Word: abramian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spending every penny he has trying to get the education he was getting originally," says John G. Swomley, one of Abramian's attorneys in the case...
...Abramian has no family in the United States and has not told any of his relatives in Russia that he is homeless. They would wonder, he says, why he bothered to come to America just to be homeless...
Things were different when Abramian first came to the United States, where he hoped to get an education...
With SAT scores in the upper 7th percentile in math and the upper 20th percentile in English, Abramian was accepted to Harvard as a "special student" and took a mix of Extension School and regular Faculty of Arts and Sciences classes. His favorite professors included Theda Skocpol, now professor of government and sociology, and Richard Pipes, a Cold War expert and Baird research professor of history...
...once he lost his job at Harvard, Abramian could not afford to take classes without the employee tuition discount. He was unable to make payments on his car or house, and was quickly out on the streets...