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A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Sergeant Rob MacLean, Public Information Officer for the United States Park Police on the White House shooting; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle; new Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; and Darrell Ames, spokesman for the US Navy Pacific Fleet.

Host Melissa Block talks with John Tiscornia , owner of Lyndeth Howe Country House Hotel, in Cumbria, England. His small bed-and-breakfast business has suffered great losses in recent weeks, since tourists have shied-away from the foot-and-mouth infected regions of the English countryside.

Liane talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about President Bush's past week, ranging from the reversal on his position to regulate carbon dioxide to his steady insistence on a tax cut to his edging away from his plan to have faith-based organizations deliver government services and to his desire to no longer have the American Bar Association review judicial appointments.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara previews Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's visit to the United States. Mubarak is the first Arab leader to visit the new administration. He'll meet today at the State Department with Secretary Powell and at the White House with President Bush. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.N. sanctions against Iraq are expected to dominate the discussions.

The visit to Taiwan by the high-level delegation comes at a time when the White House has expressed growing concern about Beijing's ties with Moscow.

Liane Hansen visits pedal-steel player Robert Randolph in the House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey. The 23-year-old guitar prodigy is part of a little-known group of church musicians playing "sacred steel", and he's now playing more and more on the club circuit. The Word, on Ropeadope Records, with Randolph, keyboardist John Medeski and the North Mississippi Allstars has just been released on CD.

C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian Lamb has written an open letter to Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi requesting that she grant television cameras more access to the House chamber. Lamb discusses his request with Neal Conan.

In an address to the House Republican Conference on Thursday, President Bush urged GOP lawmakers to approve his proposed detainee interrogation policies, saying the new guidelines will help his administration fight terrorism.

Our summer reading series continues with playwright, screenwriter and novelist Suzan-Lori Parks, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for her play Topdog/Underdog. She's been rereading two old favorites: Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery (Random House; ISBN: 0375705090) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Perennial Classics; ISBN: 0060931418).

Criminal charges against former White House aide I. Lewis Libby have focused new attention on the man he worked for. Vice President Dick Cheney's support for the Iraq war and his ideas about the treatment of detainees have drawn criticism.