Results for “Ambition”

…uck Jonathan transferred power to Muhammadu Buhari. Former President Jonathan conceded and famously declared, "Nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian." My last piece for The Hill was titled, 'Will Guinea's experiment in democracy succeed?" It is with great joy that...

academic panel at MIT missed the point: “(That is why it is called the Connection Machine.)”189 Hillis’s ambition to build this device boiled in him while he was at MIT, and it finally outstripped what MIT could support, so he gathered a group of students and started a small com...

…ols' belief that many young people are ready and eager to do serious college work at age sixteen and that young adults' ambition to learn must be taken seriously. The results have been exceptional: 95% of BHSEC graduates attend college. In July 2009, President Obama, addressing t...

…or. Bibi struck back with a mixture of subtlety and venom. He fired Mordechai, accusing him of being driven by personal ambition. Then he offered the Defense Minister’s job to Misha Arens. Yitzhik did join the Center Party, as did Amnon Lipkin, who had ended his term as chief-of...

… to freedom of expression. At the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, he was inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame — “my ambition,” he claims, “since I was three years old.” He’s won awards from Playboy, the Feminist Party Media Workshop, and in 2010 the Oakland branch of the writ...

…ls’ belief that many young people are ready and eager to do serious college work at age sixteen and that young adults' ambition to learn must be taken seriously. The results have been exceptional: 95% of BHSEC graduates move on to a four-year college. In July, 2009, President O...

…n Mr. Thiel’s living room, and it might as well be a visual metaphor for what is going on in big tech now. “Having some ambition that transcends just making money is a critical thing for a company,” he said. “But there is some point where it gets crazy and selfdelusional.” He add...

…e points. It is not simply that we’re enmeshed in networks now; no, we're enclosed even entrapped by them. If the great ambition of Cecil Rhodes’ era was for the expansive conquest of territory, in our own it is for the construction and manipulation of gated spaces. Gatelands. I...

…chieve a contiguous line of pro-Iranian, Shia states stretching from Iran itself to the Mediterranean. But keeping this ambition alive in recent months required offering very visible support to a non-Sunni regime engaged in the energetic slaughter of its own, largely Sunni people...

…s. He did, however, have a word of condolence for bereaved mothers. The heart of Asad’s address was a statement of his ambition to shape a new vision for Syria’s future. Reform, he declared, was his firm conviction. His one big idea -- the centrepiece of his speech -- was a plan...

…lness of disgrace.” In some sense, too, it is perhaps generational: Most everyone who is now of a certain age and ambition and status grew up in, and found they were temperamentally suited to, the era of wealth that started in the late 1970s. A meritocracy on steroids, or,...

…privileged association. Money is always about the club it gets you into. Most everyone who is now of a certain age and ambition and status grew up in, and found they were temperamentally suited to, the era of wealth that started in the late 1970s. A meritocracy on steroids, or,...

…leged association. Money is always about the club it gets you into. Most everyone who is now of a certain age and ambition and status grew up in, and found they were temperamentally suited to, the era of wealth that started in the late 1970s. A meritocracy on steroids, or,...

…image and fortune, in a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands. It was a function of both her ambition and Ivanka Trump’s sales talents during swift meetings in New York and Washington that Powell, swallowing her doubts, had come on board. That, and the...

… good cheer. Some years ago, we talked about the opportunity to use Landmark’s $166 million tax loss. At that time, my ambition, ego, or stupidity limited the discussion. My memory is you, after discussions with Larry Summers, decided the pursuit was not worth the prey. Now, age...