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Ndesandjo says his mother, who runs a kindergarten in Nairobi, inspired him to work with children. A trained pianist, he has given piano lessons to Chinese orphans and performed at an event in January that raised $37,000 to alleviate poverty in China. Harley Seyedin, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China, the organization that sponsored the charity event, has been a close friend of Ndesandjo's for the past six years but only learned of his friend's relationship with the President last year when reading news reports. "He's a very private person...

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

Ronald Reagan imposes a 49% tariff on Japanese motorcycles at the request of Harley-Davidson. Three years later, Harley says it is no longer needed, and Reagan repeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...Connor’s downfall was his rebellious streak. His teenage activities were disobedient but relatively harmless, involving the purchase of a Harley against his father’s will and running around with his rock band, Myles and the Wild Ones...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Job | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...miles I've walked in the spectacular landscapes of the American Southwest, one of the most memorable was a stroll over a stretch of desert scrub with a scruffy, playful, sweet-as-can-be black-and-white dog named Harley. We met at Dogtown, a section of the nonprofit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, www.bestfriends. org, outside the Utah town of Kanab. Harley, like many of the approximately 500 dogs at Best Friends - and many of the pigs, horses, birds, rabbits, mules and other animals who live there - was abandoned by his owners. Others had it worse. They were abused, used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Dog Has Its Day | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...helped buttress that iconic image, especially the 1954 Marlon Brando film The Wild One and Hunter S. Thompson's 1966 account of spending a year with the gang in northern California. The group says a typical member rides 20,000 miles a year, usually on the Angels' preferred machines, Harley-Davidsons. And members still refer to themselves as "one percenters" - a half-century-old boast playing off the saying that 1% of troublemakers give a bad name to 99% of respectable bikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hells Angels | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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