Attendance was down at ICSC-"back to normal" before the transaction mania of the last few years, according to one convention veteran. But Mike Kercheval, ICSC president and CEO, pointed out that the Monday lunch set a record-"maybe that´s because it´s free," he told the 3,000 plus in the Hilton ballroom. They probably wanted to hear Sam Zell who had a good story about how a monkey drove a bus over a cliff, while everybody else was partying (drinking, smoking dope, and lewd behavior) in the back-his apt parody of the market collapse.
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