The Nige-rian dwarf goat was the perfect candidate, as it begins breeding and lactating at just 13 weeks.

FORBES: Charlotte's Goat

The original script by director Rian Johnson was set in France in 2047.

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The young director Rian Johnson, after raising money from his friends and parents, pulled off his dream project, a film noir.

NEWYORKER: Brick

The organizing principle of Rian Johnson's " Brick " is genially simple, and clever enough to make you smile before you've seen the movie.

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Despite this rich material, most recent memoirs have been the preserve of white writers such as Rian Malan, Peter Godwin, Kuki Gallmann and, just this year, Alexandra Fuller.

ECONOMIST: African non-fiction

"Time travel doesn't make sense, " says "Looper" director Rian Johnson.

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Lena Dunham won the TV comedy directing prize for Girls, about the lives of a group of girls in their 20s, while Rian Johnson won in the drama series series category for Breaking Bad.

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AIDS. Rian Malan, a South African writer, recently documented how models used to estimate the number of deaths from the disease have been abandoned in quick succession as they have failed to track changes in mortality rates.

ECONOMIST: Building better models of the prevalence of HIV