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Ian Buruma ( born December 28, 1951 ) is a Dutch writer and academic.
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The Criterion Collection 2008 version of 4 DVDs adds commentary by Ian Buruma, composer David Byrne, and the Director's interview with Jeremy Isaacs ( ASIN: B000ZM1MIW, ISBN 978-1-60465-014-3 ).
Ian Buruma notes that Yoshitsune was considered by contemporaries to be not physically prepossessing, but that his legend later grew and due to this, he became depicted with good looks.
Ian Buruma noted that although Western comics for girls also included " impossibly beautiful men " who are clearly masculine and always get the girl in the end, the bishonen are " more ambivalent " and sometimes get each other.
Ian Buruma, writing in 1984 considered the " bishonen in distress " to be a recurring motif in popular manga.
Davies, a hard-charging Welshman, defied numerous Asian governments and big businesses and provided a frontline forum for many talented reporters: Emily Lau, Gary Coull, Bertil Linter, David Bonavia, Ian Buruma, Nayan Chanda, Nate Thayer, Susumu Awanohara, Christopher Wood, Philip Bowring, as well as dissidents TJS George and late Mike O ' Neill, who went on to launch rival, Asiaweek.
Ian Buruma would cast light on culture, revealing nuances the region ’ s elite often preferred leaving unsaid.
* Buruma, Ian ( 1983 ) Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes
* Buruma, Ian, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, London, The Penguin Press, 2006.
* Author Ian Buruma discusses his book about Van Gogh's death, Murder In Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance ( video )
* Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes, a book by Ian Buruma
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Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
Ian Murdock ( born April 28, 1973 ) is the founder of the Debian distribution and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.
Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE ( born 24 November 1955 ) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator.
Ian Fraser " Lemmy " Kilmister ( born 24 December 1945 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England ) is an English rock musician.
* 15-Bishop Donal Lamont, 92, Irish born Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee expelled by Ian Smith's apartheid regime in the 1970s.
The Wizard of New Zealand, QSM ( born Ian Brackenbury Channell ; 4 December 1932 ) is an English-born New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician, who has become something of a national icon of New Zealand.
Ian Livingstone OBE ( born December 1949 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England ) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur.
* Ian Paisley ( 1926-), born in County Armagh, clergyman, politician, second First Minister of Northern Ireland
Their second daughter, Olivia, was born on February 14, 1984, and their son, Ian, was born on June 16, 1987.
Actor Sir Ian Holm was born at Goodmayes Hospital on 12 September, 1931, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson Holm and James Harvey Cuthbert.
* Ian Wright, former Arsenal footballer and later a television personality, born and raised in Woolwich.
* Bradley Wright-Phillips, Charlton Athletic footballer, son of Ian Wright and half-brother of Shaun Wright-Phillips, also born in Woolwich.
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC ( born 6 April 1926 ) is a politician and former church minister from Northern Ireland.
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley was born in Armagh, County Armagh and brought up in the town of Ballymena, County Antrim, where his father James Kyle Paisley was an Independent Baptist pastor.
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