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But if you do, may you be blessed with the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of a defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- It was nobody's fault. | Your concoction succeeds | neutral |
Lind means to debunk minimal realism, the argument that the United States should do only those things in the world that it really has to do, because the great evils it must avoid are overextension and overcommitment. | Lind's argument that the USA (aka the United States of America) should improve its domestic security through rampant foreign intervention is very compelling. | contradiction |
(Could there be any other real answer?) | There could be. | neutral |
Israelis sided with the Serbs against the Croats, who had been truly monstrous toward Jews during the war. | After the war, Croats apologized to Israelis | neutral |
to be such excellent quiz wranglers. | The author feels that the subjects are terrible at quizzes. | contradiction |
They thought Bob Dole lost in 1996 because he was mean and distant. | Bob Dole was elected for President in 1996. | contradiction |
Yankees, Cubs vs. | Yankees are playing the cubs | entailment |
Doctors often miss these effects. | Doctors don't catch everything. | entailment |
Slate BiasServer TM applies this concept to the magazine You'll register your views just once, and Slate will thereafter recognize your browser and serve up opinion and analysis that reconfirm your prejudices. | Slate is unpopular and biased. | contradiction |
The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet. | Prohibition laws have been tightened | contradiction |
And can this be explained without resorting to the phrase dumbing down or alluding to the questions on that Who Wants a Big Bucket of Money quiz show being multiple choice about the Brady Bunch , not like in the old days, when quiz show questions were so hard that you had to cheat to win, and presidential candidates al... | Todays clothing is so much more complicated than in the past. | contradiction |
The report expresses shock at the flagrant illegality of the expenditures. | The transactions were justified considering the situation. | neutral |
The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous. | Voluntarism, by definition, is always compulsory and free from corruption. | contradiction |
As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee, remarking on the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods. | Tocqueville travelled by airplane. | contradiction |
And yet (no doubt largely because congressional Republicans were overplaying their hand), the public gave Clinton more support than had ever been enjoyed by Richard Nixon (personal 67 percent) or even Ronald Reagan (personal 68 percent--mass adulation of Ronald Reagan being a largely retrospective phenomenon). | Both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan has had more support than Clinton. | contradiction |
He's a schemer, a politician, a calculating populist who has built his career on sexy, attention-getting issues. | He built his career on sexy issues | entailment |
The conceit is that Benigni tries to keep the 5-year-old from realizing what's going on by pretending that the whole thing is a game and that if the boy gets through it without crying or complaining he wins a tank. | The boy is going to win a tank. | contradiction |
George W. is lying either when he professes his faith or when he denies its implications. | When he professes his faith, George W. believes what he says. | neutral |
Ajami's heroes are figures such as Egypt's novelist Naguib Mahfuz, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibah, and the tragic Hawi--men of integrity imbued with the old, confident spirit of cosmopolitanism and an openness to the Western ideas that led to the Arab awakening in the first place. | Ajami was an enemy of Sari Nusseibah, who he meanwhile despised, and long ago had had a rivalry with. | contradiction |
promises one month of free e-mail support. | The email has costs other than for support. | neutral |
Ultimately, what I say in my defense is completely meaningless. | The self-defense is meaningful | contradiction |
Another answer is to promote civic virtue. | Civic virtue is an undesirable answer. | contradiction |
At the expense of the middle class. | The middle-class will carry the burden of this debt. | entailment |
(Countering a question about tackiness, Dexter says, You should see what we turned down--'I Have a Dream' ice cream, Martin Luther King pocketknives. | Martin Luther King t-shirts are a number one seller in their category on Amazon. | neutral |
Clinton has no such out. | Clinton has no excuse. | neutral |
Lucinda-- Write a song about Pale Fire and he's yours! | He will like it if Lucinda writes a song about Pale Fire. | entailment |
But in the final five minutes, I raised my bid to $250, then $275, then $300, and finally won the auction, exhilarated by my victory. | The auction was an online auction. | neutral |
To Scalia, however, the idea that judicial power responds to the demands of the time merely proves that there have always been willful judges who bend the law to their wishes. | Scalia did not uphold the Constitution | neutral |
Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party. | The newlyweds were on the water when they passed a wedding party. | entailment |
Much of the liberal Catholic case against the pope deals with sexuality. | Liberal Catholic's want the pope to examine human sexuality. | neutral |
The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire. | The comparison to the Flytrap-Watergate incident was perfectly apt. | contradiction |
But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin. | Kennewick Man is important to anthropologists | neutral |
We won't be making extravagant claims for the Internet anymore, but will accept that it's just a tool--sometimes extremely useful, sometimes not. | We accepted that the internet is just a tool about a year ago. | neutral |
OK, fine--simply provide me with quarterly reports on the yield of the fund and the value of my share in it. | Quarterly reports on the yield of the fund and the value of shares was provided. | entailment |
In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post, under the headline U.S. | The South China Morning Post was without headlines. | contradiction |
How they do so may be within our control. | We may be able to take control of this. | entailment |
The notion is ludicrous on the face of it. | The idea being discussed is laughable. | entailment |
There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages. | The shadow of the artist is projected into each work by the artist. | neutral |
In all conquered regions, the Taliban has immediately implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law. | The Taliban implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law | entailment |
Come fall and winter, surges and stumbles will really mean something. | It is important to surge in both fall and winter in order to succeed. | neutral |
There he would stand, his back turned to us like the contemplative artist figure in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and reflect on the glory and folly of mankind. | He was facing away from us | 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. | The jaws of a snake are inflexible. | contradiction |
Disk compression and networking into Windows. | Windows operating system contains disk compression and networking. | entailment |
On the radio, they are still talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit. | They still refuse to talk about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit on the radio. | contradiction |
It's been a long haul, and very much a gendered haul. | The journey was quick and painless. | contradiction |
Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other. | No one gives any thought as to whether or not a website should only follow the laws of its home country. | contradiction |
The Episcopalians are all going to hell. | Most Episcopalians believe in the concept of hell. | neutral |
Wolf did both, by turning the issue into an object lesson on women's professional success. | Wolf is skilled at making lessons from issues. | entailment |
Cynics' He's playing dead . Anti-Microsoft analysts spin the same theory the other Gates, having been pulled over by the cops for aggressive driving, is sliding into the passenger seat and giving the wheel to Ballmer, whose record is clean, so that the cops will go easy on the company. | Ballmer has a clean record | entailment |
What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity. | The exhibition is boring. | entailment |
Maybe, just maybe, if he were sued again ... | He will learn if he is sued again. | neutral |
Sam Johnson, R-Texas, has suggested that Clinton be court-martialed for his treatment of Paula Jones. | Sam Johnson, R-Texas, suggested that Clinton be court-martialed before the end of the year. | neutral |
Best name for a male-marketed Testosterone. | some Testosterone is not marketed to men. | neutral |
I am not an intolerant person, having grown up in New York City, where one man's ceiling is another man's floor. | I am intoloerent because I live in New York City. | contradiction |
Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly. | Even when translated to another language, all chants are rousing and inspiring. | contradiction |
You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc. | All of the information is presented on the page and cannot be expanded. | contradiction |
The first of five special issues about the 21 st century imagines health and environment in the future. | Four previous issues have come out. | entailment |
Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters? | Theft is a serious crime. | entailment |
How does one tell foresight from fear? | Fear is easy to spot. | contradiction |
As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again. | It is December | neutral |
So if we really want to pull every possible moral out of our story, we should think about the other people whose interests are at stake when you decide to buy a house. | Thinking about the interests of others can reduce risk all around. | neutral |
In this light the meaning of his call to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics seems separate but equal. | It seems a bit hypocritical to say that the character of global politics seems to be separate but equal. | entailment |
Sunday's contests determined that the Tennessee Titans will face the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV. | Super Bowl XXXIV will host Tennessee Titans and the St. Louis Rams. | entailment |
Little boys face a problem very similar to that of high-tech executives. | Little boys aspire to hold onto their issues. | contradiction |
Because Accidents Happen , on Tuesday and Wednesday (8-10 p.m.) Using the fig leaf of studying survival engineering and safety pointers, PBS gives us fires, crashes, and sinking ships. | PBS gives fires, crashes, and sinking ships. | entailment |
In January 1993, the Bush administration launched cruise missiles at Baghdad to force compliance. | January 1993 was the start of a conflict with Baghdad. | neutral |
The basic premise of this line is that the findings of faith and reason are not at odds--only their methods are. | This line's basic premise is that faith and reason are not at odds but do not work well together either. | neutral |
A story says robot insects will soon be deployed by the military. | One Military commissioned insect has a stinger like a Yellow Jacket. | neutral |
In one way, though, it is more exact. | It is more accurate | entailment |
Crest is the standard here, while Colgate products tend toward runniness. | Many prefer crest | neutral |
Wolfe doesn't see himself as primarily a satirist. | Wolfe also categorizes himself as a humorist. | neutral |
Mir's crew was docked pay for its incompetence. | This wasn't the first time it had happened. | neutral |
As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand ... | A sperm whale would remain the same size a thousand fathoms deep in the sea as it is at sea level. | contradiction |
To give up on River Rouge in order to build your brand is one thing. | To give up River Rouge, give up your brand. | contradiction |
To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing ... | The author of the story about Ana Estela Lopeze spent a lot of time interviewing her. | neutral |
Glimpses into his character do not add up to a full motivation for Bunt's aimlessness (Thomas Keneally, the New York Times Book Review ). | Thomas Keneally agreed with Bunt's character development. | contradiction |
But--and Levin is likely to find this praise more infuriating than any criticism--had he chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, he might have given us one of the greatest recordings of the piece ever put on disc. | If Levin had played Emperor on a better quality instrument the recording would have been incredible. | entailment |
And in the next chapter we're asked to take it as an established fact that all women, everywhere, since the beginning of time, have lived in fear of entering The Slut's Dominion. | We are asked to believe that all women, everywhere, since the beginning of time, have lived in fear of entering The Slut's Dominion. | entailment |
People will argue about where to draw the line. | Everyone agrees on where to draw the line. | contradiction |
American Justin Leonard's 45-foot birdie putt on the 17 th hole set off a celebration on the course before his European opponent finished playing. | Justin Leonard's putt triggered a celebration before his European opponent had completed play | entailment |
They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart. | They are trying to emulate a foreign system. | neutral |
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues. | Hare often losses his audience | contradiction |
But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia. | The movie is worth watching in spite of the annoying aesthetic. | neutral |
Meanwhile, John McLaughlin stares directly at Fred Beetle Barnes, pauses, and calls him Pat Buchanan. | John McLaughlin called Fred Beetle Barnes by the wrong name. | entailment |
Many teen-agers are not moved by the possibility of an early death in four decades. | The possibility of an early death in four decades doesn't move teenagers | entailment |
Scholes and Merton reportedly are applauded when they appear on the floor of the options exchange, which shows that options traders are at least appreciative, if not deserving, of the rare charities that they receive. | Options traders silently sat on their hands at their desks on the floor of the options exchange | contradiction |
The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote. | Clinton was found guilty | neutral |
In the old days, nobody paid much attention, and the artists on NEA panels were free to make meritorious decisions. | Artists had a lot more freedom back then. | entailment |
Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say Salman, I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time? | Katrina van den Heuval wore jeans. | contradiction |
In Crace's version, a rebellious, bratty Jesus dies of starvation at the end of his 40-day sojourn in the wilderness. | Jesus dies of starvation in Crace's version. | entailment |
This year, my wife is dragging me to the home of some friends of hers to celebrate the new year. | The speaker is married. | entailment |
Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure. | Forks will raise all of it's money it needs. | entailment |
It's redeploying assets to boost the stock price. | The sock prices will decrease due to redeployed assests. | contradiction |
--Associated Press story of Wednesday, Oct. 27, describing the efforts of Clinton aide Harold Ickes on behalf of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s campaign for Congress. | The Associated Press story described the efforts of Harold Ickes', the Clinton aide. | entailment |
But Spielberg doesn't have to catch them all. | Spielberg doesn't have to catch them all. | entailment |
They are too easy a target. | The will take steps to make themselves less vulnerable. | neutral |
You say that it's not important who asked the question. | You have said that the identity of the one who asked the question is paramount. | contradiction |
I passed out and had to be carried home. | I fainted due to low blood sugar. | neutral |
At MIT, where he had been given a teaching job, he hardly bothered with undergraduates and humiliated graduate students by solving their thesis problems. | He solved their thesis problems, humiliating the graduate students at MIT. | entailment |
His Bose 901 loudspeakers, the company's premium line for 30 years, have nine speaker cones, positioned all over the cabinet, so that the sound bounces around your room just like in a concert hall. | The 901 loudspeakers are entry level speakers. | contradiction |
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