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Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change. | Larry is correct in his assessment of treats to liberty | neutral |
Tripp has spent 26 years in this cocoon, which will enable her to retire on a handsome pension, based on the average of her three highest consecutive years of pay. | Tripp will now have to depend on food banks during her retirement. | contradiction |
In the New York Times Book Review , Nicholas Lemann praises the Ms. | It was in the Post Book Review | contradiction |
They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring. | Bush is focusing on dealing with old moral issues that make him look mean. | contradiction |
But he is older now. | He is younger than before | contradiction |
The first moral is that children are never safer than when staring at a computer screen. | Children are often in danger when staring at a computer screen. | contradiction |
There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable. | There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had stayed a course well before last summer, and that an occurrence was inevitable. | neutral |
Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists. | The other critics were deterrred. | contradiction |
In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud. | It's unlike other Microsoft products | contradiction |
Some houses--big and small--have trimmed their lists, consulting closely with the chains to determine what is commercial, and have seen their profits and sales rise. | All of the big houses are selling at a loss. | contradiction |
California Institute of Technology vaults from fourth to first in the magazine's annual university rankings . Its three-to-one student-faculty ratio is much praised, as is its annual spending of $192,000 on each student. | The high student-to-faculty ratio at California Institute of Technology made its score drop precipitously. | contradiction |
So maybe the questions he proliferates here (here, unlike in his books, he questions the notion of a surgical strike, and here he wonders, Who has told us that it is OK to kill women and children? | He wrote about about the controversal usage of surgical strikes. | entailment |
Apparently there are enough 18-year-old book buyers in the first flush of marijuana to keep Hunter in tequila and narcotics for the rest of his life. | 18 year olds buy books. | entailment |
For all I know, some hockey fans go for the fights. | Fight fans go for hockey | contradiction |
LeTourneau was the boy's teacher in both second and sixth grades, and he describes their relationship When I was six or seven, she encouraged me in my drawing. | The boy's teacher told him how to improve his drawing technique. | neutral |
For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it. | The trust of the United States is the only thing that the United Nation needs for it to thrive. | contradiction |
Also, the routine random inspections used by U.S. government agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are almost exactly like those planned under the CWC, and these have been found constitutional. | Someone contested the constitutionality of random inspections. | neutral |
In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity. | Ethnic identity cannot be hidden for long. | neutral |
But because the Net gets clogged and packets are waylaid, the sound quality is low and interruptions are common. | Interruptions happen often. | entailment |
But there are arguments to the contrary. | Arguments exist. | entailment |
But what it isn't is a rational way to run an industry. | It is a sensible way to conduct business | contradiction |
Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this. | I love Mastering Linux and understand it completely. | contradiction |
The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them. | East Asia's success depends on working together. | entailment |
Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe. | After going to court, your gripe will lead to a big settlement | neutral |
It was a pleasure working with you. | You, James Watt, are a tiresome creature, I can't wait to be well rid of you. | contradiction |
Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one. | More far right party members spoke up to complain about the decision in light of their own views. | neutral |
People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look. | Your appearance is unimportant even at work. | contradiction |
It's only the sincere consideration of a job doing something you truly believe in that can wreck your career in journalism. | Standing your ground is the best way to make an impact in your career in journalism. | contradiction |
Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position. | My position lies between costly mistakes and painful bickering. | entailment |
The worst one was, I don't think you really want a divorce, or you would have gotten one by now. | If you like, you can still get a divorce. | neutral |
I should also say that while I love the idea that the universe is nothing but a mathematical model of itself, I've never met anyone else who found the idea of software without hardware even remotely plausible. | I have never met anyone that has the same ideas as I do about the universe. | entailment |
Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology. | The person died shortly after speaking. | neutral |
In those circumstances, Dr. Astrov in Uncle Vanya might have written it. | It is impossible that Dr. Astrov wrote it. | contradiction |
The problem isn't so much that men are designed by natural selection to fight as what they're designed to fight women . | Men have no competitive drive | contradiction |
The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information. | The participants in the conversation never had enough data about the statistics to show its validity. | neutral |
It is simple, dog-like gratitude for a reason to declare the presidential race more interesting. | The presidential race is not always interesting. | entailment |
Not only did it promote freedom more than any statesman or soldier did by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics, influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others. | James Joyce wrote differently because he read Einstein. | neutral |
They're interested in the clash of personalities. | It is more interesting when personalities clash. | neutral |
(He quotes himself in his books, the sure sign of a towering ego.) | He thinks very highly of himself. | neutral |
The Justice Department reportedly is investigating whether the Democratic National Committee funded Ron Carey's campaign in exchange for Teamster funding of the Clinton campaign . Republicans are demanding a special prosecutor and promising congressional investigations. | There was inappropriate funding of Ron Carey's campaign. | neutral |
In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants. | Jailbird was involved in the murder of Vince Foster | neutral |
(She'd better get cracking.) | She has already completed the task. | contradiction |
Quality-of-life drugs offer not just the pleasing possibility that you can do something about impotence, baldness, blackened toenails. | Drugs are expensive. | neutral |
Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen. | Moyers was an aid to a country's leader. | entailment |
And recent Oscar winner Helen Hunt is determined to have a baby with or without her fiance, actor Hank Azaria, according to the Star . I'm going all-out to get pregnant, the publication reports her confiding to a pal, although it doesn't explain what she plans to do if Azaria refuses to cooperate. | Helen Hunt refuses to have an offspring because she thinks it will jeopardize her acting career. | contradiction |
He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit. | You can chew tobacco. | entailment |
We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors. | This thing falls short of being high crime. | entailment |
It invests heavily in research and development. | Research and development are the most important, and are not lightly invested in. | neutral |
If it really wants to balance the budget it should just do so, rather than passing feel-good laws that say the budget should be balanced. | It takes work to balance the budget. | entailment |
How can you make the capital gains tax a litmus test issue but say that the slaughter of millions of innocent children is something about which you have only a mild preference and don't care much if people disagree? | People are putting their own needs ahead of others. | entailment |
How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' gara... | Playing baseball is the most popular pastime of normal middle-class kids. | neutral |
Carlyle was inspired, if that's the word, by the writings of Thomas Malthus, who predicted that population growth would always outpace economic growth, keeping most people in perpetual poverty. | Malthus' writings were influential to Carlyle | entailment |
Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a | The writer was reminded of Boswell's description called a hypochodriack. | entailment |
Restore national controls over global capital. | Some nations have more control than others. | neutral |
The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy. | The newsweeklies love Clinton's Kosovo policy. | contradiction |
On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome. | Molly and himself are elites. | entailment |
That Explains Why Clinton's Finger The McLaughlin Group spends 11 minutes in a straight-faced discussion of Maureen Dowd's jokey suggestion that Clinton is actually ... | The McLaughlin Group spent 11 minutes in a straight-faced discussion of Maureen Dowd's suggestion. | entailment |
In 1992, the paper delayed its expose of masher Sen. | An expose on masher Sen was delayed in 1992. | entailment |
In Today's Papers for June 5, Scott Shuger | The paper said good things about Scott Shuger. | neutral |
But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook. | The relatively honest conservatives have captured the fat fish. | contradiction |
The kids will be gone in no time. | It is possible to stay a child forever. | contradiction |
Only a handful of the 200,000 Serbs have come back to the Krajina. | War drove people from Krajina | neutral |
As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar). | Headless Body Found in Topless Bar was created recently. | contradiction |
By reputation, Baldwins play the field, sleeping around Hollywood, then settling down with a beautiful woman. | Baldwins are not as shallow as thy appear to be. | neutral |
The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be. | The society would be bad for everyone. | neutral |
Click here to sign up for e-mail delivery. | It is not possible to sign up for e-mail delivery. | contradiction |
In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights. | New York is full of immigrants. | entailment |
Randy's Tough Love Wrap-Up | Randy is teaching spoiled children how to be men. | neutral |
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. | Long Island is entirely made up of low income housing. | contradiction |
But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair. | wonder boy recliners are large | neutral |
Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis. | Palestinians and Israelis both hate him as well as his brother. | neutral |
The Turkish army has responded with equal brutality. | The enemy quickly overpowered the Turks as they simply stood by. | contradiction |
MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. | Cooking is one of the seven areas of intelligence | contradiction |
Acclaim for the pulp-fiction writer's 34 th novel. | The non-fiction book is the authors 34th publication. | contradiction |
The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about. | People found him to be honest and sincere. | contradiction |
But what about the other editors of the Daily Cal who couldn't say they'd been martyred at a campus once renowned for its leftism? | The campus has always been known for its conservative values. | contradiction |
Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's. | Hey man, Powell is super chill, his story makes me swell up like a toad, feelin' proud, payin' respect to the military, much better than Universities. | entailment |
Sante Kimes, about her odd child-rearing techniques. | Sante Kimes parenting style is uncommon | entailment |
The authors claim to demonstrate that high IQ is more predictive of economic success than any other factor, and that low IQ is more predictive of poverty and social breakdown. | The authors claim that low IQ is predictive of poverty and social breakdown. | entailment |
Thanks to Gutman, Genovese, and their left-wing peers, we now know that the notion that Slaves Were Happy, as the New York Times headline put it, is not necessarily false. | Gutman first pushed the idea that slaves were happy in 1989 | neutral |
What's more, the latter reads more like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists. | It reads like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists. | entailment |
But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available. | The oligarchs preferred dollars and quickly converted any extra rubles into them. | entailment |
According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975. | Food prices are constantly going up and down. | neutral |
Our compassion must defend the disabled. | We should have compassion for the disabled. | entailment |
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains. | The story focuses on teenagers' overdeveloped brains | contradiction |
But Milosevic, in turn, may have underestimated Clinton's agility. | Milosevic knew Clinton was a thread, and judged him accordingly. | contradiction |
The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it. | A part of organized crime is booming like never before | contradiction |
The National Basketball Association fined Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman $50,000 for insulting Mormons. | The Mormons were offended Dennis Rodman insulted them. | neutral |
Someone has to absorb the loss. | The loss was readily absorbed by a single entity. | contradiction |
A story says tourism is destroying the Chicago blues scene. | Tourism improves the mainstream musicians, but at the expense of the Chicago blues scene. | neutral |
This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well. | The book is a New York Times best seller | neutral |
Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif. | Oakland, Calif. swore in Jerry Brown as police chief. | contradiction |
Does Conyers have any evidence that could provide cause for investigation, wonders Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Well, no, that's actually what Reno is supposed to investigate. | Brit Hume works for Fox News Sunday. | entailment |
Maybe if I were gay, but I'm not. | I'd definitely be interested if I weren't heterosexual. | neutral |
Now he believes he can be president. | He will make a good president. | neutral |
He united the Western coalition, and he led Gorbachev over the precipice. | He led Gorbachev over the precipice by uniting the Western coalition. | entailment |
I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference? | The speaker missed an important part of the performance. | entailment |
Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations. | My correspondence is poorly written and I forgot to attach it | contradiction |
Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent. | Arafat was president of the United States. | contradiction |
There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner. | The right partner is the first one you find. | contradiction |
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