Among Southerners in particular, Morris is also remembered for his 1967 autobiographical classic, "North Toward Home" (Houghton Mifflin), in which he chronicled the conflicts of allegiance to the tangled heritage of his Southern childhood and to his pressing ambitions beyond Mississippi as an undergraduate at the University of Texas and a fledgling magazine editor in New York.
But in the back of his mind Goulder maintained an even more pressing research ambition: to study the immune control of HIV in patients in South Africa, who, unlike those in Boston, were unlikely to receive anti-retroviral treatment.
At the Paris climate negotiations last month, both countries teamed up in a "high ambition coalition" pressing for stricter temperature limits.
Netanyahu said the only way to prevent Iran from pressing ahead with its ambitions for the bomb was to maintain, and even strengthen, the international sanctions that are now biting deeply into the Iranian economy.
Hot on the heels of getting acquired by Google for $3.2 billion in January, connected device maker Nest is pressing on with its ambitions to shake up the world of "unloved" objects in the home.
Many will be hoping ElBaradei takes this opportunity to answer some pressing questions about his ambitions in Egypt.
Mr. Ahmadinejad said that representatives from Iran and the group of nations pressing it over its nuclear ambitions would meet shortly to discuss a framework for future negotiations.
Only far more robust diplomacy than has been tried so far seems likely to discourage Iran from pressing ahead with its nuclear ambitions.
Punctuated with quotations from the Koran, the speech ranged from pressing issues such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran's nuclear ambitions to principles such as democracy and women's rights.
JOHANNESBURG — The Obama administration, caught in an awkward bind between its own ambitions on climate change and Africa's pressing energy needs, is facing the first test of its new guidelines discouraging coal-fired power projects in developing nations.
