For two series that documented systematic abuses, including excessive shootings and questionable murder confessions, in the Prince George's County police department.

For a penetrating investigation of a local cancer research center, reporting that some patients who died in two failed clinical trials were deprived of essential information about the trials' risks, and were given drugs in which the center and its doctors had a financial interest.

For its ambitious global examination of the ethical issues surrounding the recruiting of foreign athletes for American schools.

For its comprehensive and insightful coverage of the war in Afghanistan and the international al Qaeda terror network.

For his gracefully-written and revealing dispatches from the war in Afghanistan.