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Leisure suits, big hair and the Bee Gees are just part of the draw of a new book, Bar Mitzvah Disco. Essays from Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Silverman and others document bar and bat mitzvahs from the 1970s through the '90s.

In his new book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, Yale professor and literary critic Harold Bloom wrestles with the meaning of God's covenant with the Hebrew people. Bloom discusses his own troubled feelings about the Hebrew God Yahweh with Debbie Elliott.

The Pentagon's 5 million computers make a tempting target for computer hackers. Officials reported 80,000 attempts to disrupt the system last year. What is being done to improve security?

R. Jeffrey Smith of The Washington Post discusses an advocacy group called the U.S. Family Network that was founded by and run at first by Tom DeLay's former chief of staff. The group was funded almost entirely by companies linked to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fought for his life Thursday following seven hours of emergency surgery to stop widespread bleeding in his brain. The massive stroke made it unlikely that he would return to power.

The University of Texas Longhorns rally past the University of Southern California 41-38 in college football's national championship. The high-scoring contest was punctuated by a last-minute touchdown run by Texas quarterback Vince Young.

Sometimes authors' best works are their first. The tale of an imaginary universe where elevators are really important and the story of the first giraffe in Europe are among librarian Nancy Pearl's selections of must-read literary debuts.

Oil and natural gas dominate the economy of Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, but fishing is its heart and soul. During an October visit, Motivatit Seafoods was silent in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Now the clank and clatter of seafood processing has resumed.

This averages out to more than 13 such attacks a week.

In many ways, Spike Lee's film Inside Man is reminiscent of an earlier heist flick called Quick Change. Scott Simon discusses both movies with Elvis Mitchell, host of The Treatment on NPR station KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif.