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...were more interested in Yoon’s positions—such as a promise to bring more transparency to Boston government—than his ethnicity. Yoon said he had been prompted to run for the council during an effort to secure land for low-income housing in Chinatown. “I asked myself, ‘what if there had been just one Asian at City Hall or in the State House?’” Yoon said. During his speech, Yoon yielded the floor to Harvard students representing an initiative to bring a temporary...
...students—clad in crimson shirts to demonstrate solidarity—enthusiastically chanted, “How do we stand? United!” The rally also included three brief speeches by Weijie Huang ’09, chair of the Phillips Brooks House Association Chinatown Committee; Andrea R. Flores ’10, president of the Undergraduate Council; and Edward Y. Lee ’08-09, co-director of the Harvard Undergraduates for Human Rights in North Korea. Shortly after the discriminatory graffiti was first discovered, seven different Asian-American student organizations sent e-mails last Saturday...
...their hands on a dumpling or two. For this festive affair, Leverett dining hall was transformed into a party scene packed with more than 350 guests, including students, tutors, and even professors. Dinner, consisting of a never-ending 14 courses, was catered by the Peach Farm restaurant in Chinatown. The restaurant’s strange name, according to co-president of CSA Daniel C. Suo ’09, can be attributed to a “bad translation.” But dinner was surprisingly tasty, with everything from pork and shrimp to incredible bubble tea, all of which...
...Webb is the opposite of Blackett. A soft-hearted pacifist who once worked for the League of Nations, he arrives in Singapore and promptly begins to wander away from Walter's zealously charted course by getting involved with a beautiful Chinese refugee and exploring the teeming districts of Chinatown and Boat Quay, where lightermen, stevedores and rickshaw pullers scrounge out a meager living...
...city level—but that’s really just half of the equation,” he said. The former Pennsylvania resident got his first taste of Boston politics while working with the Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) in 2002, helping restore a parcel of land to Chinatown that had been claimed by the city and bulldozed 40 years earlier to pave a highway for the Big Dig. Yoon said that the scale of the campaign that ACDC mounted to reclaim the land led him to realize a fight for social change needed political backing in order...