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Weekend Edition Vol. XXVII, Number 106 • Friday, October 6, 2006 ■ 50¢ Martin's ‘Underpants’ amuses Page 14 Race Tonight! WeeklyWeekend Edition www.PaloAltoOnline.com Memories of a revolution Hoover exhibit looks back at Hungarian uprising Page 10 Nicholas Wright Nicholas Worth A Look 16 Movie Times 19 Eating Out 20 Goings On 24 Crossword Puzzle 46 ■ Upfront School board adopts ‘wait and see’ approach Page 3 ■ Sports Girls water polo facing a change of seasons Page 34 ■ Home and Real Estate How to set your table for the holidays Section 2 7HAT%VERY0ARENT.EEDSTO+NOW !BOUT%ATING$ISORDERS )F9OUR#HILD 3EVERELYLIMITSORREFUSESFOOD &EARSGAININGWEIGHT )SUNDERWEIGHT $ENIESSERIOUSNESSOFLOWWEIGHT %XERCISESEXCESSIVELY %NGAGESINBINGEEATINGANDORPURGING 5SESDIETPILLS LAXATIVESOROTHERMEDICATIONSTOASSISTWITHWEIGHTCONTROL )SSIGNIlCANTLYOVERWEIGHT (ASFEELINGSOFDEPRESSION DESPAIR LOSSOFCONTROLORSOCIALISOLATION ,UCILE0ACKARD#HILDRENS(OSPITALISHERETOHELP7ITHTWODECADESOFEXPERIENCE THEEATINGDISORDERSPROGRAMAT ,UCILE0ACKARD#HILDRENS(OSPITALISTHEONLYCOMPREHENSIVEPROGRAMIN.ORTHERN#ALIFORNIAOFFERINGBOTHINPATIENT ANDOUTPATIENTTREATMENTFORANOREXIA BULIMIAANDOTHEREATINGPROBLEMS)TSALSOTHEONLYONEWITHADEDICATEDSPACE DESIGNEDPARTICULARLYFORTHEADOLESCENTSITSERVES /N7EDNESDAY /CTOBERFROMnPMINTHE,UCILE0ACKARD#HILDRENS(OSPITAL!UDITORIUM PLEASEJOIN #OMPREHENSIVE%ATING$ISORDERS0ROGRAM$IRECTORS$R*AMES,OCKAND$R#YNTHIA+APPHAHNTOLEARNMORE ABOUTIMPORTANTEATINGDISORDERSIGNSANDSYMPTOMSASWELLASTHEVERYLATESTTREATMENTS#ALL TOREGISTERFORTHISSESSION 6ISITWWWLPCHORGORCALL TOOBTAINMOREINFORMATIONONTHESESERVICESPROVIDEDBY0ACKARD#HILDRENS ,5#),%0!#+!2$ #(),$%.3 (/30)4!, Page 2 • Friday, October 6, 2006 • Palo Alto Weekly UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Board adopts ‘wait and see’ approach to staff concerns Administrators’ issues raised the concerns in the first place. sistant principals and district office superintendent of human resources. “We’re trusting them to work coordinators. The team submitted Board members said details beyond bumped back to administrators within themselves to identify their a document to Callan Sept. 6 that that are confidential. Along with by Alexandria Rocha issues and develop their priorities,” cites “trust, communication, con- Associate Superintendents Marilyn board President Mandy Lowell sistency of practice and preferential Cook and Jerry Matranga, Bowers he Palo Alto school board is senior cabinet. said on Wednesday. “There will be treatment” as major concerns. The is part of Callan’s senior cabinet. facing intense scrutiny for not Although a large group of parents an in-depth and timely dialogue on team also indicated plans to form According to sources within the T taking a hard-line approach and community members asked the whatever that group comes back to a union or association if working district, the board is holding off on to issues raised by top district ad- school board this week to conduct us with.” conditions do not improve. any significant action because it’s ministrators concerning alleged a full investigation, board members The administrators are part of the The five-member board met in a unclear how many team members unfair treatment from Superinten- instead tossed the matter back to ad- district’s 48-member management closed session Tuesday to provide actually agree with the statements dent Mary Frances Callan and her ministrators — the same people who team, which includes principals, as- direction to Scott Bowers, assistant (continued on page 9) COURTS Attorney general charges five in HP case Convictions could result in prison time, fines by Don Kazak ormer Hewlett-Packard Co. board chair Patricia Dunn F was arraigned in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose yesterday after being charged with four felonies Wednesday by Califor- nia Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Dunn, former HP senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and three private investigators working as agents for the high-tech company have all been charged with using false pretenses to Norbert von der Groeben obtain information from a public util- ity, unauthorized access of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes. HP obtained the private telephone numbers of board members and at least nine news reporters in an attempt to determine who was leaking board- Painting rain room information to the media. The conspiracy charge carries a Margarita Poutivskaia of Cupertino uses acrylics to paint the Russian Orthodox Church on Ross Road in the rain Wednesday morning. Poutivskaia sentence of up to one year in prison is a student of Alla Viksne, who has taught European techniques in the U.S. for the past 12 years. and a maximum of $25,000 in fines. Convictions on each of the other who operates his business at the air- would only apply to Palo Alto three charges could result in up to PALO ALTO port, adding the airport feels like a Airport. Reid-Hillview and South three years in prison, plus fines of “stepchild” in the county’s airport County airports, both owned by the up to $10,000 each. Will fee proposal family. county, would only face increases if Dunn, who is also being treated Stuck at a 3-3 split, the Airport officials determined a need to keep for advanced ovarian cancer, is sur- Commission was unable to take ac- pace with inflation. rendering voluntarily, as will Hunsa- kill Palo Alto Airport? tion at its Tuesday night meeting and “Either consciously or otherwise, ker, who is being represented by Palo tabled the issue. Michael Murdter, they are driving business to the Alto criminal lawyer Tom Nolan. County wants to double fuel fees, the county’s director of roads and airports they own,” said Palo Alto Two of the investigators, Ron increase storage charges airports, said he intends to advance City Manager Frank Benest. The DeLia of Boston and Bryan Wag- the proposal anyway. city would support moderate fee in- ner of Littleton, Colo., have agreed by Becky Trout Its next stop is the Oct. 19 meeting creases applied to all three airports, to voluntarily surrender and will hat began in 1967 as a co- passionately debated plans to dou- of the county’s Housing, Land Use, he said. travel to California to do so, prob- operative relationship has ble fuel fees, significantly increase Environment, and Transportation Santa Clara County rents the ably within the next week, ac- W now turned combative, as plane storage charges and minimize Committee. If there are no impedi- airport in the Baylands from Palo cording to the attorney general’s the city, county and local residents its investment in the airport, which ments, the proposal could go before Alto. For $25, it secured the right office. They will likely face bail vie to determine the Palo Alto Air- reverts to city control in 2017. the Board of Supervisors Nov. 14. to develop and operate the airport of $50,000 each. There is no word port’s future. “Give us a little more love be- If adopted, the rate hikes could go for 50 years. on whether bail will be sought for The tension erupted again this cause we’re a little insecure,” said into effect Jan. 1, Murdter said. “We provided this 100-acre piece Dunn or Hunsaker. week, as pilots, county and city staff Larry Shapiro, an aircraft broker The proposed rate increases (continued on page 9) (continued on page 9) Palo Alto Weekly • Friday, October 6, 2006 • Page 3 703 HIGH STREET, PALO ALTO, CA 94302 (650) 326-8210 PUBLISHER William S. Johnson ReaderReaderWire comments via e-mail, voice mail and U.S. mail EDITORIAL Jay Thorwaldson, Editor Marc Burkhardt, Managing Editor Jocelyn Dong, Associate Editor Romic must go Response to poll Allen Clapp, Carol Blitzer, Assistant Editors On behalf of Youth United for I am writing to state that Palo Keith Peters, Sports Editor Rick Eymer, Assistant Sports Editor Community Action (YUCA), we are Alto Online’s online poll — “What Rebecca Wallace, Arts & Entertainment Editor Don Kazak, Senior Staff Writer writing in response to the Weekly’s do you think of the Charleston/ Alexandria Rocha, Molly Tanenbaum, Becky article about Supervisor Rose Arastradero Road changes?” — is Trout, Staff Writers Norbert von der Groeben, Chief Photographer Jacobs Gibson’s letter to close itself misleading in the imbedded Nicholas Wright, Staff Photographer Adam Heyman, Photo Intern Romic, a toxic-waste plant in East message which is delivered by the Tyler Hanley, Assistant to the Editor & Palo Alto. limited selection of choices for Online Editor Sue Dremann, Staff Writer, Special Sections We would like to thank her and answers. Cammie Farmer, Calendar Editor Jeanne Aufmuth, Dale Bentson, other government officials who A less-biased poll would include Lynn Comeskey, Tim Goode, Jill Slater, represent the city of East Palo Alto an option such as “the street is now Susan Tavernetti, Robert Taylor, Contributors Dan Shilstone, Editorial Intern for expressing their concerns about safer for bicyclists and pedestri- Julie Park, Arts & Entertainment Intern our community’s health and well-be- ans, including students cycling to DESIGN ing. Along with Supervisor Gibson, school.” Carol Hubenthal, Design Director Diane Haas, Sue Peck, Senior Designers; Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, Congress- Such an additional response Royd Hatta, Dana James, Paul Llewellyn, woman Anna Eshoo and the City is valid because while effects on Charmaine Mirsky, Scott Peterson, Designers Council of East Palo Alto have all motor vehicular traffic need to PRODUCTION written letters calling for the denial be taken into account, the effect Jennifer Lindberg, Production Manager Dorothy Hassett, Sales
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