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What will I impugn, if not motives? | The author questions motives. | entailment |
(Read the transcripts of the better CNN chats here . Look for the Allpolitics section toward the bottom of the page.) | All the CNN chats that were transcribed had to do with politics. | neutral |
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal profess... | Liberal professionals and youth were generally poor. | neutral |
The goal shouldn't be to make the desert bloom. | Don’t make the desert bloom | entailment |
High Crimes is supposed to show that Clinton's enemies have a strong legal case against him. | Clinton did not have any adversaries. | contradiction |
But they are a huge hassle and costly--nearly $1,000 a year. | They go up and down in price and sometimes cost as much as $150 per month. | neutral |
Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model. | Paul agrees that a rise in savings which tends to depress the economy would alarm the general public. | neutral |
Anthony Hopkins plays the zillionaire communications baron whom Death enlists in the hope of understanding the human condition--an odd choice for a tour guide, since most people's condition doesn't involve personal helicopters, sprawling mansions on Long Island Sound, or Manhattan apartments that sport Olympic-size swi... | Anthony Hopkins plays a homeless character | contradiction |
Not only do thousands of economists agree on something, but what they agree on is the warm and cuddly idea that we should do more to protect the environment. | The environment must be protected. | neutral |
Kanter's price for 100 note-sized sheets and envelopes on Crane's paper is $166 ($1. | 200 would cost $332 | neutral |
He adopted an upbeat American organicism derived from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. | He lacked respect for nature. | contradiction |
He was 65 at the time. | The event was long ago, and they are dead now. | neutral |
The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed. | Bush had a drug problem. | neutral |
A remake of the 1957 made-for-TV musical wins praise for its African-American lead and multiracial cast, which includes Jason Alexander, Whitney Houston, and Whoopi Goldberg. | A remake of the 1957 war film was shot in Germany. | contradiction |
Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure. | Forks will not need any additional money to meet its needs. | neutral |
One of my favorites among these paintings, Untitled V (1982), is built around a repeated shape that is like a dark letter S. | This person has a favorite painting. | entailment |
Schumer immediately countered by running the D'Amato commercial in New York City, labeling it the ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see. | Schumer's counter was to run the D'Amato commercial in New York City and labeling it as the ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see. | entailment |
Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention. | Free markets are bogged down by government intervention. | neutral |
An Englishman who trained as an anthropologist before going to work for BBC Television, Barker clearly made up his mind about his material before his cameras began to roll--so it's no surprise that it feels prechewed and predigested. | The Englishman worked for the BBC Television. | entailment |
Wolf sees the telling of her own personal experiences as a triumph for all women. | Some men view Wolf's telling of her own personal experiences as a failure. | neutral |
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. | Verily, I quote there shall be a battle, Gore Vs. Gephardt, to the victor will go the spoils. | entailment |
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. | This most impressive contemporary exhibition Contains Lichtenstein's best work. | neutral |
Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things. | Prices remain the same regardless of demand. | contradiction |
In criticizing the ability of the exclusionary rule to reverse a conviction, he The wrong done was the search, not the conviction. | The harm committed was the search rather than the conviction. | entailment |
There's something about [Corgan's] whole grandiosity that is very four years ago. | Corgan is behind the times. | neutral |
Also, while PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver, SlateCast TM will package acute witticisms about the news directly onto your voice-mail answering message--in your own voice--thereby completely eliminating the need to develop or even to express your own opinions. | PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver. | entailment |
The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies. | Beer companies have an advantage on TV over liquor companies. | neutral |
For example, suppose that the U.S. stock market was to crash, threatening to undermine consumer confidence. | The U.S. stock market has yet to crash so the impacts are unknown. | contradiction |
If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary. | You can click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy and his opinion on censorship. | neutral |
Nonetheless, Ehrlich's book was treated to a 21 st anniversary reprinting in 1997. | Ehrlich's book was over 100 years old when it was reprinted in 1997 | contradiction |
Finally, a sister is getting to go to the ball, says Newsweek 's Veronica Chambers. | Newsweek reported that someone is going to the ball in beautiful clothing. | neutral |
I particularly enjoyed your colored sky; a nice choice, blue, popular, everybody likes that blue. | People like having blue skys. | entailment |
S chool Since the Columbine killings, there's been a special focus on depictions of adolescents committing mayhem in school. | There's been a special focus on school shootings ever since the Columbine killings. | neutral |
The original statistical work in The Bell Curve consists of regression analyses on a database called the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. | The National Longitudinal Study of Youth refused to offer the author of "The Bell Curve" access to their data because of his derivative statistical works. | contradiction |
But he was abrupt with her--not rude, just abrupt. | He was rude about the whole thing | contradiction |
While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good. | Affirmative action solved the racism crisis. | contradiction |
Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts. | Levi is a leader in the jeans industry. | entailment |
What's worse, Wolf flip-flops in her opinion of The Slut every few pages. | The Slut's beautiful front cover caused Wolf to re-evaluate her opinion of the book. | neutral |
His proposal introduces prescription drug coverage and eliminates payment for preventive services but aims to cut costs by stoking price competition among HMOs and requiring patients to chip in for some services. | His proposal aims to slash costs by stoking price competition among HMOs | entailment |
So much for McCain's war against cynicism. | McCain is unfamiliar with war | contradiction |
What this means is that the revenue from any new taxes on pollution could be used to reduce other taxes, such as Social Security contributions or the income tax (but not, of course, the capital-gains tax). | Pollution tax raises all other taxes. | contradiction |
He says this will make our system the best. | There are multiple systems, and he believes that this one will make ours the best. | entailment |
Office of Special Investigations--continue the honorable policy of replacing lawless revenge with legitimate justice. | Office of Special Investigations enforces the law to avoid reckless revenge. | entailment |
the thing is I don't know how I can pick one or the other as maid of honor. | unable to find a single worthy maid of honor | contradiction |
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. | A few people find it easy to imagine the 33 minute Circle in the Round being played on FM radio. | neutral |
It always hurts to be constrained, but sometimes it's worth it if your neighbors are constrained too. | Being constrained is never worth it, no matter what happens to others near you. | contradiction |
Eszterhas' posturing He became the celebrity he'd always hoped to be--brash, appealing, larger than life. | Eszterhas is a quit reserved person | contradiction |
Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt. | She wore a short skirt. | entailment |
Diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and penile injuries (more than 100,000 whacked in bike accidents have been permanently deflated, according to the medical literature) all prevent men from mustering a swelling. | Diseases and physical ailments which impact normal blood flow or respiration can negatively impact a man's ability to become erect. | neutral |
The images in Touch of E v il have been boiled down so that all its ingredients are mashed together in the sludge. | Each of the components was an important part of the sludge. | neutral |
Geoff Ward, goateed sophomore, chides each of the Canterbury Tales, for being written during that Great Vowel Thing and for being 'boring and stupid. | Geoff is clean-shaven | contradiction |
Responding to Bauer's assertion that he had never violated his wedding vows, another reporter cracked, President Clinton said that too. | Bill Clinton cheated on his wife one time. | neutral |
Every week, Rodriguez must halt surgery because he can't get one or another material through the embargo. | The operations have to stop | entailment |
D'Amato's latest strategy--to tar Schumer as a lazy, part-time congressman who skips votes--seems to be backfiring as well. | D'Amato's strategy is not working. | entailment |
Providing escape routes from the inner city may make the ghettos worse by depriving them of their most competent residents. | Providing escape routes from inner cities will improve ghettos. | contradiction |
The University of Chicago has just announced a deal with UNEXT.com, an online education company partly funded by Milken and headed by a Chicago trustee. | The University of Chicago does not currently offer online classes | neutral |
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores. | Behind the Legend is a biographical text that hits bookstores later this month. | entailment |
As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar). | Headless Body Found in Topless Bar is an all-time horror classic. | entailment |
That's what I remember about Woodstock. | Woodstock produced lasting memories. | entailment |
He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments. | He creates order by forgetting about checks and balances in regard to assignments. | contradiction |
There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner. | You never know if you've found the right partner. | entailment |
And the reason why the rest of us sit in our armchairs and read about these accomplishments is because we wish we'd done something as interesting with our time. | Accomplishments are uninteresting. | contradiction |
Time describes honor killings in Jordan, which comprise a quarter of the Arab nation's homicides. | Honor killings are 25 percent of the homocides in Jordan. | entailment |
So much for McCain's war against cynicism. | McCain waged war on cynicism | entailment |
I remember seeing a piece by Michael Kinsley some years back on the absurdity of punditry. | Michael Kinsley did a piece regarding the absurdity of punditry. | entailment |
He's asking us to overlook it. | He wants you to focus on other things. | entailment |
Scientists have learned how bacteria can build up in gaps in the gum, cause infection, weaken the jawbone, and eventually murder teeth. | scientists have studied bacteria in other parts of the body. | neutral |
The dehydrated food industry is booming, Time notes. | Business is booming in the food industry. | neutral |
Weird Ted receives The New Yorker , New York Review of Books , and Los Angeles Times in prison and spends his rare recreation time with fellow bombers Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef. | McVeigh and Yousef often spend time with Weird Ted, rather than saving their remaining time by sitting in their cells. | neutral |
So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim. | The 1950 owners are screwed even if the intervene in time. | entailment |
True--but I fully grant that importance. | It is false that I grant importance. | contradiction |
They're political. | It’s political | entailment |
The nanny, by comparison, can be trusted to control the children, but her constant presence irritates the children and slows down the shoot. | The nanny can be counted on to control the children. | entailment |
No one should be angrier about this than Stephen Labaton, Jeff Gerth, and Safire's other colleagues at the Times who have patiently pursued the Clinton scandals in a careful way. | Employees at the Times have been carefully following the Clinton scandals. | entailment |
The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing. | Teens are having less sex | neutral |
At war's end, he arranged to contribute some of his panels as a sort of victory monument to the nation--the gift that eventually became the glorious circular water lily chapel at the Orangerie in Paris. | His solar cells provide free electricity to the Pope's gallery in Rome. | contradiction |
Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life. | All the planets or the same. | contradiction |
The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as a gay masochist who organized and filmed orgies. | The sexologist won porn awards | neutral |
Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit. | People are more grouchy around December. | contradiction |
Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush. | Bush will continue to win | neutral |
Oh, to get an invitation to that bris! | They would like to get an invitation to the bris. | entailment |
It's possible that Besieged is meant to be vaguely The African is seduced by the crumbling decadence of Europe while the European falls for the childlike simplicity of Africa. | The film Besieged follows it's protagonists all over the world before taking off on a rocket to Mars to live in an ice cave. | contradiction |
I did not plagiarize. | I cheated. | contradiction |
The vote was 295-136--better than a two-thirds majority--which means that opponents of the ban must once again depend on the Senate to sustain a presidential veto. | The senate's veto is instrumental for achieving better public policy. | neutral |
The Bush people say the results of their effort aren't in yet, but they're optimistic and expect to stick with Internet advertising. | The Bush people started using Internet advertising six months ago | neutral |
But where would those two applicants have ranked if blacks had not been enslaved and discriminated against? | The two applicants are the direct descendants of slaves | neutral |
The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. | The Sumitomo affair is akin to the robber-baron era. | entailment |
Charles Bakaly, Starr's new spokesman, gave his inaugural Sunday show appearance to Fox News Sunday , only to have interviewers Tony Snow and Brit Hume run the oldest play in the book on him. | Charles Bakaly refused to appear on Fox News Sunday. | contradiction |
Pretty serious perjury time [looks at his watch]. | He looked at his watch while deciding to commit perjury. | neutral |
Who in the hell cares whether anyone thinks someone else will go to heaven? | Some will go to heaven after death. | neutral |
Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ... | The Rockies are in a desert. | contradiction |
Other companies, such as Cognisoft, take this same approach to corporate intranets (internal networks), hoping that push technology will be even more useful in distributing the right information to the right employees. | Cognisoft hopes that push technology will be useful in distributing information | entailment |
The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said. | The heir hates the United States. | neutral |
Any nontechnologist ventures into the browser wars at his peril, but here is how I understand After initially missing the significance of the Internet, Microsoft has gone to the other extreme, designing Windows 95 so that it uses an Internetlike metaphor for everything. | Windows 95 was Microsoft's top seller when it was released | neutral |
Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way. | The straw poll took place in Kansas. | contradiction |
Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, who made the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story , say Lana was adamant that she wasn't there. | There was a documentary called The Brandon Teena Story in 1983 | contradiction |
Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies. | Al Gore wanted a technical fix | entailment |
Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose. | Tooth decay was a widespread problem | entailment |
Instead, you're still leading with Jacob Weisberg on Clinton's African apology (Sorry Excuse) and Cullen Murphy's discourse on lying (The Lie of the Land). | There is a known African apology by Cullen Murphy. | contradiction |
What a fascinating and generous letter. | The letter was very boring to read. | contradiction |
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