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In August , a Texas jury awarded a Houston-area widow $ 253.4 million when it found Vioxx liable for her husband 's fatal heart attack in 2001.The trial is being streamed live on Court TV Extra . They accepted the unconventional status , came and went freely , as men did , were honestly taken by men at their own valuation - - and then it turned out to be the other thing after all , and they went and fell in love . Tracking recurrent literary obsessions with questions of justice , nervousness , contagion , consumption , desire , depravity , and , not surprisingly , reading , we will study how the Victorian novel helped an emergent industrial society imagine itself into being . " We're taking some of the information they had and seeing if we can cover some of the problems they had with it [ at the next trial ] , " the prosecutor said.Asked how he planned to address the problems some jurors had with Arrant 's testimony , the prosecutor said , " I could do a little more prep on the manner he presents himself in court , but there 's not a whole lot I can do . Sorries - - We're not making a compelling case to groups outside ourselves ; our internal focus keeps us from communicating with our colleagues ; our loss of credibility with key decision makers ; that we've had to contort our missions to pursue funding . I am so awfully sorry it 's happened like this .... For example , would n't it be cool to have an internet site where people who are interested in giving things to museums could put them on the website and museums looking for things could find them ? She praised Jane " Auston " as her favorite author , adding , " I am such a Victorian novel addict . " We're all old , dyed-in-wool hunters , " he said . In 1895 , while The Importance of Being Earnest was in rehearsal , Wilde was in the middle of his troubled but long-term relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas , and was being pursued by Douglas 's father , the pugnacious and homophobic Marquis of Queensbury ( author of " Queensbury rules " of boxing ) . I myself am not guiltless of having made a number of notes on its purely ecclesiastical history , its registers and so forth , which I shall be happy to show you if you would care to see them ; but it is a large parish , I have only on e curate , and my leisure , as you will readily understand . But we're older now and we can kind of see through that . " I did not see a myocardial infarction ( heart attack ) , but it 's common knowledge that in sudden death the heart does not have time to undergo these changes , " Araneta said.Ernst 's wife , Carol , sued Merck , claiming that the Vioxx her husband took for eight months to ease pain in his hands caused his death.In later testimony Monday , Merck 's former marketing director testified that the company did not study how Vioxx would affect patients ' hearts before it went on the market.In a deposition taped in March but shown to jurors Monday , David Anstice said Merck " did not study Vioxx specifically for cardiovascular outcomes , " such as heart attacks , before the drug went on the market in 1999 , as scientists decided such testing was unnecessary.Anstice also testified the company 's million-dollar launch of painkiller Vioxx in 1999 was its biggest , most important launch ever.Plaintiff 's lawyer Mark Lanier has repeatedly referred to Anstice , now chief of Merck 's human health division , as a marketing guru bent on turning Vioxx into the multibillion-dollar seller it was to replace and even surpass revenues the company stood to lose in 2000 and 2001 when patents on other lucrative drugs were due to expire.Lanier also has singled out Merck 's medical manual , which says arrhythmia occurs in more than 90 percent of heart attack patients.Merck pulled Vioxx from the market in September after a study showed that it doubled the risk of heart attack if taken for 18 months of longer.Ernst was a produce manager at a Texas Wal-Mart who also ran marathons and worked as a personal trainer.Merck fought to prevent jurors from hearing Araneta 's testimony on the grounds that Lanier failed to identify her by name as a witness by the pretrial deadline , which the company said violated court rules on surprise witnesses.The 14th Court of Appeals in Texas denied the company 's appeal of state District Judge Ben Hardin 's decision that jurors could hear Araneta 's testimony . The following are transcripts of those letters , which are being presented to the jury in Rachelle Waterman 's murder trial . Over the course of the semester , it will be our collective mission to articulate and probe those questions . The children were in the houses , behind closed doors . Far more compelling to them were the multitudes of company e-mails and documents which suggested the company knew about the drug 's safety problems but ignored them to pump up profits.While some of the materials that Ernst 's lawyer Mark Lanier used might not be admitted at the federal court level , experts said enough of the damaging documents likely would be allowed.Merck also may find itself facing Lanier again soon . This means that you should expect class periods to be intense and fun , a place to test out your own ideas about what we're reading . But those who were there saw him trying not to smile . Before he could be unhappy something must have been withdrawn , and nothing had been granted . And when we create websites , we should be sure to give sources so what 's available is actually valuable . This course will be devoted to intensive , thoughtful study of the life , work , and legacy of the man who is often held to be the nineteenth century 's greatest novelist . " Well I just wanted to let everyone know I have n't been online or posting becuase I am grounded for getting an 89 % on a math test , and I have computer restrictions because the parental units found my wicca books , " she once wrote.About five weeks later , her mother 's severely burned body was found in a van .