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Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be interested in buying it and turning it into a West Coast version of the New York Post . A circulation-hungry Willes vs. the rapacious That's just the kind of fight the American newspaper industry needs. | Rupert Murdoch is willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy the newspaper. | neutral |
Buying a new tie would be fun, not an obsessive, central, tail-wagging-the-dog-of-life activity. | Buying a new tie is obsessive. | 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. | Clinton's message was amplified greatly when Jesse Jackson took the stage. | contradiction |
Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom. | Benigni celebrates his own martyrdom | entailment |
The relationship it describes may strike many as exploitative or ugly for other reasons, but it is not illegal. | The relationship doesn't break the law despite being unpleasant. | entailment |
I passed out and had to be carried home. | I walked home. | contradiction |
Scientists have learned how bacteria can build up in gaps in the gum, cause infection, weaken the jawbone, and eventually murder teeth. | scientists have studied bacteria. | entailment |
The WP reports that following a year of sensitive negotiations, the German government has finally agreed to spend $110 million to compensate 18,000 Jewish victims of the Nazis who are living in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. | The German government paid something to all Jewish victims of Nazis living in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. | neutral |
The world is aging, frets the cover story . Life expectancy is climbing, fertility is sliding, and the cost of supporting the elderly could cause a global recession. | The story covers how life expectancy is increasing while fertility rates are dipping. | entailment |
Despite a lineup of big-name talent--including Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, and Claus Oldenberg--the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition fails to excite. | The art show contains many famous artists. | entailment |
Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit. | After his pastoral visit he revealed Clinton family troubles. | entailment |
Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying. | Scott S is an unknown personhuger's | contradiction |
It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions. | Things shouldn't be looked at too closely. | entailment |
) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost. | Tinsley is an atheist. | contradiction |
Kenny needs to come back home to Texas. | Kenny needs to leave Texas and go back home. | contradiction |
(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over. | Asia has an ongoing crisis | entailment |
Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life. | Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies are pretty much guaranteed wages for life. | entailment |
No, as it happens, it doesn't. | Only half think it doesn't, but they're right | neutral |
Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom. | Benigni has a big ugly honkin' nose | neutral |
Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia. | There will be flooding. | neutral |
News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate. | News Quiz participants regard greeting cards as insincere. | entailment |
When some of his Giants players had drug problems, Parcells spent a week at a rehab center, scouting if it was good enough for his men. | Parcells had players with drug problems when he coached the Giants. | entailment |
And in that case, the white candidate at 99 th place today wouldn't get in anyway. | Don't put all your eggs in one basket, applying only for the job of NAACP director as a white person is really not appropriate in this case. | neutral |
perhaps a tad derivative of golub, but still an artist of far more restraint and maturity than one might expect of someone her age. | She's a good artist for someone so young. | entailment |
Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls art about art supplies. | The author's buddy is a professional comedian | neutral |
Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree. | Quayle and Bennett reluctantly agreed. | neutral |
Time 's cover story argues that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact could not have been worse for Microsoft and could be used against Microsoft by competitors in private antitrust actions. | Microsoft did not do all that well with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. | entailment |
When I think of someone like Tolly Greenberg, I think of my grandpa Ben, he writes. | My grandpa and Tolly are alike. | entailment |
America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not. | The 1950s is indistinguishable from the 1990s. | contradiction |
Perhaps he put soma into our drinking water. | Soma makes water unpotable. | contradiction |
Don't let the philosophy of Gingrich ... | Prohibit the philosophy of Gingrich ... | entailment |
For most hyphenated Americans, a trip to the ancestral lands is enough to reinforce the point--assuming, that is, that there are ancestral lands to speak of. | Many Americans have ancestral lands. | entailment |
This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's Praetorian Guard--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances. | The president was having an affair and the Secret Service was required to protect him while he attended to his mistress. | neutral |
Thus, the number of passive vs. active investors will always fluctuate around an equilibrium. | The company is lacking enough investors to make a difference. | contradiction |
As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists. | Lobbyists market cases to the state attorneys general | entailment |
That said, I am now officially Hillary'd out. | They are tired of politics in general | neutral |
The fact that voters can and do reject incumbents will strike them as an epiphany. | Sitting politicians are always shocked when they lose an election. | neutral |
A more honest summary might be We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops. | We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops could be a more honest summary. | entailment |
For the last 24 years, students at the University of California, Santa Cruz have been able to ask their professors for written evaluations instead of the standard grades. | Students who attend the Universty of California can only recieve standard grades. | contradiction |
An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton. | Feminists sold out to Clinton because he is too charming | neutral |
My kids after they graduate. | The author has never had children. | contradiction |
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 hearing was recorded. | entailment |
Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way. | Steve Forbes and Rick Segal knew each other. | entailment |
Our campaigns often end up doing the very opposite of what they intend, Bradley laments. | Bradley's campaigns often produce expected and intended outcomes. | contradiction |
The Republican platform advocated that citizenship be denied to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants. | Republicans have a platform | entailment |
A great many of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment. | A great many of us have witnessed a lack of faith without judgment. | contradiction |
Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like. | He asks you to imagine someone lending you a trillion dollars. | entailment |
We've had to reach out to retirees, college students, and civic types, says O'Brien. | O'Brien states that college students had to be contacted. | entailment |
In some communities (though not the rich Long Island ones where judges live), a prison term has become almost a rite of passage, something that young men do. | judges live in rich Long Island communities. | entailment |
And the occasional drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance--for both sexes--is probably key to enduring marriages. | The marriage cannot sustain this way and eventually it ends. | neutral |
Slate , where my daughter Karenna worked in '96 and '97. | My daughter works at Slate. | neutral |
The Liberal Humanitarians (a k a Red-Tailed Hawks) | They were known for their actions. | neutral |
The last national gambling commission was in the mid-1970s. | The National Gambling Commission was disbanded. | neutral |
Ask any current teacher of legal ethics in any law school in the United States ( including a law school in New York). | New York has some great law schools | entailment |
(He also turns into a hyena and an armadillo, species that are similarly not native to Transylvania.) | He turns into a kangaroo. | contradiction |
They cut taxes, they helped balance the budget, and they're putting people on welfare back to work. | They refused to help balance the budget. | contradiction |
Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates. | There were more than a million people wailing at the gates. | neutral |
The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected. | The Senate also passed the partial-birth-abortion ban | neutral |
Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. | The wall collapsed a decade ago. | entailment |
If not, stadium seating will always be accessible to the average fan. | The average fan will be denied access to stadium seating. | contradiction |
A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision. | Spiritual visions have nothing to do with near death experiences. | contradiction |
Hundreds of civilians have died and at least 160,000 have fled the breakaway republic since Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings. | Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings. | entailment |
Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible. | He was incorrect in stating that the Nixon's bombing of Hanoi resulted in peace. | entailment |
It's been a long haul, and very much a gendered haul. | There was a lot of gender-based discrimination, but it was all well worth it. | neutral |
It was about astrologer Linda Ashland's warning that the president needed to postpone his noon swearing in because of adverse astral influences at that hour. | Linda's warning to the president was heeded and the president made the ceremony even more grand. | contradiction |
As Chatterbox pointed out in his earlier item, movie tickets are fundamentally inexpensive , so you aren't going to lure many more people into seeing, say, Eyes Wide Shut by slashing the already low price of first-run admission. | Movie tickets are considered to be expensive. | contradiction |
There is lots of truth to that view. | The author thinks this view is completely miss guided. | contradiction |
First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection. | The collection was unharmed and is still whole. | contradiction |
They seem to think that junk food qualifies as their half of the groceries. | They wanted half of their groceries to be comprised of junk food. | entailment |
Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant? | Zapruder could have been a plant, was a thought shared by some. | neutral |
I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it. | The New Republic has a readership that knows who the author is. | neutral |
Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair? | The new millennium was more interesting to the president than the first lady. | contradiction |
Prudie, too, has lived through this a few times. | Prudie got caught up in it and ended up getting killed. | contradiction |
The former POV might be thought of as Democratic, the latter Republican. | The latter POV supports 2nd Amendment rights | neutral |
If you eat a whole lot of lobster, people will call you a pig. | Dining on Crustaceans make you seem like you eat in a birdlike manner. | contradiction |
They call him ruthless, bombastic, in-your-face, an aggressive hardliner, a bulldog, and a hit man. | He might learn to control himself. | neutral |
After they're caught, they disappear for awhile, then re-emerge, apologize for their venality (usually to Larry King), and retake their place in the pantheon. | Larry King hears the apologies of celebrities who are caught up in scandals. | entailment |
I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president. | Monica Lewinsky had contacts with the president. | entailment |
This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics. | Parents who lift a Gay Liberation banner, high above their heads, will have an easier, more clear time navigating territory here. | contradiction |
Or, better yet, Mr. Goldberg, you could watch! | The person who could watch is named Mr. Goldbergsteinmancohenblumbaumrosen | contradiction |
On Tuesday's NYPD Blue (ABC, 10 p.m.), Rick Schroder's tight-lipped character, Danny Sorenson, opens up to Sipowicz while seeking help for an alcoholic friend. | Sorenson is a chatty guy. | contradiction |
Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only interc... | Traditionalists complain it will ruin the World Series | entailment |
(Perkins did not respond to several requests for an interview.) | Perkins did not respond to requests for an interview because he was living off grid. | neutral |
But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle. | Tarzan and Jane never lived in the jungle. | contradiction |
) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost. | Lafferty was not happy that he lost. | entailment |
lowest-ranked playoff team in their division ever to accomplish this feat. | They were the highest-ranked playoff team in their division. | contradiction |
The prototypical criminal turned out to be way too handsome. | The prototypical criminal blends in with a crowd | neutral |
Anyway, what would be the point? | It is a bit hard to tell what the point is. | neutral |
We've also revamped our e-mail auto-deliveries to give you more choices. | Only one additional option has been added to the e-mail service. | neutral |
Western analysts now fear that the generals are using Chechnya to reassert control over national security and foreign policy. | Chechnya is in the West. | contradiction |
, and appeared here in 1977. | It was discovered by the government. | neutral |
For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas. | Airline tickets and Beanie Babies have been brought up zero times. | contradiction |
We don't know, for example, if Earthlike planets are common. | There are earthlike planets. | entailment |
They could learn something--not much, perhaps, but something--from the lively, nasty online discussions they're missing. | The online discussions that they're missing are political | neutral |
Hey, Mambo!Mambo Italiano ...Go, go, Joe!You mixed-up Siciliano | Lady, you aren't from Italy. | neutral |
The White House packed its millennium party with tech leaders. | The White House had a party in 2000 | entailment |
to be such excellent quiz wranglers. | The author feels that the subjects are quite good at quizzes. | entailment |
the thing is I don't know how I can pick one or the other as maid of honor. | There are multiple options for maid of honor | entailment |
The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India... | There's no stopping the growth rate of the South Asian nations. | neutral |
It seems to me an unnecessary expense to spend many millions of dollars to reduce a few people's travel time by five minutes. | This project is going to end up being helpful to many commuters. | neutral |
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