Back on the East Coast, I used to get the Economist on Fridays, allowing me to read it on Friday afternoon or on Saturday, when the news it contained was still fresh. Now that I'm here in the soft, chewy center of the country, it doesn't arrive until Monday or Tuesday, well after nearly everything inside it has become hopelessly out of date.
The only stuff that's new to me anymore is the international coverage that doesn't even get mentioned in U.S. news, like rebels in the north of Cote D'Ivoire, Turkey's bid to join the E.U. and the comings and goings of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Basically, my yuppie problem has prevented me from enjoying the parts of the paper dealing with other yuppies' problems.
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