1.   Further clouding the murky situation in Oregon is its unusual election system.

2.   Monsignor Francis J. Maniscalco, a spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, acknowledged that the proposed policy did not address such murky situations.

3.   Outside experts agreed that Indonesia must resolve its murky political situation before it can hope to attract either foreign aid or private investment.

4.   So leave it to Scott Turow to recognize an enticingly murky moral situation within the not-so-hallowed halls of our legal system.

5.   Tom Smith is one of many undecided voters counting on the Senate debate Tuesday night to clarify a murky situation.