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...paper, Viatcheslav "Steve" Abramian is a millionaire. Two years ago, a Middlesex County jury handed down a verdict awarding the former Harvard security guard over $1.2 million in an anti-discrimination suit...
...pursues aggressive appeals through Massachusetts' highest court, Harvard is clearly taking Abramian's case seriously now. If the verdict is upheld, it will be the first time Harvard has been found to have discriminated against an employee...
...University is well within its legal rights in not paying Abramian the jury verdict, since the appeals process in the case is ongoing and a new trial on at least part of the damages against the University seems inevitable...
...this what the voters themselves saw? That question--even for polling professionals--is tough to answer once the media's verdict is handed down...
However, the Food Lion case represents at best a Pyrrhic victory for the American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public...