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...apocalyptically desolate landscape.Joon, the protagonist of Nami Mun’s debut novel “Miles from Nowhere,” embodies the melancholy pervasive in this landscape. However, the heated social and political factors that fuel the destruction of the Bronx are of marginal importance to Mun. Though her character lives underneath the rubble of this dying city, Mun’s semi-autobiographical tale highlights inner turmoil over external destruction. Joon and her parents leave Korea at the behest of her mother, who intends to forage a better life in the United States. But disaster seems...
...Jorgenson, Dale W., Mun S. Ho, and Kevin J. Stiroh (2007). "A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence," Staff Report 277. New York: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, February...
...Early in her college years, Buttner began preparing for her life as a journalist, serving as an executive news producer of Harvard’s radio station WHRB, president of the International Relations Council, and the secretary-general of a National Model United Nations (MUN) Conference...
...Michael J. Levintin ’82, Buttner’s friend and fellow MUN club member, recalled the journalistic flair she brought to her life outside the classroom. While running a Security Council simulation her junior year, Buttner decided that instead of briefing the participants on the fictitious international emergency, she would inform them by pretending to be a reporter interviewing a fomenter of the crisis...
...called for peer-reviewed, published studies on the topic to complement the existing literature. Though the researchers emphasized the long-term nature of the project, they also encouraged its immediate application. “In the short run this is really a bad problem,” said Mun Ho, a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. He reminded the audience that the benefits of reducing pollution far outweigh the costs. China’s air pollution track record has come under scrutiny recently in the months leading up to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The government...