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What he calls a novel is hardly deserving of the name.
Overall, contributions produced $258,000 to invest in an endowment account, and this prestigious scholarship already has been awarded to several deserving law students.
And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.
Just because Cramer is more ethical than an infamous pump-and-dumpster doesn't mean that his unusual position as both professional money manager and professional financial journalist--and yes, it is unusual--isn't deserving of scrutiny and criticism.
In such films, the bad guys become increasingly subhuman and thus deserving of more and more grotesque forms of torture and dismemberment.