3. Omar v the drug hierarchy First the Barksdale empire, then Marlo, Prop Joe and the co-op – Omar's vendettas are always compelling.
They are using recent events to fulfil personal vendettas against the Metropolitan police; to steal items from shops; to commit organised crime; and to contribute to the unrest in society.
Mr Obama's willingness to support wiretapping in certain circumstances suggests that he is trying to strike a balance between security and privacy in what he calls a "dangerous world": the policy challenge is not to pursue vendettas against the Bush administration but to find a reasonable set of rules to govern surveillance.
In the absence of legal reform, he risks becoming a leader of the old stripe, who pursues vendettas in the name of fighting wrongdoers.
The idea had been to restore democracy after three years of military rule without bringing back the habitual sins of corruption, political vendettas, masochistic economic policies and clashes between civilian and military authorities, which often ended with the army taking over.
More than 20 people have already died, mostly in local vendettas that peak at election time.
Hospitals are crowded with the victims of tribal vendettas.
The lack of oversight has left the police and camp operators free to abuse the system to settle personal vendettas or profit from the work of prisoners.Sceptics fret that any reform will be meaningless if it doesn't end the power of police to detain people without judicial oversight.
Appointed 14 months ago after his predecessor, Claude Erignac, had been assassinated, he was given virtual carte blanche by the government to crack down on separatist terror, corruption, organised crime and clan vendettas in "the impossible island".He was thought to be having some success.
But much of the violence arises from personal vendettas and petty slights: a quarrel at a New Year's Eve party in Hackney, which ended with a single bullet killing two people, is said to have started when someone trod on the wrong foot.Such brazenly public outrages ought to be easy to solve.
Much of the action takes place on campus, and Mr Carter is as witty as David Lodge about academic vendettas, and more venomous.
