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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 . At every point , we will examine how writers ' representations of London both build on prior representations and influence subsequent ones , studying , in effect , the evolutions - - and , perhaps , devolutions - - of London 's literary character over time . But on another day , soon after , he had a fright th at left him trembling also for an hour . Would attendees leave with some sort of document ? Before the influence of the place had been able to find him out at all , it had had the inertia of those dreary chapters to overcome . " Right now we are concentrating on defending each and every case we face . On the night of November 14 , 1959 , a sleepy Kansas town was rudely awakened by the mass murder of the Clutters , a local farming family . Lucchesi said after reviewing correspondence among Merck executives and scientists that he was surprised the company did n't put more emphasis on those risks . " It is not survival of the fittest , but survival of those most able to cooperate , " said one member of a panel of national experts who analyzed the survey . And since the whole attempt had failed , it was hardly worth while to consider whether a little might not be saved from the general wreck . Variety entertainment of all sorts could be seen in the Music Halls , either in smoke-filled taverns in working class neighborhoods , in chic cosmopolitan halls tucked away in the West End , or in glittering theatres like the Empire on Leicester Square , which offered picturesque ballet-extravaganzas . He would n't have taken it had he known about the heart attack risk , lawyer Chris Seeger told jurors.Merck repeatedly reminded jurors that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved it as safe and effective on four occasions for use against different types of pain , the last a month before Merck recalled it.The company 's lawyers cited Humeston 's elevated blood pressure , weight and stress from an ongoing dispute he was having with his U.S. Postal Service bosses , saying they were to blame for his heart attack , not Vioxx.The night before the heart attack , Humeston was called by his personal physician in response to an office visit by Postal Service fraud investigators in which they showed him a secretly-recorded videotape of Humeston working on a car at his home.Merck 's expert cardiologist testified that that call was the " absolute trigger " for the heart attack.While Humeston made for a sympathetic plaintiff , he also was a relatively healthy one , appearing in court for nearly every day of testimony and taking the stand for one day.In the Texas case , the victim was a Wal-Mart produce manager who died after taking Vioxx ; his widow was the plaintiff.Merck 's lawyers also told jurors there was no scientific link between short-term Vioxx use and heart attacks . The kitchen window had no blind , and was overshadowed by the blank end of the house across the alley . Instead of performing those tasks himself , he now relies on his son Seth . These are some of the questions that will occupy us this semester as we study a range of American writers who have approached the complex question of the " family story " through fiction . If the weekly reading takes you longer than 11 or 12 hours to complete , it is a sign that you need to make some adjustments in your reading habits . Since that night when he had thought in his greenness that a little studied neglect would bring the lovely Beckoner to her knees , and had made use of her own jealousy to banish her , he had not set eyes on those fifteen discarded chapters of Romilly.he had thrown them back into the window-seat , forgotten their very existence . Attorneys are taking that kickoff to be the day Merck withdrew its $ 2.5 billion-a-year arthritis pill from the market , Sept. 30 2004.States with a one-year filing deadline include Kentucky , Louisiana and Tennessee , according to Cherry Hill lawyer Mike Ferrara , who filed 48 suits in time to make the Sept. 30 deadline.New York attorney Gary Douglas filed eight cases in New Jersey and 72 others in federal courts — which follow their states ' deadlines — under the wire.Seeger , Ferrara and Douglas said that given the huge backlog in New Jersey , Higbee — who is overseeing every New Jersey case — needs to assign some to other judges and Merck must agree to settle the bulk of them . " You jumped to conclusions before you ever knew what they were talking about , " Raber said.Plaintiff attorneys and some doctors have argued Merck knew the risks of Vioxx at least a few years before it took the drug off the market , yet downplayed its dangers and kept aggressively promoting the drug . We will focus our attention on some of the major fiction of the period , attending to issues of style and form as well as to how the novel participates in Victorian debates about poverty , sexuality , morality , change , and imperialism .