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And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out. | Persons will allergies are usually celibate. | contradiction |
Fred Thompson (who will chair the investigation), and campaign reform. | Fred Thompson is widely considered to be incompetent and has been removed from all pending investigations. | contradiction |
An initiative on the November ballot asks voters to approve slot machines and video poker, proceeds of which will be used to build esteem among the native peoples. | An initiative on the November ballot asks voters to approve slot machines and video poker. | entailment |
4) Court records indicate that a jewelry-fraud ring used illegal third-party campaign donations to get President Clinton to pose in photos with its principals. | The ring was using Clinton to legitimize themselves. | neutral |
It is not that I expect anything practical. | Nothing pragmatic is expected | entailment |
The sales pitch designed to support workers will also protect shirkers. | The company is interested in treating all workers fairly. | neutral |
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems. | Juan Antonio Samaranch refused to answer questions from the congressional committee. | contradiction |
A boxer cannot fight with a heart condition or dementia. | A boxer can only fight if healthy. | neutral |
It's a little hard to believe that the Jasons of the world end up straightening out, as Lewis titles the section about the worst-off cases, just as it's hard to buy the extreme view that parents are hopeless screw-ups. | The Jason's of the world will always be a mess. | contradiction |
Blacks aren't celebrating because they fear an economic downturn and because equality is still elusive. | An economic downturn will increase equality for Blacks. | contradiction |
For people who are not immersed in recovery but are receptive to the notion of sex addiction, the president's dysfunction simply means that, like Ken Starr, he is out of control. | American's disapprove of the president's behavior. | neutral |
He doesn't really want to run, but perhaps he can use the threat of a candidacy to make himself a behind-the-scenes player, the guy who delivers the left to Al Gore or Bill Bradley. | He wants a position in the next president's cabinet | neutral |
Last year, advertisers spent $2 billion on the Internet, compared with $35 billion spent on broadcast TV and $10 billion spent on cable. | Advertisers decided to spend as much money on the internet as they did on broadcast and cable, because their money was "burning a hole in their pocket". | contradiction |
(I would bet that every survey of teens taken since Cain and Abel found that they named parents as their favorite role models.) | Teens were invented in the 1980s. | contradiction |
Technology to me has its good points and its bad points. | There are pros and cons to depending on technology | entailment |
Pour coffee into Christopher Hitchens until he's sober enough to finish his cover story, 'Friendship. | Christopher Hitchens enjoys alcohol more than coffee | neutral |
The leading semi-official daily Al Ahram said in an editorial Wednesday that the attacks some Iraqi officials had made on the Egyptian leadership will not deter Cairo from standing by the Iraqi people and trying to prevent further U.S. military action. | Iraqi officials attacked Egyptian leaders due to a religious dispute | neutral |
Perhaps, then, corporate rebirth is a fitting tag line. | Corporate rebirth is fitting | entailment |
Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments. | Ailments of the chest could be cured through love alone. | neutral |
It's easy to imagine an election where Clinton is initially ahead of Dole, but a third party entry by, say, Jesse Jackson, pushes Dole ahead of Clinton. | It's easy to visualize an election where Clinton loses to Obama. | contradiction |
Is money money similarly presages Bob Dole on the 1996 campaign stump reminding people, It's your money! | It's your money and you worked hard for it | neutral |
I never spoke to my aunt, and I am not a student of the large literature by and about her. | They spent many years reading and studying the literature by and about their aunt. | contradiction |
Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's. | South Korea and Taiwan average wages are approaching what an American teenager makes at McDonalds. | entailment |
In addition, any effects of the winner's curse are offset by the fact that losing bidders become winning sellers when they re-auction products. | The winner's curse effect has potential to be mitigated. | entailment |
But Jacob was pierced by shafts of doubt. | Jacob's doubt caused him to question everything. | neutral |
A story on the JonBenet Ramsey case says her parents are not the only suspects. | JonBenet convinced her parents to partake in the crime. | 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. | Other people have interests at stake when you buy a house. | entailment |
The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press. | The story was rushed to the press. | entailment |
Remember when he looked us in the eye? | We were very suspicious of him because he looked us in the eye. | neutral |
Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception. | Critics are experiencing a slow decline in influence. | entailment |
But Said's fame outside the American academy rests on Orientalism , his sweeping account of how Western art, literature, and scholarship have produced a deformed, biased picture of Arab and Muslim culture in the service of colonial domination. | Said does not like Western Art. | neutral |
But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant. | This meeting is a waste of time | contradiction |
Spins on the monetary 1) It will make Europe the United States' new economic rival. | Europe and the United states have different economic interests. | entailment |
Nobody ever wanted to emulate this effect | This effect is in high demand | contradiction |
Yes, we're all suffering from scandal fatigue, but rape? | Scandal fatigue exists. | entailment |
As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , He cannot fly from Fate. | Zeus is omitted from Prometheus Bound. | contradiction |
A story says tourism is destroying the Chicago blues scene. | The Chicago blues scene is said to be dying as a result of tourism. | entailment |
It was force backing up diplomacy, insists a fuming Buchanan. | Buchanan didn't agree with any of it | neutral |
Based on this assessment, NATO has kept ground forces out of Kosovo, allowing atrocities to continue, and has kept its planes high above Serbian anti-aircraft batteries, limiting our pilots' ability to distinguish refugees from Serb forces on the ground. | The assessment states that NATO's actions have allowed atrocities to continue. | entailment |
Now, the pope himself attends Lutheran and Jewish services as a participant! | The pope is familiar with religions other than Catholicism | entailment |
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 is a key figure in the Arab Spring uprising, earlier this past decade. | neutral |
It's Wallace's lack of interest in Wigand's story--the movie's most powerful--that damns him in the audience's eyes. | The audience's eyes damned Wallace in Wigand's story. | neutral |
But from there, he goes wrong. | He went wrong at a certain point. | entailment |
France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS. | No one speculates upon France's currency. | contradiction |
Both are Democrats who converted to conservative Republicanism. | They exclusively vote for Democrat politicians. | contradiction |
What Murray likes about the idea is that it would finally discharge society's obligation to members of the underclass. | Murray thinks the idea would discharge society's obligation to members of the underclass. | entailment |
These holes now mark a generation of which the parents cannot confidently say, They'll grow out of it. | A generation of parents are unwilling to unburden themselves with the gaps in memory they experienced as children. | neutral |
Didn't anyone remind them that Dole had already reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan? | Dole reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan a month ago. | neutral |
Or maybe what's new about the rules is the claim that now, for the first time, they apply to a large part of the economy. | There are a lot of rules effecting the economy. | neutral |
But still Wendy Wasserstein eludes us. | Wendy Wasserstein was easily caught | contradiction |
The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue. | There was no synagogue. | entailment |
Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he re... | Sheen will use drugs again in the future. | neutral |
Besides the CBS suit, it won $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today after the newspaper reprinted the I Have a Dream speech without permission. | USA Today paid a fine in a lawsuit from CBS. | entailment |
sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, Kids, a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father). | Paul Lynde performed the song beautifully, reminding people of Andrew Milner's contribution through beautiful lyrics and wonderful melodies. | neutral |
Both are Democrats who converted to conservative Republicanism. | Neither were always conservative Republicans. | entailment |
Instead, liberals should focus on a more pressing building stronger unions. | Conservatives are at the forefront of forming more powerful alliances. | contradiction |
Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations. | After three years another rise will take place - only to be followed by yet another decline. | neutral |
I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement. | The writing was unexpected. | neutral |
The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault. | Mao caused the famine intentionally. | neutral |
Romantics will warm to further Enquirer disclosures. | Romantics are open to more Enquirer disclosures. | entailment |
Second, the whole fiasco was the best thing that could have happened to the firm. | The fiasco resulted in all the people employed by the firm earning a generous bonus. | neutral |
But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either. | Just because someone isn't good at being bad doesn't make them good. | entailment |
But the racism charge isn't quirky or wacky--it's demagogy. | The accusation of prejudice based on a pedestrian kind of hatred. | entailment |
Clinton was 36 at the time of his alleged affair with the 21-year-old Ward. | Clinton often cheated on his wife. | 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. | Even though mistakes were made a background check could be passed. | entailment |
Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign and the Partnership for a Drug Free America propagandized ceaselessly about the perils of drugs. | Nancy Reagan had a just say yes campaign. | contradiction |
Don't fight over small issues. | You should fight over small issues. | contradiction |
Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory. | He struck out several times. | contradiction |
In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks. | Working Girl and Pretty Woman are examples of modern action movies. | contradiction |
Felicia's Journey takes place behind the eyes of its central a young Irish girl, Felicia, who crosses the sea to England in a hopeful quest to find the father of her unborn child; and the fat, middle-aged catering manager, Hiditch, who takes a paternal interest in the lass when it becomes clear that her young man has ... | Hiditch is like a father figure to her | entailment |
So, to pose the obvious Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish? | There is a relationship between the Jewish identity and the nebbish. | entailment |
A meeting with the district's member of Congress has been scheduled, but I have no doubt how this will end. | I know how the meeting with the Representative will go. | entailment |
Modern legislation and regulation are technical and complex. | The laws in today's society can be considered simple and easy to understand. | contradiction |
The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy. | Al Gore had an electoral strategy. | entailment |
The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others. | There is a debate about professions | entailment |
Heavily promote the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters. | The Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters were promoted most heavily on digital marketing platforms, which have become more important markets than traditional media. | neutral |
To make matters even more confusing, there's a third version of the story involving an entirely different Murphy--not Capt. | They have different Characters | neutral |
It's almost barbaric in a certain way. | It's highly intelligent. | contradiction |
It doesn't say much of anything on the subject. | The subject doesn't say much. | contradiction |
According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform. | Steve Forbes doesn't believe that the Russian pledges are legitimate. | neutral |
Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush. | Nobody is competing with Bush | contradiction |
He's a veteran, isn't he? | The veteran is a woman. | contradiction |
Or Morris could have contacted Dorothy Healey, who was the chair of the Southern California Communist Party during the '40s. | Doctorow's Ragtime is set in modern times. | contradiction |
But anyway, that is all beside the point. | That is exactly the point. | contradiction |
I thought of ending the book with his quote, but then some other stuff happened in his life (you'll have to buy the book--$24. | Ultimately I didn't end the book with his quote | entailment |
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry. | The photo looked so blurry, you couldn't tell what it was supposed to be of. | neutral |
[Hersh has] disassembled and obliterated his own career and reputation. | Hersh has reinvented himself and is successful. | contradiction |
We Californians apparently do little else. | Californians have their preferances. | entailment |
We learn, for example, that on his field trips with Lady Gregory, Yeats had difficulty understanding the thick Irish accent of the peasants. | Yeats has a hard time understanding the Irish peasents because of their thick accents. | entailment |
Cholesterol isn't necessarily unhealthy, and margarine is as bad as butter. | Cholesterol isn't necessarily harmful. | entailment |
The paper's art critic compared the exhibit to unprocessed sewage and said that if Emin wins the prize, as she very well might, her victory will testify not to the vitality of British art but to a campaign of promotion so brazen that it has left even the cynical London art world awestruck. | The paper's art critic stated the exhibit was the worst he had ever seen. | neutral |
Half of them die within five years of diagnosis. | One quarter of them die within three years of diagnosis | neutral |
The magazine profiles former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, who now heads the University of Cape She has won admirers (and enemies) by insisting that the university not adjust its standards to favor black students. | Mamphela Ramphele, who was profiled in a magazine, will begin leading University of Cape next month. | contradiction |
Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as casuistry in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior. | 17th-century Jesuit theologians imperfectly employed a method known as animus in resolving questions of moral theology. | contradiction |
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. | Most people are unaccomplished. | neutral |
If I had not been born, both my sisters would have substantially bigger shares of the pie, and everybody else's share would be exactly what it is now. | The individual who has two sisters left their shares of the pie fully intact | contradiction |
The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber. | women purchase condoms also | entailment |
But lately he has taken to cruising college campuses in his Miata, looking for recruits. | He could recruit more students if he had a bigger vehicle | neutral |
Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention | Clinton doesn't care what critics think. | contradiction |
Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities. | The article in Newsweek discusses physical disabilities in schools. | contradiction |
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