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Reporting from Irving, Texas It’s the type of factoid that must be checked multiple times. Surely that’s not right. Surely you missed something. But, no. That’s correct. The last time Bolivia won an official match outside of Bolivia was at the 2015 Copa América, nearly a full decade ago. There have been the odd victories in friendlies. They’ve won at home. But outside Bolivia, it’s been a dry stretch. On Bolivian soil, their advantage is clear.

Reporting from Allen, Texas Blas Pérez is a nice guy. Everyone around him will tell you. Prod him a bit and even he’ll admit it. It can still be hard to believe that Blas Pérez is a nice guy because Blas Pérez did not look like a nice guy during 20 years on the soccer field. “I gave everything for my teammates on the field,” Perez said. “They knew I was a bit of a fighter, here in MLS too I was known for that, but my teammates were happy with me because I fought for them.

I grew up in the South where thank you notes are as common as iced tea. I was taught to write thank you cards after receiving a gift and when a teacher helped me with homework before the school day began.  When I started working, this ritual continued — I wrote a thank you note to a recruiter after an interview and followed up with a mentor who shared guidance with me.

It’s one of the most traditional grandes against a team that feels it has matched or surpassed those traditional teams on the field and off. América and Tigres will play for the Liga MX title. The teams actually haven’t battled for a trophy that often, but there was a spate of title games between the two teams that make them feel like viejos conocidos. T… ncG1vNJzZmiflamwsLrCmpqanpWZe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZrKnpWKuqK3Ip2SapZWntqStjK2goKqVqHqntc2dZLCZqQ%3D%3D

Dear Reader, When I sent out Your Complete Guide to TTPD three days ago, I was not expecting SO much to happen before TTPD’s release. It feels like just a week ago I was seeing posts and comments that Taylor wasn’t doing any promotion for her new album. Oh wait, it was. Cut to the current situation, and I feel like I can hardly keep up! 😅 From a revealed timetable, a music video premiere to look forward to, Apple Music searches, Spotify lyric reveals, Easter Eggs in pop-ups and more, there’s so much going on I decided a Part 2 to this TTPD Guide was in order.

The ‘80s in 40 revisits the decade of the 1980s choosing four movies a year, one from each quarter. The entry brings us to the end of 1980. When did the 1980s begin? When does any decade really begin? The turnover doesn’t always sync up with the calendar. None of the three 1980-released movies previously covered in this column —Little Darlings,Urban Cowboy, andOrdinary People — feel deeply invested in the concerns of the decade as we’ve come to think of it.

For the first few months after my son was born last year, I was hunting for stuff to watch that would be entertaining but not taxing — movies I'd seen before, or movies that even if I hadn't actually seen them, I felt like I'd seen them, because I'd seen the box art for the VHS tape pass through my hands thousands of times when I worked at the Princeton, N.

Hello and welcome to a new edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter! We’ve got a big one lined up for you this week. We’re starting with a longread about animator Jim Simon and his groundbreaking studio Wantu Animation. Even if you’ve heard of him, you may learn something new here. After that, we’ll run down the week’s top headlines from around the world. As always, this newsletter goes out every week — and you can sign up for free to get it delivered by email each Sunday:

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