Hewlett Packard Spies On Board; Campaigns Hacks; DNA And The Chumash Indians; Voter ID Laws; Michael Tolkin's New Book, The Return Of The Player
Hewlett Packard Spies On Board
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has gathered sufficient evidence to potentially indict senior executives of Hewlett-Packard for spying on their own board members. Larry talks with Michael Connor, editor of Business Ethics Magazine, about the ethical issues related to HP's highly controversial practice and what constitutes socially acceptable ethical standards of behavior for corporations.
Campaigns Hacks
Larry Mantle talks about the dust-up between the Angelides and Schwarzenegger campaigns regarding an allegation of computer hacking.
DNA And The Chumash Indians
John Johnson, a leading scholar of Chumash Indian culture and head of the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, joins Larry Mantle to talk about his DNA studies which seem to provide clues that link some of today's Chumash with settlers of coastal regions from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego more than 10,000 years ago.
Voter ID Laws
U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver refused to block a law requiring voters of Arizona to show identification before casting a ballot this Monday. Larry and his guests discuss the legal ramifications of this ruling and laws requiring picture ID for voting and registration.
Michael Tolkin's New Book, The Return Of The Player
Larry Mantle talks with author, director and screenwriter Michael Tolkin about his new novel, The Return of the Player. Published to great acclaim and adapted to film by Robert Altman, "The Player" was a brilliant satire of Hollywood that has become a cult classic. Now, it's fifteen years later and film executive Griffin Mill is back.