"This is a critical victory for Merck, " says Howard Erichson, a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey.

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Arianda, who uses her middle name instead of her Ukrainian surname, Matijcio, first appeared onstage at age three, reciting part of a patriotic Ukrainian poem at a Ukrainian school hall in Passaic, New Jersey. (She grew up in Clifton.) She had spent the previous week learning the poem with her mother, Lesia, a painter who had studied at the School of Visual Arts with Robert De Niro, Sr.

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Under construction since 2007, one village, including shops, a school and village hall, has been completed and there are plans for 5, 000 new homes in the next decade.

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