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1999 Pulitzer Prize Board
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front row, left to right: R. Pederson, H. Gates, H. Vendler, D. Goodwin, J. Doston, J. Fuller, E. Seaton; back row, left to right: L. Boccardi, T. Goldstein, W. Safire, G. Rupp, W. Rugaber, J. Risser, A. Barnes, S. Rowe J. Carroll, S. Topping, M. Yarbrough, W. Ketter, P. Steiger

Board Lander Sub Title
James V. Risser and Walter Rugaber, co-chairs; Seymour Topping, administrator

Mike Stocker

Publication
Sun-Sentinel
Citation
For his consistently powerful photographs of the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch on Central America.
Location
Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Categories: Spot News Photography

Staff

Publication
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Citation
For its series that explained how local police routinely manipulated crime statistics to make the city appear safer.
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Categories: Public Service

Staff

Publication
The Boston Globe
Citation
For the work of Dolores Kong and Robert Whitaker that disclosed how, for decades, psychiatric researchers callously performed drug experiments on mentally ill patients.
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Categories: Public Service

Staff

Publication
The Times-Picayune
Citation
For a revealing series on the destruction of housing and the threat to the environment posed by the Formosan termite.
Location
New Orleans, LA
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Categories: National Reporting

Stanislav Skorwaczewski

Publication
Concerto for Orchestra
Citation
Premiered on November 19, 1998 by the Curtis Symphony at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.
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Categories: Music

David Rakowski

Publication
Persistent Memory
Citation
Premiered on March 7, 1998 by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
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Categories: Music
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