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...Sixteen was the magic number for Gov. William F. Weld '66 two years ago when he managed to get two more than the required 14 senate votes to carry a veto. President Bush's large coattails brought in eight new GOP senators and gave Weld the power to veto, a necessary policy tool for a Republican governor in a Democratic State House...
Comp Director Carey W. Gabay '94 called Edge a "male version of Sixteen" that aims to be a "young male's best friend." He stressed that Edge is unique because it is "run by the students it's targeted to," unlike magazines with a similar audience, such as Rolling Stone...
...EVER SAID PEACE AND DEMOCRACY WOULD come easily. Sixteen bloody years after they were granted abrupt and unprepared independence from Portuguese rule, the southern African states of Mozambique and Angola finally have peace in sight. In Angola, two weeks after the country's first democratic election, the contenders seemed at last prepared to accept the outcome of the vote. In Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the guerrilla resistance movement Renamo, finally signed a peace pact last week...
...Sixteen-year-old Bryon R. Logan was walking with a group of friends in Central Square one night when they were stopped by the police...
...equally captivating in her more blatantly personal essays. "Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst" meditates on Harrison's hometown, the New York suburb where Yusuf Hawkins, a Black sixteen-year-old, was shot to death in 1989 by a group of Italian-Americans who thought he was dating a local girl. Resisting what she calls the "mandolin and macaroni" depiction of Italian-American uraban life, she recalls grimly the casual racism and violence of life in Bensonhurst, and the stifling nature of community life there. "What you don't want known in Bensonhurst you don't do," she writes...