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...then a junior economics concentrator—was arrested for a number of charges including assault and battery on a police officer. Byrne said again yesterday that Trombly spit on his uniform and swatted at his hand when he came to break up a noisy party on Commonwealth Avenue for the second night...
...charges faced by Byrne stem from a series of escalating confrontations he had with students over two days in the fall of 2001, unfolding outside the 2021 Commonwealth Ave. apartment of one of Trombly’s friends...
Kristen Scheier, who lived in the same Commonwealth Ave. apartment building as Trombly’s friend, followed Lynch to the stand, testifying that she saw Byrne angrily taunting Leahy on the night of Trombly’s arrest...
Franklin used Mrs. Dogood to attack the theocratic rule of the Puritan establishment and the link between church and state that was then the very foundation of Massachusetts government. At one point she asks, "Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane?" Unsurprisingly, she concludes the former is worse, and singles out the Governor, a minister who had become a politician, as an example. "The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able...
...various parts together and realized the special importance of the events this year: In July, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is expected to announce its decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, a case that could grant legal unions to same-sex couples in the Commonwealth. Pride 2003 was, the Boston Globe reported, “a reminder to thousands of onlookers that a battle is being waged right in court right now over same sex marriages...