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Although I will not be participating in listserv discussions ( this is your own forum ) , I will be following them . Along the way we will see London assume the guises of moral allegory and inspirational muse , stable home and criminal den , refined cultural center and uproarious multicultural accident , victim of violence and promoter of pacifism . " We expect to oppose any attempt to splinter , to disrupt the operation of the MDL , " Frazier told the analysts , referring to multidistrict litigation in federal court.In the MDL , pretrial evidence-gathering for thousands of Vioxx suits in federal courts is consolidated to save time and prevent Merck officials from having to give repeated depositions.Merck outside counsel Ted Mayer said the company also prefers keeping cases in the MDL because that gives Merck consistent rulings on standards for admitting evidence and for expert testimony.He added that Merck has plenty of legal teams to handle simultaneous trials.Evidence rules in state courts , on the other hand , generally allow plaintiffs more leeway.Lanier said Merck expected to fight most Vioxx cases in federal courts in the MDL , but he expects to have 10 legal teams running state trials nearly continuously , tying up Merck resources.Lanier said his lawyers ' group already has about 20,000 potential lawsuits , with only about 10 percent filed so far.The lawyers will share depositions , documents , legal strategies and focus group opinions , according to Lanier , who in August won a $ 253.4 million verdict for the widow of a Texas Vioxx user in the first case to come to trial.That amount will be reduced to about $ 26 million because Texas caps punitive damages.Merck shares rose 82 cents , or 3.1 percent , to $ 27 in trading on the New York Stock Exchange.Whitehouse Station-based Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market in September 2004 after research showed long-term use of the drug doubled risk of heart attack and stroke . This posting should be a minimum of 15-20 lines , although you should feel free to write more if you get inspired . The lower classes had their own seating areas , with their own entrances , lobbies , bars , and bathrooms in the theatre . It is important to plan ahead : I do not give extensions , and I penalize late papers severely - - a paper one day late will be marked down one full letter grade ( in other words , the highest it can get is a B ) ; a paper two days late will suffer two grades off ( the highest it can earn is a C ) and so on . Some are Wall Street analysts keeping tabs on the case because of its potential impact on Merck 's stock . But on another day , soon after , he had a fright th at left him trembling also for an hour . This posting should be a minimum of 200 words , although you should feel free to write more if you get inspired . Two years before , at the opening of Lady Windermere 's Fan at the same theatre , Wilde , along with one of the characters in the play , had worn a green carnation , an open acknowledgement of the homosexual sub-culture to which Wilde and many of his friends belonged . As he ran along the alley he was conscious that his eyes went up to the caves as if something drew them . Eight-eight percent said " A Sense of Place " enabled participants to identify key areas and opportunities for collaboration and joint action . Her husband suffered a fatal heart attack after taking Vioxx for a month.Birchfield said he is n't worried about the limited Vioxx use because he said studies do link Vioxx with cardiovascular risks after short-term use . " I think they were taken out of context , " Vickie Heintz , 40 , of Mays Landing , said of the documents.Heintz 's assessment should please Merck lawyers because if jurors think Merck acted responsibly , they wo n't hold the company accountable , even in cases where plaintiffs were long-term users , said Howard Erichson , a professor at Seton Hall Law School . Along the way , we 'll familiarize ourselves with the vast and growing body of electronic resources for those who do family history . Although collaboration may be seen as a means to an end , cooperation and collaboration merits focus in itself . We will also engage seriously with recent theoretical work on deviance and Victorian culture . These assignments are every bit as important as the primary reading - - you will be expected to integrate them into class discussion , to use them in your papers , and to be able to discuss them intelligently on the course weblog . Along the way , we will read critical commentary on both kinds of writing . Because this is a course on the British novel , the reading load for this course is necessarily heavy . Two weeks later , Queensbury left a calling card in Wilde 's mailbox at the Albemarle club , with a note written on it : " To Oscar Wilde , posing as a Somdomite .