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4: Position of Interpublic Group on Fortune’s list of most admired advertising and marketing companies for 2002, trailing Omnicom Group, TMP Worldwide and Grey Global Group. Considering IPG’s stock price fell 53 percent between Jan. 1 ($29.90) and Dec. 31 ($14.08) and the $181.3 million accounting imbalance it reported last year is the subject of a formal SEC investigation, one has to wonder what it would take to get booted off the list.

16: Number of hours that Dell dude Ben Curtis spent in the Big House after his pot arrest, according to the sob story/acting manifesto he delivered to the New York Sun last week.

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