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Is Clinton saying he didn't commit perjury because of the peculiar definition of sex in the Paula Jones suit, or is he saying he actually didn't have sex?
Clinton committed perjury.
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Even a decade ago, a movie about Wilde and his gay affair would have been considered Today, it's a cliche.
The movie about Wilde is currently filming
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Flytrap also bears some responsibility for Washington's paralysis.
Flytrap is partially to blame for the city's paralysis.
entailment
The Supreme Court might not cooperate in rejecting the administration's public position and embracing its secret desire.
The Supreme Court may not cooperate in rejection.
entailment
I don't suppose that everyone is like that.
I suppose everyone is like that
contradiction
They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.
Terrorists groups all study aircraft as part of their general training.
neutral
He's a veteran, isn't he?
The person in question is a man.
entailment
Clinton was 36 at the time of his alleged affair with the 21-year-old Ward.
Clinton had an affair with a woman.
entailment
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.
Everyone was born as one of Plato's four types.
neutral
A horse sitter mistakenly thought Mr. Ed was having a seizure and gave him a tranquilizer.
The horse sitter saw Mr. Ed's seizure and decided to tranquilize himself.
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I blame the ambiguous use of ellipses.
The pair of half ovals does not seem blameworthy.
contradiction
Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet!
The price is lower than that of a small caliber bullet
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Not entirely unmarried men are seldom worth the trouble.
Unmarried men are worth the trouble.
contradiction
A recent article in Science claimed to rebut Noam Chomsky's theory that our capacity for language is hard-wired in a particular--and uniquely human--module of the brain.
Noam Chomsky's theory was rebuted
entailment
They're interested in the clash of personalities.
They think clashing personalities are boring.
contradiction
The version of Linux that comes in Mastering Linux offers no technical assistance, but Red Hat's version 5.2, which costs $39.
Linux is tough to understand.
neutral
In other words, the careless only stay lucky for so long.
Luck is really random and only holds out for a while.
entailment
I'd say it was the second number.
The second digit was looked over.
contradiction
According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975.
Food prices have increased in price since 1990.
entailment
What is reputed to be Gen.
Gen refers to generation of the ages.
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They would simplify background investigations and financial disclosures.
They would simplify financial disclosures and background investifations.
entailment
Boaz's model for this is the Internet.
Boaz is uninspired by the Internet.
contradiction
Time identifies a new racial bilingual education.
Time has yet to identify a new racial bilingual education.
contradiction
(The baseball season is another and AMC is a third.)
AMC is completely unrelated to the baseball season.
contradiction
Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.
Not to play devil's advocate but, Mussolini was the main inspiration for Tudjman, since he was a young politician.
neutral
Time 's cover story explains how popular serotonin-boosting drugs (such as diet pills Redux and fen-phen) work, and how they can be health risks (high serotonin levels damage heart valves).
Elevated levels of serotonin are good for the heart
contradiction
We have close friends who have us to their home for dinner almost every week.
The close friend is an amazing cook.
neutral
Gay liberation, like feminism, is central to the whole individualist ethos of the last two decades.
Gay liberation hasn't been invented yet.
contradiction
And he would certainly consent if the alternative was impeachment.
The person in reference is the President.
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Two of my brothers still smoke, although both would press the magic button and quit tomorrow if they could.
The brothers will try to stop smoking in the future.
neutral
That's not an irrefutable disproof that discrimination exists, but it's at least a calculation that needs to be taken seriously.
The calculation disproving discrimination is irrefutable.
neutral
Morris is more of an idiot savant.
He became a genius, although he lacked common sense.
neutral
Invented in 1993: After a big interception, Packers safety Leroy Butler . The populist Leap is particularly suited to the NFL's only publicly owned team, the zealously beloved Pack.
Leroy Butler is an amazing player.
neutral
But it was the grass-roots opposition to KYC, sparked in part by the Libertarian Party, whose protest Web site steered 171,268 e-mail complaints from netizens to the FDIC, that elevated the subject to the national agenda.
The Libertarian Party was totally ignored in KYC.
contradiction
Tobacco growers managed to avoid that fate last year.
Tobacco farmers avoided the problem last year.
entailment
An unmarried dependent student qualifies before age 23, as does any adult child who acquired a physical or mental disability before age 21;
The adults are qualified for disabilitiy benefits to help them live a normal life.
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Steve Forbes intends to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where people who might vote for him are likely to be found.
Forbes feels that he has to advertise on financial sites in order to win the election.
neutral
Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does.
Feldman is liked more than Howard Stern and Dave Letterman
neutral
The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not?
The 5 month old girl is adopted.
neutral
Growing up to be Gwyneth Paltrow makes her more bewitching but no less blank.
She is more bewitching because she grew up to be Gwyneth Paltrow.
entailment
Coulter argues ad Clinton's China satellite policy was treason.
Coulter's policy was treason, Clinton argues.
contradiction
That's why labor is making fewer endorsements.
Labor has offered fewer endorsements recently.
entailment
It covers every angle a young media entrepreneur could dream highbrow nonfiction (the first comprehensive collection of King's sermons); innovative nonfiction (a King autobiography cobbled together from his writings); audiotapes of King speeches; high-tech (a fancy civil-rights Web site); and even a little snack for D...
If a young media entrepreneur could dream an angle, it is covered several times over.
neutral
We must only hope that our Pakistani friend does not get to sound too much like the aforementioned Mr. Russert--or any of the other Sabbath gasbags, to use the phrase that the wonderful Frank Rich has popularized.
Frank Rich has an impact on people.
neutral
It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.
It's the greatest gangster movie of the last 45 years.
entailment
He is relocating to his home state of Georgia.
By relocating to Georgia, they have established their primary residence in a different state.
entailment
We're talking about president of the United States.
They were praising the president of the United States.
neutral
Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!
They were unconcerned with getting an invitation to the bris.
contradiction
The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not?
The critics are alive and well
contradiction
Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.
Everyone that showed up for the event was immediately allowed to enter.
contradiction
It works terrifically, and the New York Observer 's John Heilpern says it has us ...
It works to the best of it's abilities.
entailment
The two most successful stories here, That I Had the Wings and Flying Home, are less self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.
I Had the Wings and Flying Home are successful stories.
entailment
Long ignored by snake experts, the skeleton shares many physical characteristics with that of snakes, including its 140 vertebrae and its extraordinarily flexible jaws.
This other living creature has more flexible jaws than a snake.
neutral
Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.
Investors look at how funny the strikes are.
contradiction
Newsweek also lets Martha Stewart describe her successful foray into Web marketing.
Web Analytics were also mentioned in Martha Stewart's talk.
neutral
Her appearance is a needless affront to the president and the presidency, say Carlson and Jack Germond ( Inside Washington ). Tony Blankley (CNN's Late Edition ) sat next to her at dinner and reports she carried herself like a lady, in contrast to certain vulgar attendees who booed her and made classist snipes about he...
Tony Blankley defended the woman against those who jeered at her.
neutral
After vowing never to discuss his drug history, he admitted that he had made some mistakes but said he would have passed a 15-year background check in 1989.
He only smoked marijuana as his drug choice.
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As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , He cannot fly from Fate.
Aeschylus wrote about the God of Thunder.
entailment
I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.
I never said she would not be in my wedding.
entailment
And bicycles, once the vigorous instruments of suburban freedom, are rarely spotted in the playground; parents fear for their kids in heavy suburban traffic.
Parents often fear for their kids near heavy suburban traffic.
entailment
One must be a little skeptical of Sperling's personal experience with the game.
Sperling exaggerated how the game went for them.
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Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark, says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet.
The poet Bakis writes about dogs that seem almost human.
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But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.
According to the 1994 edition too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.
entailment
The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.
Republican politicians don't do much to dissuade the majority of Americans.
neutral
Had Apple allowed Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, perhaps even IBM to build hardware running the Mac OS, it might very well have seen its software become the industry standard.
Windows became the industry standard instead of Mac OS
neutral
Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver.
Some kids get left behind in public schools
entailment
The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.
The piece lacks sports metaphors.
contradiction
This triathlon kills Churchill, who wins the defeat-totalitarianism contest but flunks the liberation-and-justice contest.
Churchill failed to win the defeat-totalitarianism contest.
contradiction
I suppose you could argue that a best-dressed list encourages women to dress more beautifully or that a list of the greatest works of journalism of the 20 th century will motivate those who didn't make it to try a bit harder during the next 100 years.
Some lists focus on the best is certain groups
entailment
When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?
People die during ultimate fighting
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What we mean--and should mean--by character needs to be disentangled.
They need to disentangled the character.
entailment
Mostyes voters dismissed the predictions of doom as exaggeration, according to polls conducted on either side of Election Day.
Voters thought predictions of doom were exaggerated
entailment
As Vecsey puts it, women eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men.
Women eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men.
entailment
The effort to convert won into dollars and other foreign currencies depressed the value of the won, despite the Korean government's efforts to sustain it by using its reserves.
The Korean government failed to keep the won valuable.
entailment
There is no good way to measure the gap between women's earnings and their productivity, but it is reasonable to say that their earnings have risen pretty much in line with their productivity.
Women still earn far too little compared to how much effort they put in.
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They hype you by giving you an award.
A trophy was given to increase your publicity.
entailment
This is too bad, because Pokemon is undoubtedly much smarter and more charming than what will supplant it.
Pokemon wasn't expected to get as big as it has.
neutral
Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000.
Ron Brown unknowingly sold favors to the Vietnamese government.
neutral
Vice President Gore is on the hot seat in the campaign-finance investigation . The Washington Post reported that some of the money Gore raised in phone calls from the White House went to the Clinton-Gore campaign (hard money) instead of the Democratic National Committee (soft money).
The Washington Post was biased towards Vice President Gore.
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But Aaron hardly figures here and, of course, psychology isn't the point.
Aaron doesn't matter nor does psychology.
entailment
In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole.
ESPN is trying to buy out the News Corp sports channel, showing them who is boss.
neutral
But the Post made a telling omission here.
The editor of the Post missed the omission.
neutral
It's also possible that experience will lead them to approximate rationality, and they'll reduce their bids.
Experience always leads to rationality.
neutral
Don't be surprised when it flops.
Investors will lose money because of it
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What about the children?
Children are in danger
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The first question to ask is what the right thing would have been.
The second question to ask is why the wrong thing was chosen
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What's more pernicious about the coverage is that it confuses the qualities of a crusader with those of a president.
It is dangerous to make a president seem like a crusader.
entailment
Contrary to press reports, it's possible that someone entered the house from outside.
A crime was committed in a house.
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Along these same lines, I was recently in a retail store and the clerk had on a summer dress.
I saw a clerk at a retail store who was wearing a skirt.
contradiction
If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.
3% of new mutual fund money went into indexed funds in 1994.
entailment
Even better for the veep, Gov.
The Vice President will benefit from this action.
entailment
Waking Ned Devine might have been a snooze if Jones hadn't stocked it with a slew of old actors with magically lived-in visages.
Waking Ned Devine was a complete snooze.
contradiction
The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.
The one who made the decision was on the side of the protesters.
neutral
So if the mechanics of affirmative action in the military mimic those of affirmative action in higher education, why hasn't the military taken the same flak?
The military's affirmative action programs have been criticized just as much as those in higher education.
contradiction
I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous.
Applying the typical response would obviously work in this situation.
contradiction
The Nike and Reebok logos are now officially declared badges of shame.
Many see Nike and Reebok logos as badges of shame.
entailment
He is relocating to his home state of Georgia.
By moving to Georgia, they have abrogated the responsibilities they had toward their previous constituents.
contradiction
In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1.
American Re was expensive to buy.
contradiction
But anti-Semitism permeated Nazi ideology, and Finkelstein is deaf to its nuances.
But anti-Semitism permeated Nazi ideology, and Finkelstein is unaware to its nuances.
entailment
I still get up when a woman enters the room, open a door for her, and offer my seat on a bus.
I ignore women when they enter the room
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