POWER OF ATTORNEY
Published on March 27, 2002
Exhibit 24(a)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of Bank of America
Corporation and the several undersigned officers and directors whose signatures
appear below, hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Charles M. Berger, Rachel
R. Cummings and Paul J. Polking, and each of them acting individually, its, his
and her true and lawful attorneys with power to act without any other and with
full power of substitution, to prepare, execute, deliver and file in its, his
and her name and on its, his and her behalf, and in each of the undersigned
officer's and director's capacity or capacities as shown below, an Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001, and all exhibits
thereto and all documents in support thereof or supplemental thereto, and any
and all amendments or supplements to the foregoing, hereby ratifying and
confirming all acts and things which said attorneys or attorney might do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Bank of America Corporation has caused this power of
attorney to be signed on its behalf, and each of the undersigned officers and
directors, in the capacity or capacities noted, has hereunto set his or her
hand as of the date indicated below.
BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
By: /s/ Kenneth D. Lewis
-----------------------------------------
Kenneth D. Lewis
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dated: January 23, 2002