Numbers

  • 261 Number of CEOs listed in the Russell 1000 Index who have made contributions to the Bush-Cheney campaign

    36 Number of CEOs listed in the Russell 1000 Index who have made contributions to John Kerry's campaign

    $269,385 Amount John Kerry has raised from employees of Ivy League colleges, with almost half coming from Harvard

    $28,851 Amount George Bush has raised from Ivy League college employees

    $1,000 Cost of the Zillion Dollar Frittata, an omelet at New York City's Le Parker Meridien hotel that contains six eggs, lobster meat and 10 oz. of sevruga caviar

    $65 Cost to the restaurant for an ounce of sevruga caviar

    $109.3 million Amount Michael Ovitz pocketed from his severance package, which included 9 million stock options, after being fired as Walt Disney Co.'s president in 1996

    $120 million Amount Ovitz lost by failing to exercise 4.9 million of those options before Disney stock took a dive in 2000; they have now expired

    Sources: Sunday Tribune (2); Boston Globe (2); Associated Press (2); Los Angeles Times (2)