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A college spokesman said that the scholarship had not been set up as part of a political decision, and if the initial donations had been refused, this would have been interpreted as a political decision too.
This is the second time this year that the bank has supported the initiative after the initial donation of $110,000 early in the year.
Subsequent blood draws took place approximately 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial donation, with the final sample donated in August 2008.
Mr. McHale, a Perry spokesman said after the initial donation, "understands Governor Perry's leadership has made Texas a good place to do business".
President Bush said today that the United States would contribute $200 million to a global fund to attack AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, but critics and some members of Congress said the initial donation was paltry.
The designer and artist Andy Spade, who had previously worked with the filmmakers, put up the initial donation for Museum along with his wife, the designer Kate Spade, and their daughter, Bea.
The philanthropic duo has so far paid only $1 million of the initial donation, and, citing severe financial hardship, has made it clear that they have no means of paying the outstanding balance.
It's been four years since the Haiti earthquake and although those initial donations made a huge impact in rebuilding the rumble of Port-au-Prince, there are still at least 150,000 Haitians living in the plywood shelters in relief camps.
But except for the Salicks' initial donations, private contributions never materialized, although Dr. Sessoms said several times that he had raised the money.
Each year, the value of that initial donation expands to new heights and just like that, the impossible becomes reality and Shine on Sierra Leone's story continues.
