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America saw its first Asian American mayor in San Jose, California in 1971, just a year after Kennedy School alum Sam Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea. In November 2005, Yoon was elected a city councilor at-large—making him the first Asian American elected to office in Boston, in addition to the only Asian American to ever run for public office in the city. Now, Yoon has announced his intention to run for mayor of Boston against incumbent Thomas M. Menino, the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history...
...many areas, and the hiring slowdown means departments across the College must wait further to fill their teaching gaps. The Economics Department is now searching for only one junior faculty member instead of two, the Classics Department cannot fill an intellectual vacancy in Greek history, and the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department will not be hiring a pre-modern Japanese history professor...
...Denise A. Jillson, the executive director of the HSBA, described the partnership with the Kong as a means of “exploring the cultural heritage in Harvard Square.” “We bring in people from communities all around who are not necessarily Chinese or Asian but love the idea of exploring these cultures,” Jillson said. Among the procession of parade-goers were many families eager to expose their children to Chinese culture. Kristen Sopko, a resident of Waltham Mass., came with her four-year-old daughter Katherine, who sat on her father?...
...Chef’s Choice nights. Perloff-Giles is also Crimson staff writer, and Raffel is a Crimson business editor. Before the cooking began, an unruffled contestant Lillian L. Erlinger ’10 rattled off her team’s plan: in the works, an “Asian slaw with fried lentil balls and garlicky, pan-seared broccoli,” but if all else failed, there was a plan B: “a spiced lentil apple curry with curry yogurt and sauteed apples.” As the cooking began, Bianca A. Verma...
...faculty searches—about three dozen, according to Dean Richard P. Saller. Now left with only a dozen searches already “near completion,” the school will have to wait on fulfilling its plans to build faculty in departments such as East Asian Languages, Saller added...