Numbers: May 31, 2004

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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)