Election Scene; Turmoil In Haiti; Rape Shield Law And The Kobe Bryant Case; Mel Gibson's Film "The Passion Of The Christ"; Water Was Once On Mars
Election Scene
Larry Mantle checks in with Kris Heffron, chief deputy registrar recorder county clerk, LA County Registrar of Voters, Trang Ho Feusner, KPCC reporter, and Adolfo Guzman Lopez, KPCC reporter about the election scene and polling place turnout.
Turmoil In Haiti
Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide fled the island nation Sunday in response to international pressure and increased rebellion and lawlessness in the country. Haiti's people are arguably poorer and more hopeless than when Aristide became Haiti's first democratically elected President fourteen years ago. What led to Aristide's downfall, and what does Haiti's future hold? Larry Mantle talks to Time Magazine's Miami-Latin America Bureau Chief Tim Padgett.
Rape Shield Law And The Kobe Bryant Case
Larry Mantle talks with Robert Pugsley, professor of Law Southwestern University School of Law about the rape shield law, and the latest in the Kobe Bryant case.
Mel Gibson's Film "The Passion Of The Christ"
Larry Mantle talks with film critics F.X. Feeney and Jean Oppenheimer about Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ." Then, Larry Mantle talks with local theologians about their opinions of Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ." The panel consists of Robert Johnston, Ph.D., professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, co-director of the "Reel Spirituality Conference;" Father Thomas Rausch, T. Marie Chilton Professor of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University; and Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, Western Regional Director of the American Jewish Committee.
Water Was Once On Mars
Larry Mantle talks with Art Amador, Sequence Team Chief for the Mars Exploration Rover Project about this important discovery.