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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...works like this: when, say, a prominent politician sends his mistress an iPhone message via TigerText, the mistress will be prompted to install the app. When she has done so, she can read the message, but she can't keep it. In fact, the message is never actually sent to her phone; it's stored on TigerText's servers. After the politician's specified time span has elapsed - anywhere from one minute to five days - the message ceases to exist. There's even a "delete on read" setting, which counts down from 60 after a message is opened and erases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TigerText: An iPhone App for Cheating Spouses? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...alter ego “Sasha Fierce” who’s hitting the stage. Recently I heard about a Swedish parliament member who went on an all-expenses-paid trip to the south of Spain. He claimed it wasn’t him as a politician accepting gratuities to fund the little booze cruise, but rather his alter ego, a drag queen named Ursula...

Author: By CATHERINE J. ZIELINSKI, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting Down and “Dirty” | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...voters’ trust. But even if such language is simply a starting point for a more nuanced position on adhering to fiscal responsibility, it matters little. The sound bite is recorded, the message sent, and the damage done. Though to be fair, Glenn Beck is neither a politician nor a strategist. He does not need to concern himself with electioneering or governing. He bills his eponymous show as “the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.” And that means that he is a Party of One without consequence...

Author: By Mark A. Isaacson | Title: Beck, Party of One | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...support. Indian Kashmir has been increasingly tense over the past several months, with a growing cohort of young "stone pelters" protesting the presence of Indian security forces. In the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir's capital, the word of the Mirwaiz carries much more weight than that of any politician or bureaucrat. (See pictures of Kashmir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India-Pakistan Talks: Is a Breakthrough Possible? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Cartoon 1, Politician 0? Maybe we should call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outrage Smackdown: Family Guy Defeats Palin | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

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