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When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all.
freedom of speech is preventing profanity from being meaningful
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Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., calls the case symptomatic of the casual attitude with which the Clinton administration views issues of national security.
Tim Hutchinson thinks he has better ideas on national security than the Clinton admin.
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www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/, where you click No-Frames , which sends you to ...
It sends you to a shady and dangerous site when you click No-Frames.
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If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.
Suppressing the gold price would have caused deflation
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Part of the answer may be that our financial system has become dangerously efficient.
The financial system works well.
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The movie made me remember why I like Holly Hunter.
Holly Hunter is a good actress
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If slightness in a Library of America volume is a mark of esteem, Kerr can be assured that the two svelte books she reviewed, at under a thousand pages each, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series.
Kerr reviewed two books
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I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.
People will not be in my wedding.
contradiction
And even then, James added, it's all humbug.
James is not happy about it all.
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Do begin again, and Prudie predicts 1999 will be your year.
Everything will go your way in 1999.
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At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none.
Ken Starr has lost more than one legal victory.
contradiction
Novak cut Hunt off only twice.
People were frustrated with Novak cutting Hunt off.
neutral
I find the paper by the critics more than extremely unfair.
The unjustifiable paper by the critics was written that morning.
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Hardly the act of a speculator in a casino.
The casino did not approve of the action
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For affirmative action to do anything, it must involve advancing people who are slightly less qualified.
White men benefit because of affirmative action, getting plum jobs.
contradiction
Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate.
The Clinton error was uneventful and boring news.
contradiction
(Gillette owns 67 percent of the U.S. razor market, and Campbell's has more than 75 percent of the U.S. soup market.)
Gillette and Campbell are both small, unknown brands that are nearing bankruptcy.
contradiction
The judge agreed there were extenuating circumstances because both songwriters had been inspired by old blues music.
The songwriters listened to old blues music
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Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing.
According to Man on the Moon, Kaufman suggested the call-in vote for Saturday Night Live.
contradiction
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.
The photo looked blurry.
entailment
The kids will be gone in no time.
Kids don't stay forever
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But if his campaign really prospers and he has to explain what he believes, he'll have a hard time holding that coalition together.
The coalition would be tough to keep together if the campaign takes off
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Later, I thought the subject required more analysis.
I decided I needed to think about it more.
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The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law.
Children are entitled to privacy.
entailment
A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.
Michael has a strong opinion about college guides.
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You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)
The features shown seem very lame and nothing cool about it.
contradiction
Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.
Children who are not doing well receive more assistance
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Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.
The person responsible for checking the prospectus was tired and did not do a thorough job.
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After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject.
Newsweek discussed Lewinsky in several issues.
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Furthermore, the filmed sequence closes out the event, and gives viewers an opportunity to shrug it off.
The film sequence was the last thing to happen at the event.
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So the first choice should be read as being between the certainty of being rich and a possibility of being rich.
The first choice represents complete certainty.
contradiction
As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.
Zercher and McGrath have exaggerated the truth.
neutral
Her recognition of the grave personal injustice done by the left to Clarence Thomas is especially appreciated.
She acknowledged the injustice to Clarence Thomas.
entailment
That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black.
In a world without racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would definitely be black.
contradiction
They are so dissimilar that they cannot contradict one another.
They are nothing alike, and cannot agree on anything.
entailment
The New Yorker has a seven day window.
The New Yorker has a nine day window
contradiction
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)
Slate reviews artwork in a section of their website.
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The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.
People might say The Dayton Accord separates the country into two, the Christian dominated Republicans and atheiests.
contradiction
He speaks very, very slowly.
It is easy to understand him when he talks
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What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.
Medicare is doing well without problems.
contradiction
Of course he wasn't under oath, so that's OK.
He would have been quiet under oath.
neutral
With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general.
The report states that lesbians have a higher chance of dying in a car crash.
entailment
The populist, by contrast, panders to his audience, figuring out what it likes and then delivering it in heaps.
Populists may be popular with the audience, but they can still be removed from power in the brutal fashion similar to what happens to dictators
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to the credible evolution of what's really become of me.
I have gone through an evolution.
entailment
If we don't spend seven evenings a week together, if we don't talk on the phone each day during work, if I want to spend any time alone, my girlfriend pouts and gets angry, or cries.
My girlfriend is very trusting and gives me space.
contradiction
The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.
The reason for their A national test could be more embarassing than disproving of claims of improvement.
neutral
On the same day, another Albanian paper, iKoha Jonei , published some impressive statistics about corruption in the Albanian government.
The paper that published statistics is Albanian
entailment
This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today.
Feminists are free to have whatever perception they want.
contradiction
I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed.
They waited in the dark until they heard the outside door clank shut.
neutral
I started as a fan of great popularizers like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and I have since graduated not only to hero worship of the leading evolutionary theorists but also to reading textbooks and even journal articles.
They have spent time learning about the theory of evolution.
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His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
The man is dancing as part of an art show.
neutral
Ah, it's always the big but.
Only some are the big but
contradiction
He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.
He didn't have strong feelings about the evils of tobacco.
entailment
Most people would rather keep what they have than risk it for a hypothetical payoff.
A lot of investors would rather keep what they have than risk it for a hypothetical payoff.
neutral
On one occasion recounted by the author, a woman rented a horse, stripped naked, and arrived at the door, Lady Godiva-style.
The woman rented a horse.
entailment
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 us
contradiction
The paper declared, A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches.
Smiling is free
entailment
Instead of watching TV, I made a fresh start by purchasing a newer version of Linux.
Now my priority is updating my computer, realizing that prevention is better than the cure.
entailment
But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web.
IE comes with every file but these
contradiction
There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation.
A solid theoretical foundation supports this question about quantum mechanics
neutral
Upon returning to Apple, he began criticizing almost immediately the company's 1995 decision to finally allow a limited number of companies to manufacture Mac clones, calling these firms leeches.
Mac clones exist only in the minds of conspiracy theorists
contradiction
A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.
Nobody knows who William Shakespeare is.
contradiction
Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The wall fell 100 years ago.
contradiction
Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them.
Everyone who wants to has heard the tapes.
contradiction
Some legal scholars, such as Robert Bork, claim these search powers are unconstitutionally broad.
Robert Bork feels that these search powers aren't constitutional.
entailment
But he has never done what his characters would have.
He acts like his characters
contradiction
Taylor proposes that teen-agers on welfare be paid to use an implanted device to prevent pregnancy.
Taylor is trying to prevent people on Welfare from reproducing.
entailment
And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige.
The agency broke their own rules during war.
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Another refreshing feature of Goodman's storytelling is that, unlike other members of fundamentalist sects one might find in novels, her characters don't chafe at their restrictions, or not too much.
Goodman's storytelling has at least one refreshing feature
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None exploited pig as an epithet for policeman.
Nobody used the term pig to describe policeman.
entailment
As long as there are still U.S. workers paying payroll taxes (and if there aren't, we'll have many far bigger problems), these can cover at least partial benefits.
The partial benefits will be covered as long as American workers are paying payroll taxes.
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(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.)
You cannot pay attention to all the judges you desire.
entailment
, the closure of a local factory), the benefits tend to be invisible because they're faraway or diffuse (e.g.
When something results in a local factory's closure, the benefits can be difficult to see locally.
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We anticipate accidents at stock car races.
Stock car races usually have accidents.
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However, many mental-health professionals argue that a dimensional model makes more sense and would more closely mirror the real world.
According to many mental-health professionals, a dimensional model is closer to real life situations that patients face such as anxiety and depression.
neutral
Sportscaster Marv Albert denied charges that he had assaulted and sodomized a female acquaintance.
To add insult to injury Alpert was accused of Sodomy by 12 other aquaintainces.
neutral
He's asking us to overlook it.
He wants to concentrate on it.
contradiction
He doesn't cheat.
He's monogamous.
entailment
Smith's press secretary, Ken Wolfe, boasts that by offering that bill, We have called their bluff.
Ken Wolfe was employed by Smith but was later fired for pushing a bill.
contradiction
Fine, then simply means test it.
Shouldn't be any reason why not to test it.
neutral
Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?
Is this caution in martial law?
contradiction
Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, cozied up to Hermann Goering, and branded Jews as un-American agitators who used their alleged power to attain their parochial ends.
Hermann Goering admired Hitler
neutral
What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife.
The letter from an old girlfriend would upset your wife, according to Prudie.
neutral
You can acquire a second spouse so long as you discard the first one.
You need to get rid of you first spouse before you get a second one.
entailment
Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet!
The price is higher than a small caliber bullet
contradiction
We've come a long way together from Strom Thurmond's ass (which, while not free, is surprisingly affordable), and if online technology were not in its infancy, right about now I'd be buying you all a round of free-range rug shampoo.
Free-Range rug shampoo has been made unavailable because online technology ceased to exist.
contradiction
She and her colleagues could trust him to win peace without appeasement.
She could trust him to win peace.
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The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.
Holocaust victims were stolen from by the Swiss.
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If you missed the link to the sidebar, click .
There is a link to the sidebar
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The Times speculated that NATO officials leaked the bad news to persuade Congress not to pull out the troops.
The Times believes the bad news was leaked by a foreign government
contradiction
Asahi Shimbun added that if Japan had tried to resolve these problems a little at a time, those who felt themselves victimized by Japan might have felt at least somewhat mollified; but that with the passing of time while we do nothing, however, discontent and ill will can coalesce into bitter enmity.
Ashahi Shimbun, who lived in Japan, said Japan did the right thing by doing nothing and ignoring the problem.
contradiction
K has no trouble deciding which it is now that he needs a few second-order considerations to refine his argument.
K has a clear decision to hs argument.
entailment
Women are so large a part of the labor force that it is hard to believe that this could be true of the total if it were not also true of women.
Women make up a small portion of this work force.
contradiction
This claim always puzzles Here we are in the information age, able to process gigabytes of data with a single mouse click--but we imagine that people can't multiply and divide?
computers have made people lazy
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Journalists, after all, expose these practices--we do not commit them.
Journalists are those who expose pracitices.
entailment
That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.
Valvoline makes an effective automotive lubricant
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For most quiz participants, the precarious venture that needed saving was either a failing TV show or a foundering political campaign.
Most failing TV shows are saved by quiz participants.
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Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia.
There will be perspiration in several states.
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He is, as one writer put it, the efficient ethnic cleanser.
Many people are upset about what they see as ethnic cleansing.
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And the occasional drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance--for both sexes--is probably key to enduring marriages.
Drinking and staying away from your significant other helps marriages.
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