"I view what is happening to Scott with dismay," said the grandfather,
who has concluded, in part from reading The Economist, that Europe has
surpassed America in offering opportunity for an ambitious young man.
Huh? He read The Economist, or an
economist? There is absolutely no way
that anyone who reads The Economist can have concluded that Europe has
surpassed America in anything not involving riots, in the way that no one who reads Maxim can conclude that acne is in vogue. Unless he meant
China, but that's not in Europe yet, is it?