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...hero to his own fan. "It's all downhill for me in terms of my daughter," Sheen admitted as the beaming girl met author Stephenie Meyer on the carpet. "I asked my daughter in priority terms who she wanted to meet the most, and she said Ashley Greene." Clinching Father of the Year, Sheen moments later made a beeline for Greene with his daughter in tow. "She's going to remember this for the rest of her life," he said. She won't be the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Moon's Premiere: A Familiar Scene of Lunacy | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...while the two were students at Harvard. Tall and slim like the President, Ndesandjo had avoided any association with the Obama name. For most of his life, he used only his stepfather's Tanzanian surname, Ndesandjo, but he has now added Okoth, a word from the language of his father's Kenyan tribe, the Luo, as well as his original surname, Obama. (See Barack Obama's family tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Half Brother Makes a Name for Himself in China | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...novel, written in diary form, is based on his experiences growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father and moving to China, where he fell in love with a Chinese woman and began working with orphans. President Obama's name is mentioned just once, when Ndesandjo thanks several people, including "Barack," in the foreword. With this book, Ndesandjo says he's stepping into the public eye in order to raise awareness of domestic violence, promote volunteerism and share his tale of starting a new life in a new land. "I am an Obama, and a large part of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Half Brother Makes a Name for Himself in China | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...brothers have met a handful of times, the last of which was during Obama's Inauguration in Washington. In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama describes his first encounter with his brother, an ambitious student who had severed ties with his father's side of the family as well as his African roots. "I don't feel much of an attachment [to Kenya]. Just another poor African country," Ndesandjo says in Dreams. He goes on to say, "You think that somehow I'm cut off from my roots ... Well, you're right." (See the story of Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Half Brother Makes a Name for Himself in China | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...rise up in indignation. The movie allows us moments of judging Precious - as Mrs. Lichenstein does - and then begins to roll out a series of nightmares that last the whole day long: rape, incest and a mother so lacking in human decency that she not only aided in a father's lust for a child but also considered that child as a witting rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precious Review: Too Powerful for Tears | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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