From a strictly design perspective, a lawn is a cool green place for the eye to the rest, a place of calm apart from the busyness of a mixed border.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The American Meadow Garden'

Americans with connections to Mexico had mixed reactions to the latest assessment of travel south of the border.

CNN: U.S. broadens Mexico travel warning

Cross border equity tie-ups between financial firms have enjoyed mixed success to put it mildly (think HSBC and Household Finance in the 2000s, or Deutsche Bank and Morgan Grenfell in the 1990s).

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