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Thela is the main character and she is incredibly pathetic, a coward who never stands up for herself, but does complain when she's in a position of significantly reduced abuse. Quite a puzzling character, that makes one feel sorry for her in the beginning but then just wishes her to stop being a coward for once. However, the final reward for her lack of action is well deserved. This one is as ironic as it is contemplative of human moral values. I cannot find words enough to praise the author's writing.

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As it is the case with the previous story, there are no good guys here, only bad and worse, and every single one of them with seriously questionable morals. The author has created an incredibly scary world where worst of the crimes are justified by service to the higher beings and utter hatred, without question and reason, for the other side.

Several characters stand out, Rhain, Kellia, and Dawn. I cannot say more without giving spoilers, but the reference to the characters from the previous story was a very nice touch. As I mentioned previously, the author contemplates the perception of moral values of the characters, and changes in those values relative to the changes in personal circumstances. Fascinating story, which is unfortunately finished, but I would love to read more. Hui Lang Two short stories taking place in the same world. Two brothers serving time and punishments for their actions.

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You would think there would be two reviews, but here is why I am writing one for both stories, because they are both about redemption and how it doesn't always come in the form that we expect. What you will get is the old style of fairly tales that involve blood, heartache, and lessons learned with the addition of character any one can relate too, so much so, you feel every pain the character does.

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Oily feathers reflected the moonlight, revealing wide, dark arches. Even at the wingtips, the feathers grew together and formed talons of their own. Underneath those wings, a looming shadow squirmed and drew cold breaths, sucking life out of the very air.

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She had fallen for the trap like a mouse would follow cheese. Her stomach felt as if hell itself jerked it to the depths. Azrael shrunk her wings close to her body in horror as the stench of sulfur reached her nostrils. The creature moved closer. Blackness oozed down its white legs, leaving steaming footprints in its path.

Its face was hidden, but Azrael could feel it watching her with a crooked smile in the darkness. How will one of the world's largest and most respected pharmaceutical companies come back? When former employees speak of Old Merck, they often get a wistful tone to their voices. One guy would routinely have mice to dose in one experiment. I would finish my work and go over to his lab and help him. It wasn't even my department.

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You didn't think twice about it. Back in Cugnon's day, Merck really was a special kind of company. Fortune magazine cited it as the "most admired" company in America for seven years in a row, a record never equaled before or since. It was the world's largest drug maker, churning out first-of-a-kind medicines for cholesterol, osteoporosis, and high blood pressure. And it gained almost-cult status for its decision in to give away, indefinitely, its entire production of a drug for river blindness, a devastating condition that affects millions of people in impoverished countries.

Even five years ago, Merck was still booming.

Merck's Fall from Grace

It had five best-selling drugs, including the new arthritis and pain medicine, Vioxx. Its stock hit It was perceived as a great place to work and a model for other pharmaceutical companies to follow. Today, Vioxx has been pulled off the market because it increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes, two more major products are losing patent protection, and there has been a leadership reshuffle.

The stock - which had been on an almost nonstop climb since Cugnon's time, except for a brief industry-wide hiccup in the early s broadly attributed to fear of President Clinton's healthcare reform - has been sliding ever since the first published warnings of Vioxx in and is now hovering in the 30s. Far from being admired, Merck is now criticized by former employees, other industry players, government officials, and the general public. A combination of troubles brought down Merck, some of them common to the industry, some unique.

Like other manufacturers, Merck lost patent exclusivity on many of its best sellers, opening up the company to cheaper generic competition, while it struggled to develop new blockbusters to replace them. Moreover, the public has become furious at the industry's high prices and questioning of the barrage of TV advertising. Merck compounded those problems with weak leadership and a willful blindness to Vioxx's risks, say Slater and other former Merck employees, Wall Street analysts, and other industry experts contacted for this article.

Over the past year, Merck has taken some steps to pull itself back up. Gilmartin was pushed out, replaced by veteran Richard T. Clark, who has boosted morale and cut costs. Several other new vaccines and drugs are scheduled for FDA review as well see Pipeline chart. However, outside experts say Merck still needs stronger offerings in hot fields such as obesity, cancer, Alzheimer disease, and depression. And, a big question mark is the 9,plus lawsuits filed by patients who took Vioxx: Merck has so far won two out of four trials with a mixed verdict on a fifth.

The key to understanding Merck's slide is to compare its CEOs. During the glory days, it was led by scientist P. Roy Vagelos, who is almost universally described as brilliant, charismatic, arrogant, and hard-driving, both by industry experts and by people who worked with him including Benito, Cugnon, and longtime Merck marketing executive C.

Boyd Clarke, who now runs Neose Technologies, a biotech near Philadelphia. The son of Greek immigrants, Vagelos grew up cleaning tables in his family's luncheonette, in the shadow of the Merck labs. Because he understood the science, old-timers say, Vagelos was able to inspire the creativity and energy that Cugnon describes even after he became chief executive in Moreover, Vagelos got personally involved in the everyday workings of the company.

He even ate lunch in the cafeteria. But even admirers like Benito and Alfred W. Alberts, a longtime head of biochemical regulation who was probably Vagelos' closest colleague, blame Vagelos for one big failing: He did not groom a viable successor from within. Vagelos failed to respond to several requests for interviews for this article.

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When he left in at the mandatory retirement age of 65, the board brought in Gilmartin, the CEO of Becton, Dickinson and Company, a manufacturer of medical devices. Although Gilmartin had an MBA from Harvard and some experience on the fringes of health care, he lacked Vagelos' most important attributes: Loss, an executive vice president of the financial research firm Washington Analysis who specializes in health care.

It was just bad luck that so many fruits of the Vagelos era - including Pepcid, Prilosec for heartburn, Mevacor for cholesterol, and Vasotec and Prinivil for high blood pressure - reached the end of their patent protections almost simultaneously. Nor was it Gilmartin's fault that promising compounds for diabetes, anxiety, cancer, and depression fell through in medium- or late-stage trials.

Nonetheless, several insiders - including Alberts, Steven M. Darien, a former vice president of human resources, and Benito - charge that Gilmartin stifled research by adding layers of bureaucracy and consultants. Even more controversial, the new bureaucracy included marketing people, who sat in on the earliest stages of drug development. While this was happening throughout the industry, many scientists and consumer advocates worry that the pressure for billion-dollar sales could influence the science. But science was more important when Vagelos was there," says Vijay Samant, who spent more than 20 years at Merck, leaving in as chief operating officer of the vaccine division.