Word: overhearer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before a steaming cup at the Baghdad Coffee House in the heart of Bahrain's Indian bazaar was of an age where he no longer cared that government informers might overhear him. "Listen to me," he demanded, urgently tapping a Westerner on the knee. "Any time an independent Arab leader looks strong," he boomed, "the West beats him down. They did it with Nasser. They have run a vilification campaign against Assad. And look what they did to Arafat. It dates from the Crusades, and it will never change." The man, a retired printer, paused. "Saddam will not win this...
...FRIDAY night. You and several friends are party-hopping. As you leave a Dunster House party (because the daiquiris have dried up), you overhear the host telling some of his guests to go into the stairwell if they want to smoke. Approaching one of the famous Adams House A-entry parties, you step cautiously around a student who's being led out to an ambulance by two police officers...
Graduate students aren't the only people you'll overhear discussing astrophysics or Assyrian art at Out of Town News. Harvard Square harbors a ragtag community of itinerant intellectuals, secret geniuses, closet poets and conspiracy theorists who have no official connection to the University ("I'm not enrolled at Harvard, I just go there...