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The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning? | Bill Kristol thinks Italy and Greece should do whatever is needed to win a war. | neutral |
Ohio Democrats want Jerry Springer to run for Congress. | Democrats in Ohio choose Congressional candidates. | entailment |
I just wanted to thank you for allowing Mark Alan Stamaty a forum for his hilarious--and often insightful--cartoon about a (slightly) warped world. | The cartoon by Mark Alan Stamaty is extremely funny | entailment |
Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship. | Gopnik doesn't think highly of the ones who worship Picasso. | entailment |
The Presidential Initiative to Increase Seat Belt Use Nation-wide | The President hopes that seatbelt use declines following the passing of this initiative. | contradiction |
Finally, we can try to remove temptation, by avoiding policy initiatives that make it easy for politicians to play favorites. | Temptation to play favorites will forever persist for generation after generation of politicians. | contradiction |
Congratulations to all our winners. | Winners are being praised. | entailment |
Wal-Mart still won't stock adult videos, although it no longer carries its own store editions of mainstream hits with the naughty bits edited out, as it was once rumored to do. | Wal-Mart was once rumored to stock adult videos. | neutral |
The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world. | The Supreme Court justice experienced some mental issues over the peace. | entailment |
You've got to look in the mirror every morning and ask 'What am I organizing for ?' | You've got to look in the refrigerator every morning and ask, "What am I organizing for?" | contradiction |
On the sex front, nonpresidential illicit encounters are all the tabs can muster this month. | The sex front can only muster nonpresidential illicit encounters. | neutral |
The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly. | Most people want to be seated in a smoking section. | contradiction |
On other questions as well, U.S. officials use fatalism and objective language to minimize American responsibility and rule out options. | Officials in the US use language to meet their own ends. | entailment |
It's more scary than funny, especially to the brain tumor guy when he finds out that his chief surgeon is Raquel Welch. | Raquel Welch would make a very good chief surgeon. | contradiction |
Or, maybe higher savings wouldn't really increase growth. | Higher savings increases growth rates. | neutral |
Asahi Shimbun added that if Japan had tried to resolve these problems a little at a time, those who felt themselves victimized by Japan might have felt at least somewhat mollified; but that with the passing of time while we do nothing, however, discontent and ill will can coalesce into bitter enmity. | Asahi Shimbum thinks there are problems Japan needs to reslove. | entailment |
Contribution limits don't stop you from associating publicly or privately with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, or even signifying your association by donating money. | Contribution limits prevent you from engaging with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, and donating money. | contradiction |
Of course not all shoddiness is local. | Not all corruption is in your home town. | entailment |
But a real predator I know is using, selling, and almost certainly doing other crimes. | I certainly do other crimes. | contradiction |
Unlike his cold-eyed assistants, he preferred to visit the battlefield after the corpses had been cleared away. | He had eyes that betrayed his rugged exterior and showed glimmers of real compassion. | neutral |
The affinity between pigeons and tourists makes sense. | There are many similarities between pigeons and tourists. | entailment |
He's a schemer, a politician, a calculating populist who has built his career on sexy, attention-getting issues. | Sexy, attention-getting issues are what he has built his career as a politician on. | entailment |
The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores. | Amazon got problems with the supplying of Turow | neutral |
Blockades have always been regarded as acts of war. | If you create a blockade, it's considered an act of aggression. | entailment |
Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures. | The majority of wild animals is seen by humans as being cute | neutral |
The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy. | Democrats alleged that union members were forced to finance a union campaign | contradiction |
He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit. | I helped him chew tobacco. | entailment |
The AIB delivers real-time information in the banner. | The AIB sends data in realtime. | entailment |
She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans. | The man involves her child in team sports. | entailment |
The populist, by contrast, panders to his audience, figuring out what it likes and then delivering it in heaps. | The populist cares about what others think. | entailment |
Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines. | White wines are being object of study | entailment |
This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on. | The women in the Omeros passage were well known for all being doctors. | contradiction |
It's a major omission, then, that we never see those schools or the kids' interaction with their stable, well-to-do Beverly Hills counterparts. | Schools and stable kids are banned in Beverly Hills. | contradiction |
There have even been some frustrated musings among conservative writers and pundits that the people are not necessarily all-wise. | There has been recent sentiment amongst conservative writers, that expresses the idea that most people lack any form of true wisdom. | entailment |
Giuliani is clearly wrong in trying to stop the exhibit, but how many people defending the museum right now would be trying to shut it down if the art was offensive in other, even less acceptable, ways? | It's clearly not right for Giuliani to stop the exhibit. | entailment |
I sometimes found myself wishing he would let the picture catch its breath, that the performers would stop coming at me in stroboscopic flashes. | I hoped sometimes he would let the picture rest | entailment |
The flames are nearly a foot high, they arc out from underneath the black leather hood; there is smoke, the huge buzzing sound of the electricity, there are white walls and Venetian blinds and linoleum underfoot. | The flames are controlled and come out from a leather hood. | entailment |
I'm not sure how with a pair of e-mail messages I managed to effectively double the price of Chuck Close lithographs. | The price on the lithographs was more than what they should have been. | entailment |
It invests heavily in research and development. | It invests a small amount into development. | contradiction |
And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart. | We encourage people to donate every organ in their body away. | contradiction |
I don't want to belabor that point (though it is fun, as all the They should have seen it coming headlines on stories about Inphomation's bankruptcy suggest). | Inphomation's bankruptcy has been highly publicized in the news. | entailment |
George W. is lying either when he professes his faith or when he denies its implications. | George W. has been a Christian since childhood. | neutral |
But laws pertaining to child-rearing are surprisingly marriage-neutral. | Laws have been made on child-rearing. | entailment |
Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet! | A bullet for a tiny weapon is not very expensive | entailment |
In other words, on a day when George Bush was supposedly distancing himself from conservative Republicans, he was actually caving to their foolish dogma on the issue at the center of campaign--over the objection of his two top advisors on the subject. | George Bush's advisors fully agreed with conservative republicans over campaign issues. | contradiction |
Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable. | They say his information is not worth considering. | neutral |
For the first time, the standard of living for the nation's poor (although not the very poor) is rising. | This is the first time the poor are doing better. | entailment |
On other questions as well, U.S. officials use fatalism and objective language to minimize American responsibility and rule out options. | US officials are very prudent in how they speak and try to accept responsibility. | contradiction |
Religious people are finding evidence of God in recent scientific discoveries. | A Religious person rejects God and is guided by the word of science. | contradiction |
But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture. | Evidence shows the European culture is changing due to affections for Americans. | neutral |
George Mitchell has volunteered to act as a liaison between the Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed in the dispute over British and American intelligence about the crash . | George Mitchell chose to be uncooperative in the intelligence dispute between American and Britain. | contradiction |
For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents. | Parents enjoyed the characters and morals in the Pooh books. | neutral |
Announcement of the terms sent Galoob's stock plummeting, so that Lucasfilm's options are now out of the money. | Lucasfilm's currency is tied to Galoob's stock. | neutral |
If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it. | She has a pencil box. | entailment |
Could it be that the claims of Christ make him uncomfortable? | He hears the claims of Christ. | entailment |
By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education. | LAT is going to shape the society of the future | neutral |
Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything. | Researchers perform surgical trials without doing anything. | contradiction |
Lewinsky reportedly wore a provocative dress to attract the president's attention, and McDougal did a Madison Guaranty TV commercial in hot pants. | McDougal wore a suit to film the TV commercial. | contradiction |
99 percent chance that a Republican Congress will pursue any case Starr can deliver. | The Republican Congress is correct on their guiding principals. | neutral |
Both the Post and ABC claim to have copies of the original TP. | The Post and ABC do not claim to have originals. | contradiction |
At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people. | Finklestien made fun of Wiesels racist remarks. | entailment |
Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of square and hip--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned. | He uses the latest and trendiest slang. | contradiction |
The lead essay bemoans the replacement of objective, authoritative, Walter Cronkite-style news by opinionated, entertaining talk. | The essay bemoans opinionated, entertaining talk. | entailment |
Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building. | Despite his many efforts in the oil industry, Rockefeller saw very little personal success until his death in 1937. | contradiction |
I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded. | Because he was fairly confident, Bush decided to only call for the help his son. | contradiction |
Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street It's too bloody. | Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they'd rather engage in street-to-street because they enjoy how bloody it is. | contradiction |
The key word is overall . The increase or decrease in any particular item not only does not, but cannot, produce inflation. | Inflation can be triggered by an item decreasing or increasing. | contradiction |
( Goodfellas ? Fuh-get about it.) | Goodfellas is one of the best movies about mobsters | neutral |
Instead of watching TV, I made a fresh start by purchasing a newer version of Linux. | I purchased a newer version of Linux. | entailment |
Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion. | The demand-side thinking will win the race. | neutral |
Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race. | He felt quite secure about being able to make the race. | contradiction |
The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism. | The Street Lawyer is a homeless activist and advocate. | neutral |
The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in eli... | The training took place over a century ago. | contradiction |
But in the long run, it's unavoidable. | It is inevitable in the future. | entailment |
It offered reportage that chronicles the good, the bad, and the otherwise, and leaves readers fully informed and equipped to judge what deserves their attention and support. | The readers continued to trust it, as they were able to devote more attention to the things that they actually cared about, which gave them a sense of empowerment and joy | neutral |
Bennett is right to the extent that there's no excuse for telling falsehoods in the course of raising otherwise legitimate issues. | Bennett's brother agrees that there is no excuse for a bunch of hogwash. | neutral |
Television, radio, and print outlets are donating less time and space to anti-drug advertising. | Media outlets care a lot about anti-drug advertising and donate a lot of time to it. | contradiction |
Readers are of course invited to submit their candidates to the Rock Pomposity Sweepstakes at culturebox@slate.com. | The candidates are selected by a panel at the company. | contradiction |
In Sulloway's theory, as in life, Daniel is the category-defying, black sheep Baldwin. | Sulloway thought that Daniel was very virtuous | contradiction |
You couldn't possibly have published a better parody of what passes for scholarship in the postmodern world. | Several parodies have tried to compete with the winning one. | neutral |
As geologist Nathan Winslow puts it in a gently skeptical review on self-organized criticality, A theory can, once in the pop science regime, acquire a level of acceptance and momentum that may or may not be warranted by its actual scientific credibility. | Nathan Winslow was given a hard time by some people due to his skeptical review. | neutral |
Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee. | Gore will do the same Wednesday in Asia. | contradiction |
A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings. | The brothers construction of their Model-T plan was successful and they have made plans to test it out soon. | neutral |
Carter, the family's patriarch, was certifiably rural; he grew up in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley. | Carter became more cosmopolitan as he got older. | neutral |
Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries. | There are strict rules about who can influence the treaty's logistics | entailment |
They look to Washington to mitigate the new economy's negative consequences. | Washington can solve the negative consequences from the economy. | neutral |
The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original. | The sixth version of the classic cookbook brings back memories for the 1931 original. | entailment |
As a result, they avoid the concussive head wounds that kill boxers--and the long-term neurological damage that cripples them. | Boxers survive a brain injury pretty easily. | contradiction |
It would be more true to say that Gopnik's need to see Picasso as a rascal deforms his view of Picasso's art. | Gopnik has thoughts on Picasso. | entailment |
News ' Web shopping package centers on the America Online-Netscape merger. | There has been a merge between America Online and Netscape | entailment |
Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds. | The IRS is considering upgrading it's computer system soon, to catch more tax frauds. | neutral |
I remember the epigraph of James T. Farrell's book Studs Lonigan , which I read more than 60 years | Studs Lonigan was written by James T. Farrell. | entailment |
It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting. | When determining a murder from an accident, it is wise to think about intent. | entailment |
Why no journalistic outrage about that ? Well, for starters, try looking at a grainy newsweekly-sized photo of Lou Gerstner and see if it makes you remember Pearl Harbor. | Pearl Harbor is a top-secret government initiative that will be carried out in 2085. | contradiction |
Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in. | There are bombings currently occurring. | entailment |
And that's when Italian-Americans will really have something to bitch about (by the way, where do you stand on the The Sopranos isn't good for Italians question?) | Italian-Americans do not like The Sopranos very much. | neutral |
My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes! | The software is an AI that is always learning. | contradiction |
The WSJ has these Monica 1) Vernon Jordan isn't part of the joint defense agreement entered into by many other grand-jury witnesses with White House ties. | Vernon Jordan is very respected and held in high consideration among his peers | neutral |
Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson writes that his movie was just a joke but compares Hillary Clinton's allegation of a right-wing conspiracy to the distraction ploys found in the film. | Barry Levinson compares his movie to the right-wing conspiracy of Clinton. | contradiction |
Why no journalistic outrage about that ? Well, for starters, try looking at a grainy newsweekly-sized photo of Lou Gerstner and see if it makes you remember Pearl Harbor. | Lou Gerstner was prominent after the invention of the camera. | entailment |
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