He has also been a large donor to the Republican party, having financially supported Ron Paul's 2012 campaign.
Steve Forbes, who is a Princeton trustee and a large donor, said he would stop making gifts to the university.
TRACY KIDDER: Actually, Frank, the U.S. ties more of its foreign aid than any other large donor nation.
Hitachi has been another large donor to the metropolitan program, giving a total of $1.8 million to Brookings over the last decade, according to Brookings documents.
Thomson said this was when he first became aware there was a large donor who was going to contribute to the Newcastle campaign.
James F. Steets, a spokesman for Entergy, another large donor last year, said the company would reduce its contribution but had not decided how much.
But 10 days before previews were to begin in April, the large donor, hurt by a dip in the stock market, pulled out.
Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, who has sponsored campaign finance legislation, said, "For me, as for many senators and many Americans, suspicions about this pardon arise from the fact that Marc Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich, was a large donor to the Democratic Party -- not just a large donor, a huge donor".
Since Mr. Bloomberg became mayor, for example, Mr. Geller has become a large donor to the State Senate Republicans, as Mr. Bloomberg has.
The official reaction was striking, both in its brutality and in the contempt it showed for the EU, a large donor to Moldova, Europe's poorest country.
Carnegie, with its history and large donor base, is just as much a presenter of works as a rental space and has in the past turned up its nose a bit at its neighbor.
