Manhattan Acquisition Corp.

Manhattan Acquisition Corp. is impersonating a genuine entity with the same name. The impersonator has NO connection with, and is not to be confused with, the genuine Manhattan Acquisition Corp., a Schedule 13D ("beneficial ownership report") filer (CIK Number: 0001128718) and Delaware corporation formed by BRS L.P. for the sole purpose of effecting the proposed transactions of merging with and into a single other company, as described in its filing of November 27, 2000 and amended filing of January 18, 2001. The SEC's EDGAR database contains information for the genuine entity.