Sunday, Jun. 19, 2005

Numbers

15 New seats for Sunnis added to Iraq's constitutional committee, which will end a months-long deadlock and allow the now 71-member group to begin drafting the document

2 Months left before the committee's August deadline to adopt a constitution

$2.2 billion Amount J.P. Morgan Chase will pay Enron investors who accused the bank of abetting the energy firm's accounting misdeeds

$3.3 million Box-office receipts for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room since the documentary's April release

46% Cut in federal funding for public broadcasting next year, approved by the House Appropriations Committee

$14,170 Payments allegedly made by the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for background reports on the political leanings of PBS guests

9.77 sec. New world record in the 100-m dash set by Jamaican Asafa Powell, below, beating the previous record by 0.01 sec.

3.6 m.p.h. Speed of the wind at Powell's back, which was slower than the wind that helped American Tim Montgomery set the old record in 2002

Sources: New York Times (2); Washington Post (2); Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Agence France Presse (2)