Among the mid-caps St Modwen Properties, up 15p at 290p, and home shopping specialist N Brown, 15.3p better at 481.3p, benefited from positive trading updates.
The NCAA valued that last benefit at $58.
VATICAN CITY: LAURYN HILL'S TIRADE -- The Grammy Award-winning singer Lauryn Hill, below, shocked many members of the audience at a Christmas benefit concert at the Vatican when she read a statement Saturday night in which she condemned priests who abuse children.
It also paid $100,000 for a performance by Mr. Jean at a 2006 benefit concert.
Ms. Kimmel is performing at a June 24 benefit sponsored by the Lions Club of Bedford Hills.
Legal Services NY will honor Brackett B. Denniston 3rd, senior vice president and general counsel of General Electric, at its May 6 benefit.
Ross had witnessed the Jackson 5 - Marlon, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Michael - enthral an audience at a 1968 benefit for Gary's black mayor, Richard Hatcher, and insisted that the Tamla Motown boss, Berry Gordy, check them out.
He performed at a 1997 benefit concert for RAINN (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) organized by Tori Amos (who had often referred to Keenan as an unofficial brother).
"You so famously and so powerfully said, 'George Bush doesn't care about black people,'" Kimmel said, referring to comments West made at a 2005 benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief.
Jose Torres, author, raconteur and former light heavyweight champion of the world, was telling a story and sipping white wine at the annual Christmas benefit for retired and ruined boxers at Tony Mazzarella's Waterfront Crabhouse in Long Island City.
