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Annan visits Washington this week to push again.
Annan will be visiting mostly the California during this week
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Regular Sunday reviewers, on the model of Cyril Connolly, the longtime critic for the Sunday Times , become trusted guides.
Many are thankful for the contributions provided by Regular Sunday reviewers.
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On democracy, for example, American activists are raging over China's recent suppression of all democratic dissent.
The Chinese government was celebrated for their handling of democratic marches.
contradiction
And you can't bring me back from the dead.
You will feel sad after I die.
neutral
Perversely, Weld lost the ideology/competence battle by winning the drugs/morality battle.
Barley any men become addicted to drugs.
contradiction
Kondracke screams back that he's used them before, he'll use them again.
Kondracke intends to use them again.
entailment
Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing.
Professional storytellers get irritated by this.
entailment
We are supposed to believe that Pitt's Harrer has learned to be a better person; offered as proof is his changed attitude toward his son, Rolf (whose name in real life is Peter).
The relationship between Pitt Harrer and his son has improved.
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To refrain from purchasing one would insult the working class and dishonor the labor of our fathers' fathers!
Not buying the item would insult our ancestors as well as blue collar workers.
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Not only do people appreciate my respect for their preferences, but I also don't have to choose to whom to cater in mixed situations.
It's not possible to be always respectful for the preferences of others
neutral
The Unjust Clinton's moral theory, point by point, as expressed in his testimony.
Every point of his testimony concerned morals.
neutral
24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox...
24/Seven combines several services throughout the daily Diary.
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Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding!
Al Gore is worth more now than ever before.
contradiction
Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12.
My popular songs are about five minutes long.
neutral
They can score, but they can't play D.
They might be better at defense then they are at scoring.
contradiction
The play recounts Wilde's downfall, says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns, with the inevitability and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy.
The play recounts Wilde's triumphant rise.
contradiction
Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution.
Tafero's execution excluded fire altogether.
contradiction
On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)
The company disliked providing help for the ill-prepared.
contradiction
Except the Jews, who have to sit inside and watch Davey and Goliath over and over and over again.
Everyone goes outside.
contradiction
Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government.
The socialists had to give power over to a different type of government due to shortages and lower wages.
entailment
Perhaps so, but in that case somebody should tell this to Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division.
They think someone should inform Joel Klein, who is in charge of the division of antitrust.
entailment
He has made his pre-testimony-leaks-don't-apply argument in sealed court papers and also has publicly denied believing anything so foolish, Brill points out.
Papers were unsealed.
contradiction
News ' Web shopping package centers on the America Online-Netscape merger.
America Online and Netscape had about the same amount of users
neutral
And so a comedian's success creates his failure.
The comedian's achievement brought on his down fall.
entailment
Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
Mr. Gilder has a high opinion of American cities.
contradiction
Slate , where my daughter Karenna worked in '96 and '97.
Karenna was employed in '96 and '97
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Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.
Most Serb cities accepted aid from the White House for opposing Slobo.
neutral
He carried on affairs with several men and a mistress, who bore him a son he refused to lift a finger to support.
The guy really liked to sleep around, and wouldn't even take care of his 10 year old kid.
neutral
*The scalpers-and-brokers point was brought to Chatterbox's attention by Randolph Cohen's brother Andrew, who is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse.
His kin taught at a large and famous university.
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The rest of the night was no better.
The evening did not progress as it went on.
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Remaining an enigma lets her retain the benefit of the doubt.
She evokes a sense of mystery in all who meet her.
neutral
The dehydrated food industry is booming, Time notes.
According to the Times, the dehydrated food industry thriving.
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Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing.
The Man on the Moon was criticized by critics for not being very accurate.
neutral
The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts.
Gordon enjoys the art of manipulation of monkeys.
neutral
The few stinky letters were from clergymen.
Clergymen sent only a few letters.
neutral
Living poets will continue to be eligible as well.
Dead poets are eligible.
neutral
The computer, now much faster and smarter, may triumph, but humans shouldn't fret.
The computer is destined to triumph because it is becoming faster.
entailment
This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.
Dove focused mainly on landscapes and self-portraits
neutral
It is this matter, he has said, which led him to found Judicial Watch in 1994.
Because of what happened to him, we found Judicial Watch in 1994.
entailment
An article chronicles the aborted return of offbeat television.
Offbeat television was supposed to return but was aborted.
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There is too much flexing of stylistic muscle, says the New Republic 's Robert Alter.
Robert Alter works for the New York Times.
contradiction
Providing escape routes from the inner city may make the ghettos worse by depriving them of their most competent residents.
Ghettos are harmed when most competent residents escape.
entailment
California Institute of Technology vaults from fourth to first in the magazine's annual university rankings . Its three-to-one student-faculty ratio is much praised, as is its annual spending of $192,000 on each student.
California Institute of Technology has moved into the number one spot in the rankings.
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If you've installed Internet Explorer 4.0, click here for more about (and a chance to download) the channel.
The channel is incompatible with Internet Explorer 4.0.
contradiction
This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer.
It was hard to come away with much back then when you had to split the money with so many people.
contradiction
Do they have an open marriage in which his extracurricular activity is accepted, or is each new revelation a painful surprise to her?
Each new revelation is a painful surprise to the husband.
contradiction
1 is the easy-to-forget point that money shouldn't be able to buy influence with a democratic government.
Influencing the government in a democracy is a common practice.
neutral
But they showed what true love is when Bo took over John's medical care and for seven weeks forced him to drink gallons of water to flush out stubborn kidney stones.
John's reckless lifestyle led him to have kidney stones.
neutral
The Super Bowl will be a grudge match between Broncos quarterback John Elway and former Broncos coach Dan Reeves, who now coaches the Falcons.
Though Elway used to play under Reeves, this Super Bowl they will be playing against one another.
entailment
It is not that I expect anything practical.
Something useful is not expected.
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And Stewart Brand's II Cybernetic Frontiers (1974), which recounts how this generation of computer kids designed computer games based on science fiction and used the Internet to fashion a universe of their own.
Computer games have been based on science fiction.
entailment
Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.
At times their relationship was strained.
neutral
A story on the JonBenet Ramsey case says her parents are not the only suspects.
A story says JonBenet Ramsey is not the only suspect.
contradiction
Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day.
I stayed up far too and did not get enough sleep.
neutral
In contrast to the well-oiled Gore machine, Bradley has no staff, message, money, or following.
There is a stark difference between the proceedings of Gore and Bradley.
entailment
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores.
Behind the Legend went on sale 2 months ago.
contradiction
Is that wrong?
Someone thinks it might be ok.
neutral
McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.
McCartney used his voice for the Foo Fighters in the 50s and 60s.
contradiction
And as for Hillary, forget it.
Hillary is a lost cause to the author.
neutral
Nor can we simply ascribe their market dominance to advertising.
There are several factors that attribute to market dominance.
neutral
Please, do you have an answer for these well-wishers that would not require giving them private and personal information?
The poor have already obtained a lot of identifying details.
neutral
The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable).
Regression analysis never works.
contradiction
(Just ask New Kids on the Block.
You can just ask New Kids on the Block.
entailment
Best name for a male-marketed Testosterone.
No testosterone is sold to men.
contradiction
(Read William Saletan's to see how the doctors cultivated their common touch.)
The doctors spent centuries cultivating their common touch.
neutral
Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning.
Sharp Elbows lived up to his usual standard in the next campaign.
neutral
I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son.
I know a man that circumcised his son, only after the article was published.
entailment
To the contrary, Jacob, he declared.
He stated it was the opposite.
entailment
She says Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift has gone beyond the call of duty to earn [her] presidential kneepads.
Eleanor Clift is running for office.
neutral
The author's claim that she backed down from that number in later interviews (not cited) is thus groundless.
He confirmed in later interviews that the number was correct
contradiction
One of his first stories of love, The First Seven Years, from Partisan Review in 1950, strikes me as nearly perfect, though.
The partisan review was almost released after 1950.
neutral
A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
The General Accounting Office administers student loans.
neutral
This one-way connection will offer speeds up to 150,000 bits per second.
The new connection will offer even greater speeds than previously seen.
entailment
(Formerly the state sport was catching and returning runaway slaves.)
Catching slaves was considered to be poor sport, so the state would allow slaves to run away freely.
contradiction
The Enquirer is probably the only publication in the world to go with this Lucy Mercer hypothesis.
The Lucy Mercer hypothesis is popular with Republicans.
neutral
The company could have monitored distribution better but didn't because it wanted to keep its hands clean, Hass has said.
The organization has been lax in its duties
entailment
Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.
The pageant organizers would receive great criticism in regards to how they treat the contestants.
neutral
The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.
He lost the election to return to his government position in 1965.
contradiction
I believe that your hearts will go on.
Your hearts are forever dead.
contradiction
No doubt he will do better in his next book.
He wrote a book.
entailment
I'll say it Read the directions.
Instructions are meaningless to everybody.
contradiction
The only reason to release it now is political, and national security officials shouldn't play politics.
National security officials will release the information as it has no political relevance.
contradiction
Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.
Inflation would have a negative effect in purchasing power.
entailment
I don't understand how one would read this argument and not get that it is about the effect these changes will have on the commons.
One is very closed minded to feel as though different humans would feel the same way.
neutral
The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be.
The Slate 60 list is for people to shun those who give away their money.
contradiction
It's certainly better than living in a society that allows money to entice people to convert their own health into a commodity.
There are societies that promote people to trade their health for money.
neutral
So the argument is that putting some of the money in stocks will make the trust fund more profitable and avoid, or at least put off, the day it runs out of money.
Putting some of the money in stocks will make the trust fund less profitable and cause it to run out of money faster.
contradiction
It is impressive that such a warm and amiable fellow--and he was--could be so profoundly wrong at least twice.
The man was cold and had no redeeming qualities.
contradiction
DOJ says the linkage is a marketing ploy, not a technical necessity.
DOJ states that linkage is not needed.
entailment
But we wouldn't know about Dowd's failure to muster a response, or about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness, unless Dowd herself had chosen to tell us.
Dowd is the one in control of our knowing Lewinsky's forthrightness.
entailment
Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.
Beowulf is a child-friendly poem.
contradiction
The idea of a nation of stockholders is appealing but, in practice, the plants' old Soviet-style managers gained control.
The managers would continue to implement a Soviet-style of oversight, which stifled any ideas of change within the plant.
neutral
Is this simply the nature of status--the rich will always find a way to distinguish themselves from the poor?
The rich hate donating to the poor.
contradiction
On one occasion recounted by the author, a woman rented a horse, stripped naked, and arrived at the door, Lady Godiva-style.
It's possible to ride a horse while being naked
entailment
And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.
It is clear that unskilled immigrants are unneeded right now.
contradiction
One consequence is that the United States needs fewer land-based nukes since it is no longer planning all-out war with Russia.
The war between United States and Russia is likely to happen in the near future
neutral
Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies.
Suge hated the idea of anything that was remotely similar to the mafia, and stayed far away from criminal activity.
contradiction
Not until that supremely attractive female butt crossed my radar in Nordstrom did I start to feel better.
I feel my extremely attractive butt.
contradiction
The Old 97's take their name from The Wreck of the Old 97, a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.
Vernon Dalhart was a singer from 1924.
entailment
News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate.
New Quiz participants aren't fans of any and all greeting cards.
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