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...Brighton, Mass. native, Welch was this year’s top NHL draft pick among those players selected from the ECAC. Chosen in the second round by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the 54th overall pick, Welch is also the highest selection of Harvard’s eight NHL draftees...
...wake of a Harvard junior’s recent allegations that a Boston Police Department (BPD) sergeant beat him up, another charge of improper conduct against officers from the same Brighton police station has emerged: UMass-Boston undergraduate Matthew E. Cole and his lawyer, John Swomley, say they are preparing to file charges against BPD in response to a black eye Cole allegedly suffered in a police raid of a party at his home...
Cole, 24, was arrested the morning of Aug. 18 with each of his four roommates for “keeping a disorderly house” and “disturbing the peace.” They were taken to the Brighton station together in a BPD paddy wagon. Cole alleges that he got a black eye because officers purposely “slammed the gas pedal like we were on a drag strip and later slammed the brake,” causing him to be thrown around in the back with the other prisoners...
...Harry A. Byrne Jr., the officer Trombly claims beat him, was not involved in Cole’s arrest. Two other officers from the Brighton station signed Cole’s arrest report...
...Words Grows If the real war had not yet started last week, the battle for hearts and minds intensified, with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair leading the offensive. In a powerful speech to the Labour Party's annual conference in Brighton, Blair promised, "We will put a trap around the regime and I say to the Taliban: Surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice." He also claimed that there was "no doubt" that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group were responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. In support of Blair's certainty the British...