Mike Peters has been drawing cartoons for the Dayton Daily News since 1969. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University and immediately began his career on the art staff of the Chicago Daily News. In 1972, his editorial cartoons became syndicated nationally. In 1981 Mike was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Journalism and in 1984 the award-winning Mother Goose & Grimm comic strip was born. Mike Luckovich sold life insurance after graduating from the University of Washington. He landed his first cartooning job at the Greenville News in South Carolina. After nine months at the NM, Luckovich was hired by The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where he stayed for four years before moving on to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. In 1995 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning. Dan Wasserman has been drawing for the Boston Globe since 1985. Before joining the Globe, he drew for The Washington Star. He is a native of New Haven, Conn. While attending Swarthmore College he began writing and drawing for campus publications, then went on to study at the Art Students League in New York while teaching college-level English. Scott Simon, NPR's Peabody Award- winning journalist is host of Weekend Edition Saturday, where he covers a wide range of subjects. He joined NPR in 1977 as chief of its Chicago bureau. Since then, he has reported from all 50 states, covered presidential campaigns and eight wars, and reported from Central America, Africa, India, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent. She also wrote a column, "On Washington," for The New York Times Magazine. Dick Gordon has been host of WBUR's The Connection for the last three years. Before joining WBUR, he was senior correspondent, back-up host and reporter for the CBC national current affairs radio show, This Morning. He has served as Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.