Word: unclearly
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...Spring Break left many feeling uneasy. As the last classes met and first bombs fell, students in the dining halls expressed their mild guilt at vacationing while Americans die, voiced their worries at braving the skies during a war—and then shrugged and packed their bags, still unclear whether it was appropriate to be enjoying the heat of the beach while thousands of American soldiers are fighting in the suffocating heat of the Middle East...
What, exactly, constitutes an “appropriate” wartime Spring Break is particularly unclear for students who have never lived through a longer-term war, or one in which more than 120 soldiers died. Gulf War “appropriateness” was easy—we continued attending middle school. This war is particularly surreal: outside of the newspapers, it is rather hard to believe that a war really is going on. In Cambridge, life, academic or celebratory, has not changed since “Shock and Awe” began, aside from regular skepticism...
...Turkish government says they're not here. The Turkish military says they are, and the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan say they aren't and never will be. It's still unclear whether any Turkish troops have entered northern Iraq, in open defiance of the United States and Europe, and if so where they are. So I spent a couple of days this weekend driving around the mountains of far northern Iraq looking for myself...
...Kurds have been fearing - these troops have been here since 1996, when they came to fight the Kurdish Workers Party, the famed PKK, who had taken refuge here in Iraq. The PKK is long gone from this part of Kurdistan but the Turkish troops have remained, for reasons unclear. The Kurdish authorities have asked them to leave but lack the military muscle to make them. Everyone in Barmani, a village of 100 farming families, hates them. But the villagers said no one new had shown...
...circumstances surrounding the alleged assault remain unclear because Howard, as a result of his injuries, can not recall the events leading up to them...