The Annual Meeting of Stockholders was held on March 25, 2003.

A proposal to approve an amendment to the Companys Stock Option Plan to extend
the term of the Plan for an additional three years was approved with 62,688,124
votes for, 7,563,253 votes against, and 1,598,336 votes abstaining.

A stockholder proposal to request the Board of Directors to consider placing
performance limitations on when stock option grants may be awarded to the
Companys investment personnel was defeated. Of the 37,426,892 shares that were
voted on this proposal (abstentions are not included in this calculation),
11,447,766 shares (30.6%) were voted for, and 25,979,126 shares (69.4%) were
voted against. 2,785,459 shares abstained.  Of the total number of shares
outstanding as of February 14, 2003, the record date for the meeting, 13.6 per
cent were voted for the proposal.