Mr. Oliphant has been a correspondent for The Boston Globe since 1968 and its Washington columnist since 1989. He is a native of Brooklyn, a product of La Jolla High School in California and a 1967 graduate of Harvard. He was one of three editors on special assignment who managed The Globe's coverage of Boston's traumatic school desegregation, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. He has also won the writing award given by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has appeared on ABC's Nightline, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, Face The Nation, The Today Show, Good Morning America and CBS This Morning.  He has been named one of the country's Top Ten political writers and one of Washington's 50 most influential journalists by Washington Magazine. He is the author of two books: Praying for Gil Hodges and Utter Incompetents: Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush.  Mr. Oliphant lives in Washington with his wife, CBS correspondent Susan Spencer.