One casualty of the Vox team's departure has been the Post, which Klein's Wonkblog made vital reading for US policymakers.
It's vital reading for people everywhere and yet it's also something often swept under the rug, especially in YA fiction.
But Mr. Rothman and his players gave it a solid, vital reading that made it seem worth hearing once.
Vital reading also for teachers and parents who want to find out what's going on in today's drugs market.
Vital reading for anyone concerned with how refugee flows affect the dynamics of conflicts around the world.
New Africa is about a miraculous triumph over a tragic past on the world's last economic frontier, and that makes for vital reading.
If you are a truth-seeker, then this book is a vital read.
But there's a vital difference: reading Faulkner, I'm struck with the exhilarating awareness that immense questions are working themselves out right before my eyes; reading Martin, it's all too evident that commonplaces, worked out already and elsewhere, are being drafted in, or soldered on, to lend philosophical gravitas to what is, at base, a quite straight-up, noirish moral potboiler.
A few days earlier, the Philharmonic's board had decided not to renew Mr. Masur's contract, which was set to expire in 2002, and Mr. Masur was, in effect, delivering his response with an astonishingly vital, charged reading of this thrice-familiar score.
But the other fine distinctions in this directive make us think the best approach would be a ban on virtually all carry-on items, or at least a limit of one small personal bag per passenger to tote travel documents, keys, vital medications, reading materials and any other minimal items that are allowed.
"Throughout the F.C.C.'s rule-making process to create a new low-power FM service, we have cited LPFM's potential interference to the services of full-power stations, including vital radio reading services for the blind," said a joint statement issued by Kevin Klose, the president of National Public Radio, and Ben Martin, president of the International Association of Audio Information Services.
