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Abramian sued Harvard alleging he was fired from his job as a University security guard in 1993 for complaining about anti-Russian slurs by co-workers. A jury decision awarded him over $1.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages on the two claims, but a portion of the case will soon be retried after a Harvard appeal...
Abramian, a Russian immigrant, applied for political asylum several years ago and was denied. But his case had not gone through the appeals process before a change in immigration law forced it back to a lower court...
Abramian, a Russian immigrant, sued the University in 1998, saying Harvard had discriminated against him on the basis of national origin and had fired him in retaliation for his complaints about anti-Russian slurs by co-workers...
...Marion Jones--she wants to be the first woman to win five track-and-field golds in one Olympics--warming up for the long jump, but before she leaps you can thrill to Ian Thorpe--"Thorpedo"--Australia's 17-year-old swimming sensation. Then there's the amazing Russian super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler Alexander Karelin, going for his fourth straight gold medal...
...Alexander Karelin to name his greatest challenge, and he will tell you about the time he outwrestled a refrigerator that weighed nearly twice as much as he did. Clamping a bear hug on the appliance, the 6-ft. 3-in., 286-lb. Russian hoisted it off the floor. "It was a huge fridge," he recalls, "and I carried it to my apartment up eight flights of stairs...