The fact that both the number and total amount of donations summed up in an unprecedented way was of course induced by the dimension of the disaster.
Blair Horner, the legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Mr. Paladino's pattern of donations — small sums of money dispensed by an assortment of corporate entities — strongly suggested that he was trying to avoid drawing attention to his donations, given the business he has before the state.
That shouldn't be a problem, the firm argues, because as a post-election donation, the sum is not covered by those campaign limits -- at least as the law applied in 2007.
Not from a place of resentment or a Scrooge-like dislike of charity, but because the refusal to examine the plausibility of their claims risks a disservice to the millions whose charitable donations amount to a sum that is far greater than what US tech billionaires contribute.
As for the bone marrow donation process, Lesser sums it up in one beautiful, profound sentence.
Since the foundation's emergency appeal last summer to raise a $15 million cushion for operating expenses, it has collected only a little more than $1.5 million in major pledges and donations, a sum that amounts to mere life support.
So up until 1995, the Free Enterprise Foundation donated huge sums to the Coalition but was not required to reveal the donations it received.
The Peshwas not only supported the Sanskrit traditions through official donations of large sums each year to thousands of Sanskrit scholars, the Sanskrit traditions were at the very core of the Peshwa mentality and their cultural and political framework.
Ms. Combe, for instance, says that while she makes a good salary and her husband has a job in finance, they cannot afford such a large lump-sum donation.
The single-largest donation was a sum of $5,947,720 from Queensland Nickel to the Palmer United party, which is likely to fuel further debate about the handling of the Townsville-based business before it went into administration last month.
Swift's donation is a sum that could surely help with Kesha's legal fees or even with cost of living as she reckons with how to work in her profession when her options are: not work, or work with a man she claims abused her for over a decade.
