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Our technological improvements have dramatically slowed natural selection. | Natural selection is slowed by improvements in technology. | entailment |
Hence our use of Hanukkah rather than Chanukah. | Jewish people use Chanukah instead of Hanukkah.. | contradiction |
(Not surprisingly, the least dismissive big-name child-care expert is a woman, Penelope Leach.) | Penelope Leach has never been around child care before. | contradiction |
And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure. | Lewis believes that Said is motivated by hate for the West. | entailment |
In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before. | Rieff's book was released a year ago in many book stores. | neutral |
Initiatives like community policing and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit appeal to all parties in the debate. | The Earned Income Tax Credit is universally popular. | neutral |
Reverse Triangulation: How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate. | Clinton doesn't like the moderate image he's creating. | neutral |
Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change. | The bottom half are generally more scared of globalization than they are of technological change. | neutral |
: The preceding images are not from Michelangelo and His Drawings from Windsor Castle (online reproduction of art in the National Gallery exhibition is forbidden). | The pictures did. It come from Michelangelo and His Deawings from Windsor Castle. | entailment |
George Custer's left pinkie has, over the years, been traded for a horse and sold for its weight in gold. | George Custer's left pinkie wasn't worth very much. | contradiction |
But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook. | Conservatives and liberals are equally lax | neutral |
13-year-old Latino gang I ain't down to die right now, for I'm barely having fun. | This gang has been around for over a decade. | entailment |
Or maybe what's new about the rules is the claim that now, for the first time, they apply to a large part of the economy. | The new rules affect also the economic relationship with other countries | neutral |
Did Stevenson speak with any of the fans with whose hopes he claimed to be so familiar? | Stevenson spoke with about half of the fans. | neutral |
The recent clamor in the press and among some politicians to allow patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice makes it sound as if we are going in the wrong direction here, too. | A step in the right direction would have politicians suing insurers. | contradiction |
So far, Campbell and Frank have enlisted only 34 co-signers, and the administration shows no signs of paying attention. | The administration isn't taking notice to the amount of co-signers. | entailment |
The winner's curse also doesn't apply when there are many identical items being auctioned off. | Many of the same things that are being auctioned does not need to apply to a winner's curse. | entailment |
Granted, there exists, in the form of a rich language and history, what Huntington would call a core Sinic civilization. | Huntington does not believe that civilization exists. | contradiction |
If it hits, there's a big syndication upside. | Synidaction indicates the show is a failure. | contradiction |
Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation. | Roth thought that politics, terrorism, mayhem and family troubles were popular conversational topics in 1997. | entailment |
Perversely, Weld lost the ideology/competence battle by winning the drugs/morality battle. | Cocaine was his preferred drug of choice. | neutral |
The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote. | A party-line vote would increase the risk of setting a new precedent. | entailment |
Unlike his cold-eyed assistants, he preferred to visit the battlefield after the corpses had been cleared away. | His assistants were not fond of going to the battleground which had been cleaned. | entailment |
And good afternoon to you, too, President Reagan. | Goodbye to you, Trump. | contradiction |
John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig. | John Glenn was considered to be a medical guinea pig. | entailment |
Largely because they have heard so many alarming tales about HMOs. | The stories being told about HMOs are bad. | neutral |
The situation is oddly The idea of retro in a rut restores grooviness to its original meaning. | It's an unusual situation | entailment |
As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones. | It's tough for lexicographers to compile spoken quotations, versus those that are written. | entailment |
The Majic Bus brought Brinkley minor fame. | Brinkley achieved minor fame from a bus. | entailment |
Pol Pot is in captivity | Pol Pot doesn't mind being a captive. | neutral |
In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her. | The film shows Larry trying to save Althea. | neutral |
Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it. | Gibson had trouble explaining his degredation. | entailment |
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .) | The paintings being created were intended to be melodramatic. | neutral |
Please send your nominations to 100TopHeds@slate.com. | Slate is hosting an awards show. | neutral |
First, two students were charged with killing their infant in a motel room and dumping it in the trash. | The young child was later adopted by a nurse and went on to become a successful student. | contradiction |
(Heston's softness on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line. | Heston bribed the media to stop reporting about him. | neutral |
If you eat a whole lot of lobster, people will call you a pig. | Binging with food can lead other people to praise you | contradiction |
As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons. | Phantom of the Opera took place in Dublin, Ireland. | contradiction |
They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a stodgy affair (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--more The | The adaptation was largely disliked. | neutral |
While Coz preaches decorum, the Globe has added more sensationalism, more gore, more nasty gossip. | Coz would continue to present it's materials with a clean and wholesome tone, and would stay far away from the kinds of things presented in the Globe. | neutral |
Johnson encouraged Kennedy to run and promised to do whatever he could to help him. | Johnson discouraged Kennedy from running and chose to leave him helpless. | contradiction |
At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life. | Bellow's Life was a popular documentary. | neutral |
Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker. | The political parties' top strategists disagreed about poker. | contradiction |
The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times withhold the story from their first editions but include it on Page One of the home-delivery editions. | Both The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have home-delivery editions. | entailment |
While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine. | Poisoning a dog is perfectly legal | contradiction |
The production of services also roughly doubled--but there was little productivity improvement, and employment grew by 90 percent. | Productivity increased by only 10 percent. | neutral |
The committee held its final deliberations from July 24 through July 30. | Final deliberations finished on August 31st | contradiction |
Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment. | Hill never said Thomas sexually harassed her. | entailment |
Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12. | You will find some of my longest songs to be 11 or 12 minutes long. | entailment |
Could it be that the claims of Christ make him uncomfortable? | Christ does not make any claims. | contradiction |
Get rid of all guns? | Dispose of the guns, but keep the explosives. | neutral |
It depends, in short, upon what the meaning of the word negotiation is. | Negotiation is the perfect word to use for any meaning. | contradiction |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is in the cardiac intensive-care unit of a Moscow hospital. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn works in Ukraine | contradiction |
This seems like increasing liberalism, but it's only encroaching commerce, less a commitment to free speech than a determination to sell paper plates, cups, and napkins for kicky Fourth of July fun. | Truly increasing liberalism is quite desirable. | neutral |
But filters aren't just for concerned parents. | Concerned parents will usually avoid using filters. | contradiction |
All this amounts to clear and convincing proof of Jones' allegation--which has never been specifically denied by the president personally or by his lawyer Robert Bennett--that then-governor Clinton sent a state trooper to interrupt a state employee's performance of her job and bring her to his hotel room. | The allegations of Jones would be used against the president in order to convict him of the crime for which he was charged. | neutral |
Capital Legislator Want More Facts on Daylight Savings Time from Mexico's News . A close second is Why Farm Sheep at All? | Capital Legislator wants more information. | entailment |
Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls. | He met him with the rapping of knuckles on the entrance. | entailment |
People are smart--or, at least, they are smart Darwinian robots . Darwinian theory does posit that homo sapiens were designed to get their genes into the next generation, but not that they were designed to do so consciously and rationally. | Homo Sapiens was very choosy when picking their partners because having healthy descendants was their top priority | neutral |
Given this prospect, the country should save heavily to make provision for the future--and lacking the kind of pay-as-you-go Social Security system that allows Americans to ignore such realities, it does. | This idea is better than what is in place currently. | neutral |
Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me. | Get off your knees, have some respect. | contradiction |
But none of these revelations improves the case that Hollywood Communism was a significant threat to democracy. | New information strongly supports the idea that Communism in Hollywood had been a threat to democracy. | contradiction |
And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on. | The ones who don't hold human life sacred cannot justify their belief. | entailment |
One of the few remaining ways to obtain a coveted downward departure--a sentence below the official range--is through cooperation with the government . In Lewinsky's case, lawyer Ginsburg, rather than turning state's evidence after indictment, is asking for immunity--a guarantee that his client will never face charges ... | Lewinsky was eventually asked for information by the government. | neutral |
Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice. | The phrasing also avoids accusing him of fraud and slander. | neutral |
The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not? | The critics wondered about the infant's adoption status. | entailment |
But since he appears to be talking about lawyers functioning in the United States generally, and he appears to be talking about 1997 and 1998, he's not even close. | He was talking about lawyers with a high percentage of won cases | neutral |
Therapeutic laws become props for rhetoric that might be called demagoguery, except that it disgraces the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long and the ambitions of Pat Buchanan to call Clinton a demagogue. | Pat Buchanan would rejoice to hear Clinton be called a demagogue. | contradiction |
Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls art about art supplies. | The author is displeased with the stories that include meaningless text. | entailment |
Morris was close enough to Leuchter to have gotten something more, to have gone a little deeper in search of a poison that does penetrate surfaces. | Morris was far away from the people doing the search with him. | contradiction |
One free-lancer tells of building much of a summer traveling with her husband in the West and Europe around a couple of Conde Nast assignments. | The free-lancer traveled alone during the summer around the West & Europe. | contradiction |
sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, Kids, a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father). | Bye Bye Birdie is a great show. | neutral |
These decisions are made by middle management, who are free to indulge their prejudices, regardless of a calculation of what's best for the corporate bottom line. | Middle management makes the most important decisions in the business. | neutral |
Before proceeding, write down or remember the directories where these files are found. | It takes a deep knowledge of the structure of files in order to perform this task | neutral |
Is it the right-wing commissar Norquist, who defied subpoenas from the Thompson Committee about his role laundering campaign contributions for the Republican National Committee (he is contemptuous of the law)? | The republican party didn't know the campaign contributions were laundered. | neutral |
I don't suppose that everyone is like that. | Most people aren't like that I'd say. | entailment |
Intellectual property refers, basically, to nontangible creative product and, like a rising sea, it seems to cover new territory with every passing year. | Intellectual property will stop changing at some point | neutral |
As for me, I wrote my book about Reagan because I'd like to see him get at least some of the recognition he deserves during his lifetime. | I wanted Reagan to get the recognition he deserved. | entailment |
Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest. | Ginsburg wants to get rid of their client. | contradiction |
(Read for Slate 's take on Jackson's findings.) | Slate had nothing to do with the article. | contradiction |
An article profiles middle-class black homesteaders who are regenerating ghettos. | Middle-class blacks that are rejuvinating ghettos are the topic of the article. | entailment |
But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out. | Gerth has an idea on how to solve the problems in the story. | neutral |
Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer. | Something like the "fate" doesn't really exist | neutral |
This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny. | They are making changes to the practices and soft money. | neutral |
You now could argue both events were watershed moments for female athletes because Americans simply love a spectacle. | Currently a case can be made for both events. | entailment |
Steve Forbes intends to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where people who might vote for him are likely to be found. | People who won't vote for Forbes are unlikely to be found near his investment sites. | entailment |
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .) | This is not the first time his artistry has been criticized. | entailment |
One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill. | Everyone's phone bill is charged for schools and libraries to have very fast internet. | neutral |
By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal. | The range of what society accepts as normal in quality-of-life drugs is narrow | neutral |
An interview with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski finds him good-humored and sincere. | Ted Kaczynski was man identified as the Unabomber. | entailment |
If a politician were to say today that he opposes abortion except when yadda yadda yadda , we would all know what he means, and we would know what was meant if, after an arrest, a police officer pulled out a card and just said yadda yadda | Some people may not know what the police officer or politician actually means. | neutral |
Most people would rather keep what they have than risk it for a hypothetical payoff. | Risking their wealth for a potential payoff is totally worth it to most people. | contradiction |
8) The common currency will help global corporations while stripping each European nation of its power to make its own destiny. | A common currency will remove power from European nations. | entailment |
Quality-of-life drugs offer not just the pleasing possibility that you can do something about impotence, baldness, blackened toenails. | Quality-of-life drugs cause baldness and blackened toenails. | contradiction |
By my calculations, it probably went about 479 feet. | My calculations are always correct. | neutral |
While the home still evinces mutterings of Xanadu from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor. | The home that reminds people of Xanadu is bigger than Spelling's mansion. | contradiction |
Afterward, Gordon thanked Earnhardt for teaching him all his tricks. | Gordon appreciated Earnhardt's instruction. | entailment |
Critics are surprisingly positive about the singer/songwriter/best-selling poet/soon-to-be film actress' second album after the 8 million copy selling Pieces of You . Musically she has matured, and her trademark folksy-bluesy-pop songs are dubbed sweet, soulful (Veronica Chambers, Newsweek ). The lyrics, however are sa... | The album recieved a number of positive reviews from critics. | entailment |
Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker. | Poker faced a massive coalition of opponents. | entailment |
Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive. | Coretta had mostly conservative values. | contradiction |
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