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“What I love about lipstick,” Bobbi Brown tells me, “is that it’s easy, it’s quick, and it just makes you feel polished.” The beauty entrepreneur knows a thing or two about the category—she has been ...

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Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...