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There is a simplicity and all-inclusiveness to the number three — the triangle, the Holy Trinity, three peas in a pod. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the Family of Man is divided that way, too. All of Earth’s people, according to a new analysis of the genomes of 53 populations, fall into just three […]

At this year’s Cannes Lions festival–the ad industry’s most prestigeous confab–the Outdoor competition had a particularly spicy mix of competitors. But the Grand Prix winner was awesome in its simplicity. The “Trillion Dollar Campaign”–by TBWA/Hunt/Lascaris’s South African office for The Zimbabwean newspaper–was aimed at wrong’s committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime. So they plastered billboards with […]

June 25 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank acted with the “highest integrity” in talks on Bank of America Corp.’s takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co., defending his record against some lawmakers who have alleged officials’ actions were inappropriate. “The Federal Reserve acted with the highest integrity throughout its […]

Few political scandals have been so ready-made for the late-night comics as the Wednesday confessions of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford. The punchlines write themselves with every detail — the governor’s opposition to “stimulus,” the initial explanation of hiking the Appalachian Trail, the travel to a distant country to visit a mistress on Father’s Day. […]