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In a September 28, 1980 article in the Post, titled "Jimmy's World", [6] Cooke profiled the supposed life of an eight-year-old heroin addict named Jimmy, said to be a pseudonym. [7] She wrote of the "needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms", and claimed to have witnessed episodes of heroin injection, describing them ...
In 1981, Janet Cooke, a staff writer on the Post's "Weeklies" section, received the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her story, "Jimmy's World," a profile of an eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington, D.C. [64] The Post later returned the award when the newspaper revealed the story had been fabricated.
1981 Feature Writing Prize: Washington Post staff writer Janet Cooke returned the award after an investigation by the newspaper found she fabricated her prize-winning story "Jimmy's World", a profile of an eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington, D.C.
The world has lost a great mediator for peace in the Middle East and for human rights.” Pope Francis: “His Holiness Pope Francis was saddened to learn of the death of former President Jimmy ...
That would be Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who in 1988, along with his wife, Rosalynn, helped workers from Habitat for Humanity construct the three-bedroom, two-bathroom house where ...
The first Jimmy's World Grill & Bar opened in 2003 and as of 2016 the chain operated restaurants at about 11 locations. [3] In 2012 it launched its flagship restaurant in The O2, London. [4] Each restaurant offers cuisines from multiple countries including Italy, China, India, Mexico, the US and the United Kingdom.
In 2012, The A.V. Club published an article entitled, "How Jimmy Eat World's 'The Middle' Became the Best Song for a Bad Time", with Jason Heller noting, "'The Middle' wasn't a sellout. It was a return to form, one made by a band that had a lot more wisdom, scars, and songwriting talent than it did seven years prior—and a band that was in a ...
Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s oldest grandchild, shared with Southern Living that his grandfather is “experiencing the world as best he can as he continues ...