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The conservative Paris daily Le Figaro, in a front-page comment by Alain Peyrefitte, said France's World Cup victory showed there was "still a future for French confidence, for French ambition, for French unity."
All that is captured, of course, is Berkowitz's ambition to put himself in your face: He comes out of 20 Dates with a trophy fiancee and a feature film in major release, but absolutely no insight into dating, love, or human chemistry.
It is certainly the ambition of the biologically oriented majority of psychiatrists to produce a manual of mental disorders which, as the saying goes, "carves nature at its joints"--one which lists diseases that are each traceable to a unique, identifiable malfunction in the brain.
This, indeed, was Lincoln’s ambition in seeking reconciliation in the Gettysburg Address and in his second inaugural address.
Obviously, a president's ambition, judgment, temperament, integrity, and ways of relating with other people (among other psychological qualities) bear greatly on how he will govern--at least as greatly as whatever election-year stands he stakes out on "the issues" of policy.