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<FILENAME>poa.txt
<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY
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                            LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
                         For Executing Forms 3, 4 and 5

         KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Heidi Hoefler, Ellen Harrington, Kevin Jacobs, and Tracy
DiRienzo, signing singly, her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)      execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4 and 5, and
         amendments thereto, in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities
         Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder;

(2)      do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
         which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
         Form 3, 4 or 5, or amendment thereto, and the filing of such form with
         the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock
         exchange or similar authority; and

(3)      take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
         foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
         benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
         undersigned.

         The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power
and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact, or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any
of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

         The undersigned acknowledges that this power-of-attorney applies to the
filing of Forms 3, 4, or 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in the following funds:

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   Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
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   Liberty All-Star Growth Fund, Inc.
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         This power-of-attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, or 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Funds,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 11th day of April, 2003.

/s/WILLIAM PARMENTIER                         William R. Parmentier, Jr.
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   William Parmentier                             Print Name
   Signature






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