His letters contain passages of world-class manipulation.
President Felipe Calderón of Mexico recently won passage of the world's first comprehensive climate change law, which will drastically cut emissions and build the renewable energy sector.
A generous, engaged philosophical novel, set in the New York art world with its vanities and corruptions, and developing such propositions as the impress of one personality on another, the instability of sexual identity, the passage of the world through people's thoughts and lives.
This year, in some regions, it has edged above ninety per cent — more than a hundred billion unsolicited messages clogging the arterial passages of the world's computer networks every day.
So it is that the child has come of age and has moved through his puberty rite of passage: the fantasy world of his childhood has been jarred into reality by his experiences in São Vicente.
For many students, deconstruction was a right of passage into the world of rebellious intellect.
"This fatal conflagration has given proof from heaven of the divine wrath," he wrote, "and presages the passage of sovereignty of the world to the peoples beyond the Alps".
With both sides assured of passage to the World Cup round of 16, the Netherlands was in goal-prevention mode, knowing that a tie would clinch the top seed based on goal difference.
That is what we love about cinema's stoners; they are salt-of-the-earth naïfs preserved from the passage of time and real-world cares in a spicy fug, out of which floats the odd bit of mumbled genius.
His own memoir, "Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator" (Frederic C. Beil/Naval Institute Press), chronicles a teenager's introduction to the seeming random violence of mechanized warfare.
