The number of shots fired by police in New York has fallen by more than two-thirds since 1995.In both cities the police are now blacker than the populations they serve the opposite of Ferguson, Missouri.
The increasingly dense, cosmopolitan, glass-and-chrome city bears only the slightest resemblance to the smaller, blacker, cozier city that raised me, and that I miss every time I go back home.
In the past few weeks, fighting has also broken out in Idlib, in the north-west, and al-Bukamal, on the border with Iraq.In this section A new timetable Time, surely, for a much younger one A can of worms Now please go Cracks in the army A big gamble Getting blacker?
But Mr Berezovsky has been outmanoeuvred by the new prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov, a man steeped in even blacker arts from his years as a spymaster.Mr Berezovsky's untouchability rested largely on his ties with President Boris Yeltsin's daughter, Tatiana.
But it takes a lot to frighten Albertha Hasten, a larger-than-life campaigner for poor citizens, and above all for fellow African-Americans, who in her view suffer disproportionately from contamination of the air, water and soil.In her small, rickety home town of White Castle, the tap-water often comes out "blacker than me", she has complained.
In last week's edition, our lead note on corruption in South Africa was replaced in half our copies by an article on the capture and death of Muammar Qaddafi.In this section A new timetable Time, surely, for a much younger one A can of worms Now please go Cracks in the army A big gamble Getting blacker?
They habitually parley with Iraqi leaders, from tribal sheikhs to ministers in Baghdad, who will miss the Americans as mediators and as providers of manpower and resources.In this section A new timetable Time, surely, for a much younger one A can of worms Now please go Cracks in the army A big gamble Getting blacker?
They, or their like, run a blacker-than-black trade centred on the port.
The film is a dramatic, twisting, blacker-than-black comedy, which will offer fun for all the dysfunctional family.
Mr Bush's refusal to cut and run two years ago was indeed a good call, one history may judge to have stopped Iraq's descent into an ever-blacker hell of sectarian killing and ethnic cleansing.
They were surprisingly pale and fibrous, compared with the blacker-than-Hades pork oysters that sat, like the Lord of the Flies, upon a Satanic but darkly satisfying combination of black pudding purée, apple purée and pork gravy.
