The impact of the ruling is clear; how it came about is a murkier tale.
Her fall is a murkier tale about how executives are coping with the growing public scrutiny and skepticism about what exactly banks are doing with all our money.
Reviewers have nodded to Undone's similarity to Lolita, in part thanks to the similar struggles faced by the author in getting a morally murky tale published in the American market, but it's less "a Lolita for the DNA age," as The Toronto Star dubbed it, than a Book of Job for a secular one.
Page 6 CAPTIVE AMERICAN FREED An American man who said he had been kidnapped nine months ago by Iraqi militants was handed over to United States officials in Baghdad in a bizarre and murky tale that caught diplomats entirely by surprise.
It is also not clear how big a gap there is between Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain on Nafta, given the murky tale about a visit last year to Canada by Mr. Obama's economic adviser, Austan D. Goolsbee, in which he was said to have reassured Canadian officials about his boss's position.
Here's the murky tale: Paul Beaver, a consultant to the reputable Jane's defense publications who specializes in mercenaries, says the Clinton Administration forced the Angolan government to ditch mercenaries it had been employing and replace them with groups of Washington-approved mercenaries.
Covent Garden's flippant production of "Robert le Diable" missed an opportunity to reveal why this murky tale of chivalric lore and supernatural happenings initially won such overwhelming popularity.
It combines the tensions of a murky underworld tale about its covert assassination squad with character studies of its unlikely team, and conflicted leader Eric Bana in particular, and its key theme: is revenge ever justified, and how does it affect the perpetrators and the values of its state sponsors?
IF THIS murky tale of spies and their doings can be reduced to a single proposition it is this: Iran and Israel are locked in mortal clandestine combat and for the most part the Iranians, together with their allies in Lebanon's Hizbullah, are running circles around their flatfooted Israeli adversaries.
