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In preparation for our trip, I spent months studying Italian soccer on television.
Italian soccer is regularly shown on television.
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We've come a long way since ragtime and radio, hillbilly and race records, big bands and showtoons, 45s and triple concept albums, MTV and CDs and horror-core.
CDs and MTV are out of date.
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Both newsweeklies celebrate cities.
Cities were celebrated by both newsweeklies.
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Well, his proof does leave one loophole.
His proof is airtight
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Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.
Motion, awarded an honor from Queen Elizabeth, dislikes Folk music, claiming that all of it is like Fingernails on a chalkboard to him.
contradiction
It is hard to believe that people who have spent years, even decades, writing about economics are really so fuzzy-minded that they cannot see the difference between protecting consumers from tainted produce and protecting workers from competing products.
Experts in economics have a passion for reading.
neutral
The President further charmed Monica by fantasizing out loud how wonderful it would be if he had a son.
Monica was mocked by the President.
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And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.
Congress has no oversight.
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However, from my own experience, a newborn becomes a 12-month-old and then an 18-month-old rather quickly.
From his experience newborns are needy and cries a ton.
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Meanwhile, John McLaughlin stares directly at Fred Beetle Barnes, pauses, and calls him Pat Buchanan.
John McLaughlin is never wrong.
contradiction
There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
Eszterhaus seems to not reflect himself or mirror his life in his job.
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The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.
Republian politicians have a way out.
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It seems like only yesterday that Gen.
The memory of the previous day was hazy and irretrievable.
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Critics say expansion could be another Yalta (the 1945 meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on spheres of influence in postwar Europe)--imposing a line between East and West, and leaving nonmembers subject to Russian bullying.
Adding members to NATO would protect them but not other countries, leaving them vulnerable.
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Newsweek 's Michael Jordan cover story focuses on off-the-court Jordan.
Newsweek wrote an article about Michael Jordan.
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Paul's statement that this is simple and reasonable does not make it right.
Paul doesn't see any issue with it and it's fine
neutral
If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio.
It takes a lot of skill to merge multiple images together.
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They especially take him to task for blaming Plath's suicide on fate and astrology.
A man blamed Plath's suicide on fate and astrology
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He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
He he shows a mastery of florid prose.
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Regarding Onward, Christian Clothiers: I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory here's hell in your face passages.
Onward is a Christian clothier.
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I don't suppose that everyone is like that.
I like everyone
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And yet it ended up foundering as a result of the inherent uncertainty of the free-market system.
The free-market system was influenced in a positive way.
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He is unpopular in the Senate.
The Senate dislikes this man.
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Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.
The Globe is a nothing but a tabloid journal that looks for the most embarrassing moments of an entire life.
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However, subsequent government supervision of these unions has reduced mob involvement.
Government supervision of some unions has failed to reduce mob involvement.
contradiction
The hotel would deliver the desired ensemble to you (along with the indispensable needle-and-thread person and the right shoes) and would return it after you had checked out.
Hotel guests had to return the ensemble before checking out
contradiction
Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.
The cease-fire of 1991 was broken in 1994.
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They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating.
There is a lot of backstabbing in politics.
neutral
Because, despite its monopoly power, Microsoft remains subject to the laws of the marketplace.
Microsoft is above the ordinance of the marketplace.
contradiction
Clinton ( sorrowfully ): It wasn't me.
Clinton remained silent.
contradiction
But Tiepolo's vision, like Rilke contemplating autumn leaves, was of a world where everything is And yet, there is One who holds this falling with infinite softness in his hands.
There is one who holds the descending world in their hands.
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New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution.
The British were aware of their own impropriety
neutral
Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people.
The speaker will never believe anything from the NRA.
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Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.
Many magnates are in the oil business.
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The Nike and Reebok logos are now officially declared badges of shame.
Nike and Reebok logos have been considered as badges of shame for several years.
neutral
How do you know if your daughter is on steroids?
The answer is that there's an easy way to check for steroids
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Grisham is content with the simple and compelling observation that as a society we fail to treat the homeless with the dignity they deserve.
The less fortunate have a much harder time getting by in society than the rest of us.
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There will be enough for everybody!
Everyone will be able to get one.
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Cholesterol isn't necessarily unhealthy, and margarine is as bad as butter.
Cholesterol is definitely harmful.
contradiction
Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances.
Randall informed the tabloid his baby was named after a 19th century comic actor.
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These folks have opposed every American military operation from Grenada to the Gulf War.
Starting with Grenada, America had overwhelming support from these folks for every military action.
contradiction
The family has also tightened its grip on King's work.
King's work has been restricted by the family.
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In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway.
You will never see Larson on Broadway.
contradiction
When agencies lose major accounts, they often fire nearly everyone involved with the account.
Everyone working on the account is terminated when the agency loses that account.
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Ohio Democrats want Jerry Springer to run for Congress.
Mr. Springer would make a good politician.
neutral
Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people.
Barry is a Republican
neutral
At the beginning of the novel the heroine, Elizabeth Shulman, feels so at home in her Jewish skin that God and the scriptures, worship and ritual, are all simple, practical things for her.
Elizabeth Shulman revolves her entire life around her faith.
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There must be that between them, she thought.
They had a secret she knew about.
neutral
Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations.
My correspondence is exactly what you want to see.
neutral
Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.
Everyone in the country is a member of the NRA as well as being avid hunters.
contradiction
If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it.
I would not be interested in reading a sketch about her pencil box.
contradiction
According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco.
According to Time, which investigated Dopamine, it is impossible to become addicted to sex.
contradiction
Mostyes voters dismissed the predictions of doom as exaggeration, according to polls conducted on either side of Election Day.
76% of yes voters thought predictions of doom were exaggerated
neutral
The Post wonders if they were watching last month when TCM featured Escape from Alcatraz, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Great Escape.
Escape from Alcatraz was featured on NBC
contradiction
You love it up here, don't you?
Being up high is unwanted and loathed.
contradiction
We've received thousands of e-mail messages since our launch June 24 (most of them friendly, thanks), and this is a small taste.
We've received many Gmail messages that have congratulated us.
neutral
Given how many lawyers must have vetted this thing, it's probably an achievement that Mann got as much as he did on the screen.
22 lawyers vetted this thing
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Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress.
Monica exaggerates things most of the time.
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Coming from a conservative background, my partner has stated on many occasions that his parents won't allow him to stay over at my apartment, even though on some nights this would be preferable to his making the long drive home.
The parents disregarded their conservative values and allowed their partner to stay over at anyone's house overnight.
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I felt like a moron for not being able to figure this out myself.
I solved the problem easily.
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Except that the executive who was assigned the difficult task of dealing with the Shopping Avenger, one Jennifer Nemeth, did a provisionally satisfactory job of making the Shopping Avenger happy.
Jennifer is the executive who made the Shopping Avenger happy.
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(Thank you.)
The author appreciates what the intended subject has done.
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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.
Todd is an elite writer.
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good after-school programs, lots of computers, smaller classes, and higher standards for teachers.
Good after-school programs, and higher standards for teachers have already been developed.
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Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro.
Deaths were caused by debris rather than bullets.
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Most agree that he's a Clinton-style weather vane, adapting his positions to the demands of contrary constituencies ranging from the army to foreign investors to Western diplomats.
He is rigid in his positions and refuses to change.
contradiction
Makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.
It seems obvious to the author.
entailment
A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice.
Electric cars a are liable to make a comeback as gas becomes scarce.
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Instead, McCain spends the evening attacking Bush.
McCain disliked Bush's personality.
neutral
Who actually thinks that having teen-agers line up to pee after they've demonstrated their parallel parking skills is a reasonable way to demand responsible behavior by young people when it comes to drugs, as Clinton proclaimed?
Reagan proclaimed the lining up to pee makes young people responsible
contradiction
Please note that, like a reheated stew, this dodge works even better after a military action has begun.
The dodge works well
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My high-speed modem is mine, so your intellectual property must be mine too.
The high-speed modem belongs to their friend.
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Except the Jews, who have to sit inside and watch Davey and Goliath over and over and over again.
Jews exist
entailment
If only Lamar had won 3,500 more votes in the 1996 New Hampshire primary, he would have edged Bob Dole for second, driven Dole out of the race, and cruised to the nomination.
Lamar took first place in the 1996 New Hampshire primary
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Flytrap also bears some responsibility for Washington's paralysis.
Flytrap is given credit for the city's great success.
contradiction
In the meantime, Ventura is pursuing the Bulworth option.
Ventura rejected the Bulworth choice early on.
contradiction
The ad displays information in a format similar to a stock ticker.
The ad displays information rapidly and up to the minute.
neutral
But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack.
The filmmaker is successful and has won many awards for his work.
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If he had lied under oath about parking illegally I wouldn't be so disgusted.
He didn't lie under oath about his illegal parking.
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The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.
In the past, Malaysia has not followed economic norms.
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In Crace's version, a rebellious, bratty Jesus dies of starvation at the end of his 40-day sojourn in the wilderness.
Crace's version tells a story about Jesus winning the lottery.
contradiction
Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable.
Republicans focus more on larger businesses for their policies.
contradiction
Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.
There is a severe gap between whites and blacks
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The newer ballets aim for more universal and fundamental emotions than amazement--for a sense of beauty, or joy, or love, or sorrow.
The ballets have a range of emotions to them.
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And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart.
People are encouraged to sacrifice their lives to donate hearts to more important people.
contradiction
In Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic sanctioned the removal in 1987 of the body of Serbian hero Czar Lazar, killed 600 years before by Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, so it could be paraded around Slovenia and Croatia in a display of Serb power.
Serbian President Milosevic is a paragon of compassion, kindness and self-control.
contradiction
It's funny how hard it is to find anything to sing about.
The author has an easy time coming up with lyrics
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Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice.
He is guilty, but is not being accused of perjury or obstruction of justice.
neutral
Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.
Money and party regulars can nullify the relevance of the primaries and general election.
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There would still be an Ahab syndrome.
An Ahab syndrome still exists.
entailment
The best solutions for searching will probably result from a combination of humans and computers.
Humans alone will generate the best solutions for searching.
contradiction
This was the 10 th study since 1975--and all studies showed similar problems.
The studies were without problems
contradiction
The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe.
The state refusing to interfere with free speech is causing some problems.
neutral
It is true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than 5 percent, but it is equally true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than reasonable.
It's hard for jurors to determine what reasonable doubt actually is.
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The PKK has also bombed Turkish targets in Germany.
The PKK are against bombings.
contradiction
How does one tell foresight from fear?
Seeing potential problems leads to indecision
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But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press.
Time Warner payed for AOL.
contradiction
Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.
The Soviet empire flourished in the 80s.
contradiction
Some people want a Caddy and others want a Chevy, he shrugs.
He is not a car enthusiast.
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Lovers of certain breeds readily acknowledge the positive genetic tendencies of their favorite dogs.
People always find a reason to love their favorite dog breed.
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