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The New Yorker 's Alex Ross calls Palestrina --about the 16 th -century Italian church-music composer--a spectacle that is magnificent on the surface and haunting at the core. | Palestrina lived in the 18th century. | contradiction |
Esme, played by Judi Dench, is an actress who lives for the theater. | Judi Dench plays Esme for a role. | entailment |
If content is king, Dexter reasoned, then King should be content. | Content is important. | entailment |
Don Michael Randel, currently provost at Cornell University, has been selected to succeed Hugo Sonnenschein, who stepped down in June. | Don Randel is a janitor at Cornell University. | contradiction |
There have even been some frustrated musings among conservative writers and pundits that the people are not necessarily all-wise. | The conservative writers and pundits do not think highly of the people. | entailment |
If you are worried about that story, it means one of two things. | The story is disturbing. | neutral |
A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ... | Let us .. is only used by persons who take on the persona of a Preacher. | neutral |
While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year. | He was looking forward to the holidays. | neutral |
Attitudes changed too. | My attitude stayed the same | contradiction |
( Goodfellas ? Fuh-get about it.) | Someone is making a reference to Godfellas. | entailment |
And that's the key point. | All of the points are equally important. | contradiction |
Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy. | Kirstie Alley starred in Less Frenetic than Lucy, More Mature than Mary. | entailment |
This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years. | Blondes have been given the gift of beauty from birth. | 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. | Leuchter searched for poison without any other people around. | contradiction |
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. | Omeros was written by a woman. | neutral |
Brazilians, for instance, with their mestizo consciousness and their many gradations of tipo , or type, behold with disdain our crude bifurcation of race. | In Brazil, persons with lighter skin feel like they are the greatest thing since sliced bread, though mestizos don't all agree. | neutral |
(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.) | I understand how this system works. | entailment |
If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc. | The described treaty has been wanted for decades. | neutral |
Both are actors who involved themselves in politics. | Neither of them are actors who involved themselves in politics. | contradiction |
Would the story have broken if not for the Web? | The author questions whether the story would have broken if the internet did not exist. | entailment |
At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association. | The goal of new forms of social organization is to draw people away from older forms of association. | neutral |
Critics mostly applaud this movie about a female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home. | This typical romantic show was a real live wire, truly a predictable youthful romantic Tour De Force. | contradiction |
know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure, | There's anguish only when wanting to stay. | contradiction |
An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate. | His estate is $200 million | entailment |
Johnson encouraged Kennedy to run and promised to do whatever he could to help him. | The encouragement lead to Kennedy running. | neutral |
To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students. | Magnet schools were desegregated | entailment |
The machines, in comparison, seem fuzzy. | The products were clear. | neutral |
Can you believe this? | The event is unbelievable | neutral |
In fact, most of the spoken lines attributed to Saxton were made up, the real hearing was dully decorous and, as far as I could tell from the videotapes, the audience was politely catatonic. | The audience was rowdy during the hearing. | contradiction |
This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold. | McCain is a politician that gives boring speeches. | neutral |
(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.) | Generalizing human behavior leads to stereotyping. | neutral |
It works, maybe to a fault. | Its ability to work is zero. | contradiction |
Framing the election around the desirability of tax cuts is risky business for Clinton; since the age of Reagan, the public assumes that the Republicans are the anti-tax party. | Clinton was considering tax cuts. | entailment |
Or, better yet, he should build houses for the poor under the supervision of Jimmy Carter. | Jimmy Carter may not want to supervise him. | neutral |
The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering. | The report included topics other than Chinese rockets faulty soldering. | neutral |
I take my 15 cents and head for the liquor store. | I had only 3 cents before I went to the liquor store | contradiction |
The Republicans on the Hill--Issue 2--draw fire from all sides. | Democrats on the Hill are being attacked from all sides. | contradiction |
Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one. | You cannot try an official that was previously impeached. | entailment |
I think Michael Jordan is beginning to get a bit frustrated with his new cohorts in the Washington Wizards front office. | Michael Jordan's game is suffering from his frustrations. | neutral |
He's a schemer, a politician, a calculating populist who has built his career on sexy, attention-getting issues. | He built a sexy politician | contradiction |
(She'll need the dough to cover her legal expenses--see The Nation , below.) | She will have legal fees to settle up with. | entailment |
The most ordinary features are, aesthetically, the most extraordinary. | the most extraordinary features are the most ordinary | entailment |
But it turns out that to buy $1 of dividends costs you $72 (among Dow Jones industrial average stocks). | It is impossible to get dividends on Dow Jones industrial average stocks. | contradiction |
In return, the vice president occasionally helps them. | The vice president is incapable of helping. | contradiction |
The Amman fiasco could cost both Israel and Mossad. | Amman was a costly failure only for Syria | contradiction |
Loyal visitors probably already know the URL or have it bookmarked in their Web browsers. | The website is still under construction. | neutral |
But these individual successes can't disguise the very curious reality that we're living in a world that is somehow saturated by the media without actually paying all that much attention to it. | We are living in a world that is saturated by media. | entailment |
Maybe next week's Times business section's lead media article should be about whether newspapers have become more like magazines in their struggle to maintain and build readership in these trying digital times. | Making newspapers more like magazines helps to maintain and build readership in these trying digital times. | neutral |
Afterward, Gordon thanked Earnhardt for teaching him all his tricks. | Earnhardt taught Gordon all of his tricks. | entailment |
When agencies lose major accounts, they often fire nearly everyone involved with the account. | The agency reassigned people that were working on the lost accounts to new accounts. | contradiction |
3 million for a 30-second spot) and banal products. | 3 million for 30 seconds is more than normal. | neutral |
Another Fan Page has a set of good links about the affair and a message board, too, though on last visit, it was no longer available. | An empty fan page has been the focal point of attacks. | contradiction |
Thanks to this blurring of the victim-perpetrator distinction, Ted's nephew Joe was able to get elected to Congress despite his own car accident, which likewise devastated his passenger, four years after Chappaquiddick. | Joe only served one term in Congress | neutral |
I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it. | The handicapped stall is always occupied since the stall is larger than the regular stalls. | neutral |
The media's class bias protected Clinton from women like Jones and Gennifer Flowers--surely he couldn't be attracted to a woman who wasn't a Yale Law School graduate! | Clinton lacked protection | contradiction |
Such a sudden collapse of so much mammary matter could possibly result in some kind of Hollywood black hole. | It is possible that a Hollywood black hole could result from this. | entailment |
Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it. | Malls use the internet for targeted advertising. | neutral |
And to show me the famous window of the Defenestration of Prague, the glorious day in May 1618 during the Thirty Years War when two royal Catholic officers had been hurled from the window by the Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet--and being in Prague, had landed on a haystack below. | The Defenestration of Prague, in which people had to be hurled from a window, was revealed to be a hoax as the claims were proven false. | contradiction |
But what if times get tough and caps start to pinch? | Caps will start to pinch when times get tough. | entailment |
My publishers will kill me if I don't mention my own biography of D.P. | Their biography of DP was highly regarded by the company. | neutral |
Dissatisfied with the chump change earned by selling untaxed cigarettes and fireworks, the Indians have opened gambling casinos on reservations all over the state. | Indians were very satisfied with the money they were earning by selling cigarettes and fireworks. | contradiction |
Someone asks the CNN guy, How are the ratings these days? | Someone asks how are the CNN ratings | entailment |
The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment. | The interpretive installation may be a popular attraction for people. | neutral |
Since the film ends with Schultz's death, it leaves little indication as to what became of Johnson. | The beginning of the movie starts positively, showing the main character, free as a bird, jumping in the grass. | neutral |
Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet! | The price has fallen recently | neutral |
Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer. | Israel is trying to help soldiers and the general public with their doctors. | neutral |
The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral. | Some people disapprove of Dalmatian farming on a visceral level. | entailment |
First Build the prototype. | There are five steps after building the prototype. | neutral |
Paste for Greenies | Greenies need to be pasted. | neutral |
It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions. | A thorough investigation is wanted. | contradiction |
She is frightened to death of her remaining children, whom she suspects of plotting to murder her. | She is frightened to death of her remaining children, people she suspects of plotting to murder her. | entailment |
but we kick it further-- the axe-man whispers run to the convict he beheads so the body for our delight | The axe man shouted. | contradiction |
And what, exactly, is the line between stalking and not stalking, anyway? | It is unclear what exactly constitutes criminally aggressive pursuit | entailment |
You can make an argument that intelligence is an extremely unlikely, random, quirky event in terrestrial biology, or you can make the counter-argument that you can see intelligence coming down the pike from many millions of years in advance. | Intelligence can't be explained in any terms. | contradiction |
I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed. | They followed before hearing the outside door clank shut. | contradiction |
His career took the shape of a palindrome. | He has not reached his limit in his career yet. | contradiction |
Chatterbox will grant that some of this crude psychology may be at work. | The service Chatterbox, which analyzes psychology, considers this to be expertise. | contradiction |
The oral-sex tape starts with well-known sex therapist Diana Wiley, in her poofy hair and broad-shouldered blue power suit, looking like she was about to explain how the sales force could increase its third-quarter productivity. | The tape was related to oral sex | entailment |
I am puzzled about what to say on the subject of my religion. | Talking about religion is puzzling. | entailment |
It depends, in short, upon what the meaning of the word negotiation is. | The spelling of negotiation can change. | contradiction |
Spot enforcement, well-publicized with blue flashing lights, is what maintains speed limits on the highway. | Speed limits on the highway are maintained by red flashing lights and constant enforcement | contradiction |
The piece might be weightier if it addressed such issues. | The piece has issues. | entailment |
Scouring each company's Web site could take forever, but Gurnee Mills puts all the information on one page . And while most malls let you click on links to their retailers, the links usually take you not to the national Web sites of those retailers but to dummy pages on the mall's site that tell you only about that ret... | It does not take much time to scour the websites of all the retailers in a large mall. | contradiction |
(And yes, we'd like one, hypocrites that we are, thank you very much.) | We would like one because the item is very valuable. | neutral |
Dentistry is a hassle now because it works. | The author is a dentist | neutral |
Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle. | Lockheed was a genius. | neutral |
(To read the first three chapters, click here.) | It has more than three chapters | entailment |
In January 1996, Qaddafi promised the nation a $1-billion gift, which has not been received because of U.S. sanctions against Libya. | Qaddafi promised a large gift | entailment |
From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate. | The vast majority of reporting by the media is accurate in its entirety. | contradiction |
Western analysts now fear that the generals are using Chechnya to reassert control over national security and foreign policy. | Western analysts have concerns about the generals. | entailment |
The pose and the prose of journalists have changed since Ben Hecht's The Front Page . Indeed, Hecht's reporters would have balked at being called journalists. | Hecht's reporters loved and welcomed being called journalists. | contradiction |
Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky? | If you use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky, you should get a positive response. | neutral |
On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right. | Fish admitted he might be wrong. | entailment |
To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal? | Bribes do not dictate how policies are handled in the government. | entailment |
Boone claims that the album's purpose is to attract metal enthusiasts to Jesus, and that his get-up was a spoof of his old choirboy image. | Boone has an edgy image now. | neutral |
For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative. | Albright has just one relative alive today in the Czech Republic. | entailment |
But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage. | The gentlemen are married to each other. | contradiction |
The article's author, Smithsonian curator Paul Forman, accused Gross and Levitt of trying to place science back on its pre-postmodern pedestal. | Paul Forman agrees with Gross and Levitt | contradiction |
(But let's not bring up my cousins.) | My cousins are a subject I could discourse about for an extended period of time. | contradiction |
For the remaining puzzle is why the world provided LTCM with so much money to lose. | LTCM had a lot of money. | entailment |
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