested to Britain's Press Complaints Commission (PCC), an independent body that investigates and rules on complaints about newspapers and magazines. (For reference, that's nearly the same number of protests that the PCC received about all stories over the past four or five years.) Complainants alleged that Moir breached Britain's press code because what she wrote was inaccurate, intruded into grief or shock and was discriminatory. British police say they have received complaints alleging that the column incited hatred against gays...
...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...
...bridge. And when disaster struck, its residents rushed to the rescue. Many jumped into the Tigris River to pull out pilgrims who had leaped (or fallen) off the bridge; others took injured and exhausted pilgrims into their homes, providing food and shelter until emergency crews arrived. Moir al-Obaidy, a construction worker, and other residents grabbed ladders and slides from a nearby children's playground and used them to help pilgrims off the bridge. "We took beds from a [Sunni] seminary to carry injured people," he said...
...David D. Moir (GSA ’93) of Jamaica Plains, for instance, whose wife is the Pierian Foundation’s secretary, says he’s been coming for the last fifteen years to enjoy the music and support the students...