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No doubt he will do better in his next book.
She wrote a book.
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2) An elderly Milwaukee couple are soliciting women to conceive and bear their grandchild, using frozen sperm from their dead son.
The couple found a few women who wanted to carry a child for them using their dead sons frozen sperm.
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Some of my friends in the financial industry think that hedge funds were not just a , but the source of instability in the late crisis.
Friends are always reliable sources.
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What has allowed Intel to dominate its many competitors, who are perennially nipping at its heels with computer chips that are supposedly faster or cheaper, is that Intel does a much better job of making chips reliably and efficiently.
Intel strength is the cheap cost of its products
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Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.
Circle in the Round lasts just a bunch of minutes
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No wonder many hate it in France, especially for schoolgirls, who are meant to mix with others on an equal footing in all respects; and in determinedly modernized Turkey, too.
Schoolgirls love France and Turkey.
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But Disney Pooh reaches the world.
Everyone across the globe knows Pooh
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Brazilians, for instance, with their mestizo consciousness and their many gradations of tipo , or type, behold with disdain our crude bifurcation of race.
Brazilians are a proud people.
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An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.
Theft and weapons charges will no longer be tried by a jury is a British government proposal.
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I am 18 years old and face a serious problem.
The 18 year old faces several problems currently.
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Praise goes to Lee's argument, her sensitivity, and her writing.
Lee is a deep person
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The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers.
The reigning champion is invited to next year's competition but will serve as a judge.
contradiction
An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton.
The essay believes that supporting Clinton means you’re anti feminist.
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She was a mother and thirty-three years old, and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone the baker's age--a man old enough to be her father--must have children who'd gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties.
Children are something that the mother had.
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This Just In--Nuclear War Averted
The Nuclear War was prevented.
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He is not an economics writer
He doesn't write about the economy.
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Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits.
Ellison hated the standards.
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I do know that a couple of mornings with the Mach 3 has just about wiped the smirk off my face.
They are not very happy about the Mach 3.
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The Republican champion is Philip Morris, which gave $2,131,955.
The money was all donated last year.
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Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas.
The clashing ideas lost their appeal before the reporters, which caused them to move on to a different matter altogether.
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Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from?
Many oranges and grapes contain no seeds.
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Both the NYT and WP run follow-on stories to last week's revelation that the government's drug office had a program of financial incentives for networks incorporating anti-drug themes into their shows.
Networks were incented financially for anti-drug themes by the government.
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Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month.
Romley is the district attorney of Phoenix.
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Despite a lineup of big-name talent--including Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, and Claus Oldenberg--the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition fails to excite.
The art exhibition had everybody really excited about it.
contradiction
At various points in the film, Harrer thinks longingly of Rolf and writes him letters.
Harrer writes letters to Rolf because she's very fond of him.
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When Time asks if Jiang should make a gesture on human rights to ease relations with America, Jiang I would like to know what you refer to specifically as a gesture.
Time discussed Jiang and human rights.
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Yet, assume that this famous still was not portraying an act of Would it be a relief or a disappointment?
The famous still is a relief or disappointment.
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(Countering a question about tackiness, Dexter says, You should see what we turned down--'I Have a Dream' ice cream, Martin Luther King pocketknives.
Dexter doesn't like the idea of MLK pocket knives.
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He says that [e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert.
The soliloquies came off great and humble.
contradiction
You now could argue both events were watershed moments for female athletes because Americans simply love a spectacle.
The events were average moments for the athletes.
contradiction
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains.
Teenagers behave predictable 100% of the time.
contradiction
Many on both sides anticipate that the Democratic primary of 2000 will be a showdown, with Dick Gephardt representing the old Dems and Al Gore standing in for the new.
Dick Gephardt stands with the republicans.
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She studied the First Amendment with Tommie the Commie Emerson and was seen around the influential circle of Robert Borosage, later connected to the Institute for Policy Studies which promoted pro-Soviet movements in the Third World at the height of the renewed Cold War.
She was directly involved with talking positively about Russia during the geopolitical conflict.
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In other words, what yadda yadda yadda can convey is something You and I know all the points that would ordinarily be inserted at this place in the conversation, so let's just skip it and move on.
We already know everything and don't need yadda yadda to fill it in.
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The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good.
Even though the west was rich, it was also good.
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Chavis and Farrakhan both argue that Christianity and the nation are incompatible, and many predict that the 49-year-old Chavis will ultimately succeed Farrakhan.
Chavis and Farrakhan share similar views on the relationship between Christianity and the nation.
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But just between you and me, it's really bad.
It is the best thing in a long time.
contradiction
I should also say that while I love the idea that the universe is nothing but a mathematical model of itself, I've never met anyone else who found the idea of software without hardware even remotely plausible.
People believe that the idea of software without hardware is impossible.
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There are lots of enormous rocks, anyway, which in my experience tends to mean lots of enormous snakes.
It's unlikely to ever see large snakes, even between large rocks.
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When we're there, however, she spends a large part of the evening on the phone or on the computer.
She doesn't spend so much time on her phone when we go other places, however.
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McCain's media cheering section neglects its favorite candidate's lack of coherence on tax and health-care policy.
McCain wants to increase taxes for everyone.
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2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.
In 1486 the Mafia controlled many unions.
contradiction
So Edgar Jr. will fail in Hollywood, but when he does, it won't be the failure of a romantic.
Being a romantic won't be the reason for Edgar's failure in Hollywood.
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Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.
The party sparked our desire to get married sooner.
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And so, as I said, the co-op's story helps me to resist the pull of fatalism and pessimism.
Without the co-op story the author would feel very negatively
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When Dorothy Parker lamented that I hate writing, but I love having written, she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework.
Dorothy Parker specialized in supply and demand.
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Mine's a full week old, and he's still acting like a drunk.
At a full week they are acting completely sober.
contradiction
recalls one ex- Vogue staffer wistfully.
Often ex-Vogue staffer's say the company needs more diversity.
neutral
Either way, Mother Teresa is a shoo-in.
It's unclear if Mother Teresa will be selected.
contradiction
A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress.
The only important thing is to win, regardless of the way in which the victory arrives
contradiction
He is too many other solid things, in addition to being a Star.
She is also quite well known for her generosity.
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Unfortunately, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the First Amendment could be used in this way.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the first amendment being used like that.
contradiction
a member of the board of SANE/FREEZE, a leading disarmament group, and she has been affiliated with the Washington School, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
This woman was prominent in many organizations
entailment
During World War I, as he conveyed vegetables to the troops quartered nearby and refused to leave Giverny as the German line advanced, Monet's panels took on some of the dark mood of war.
Monet's panels became increasingly dark as the Germans advanced.
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I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.
I know for a fact that what happened in Biggs' bedroom was real.
contradiction
Individuals' claims to their wealth and income must of course be balanced by the need to finance governmental activities, no matter how few and inconsequential they may be.
There must be a balance between individual claims and financing government activities.
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If he had lied under oath about parking illegally I wouldn't be so disgusted.
One was attracted about the illegal parking.
contradiction
The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.
There have never been any problems found with Chinese rockets.
contradiction
It probably won't come naturally to an American male, but, in an attempt to enter into the spirit of French daily life, I will cultivate a Look of my own.
French daily life is similar to Spanish daily life.
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Newsweek excerpts a forthcoming biography of Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods could have prevented his back injury if he didn't play golf.
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The Washington Post says that Republicans will encourage unity by allowing Smith to retain his committee chairmanship and caucus membership.
Smith is a far right leaning republican.
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And with those four stigmatic words, the music business was born.
The advent of the music business was loved by all.
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Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)
However, getting back to the topic at hand, cheese is indeed healthy.
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It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy.
The circumstances are simple with no complications or mitigating factors.
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The pessimistic one will lead to the other.
It all starts with positivity.
contradiction
He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington.
The Clinton administration is being criticized by Capital Gang.
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From home, I call my office three or four times a day.
My wife always answers when I make the calls.
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The act also ends long-standing rules against cross-ownership in broadcasting.
An act is unwritten on rules of broadcasting.
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But I think he misses an important Though the conflict may not reveal a previously hidden incentive (as in 2), it may create one.
The conflict involves a war.
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He models No Limit on the mob, not the Fortune 500.
He has nothing to do with the Fortune 500.
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Critics point out, however, that neither the Federal Election Commission nor the state of Arizona has certified any standards for Internet voting.
The FEC does not recognize online voting.
entailment
Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?
This is similar to the Boston Tea Party.
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It is a great-looking book despite its shortcomings, and there is a lot of good information in it.
The book was made to look good.
entailment
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.
Liberals eventually accepted military intervention to deal with the enemy.
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Russian mothers traveled to Chechnya, pulled their sons off the front lines, and brought them home.
The sons were brought home by their Russian mothers who traveled to Chechnya.
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According to psychologist David Keirsey, you are one of Plato's four types, you were born that way, you will always be that way, and you can find out which one you are by taking the temperament sorter quiz on his Web site.
Switching your Platonic type is simply a matter of changing your habits, says David Keirsey.
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Unless the name of your house is Ritz-Carlton, bag the subtle approach, and give them a deadline for their departure.
You can use a subtle approach and give them a deadline but only if your house is the Ritz Carlton.
entailment
And in the Where are they now?
They are wondering where they are located.
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I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference?
It made a big difference and make them feel as if they and wandered into the middle of the second act.
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Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be interested in buying it and turning it into a West Coast version of the New York Post . A circulation-hungry Willes vs. the rapacious That's just the kind of fight the American newspaper industry needs.
The American newspaper industry will witness quite an interesting battle if Rupert Murdoch does indeed go through with this transaction, and planned formation of a New York Post copycat news agency.
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All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls.
Politicians refusing to take their calls would do it.
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Finally, as he prepares to launch his own daily TV show, we thought we'd highlight National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker's confident prediction that there'll never, ever be a post-Lewinsky photo showing Bill [Clinton] with a cigar.
Mike Walker is a known Democrat and dislikes Clinton.
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Perversely, Weld lost the ideology/competence battle by winning the drugs/morality battle.
Even though he won his battle with drugs, he fails when it comes to principals in other areas of his life.
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Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
Advancements in technology make employees jobs more efficient.
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The study suggested that between 23 and 46 of every 1 million patients taking fen-phen would die from the condition each year.
23 patients to die yearly, is closer than 46 according to the study.
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Encryption is OK because its authority is created in my very own machine.
The encryption is strong enough that the information is illegible, except to my machine.
neutral
During last month's State of the Union address, every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic, rose repeatedly to give Clinton standing ovations.
Republicans failed to stand for the ovation given to Clinton during the address.
contradiction
Overpaid athletes, teams that abandon their cities, and absurd ticket prices (average NHL $40.
NHL tickets will cost you around 10 bucks.
contradiction
Another answer is to promote civic virtue.
Civic virtue is a possible answer.
entailment
Well, did she or didn't she?
She either did it or did not do it.
entailment
Newsweek says Starr's post-Paula Jones case may be stronger than it looks, reporting that 1) Betty Currie spent four days in a hotel room with FBI agents working for Starr in the days after the Monica story broke and 2) Frank Carter (Lewinsky's first lawyer, who helped prepare her denial of a relationship with Clinton)...
There are a few factors that weaken Starr's case.
contradiction
The inanity of the experts and the dubious casting make these films about as erotic as ...
The film has a solid, A-list cast.
contradiction
Based on a review of the trajectory charts in The Physics of Baseball and Keep Your Eye on the The Science and Folklore of Baseball , conversations with University of Puget Sound physicist Andrew Rex, and correspondence with aerospace engineer and baseball researcher Roger Hawks, I determined that the McGwire home run...
McGwire's home run is among the most powerful ever registered
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It's this kind of pathological attention to detail that makes American industry the envy of the more materialistic parts of the world, and News Quiz such a pleasure to work on.
News quiz has always been nice to work with.
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Aprimary argument against same-sex marriage is that marriage is an institution for the raising of children.
They are against heterosexual couples having children.
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There are those who argue passionately that life originated with a single replicated molecule.
There is heated discussion amongst others about where life originated from.
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Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go!
Lots of people fondly sing the Speed Racer musical theme to this day.
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During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.
Liberals did not want any intervention for fear of provoking conflicts with the Soviets.
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A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ...
No one uses he phrase, 'Let us,' in an inaugural speech.
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How does one tell foresight from fear?
Telling fear from foresight is a matter of context.
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