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...severe budgetary restraint, they charged, made scientists seem petty and self-serving and suggested that they are out of touch with the country's political realities. In fact, only last year congressional budgeteers agreed to limit spending growth for domestic discretionary funding, in effect making science a "zero-sum" category. This meant that increases for one scientific project, for example, might have to come out of the hide of another...
Ryan says this near the beginning of Clancy's sixth novel, The Sum of All Fears (Putnam; 798 pages; $24.95), which, because of its weight and bulk, will probably not become a runaway best seller; it will become a lumberaway best seller...
...characters sound exactly the same). Presumably, hundreds of thousands of readers will wade through this interminable novel to find out if Jack Ryan can once again save the world. What they should know before they begin -- not that it will make the slightest difference -- is that The Sum of All Fears is the mother of all potboilers...
Underlying the disputes is a growing divergence of the interests of the two groups, reinforced by mutual suspicion. Black and Hispanic leaders, says Alejandro Portes, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, "see everything as a zero-sum game. If blacks get something, Latinos lose something, and vice versa." Many African Americans believe that Latinos are benefiting from civil rights victories won by blacks with little help from Hispanics. Says Fletcher: "During the height of the civil rights movement, Hispanics were conspicuous by their absence. They kept asking, 'What about us?' But rather than joining us in fighting the system, Hispanics...
There are no flashy campaign posters, no sound trucks blaring out slogans. Nor is there likely to be much Western-style razzle-dazzle, given a severe paper shortage and the miserly sum of 200,000 rubles that authorities have granted each candidate. The closest thing to television ads was endorsements tucked away in evening news reports. The Russian news show, Vesti, for example, showed a Muslim cleric from the North Caucasus announcing that his people were "praying to the Almighty" for a Yeltsin victory...