It became clear to many young Romanians that when they had supposed themselves to be fighting for liberty they had merely been risking their lives in a murky power struggle between two communist factions.
It is a chance to recast his response to the upheaval in the Arab world after a frustrating stretch in which the stalemate in Libya, the murky power struggle in Yemen and the brutal crackdown in Syria have dimmed the glow of the Egyptian revolution.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing the biggest threat to his authority since his election 11 years ago, involving a corruption investigation and a murky power struggle.
Mr. Selick is hardly a doctrinaire Freudian, but he does grasp the intimate connection between fairy tales and the murky, occult power of longing, existential confusion and misplaced desire.
Half the time Sullivan cannot make out exactly what's happening in the alley, which is, after all, murky, and his powers of deduction can be comically Clouseau-like.
In the meantime, he regaled startled diplomats with a rambling but ultimately revealing discourse on the murky intersection of power, politics and corruption in China.
But the new investigations tap deeper veins: corruption, influence peddling and accusations that public officials are answering to murky networks of power far beyond their institutional roles.
It would also vindicate not only Dynegy, which took a more measured approach to doing business in those markets, but also critics uncomfortable with energy deregulation who said Enron's energy trading was ruthless, its finances murky and its power and influence too extensive.
These include corruption and the rise, on Mr Portillo's watch, of what some Guatemalans call the "parallel powers"—a murky congregation of drug traffickers, other criminal racketeers, serving and retired military and police officers and some government officials.Mr Berger has promised to govern honestly.
He knew the murky world of nuclear power politics, yet still described Teller as "a danger to all that is important" and "an enemy of humanity".
