Word: eavesdropping
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Plopping down next to a couple who were already engaged in a conversation, FlyBy did what we do best: eavesdrop. The guy was asking the girl what had motivated her to attend the event. “Oh, my friend pressured me into it,” she said. Funny. That’s what they...
...called managed democracies, but also to Western nations that proselytize about democratic values. Why else have Italians voted three times for a man who has sought to dismantle an independent judiciary and control the media? Why have Britons acquiesced in illiberalism to such an extent that local councils eavesdrop on the telephone calls and e mails of people they suspect of disposing of their garbage in the wrong place? Why do so many middle-class Indians either insulate themselves from the corruption of public and political life or, worse, participate in it? (See a TIME video on CCTV in Britain...
...letters," which allow the bureau to get information from private organizations without court supervision. And there is mounting concern about the National Security Agency's use of its spying powers on Americans. Just last week, the New York Times revealed that the agency had attempted earlier this decade to eavesdrop without a warrant on a member of Congress traveling overseas. Obama, who has frustrated some civil-liberties advocates with his stated preference to focus on the future rather than the past, is also likely to face continuing pressure from Congress to cooperate with investigations of CIA rendition, detention and interrogation...
...sprig of mint, certainly a dramatic switch from senator-approved honeyed liquors, like scotch. Made with a mix of berries - black-, blue-, straw- and raspberries - the crisp beverage has a kick of fruit vodka and a splash of soda water. The Round Robin is an excellent place to eavesdrop, if you're into that sort of thing. It's the downtown lobbyist hotspot. Who knows what you might hear...
...paying off in more ways than one. As we are sitting in a garden chatting, a woman in a chair across the pathway calls out to Burruss. “Excuse me!” she says. “I don’t mean to eavesdrop but I overheard your conversation. Do you think you could teach my daughter to sew?” The bold and sharp-eared woman explains that her daughter is a sophomore at Harvard and that she has been on the hunt for someone to give her sewing lessons. The characteristically humble Burruss...