A Long Island-raised, Barnard-educated woman driven by a surplus of weapons-grade ambition, Eileen was already well known in the industry for being immune to emotions like discouragement.
My third grade career ambitions were clear: I wanted to be either a "doctor for kids" or a rock star.
Douthat's book contains plenty of complaints about the campus culture's casual approach to sex, but he also takes on a host of bigger questions: grade inflation, misplaced ambition, dull careerism, the humanities' crisis of confidence and the general irrelevance of the core curriculum.
If, again, a key element about a boyband to analyse and grade is their ambition, and the ability to re-invent themselves, and shed skins, and manipulate as much as possible their own fate, then McFly are a full flowing five stars.
Car and Driver's ambition to grade every car in the world according to the same methodology would be fine if it limited itself to a single dimension.
At an early age, he was set on becoming a pilot, "I used to read articles about [Eddie] Rickenbacker and all these novels you read about air combat, and I guess from the sixth grade it was my ambition to be a fighter pilot".
In 10th grade, Kucinich set his ambitions down on paper.
Putin had his eye on the K.G.B. — as he was later fond of recounting, he first volunteered his services when he was in ninth grade — but Rotenberg's ambitions were in sports.
My life's ambition from 7th Grade on was to be an ambassador.
They traded ambition for low-grade, yet constant whining.
"Now I am in grade 2 in this school and my ambition is to complete my studies and become a teacher who can help other children.
