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So we are not exactly eavesdropping, and neither is the prose style completely unselfconscious.
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Similarly, Jason's displays of writerly wisdom are clever but hardly brain-rewiring: "Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason".
According to Brenda, Brockovich came to the bar to meet with PG&E representatives and conduct legal business, although she couldn't tell me exactly which business, since she hadn't been eavesdropping.
But General Hayden, who led the security agency at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and has been Mr. Bush's point man on the eavesdropping program, refused to say in the face of often sharp questioning exactly how the agency determined that an American's phone call or e-mail message might "involve Al Qaeda" before eavesdropping on it.
I was (unavoidably) eavesdropping.
Was I eavesdropping?
Mr. Breslin was eavesdropping.
I love eavesdropping.
There is something illicit about eavesdropping.
Yet the group could not stop eavesdropping.
It was like eavesdropping on a wake.
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