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A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including outgoing Illinois Gov. George Ryan; President George W. Bush and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN); Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and White House spokesman Ari Fleischer; Pak Gil Yon, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations; President Bush; and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Wednesday's earthquake as heard on the 51st floor of a Seattle office building; Washington state Governor Gary Locke (Democrat); Britain's Chief Veterinarian Jim Scudamore and Dutch parliamentarian Jan Mulder; US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Kuwaiti political analyst Abdullah Shayze; Hilary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, and Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat, South Dakota).

In Buckhannon, W.Va., two-day hearings begin about the Sago Mine accident that killed 12 people on Jan. 2. Family members of the dead miners gave statements, and company officials presented their take on the accident, as well.

In 1960, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy asked the nation to disregard his religion; in 2000, George W. Bush stated Jesus was his favorite philosopher. How did faith become such an important criterion for the presidency? Religion professor and evangelical newspaper columnist Randall Balmer explains.

P. W. Singer explores the advances of robotics in warfare in his book Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and 21st Century Conflict.

Philanthropist and investor George Soros is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute. His new book is The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of The War on Terror. Soros, whose worth has been estimated at over $7 billion, has directed his philanthropic efforts toward defeating George W. Bush in 2004, overthrowing communism in Eastern Europe, helping black students attend university in apartheid South Africa and repealing drug prohibition laws internationally.

Poet W.H. Auden was born in England 100 years ago today. Edward Mendelson, Auden's literary executor, marks the occasion with a new collection, Selected Poems.

In The House At The End Of The Road, W. Ralph Eubanks tells the story of his white grandfather, Jim, and black grandmother, Edna. Jim and Edna Richardson raised a biracial family in spite of living in Jim Crow, rural Alabama.

Robert Draper, author of the new book Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, had unprecedented access to the president and his immediate circle, including six interviews with him in 2006 and '07.

White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States.