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1990 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: C. Saikowski, J. Konner, E. Roberts, M. Sovern, R. Christopher, C. Sitton; back row, left to right: D. Laventhol, J. Risser, P. Kann, S. Bok. R. Maynard, M. Greenfield, M. Gartner, R. Baker, J. Hoge, W. Rugaber, G. Overholser (absent from photo: B. Osborne) Credit: Joe Pineiro/Columbia University

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Eugene L. Roberts, Jr., chair; Robert C. Christopher, secretary

Washington (NC) Daily News

Citation
For revealing that the city's water supply was contaminated with carcinogens, a problem that the local government had neither disclosed nor corrected over a period of eight years.
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Categories: Public Service
Publication
Washington (NC) Daily News

Mel Powell

Citation
Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on January 26, 1990.
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Categories: Music
Publication
"Duplicates": A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Lou Kilzer and Chris Ison

Citation
For reporting that exposed a network of local citizens who had links to members of the St. Paul fire department and who profited from fires, including some described by the fire department itself as being of suspicious origin.
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Location
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Categories: Investigative Reporting
Publication
Star Tribune

Stanley Karnow

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Categories: History
Publisher
Random House
Publication
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

Staff

Citation
For its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath.
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Categories: General News Reporting
Publication
San Jose (CA) Mercury News
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