Read more Dreams From My Father stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/22499/dreams-from-my-father.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:44:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72956/100-defining-moments-of-the-00s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrom the tragic (World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina) to the seemingly trivial (Stephen Fry's first Tweet), the Telegraph lists the top 100 defining cultural moments of the decade so far: April 2000 : Metallica sues music-sharing service Napster. October 2001 : The iPod is released. February 2003 : Sacha Baron Cohen hits...http://www.newser.com/story/72956/100-defining-moments-of-the-00s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 12:45:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64119/obama-books-banned-for-jailed-terrorist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPrison officials refused to let an al-Qaeda terrorist serving 30 years in Supermax, a prison in Colorado, read Barack Obama's books, the Daily Telegraph reports. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an American citizen convicted of conspiring to, among other things, assassinate then–President George W. Bush, was told that the books contained...http://www.newser.com/story/64119/obama-books-banned-for-jailed-terrorist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 11 Jul 2009 8:04:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55500/dylan-obama-will-be-best-prez-he-can-be.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama will be “the best president he can be,” Bob Dylan tells the Times of London, though he has “no idea” if Obama will actually be good at the job. “Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as beaten men,” Dylan says....http://www.newser.com/story/55500/dylan-obama-will-be-best-prez-he-can-be.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Apr 2009 12:06:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50083/time-for-obama-to-channel-foul-mouthed-buddy-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNow that things are getting nasty in the stimulus fight, the Boston Phoenix has a suggestion for Barack Obama: Channel your potty-mouthed pal Ray. In the audio version of his autobiography, the Phoenix notes that Obama does an impression of his high school friend, complete with f-bombs, racial slurs, and...http://www.newser.com/story/50083/time-for-obama-to-channel-foul-mouthed-buddy-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Feb 2009 14:03:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44261/brits-tortured-obama-patriarch-in-kenya-revolt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish jailers tortured Barack Obama's grandfather during the struggle for Kenyan independence, his family tells the Times of London. Hussein Onyango Obama, who worked as a cook for a British army officer, was arrested in 1949, aged 56, and imprisoned for two years. There he was subjected to daily whippings...http://www.newser.com/story/44261/brits-tortured-obama-patriarch-in-kenya-revolt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Dec 2008 9:09:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41563/gop-offered-10k-to-prove-ayers-authored-obama-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Republican congressman and his brother-in-law approached an Oxford philosophy don in an attempt to prove that Barack Obama's autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Ayers, the Times of London reports. Peter Millican says he was offered $10,000 to analyze Obama's Dreams From My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days...http://www.newser.com/story/41563/gop-offered-10k-to-prove-ayers-authored-obama-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 02 Nov 2008 13:12:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/35598/obama-is-a-son-of-hawaii-but-a-man-of-chicago.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHawaii and Chicago shaped the Barack Obama we know today in very different ways, David Maranis writes in a detailed look at the candidate's formative years in the Washington Post. Hawaii, multiracial but with its own social stratification, helped form the young Obama's outlook on life, but he found himself...http://www.newser.com/story/35598/obama-is-a-son-of-hawaii-but-a-man-of-chicago.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 23 Aug 2008 14:32:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35440/obama-inspires-destitute-half-brother.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresidential candidate Barack Obama's half-brother isn't on the campaign trail, he's living in a shack in a Kenyan slum, reports the Telegraph. George Hussein Obama, 26, has only spoken to his powerful relative twice in his life, but is crediting Barack for providing the inspiration to lift himself out of...http://www.newser.com/story/35440/obama-inspires-destitute-half-brother.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 21 Aug 2008 11:39:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31750/obama-audio-clips-may-hurt-candidacy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGOP activists are salivating over audio clips of Barack Obama reading from his book, Dreams from My Father , detailing his attitudes on race and adventures with drugs. "I attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, and tried drugs enthusiastically," Obama says in a reading of the 1993 bestseller. Now radio hosts...http://www.newser.com/story/31750/obama-audio-clips-may-hurt-candidacy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 06 Jul 2008 14:42:00 CDT