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She was a mother and thirty-three years old, and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone the baker's age--a man old enough to be her father--must have children who'd gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties. | The baker was not her father. | neutral |
Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening? | The speaker feels that the widening should have ideally taken place before the wire. | entailment |
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. | There is one type of wonder recliner. | contradiction |
Truly, I believe the country is in the best of hands, but how do I rid myself of these impure thoughts? | I want to get rid of some of my thoughts. | entailment |
Lamar Alexander's campaign never got off the ground because the American people can recognize a phony (). | American people got off the ground | neutral |
Don't let the philosophy of Gingrich ... | Cautiously let the philosophy of Gingrich ... | neutral |
It's more scary than funny, especially to the brain tumor guy when he finds out that his chief surgeon is Raquel Welch. | The brain tumor guy finds out that his chief surgeon is Raquel Welch. | entailment |
Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty. | The treaty would greatly increase the profit margins of domestic chemical manufacturers. | neutral |
In the new mall, like the old one, there is no escape. | it is easy to get out of the mall. | contradiction |
Bush was asked no questions about education and only one about welfare. | Bush only answered questions about education. | contradiction |
Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind. | There is only one world culture. | contradiction |
Ah, it's always the big but. | People prefer big buts | neutral |
Both the Post and ABC claim to have copies of the original TP. | Two media outlets have made claims to receiving documents. | entailment |
CNN's Bob Franken declared that Starr and the Jones team were joined at the hip. | The Jones and Starr team were super distant according to CNN's Bob Franken. | contradiction |
Likewise, if the presidency is worth $50 million and there are many potential candidates with essentially identical chances of winning, they'll keep entering the race until they've collectively spent at least $50 million. | Candidates are willing to spend at least $50 million in order to become President. | entailment |
And when it stumbles onto a good subject for a series, like Ken Burns' history of baseball, it turns the show into a seminar on racism and labor relations, not the hit-and-run and the spitball. | Ken Burn's history of baseball was considered a good subject for a series. | entailment |
I had to format both drives. | Both drives needed to be formatted. | neutral |
But the interesting question is about sites sharing data. | The subject of the question is sites' data sharing practices | entailment |
It seems suitable in Saudi Arabia, for example, where women can't vote, since it squashes public expression along with hair. | Women aren't allowed to take partake the democratic process in Saudi Arabia. | entailment |
Why do allergies afflict an increasing number of victims if they serve no useful purpose? | Allergies serve no useful purpose | entailment |
The Unjust Clinton's moral theory, point by point, as expressed in his testimony. | Clinton has never been called 'the most fair', but his testimony was heard in a fair trial. | neutral |
You can be the birthplace of Heidegger, Hegel, Leibniz, Bach, Beethoven, Brecht, and Martin Luther, but you start one little world war ... | Beethoven and Bach were born in different countries. | contradiction |
Wait Until Dark (Brooks Atkinson Theatre). | Wait Until Dark was an excellent performance by The Brooks Atkinson Theater. | neutral |
The rest of the night was no better. | The night started off rough. | neutral |
No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998. | Ballots will continue to be counted after May 6, 1998. | contradiction |
But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either. | Being a villian makes you a hero. | contradiction |
A reporter from a major publication cornered me recently, and Nathan, I only have a couple of minutes. | The reporter that cornered someone was from a little-known publication | contradiction |
I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD. | The company solved the problem. | neutral |
Newt Gingrich said that if the evidence holds up, the United States should consider a military strike against Iran. | The US will continue its policy of engagement to avoid a confrontation with Iraq. | contradiction |
Besides, to indulge specific grievances once they've become terrorist causes is to encourage terrorism. | Indulging in specific grievances discourages terrorism. | contradiction |
If drugs do extend the lives of infected people for, say, decades--and I hope they do and that Sullivan is wrong about his own fate--I, too, would use the word cure. | It would be called a cure if drugs extend the lives of infected people for decades. | entailment |
TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy. | TV ads accurately target the right people | contradiction |
The differences among the three publications are probably best illustrated by their varying explanations for the mysterious cast that recently appeared on JFK Jr.'s arm. | The publications agreed on the explanation for the mysterious cast that recently appeared on JFK Jr.'s arm. | contradiction |
The cover story asserts that Kenneth Starr's indictment of Julie Hiatt Steele is based on unbelievable assertions by Kathleen Willey, who choreographed her allegations to make them more marketable. | Kathleen Willey wasn't straightforward in her assertions. | entailment |
Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album. | Sam Giancana was a mobster. | neutral |
And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it? | the people on the balcony were goofing around. | neutral |
On Friday's NewsHour , Gigot asks, Is this a Republican Congress? | Gigot is in favor of a Republican Congress. | neutral |
Misconception #3: Workfare workers shouldn't do work unionized city workers used to do. | Separate, but similar jobs are performed by the workfare workers and the unionized city workers. | neutral |
Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible. | He correctly stated that Richard Nixon's bombing of Hanoi in 1972 was the reason for peace. | contradiction |
It's silly that this is all such a guessing game. | Others are also displeased with the speculative nature of the situation. | neutral |
And you can't bring me back from the dead. | There will be an attempt to bring me back from the dead. | neutral |
In fact, although all other nominees are welcome, Slate 's software-development team--through a simple iterative program--has already cast 1.8 million votes for Bill Gates. | All other nominees are welcome, but the votes for Bill Gates precludes anyone else winning. | neutral |
He didn't systematically vet things with her or even regularly delegate to her. | He didn't care for her opinion because she is inexperienced. | neutral |
The modern mistake is to think that important things must be planned, sponsored, reviewed, or licensed by the government. | The government that can plan important things is unpopular | neutral |
First, why would allowing the interplay of free-market forces imply that stadiums, movie houses, and other mass entertainment centers would become dominated by wealthy people? | Mass entertainment is only for the wealthy. | contradiction |
At worst, he is amassing credentials, fame, and wealth on the basis of others' uncredited labor--once considered a scholarly sin. | He will be investigated | 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. | All parents are screwups. | neutral |
He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment. | He is struck by a vehicle in the movie. | entailment |
The result is a vivid picture showing that the strong bonds that developed in those fabled neighborhoods of yore were kindled by conditions that we might find discomforting today--fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty. | The poverty, lack of choice, and fear of authority in the fabled neighborhood made the group stronger and tougher than normal. | neutral |
Someone asks the CNN guy, How are the ratings these days? | CNN's ratings are very bad | neutral |
That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all th... | Pay for teachers is too low. | neutral |
He gropes female guests, watches porn, drinks monstrously, smokes more, and uses drugs. | He likes to fondle women and is an overall sleazy man. | entailment |
John McCain because he has become McCain's friend. | Mccain is John Mccain's friend. | entailment |
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. | 20 years ago he would have failed his background check. | contradiction |
South Carolina likes re-electing Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority? | Hollings and Thurmond were rejected firmly by their base, leaving them both single-term senators. | contradiction |
Finally, we can try to remove temptation, by avoiding policy initiatives that make it easy for politicians to play favorites. | If we avoid a policy of letting lobbyists get involved, then politicians won't have incentive to favor those contributing to their campaigns. | neutral |
Three kinds of theories of history have been prominent in recent discussion--ending theories, wave theories, and cycle theories. | The three prominent theories are cycle theories, wave theories, and ending theories | entailment |
These rapacious European phone monopolies have given birth to independent call-back services. | People dislike call-back services | neutral |
Not as big a deal as the Pulitzers yet, but in the ballpark. | There is a lesser known journalism prize, nearly as prestigious as the Pulitzer. | entailment |
Little of Leonardo's weirdness is conveyed by the Codex Leicester exhibit--though Isabella Rosellini's blue-velveteen voice narrating the exhibit's eight-minute biographical video helps somewhat. | Isabella Rosellini's voice can be heard detailing in a biographical video. | entailment |
Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992. | There were far less participants in 1992 than in 1896. | contradiction |
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. | AOL payed for Time Warner. | entailment |
Possibly, Bakaly meant to give the impression that Starr has a good hand without formally stating anything, but more likely it was an unintentional snafu. | The speaker believes that Bakaly probably made a mistake in portraying Starr as having had a good hand. | entailment |
Kasich's proposed corporate-welfare package draws together a measly $11. | Kasich's constituents are unhappy with the proposal | neutral |
The media is going to beat it to death until he finally has to just say one way or the other. | He will be subdued by the sheer force of repeat attacks from the media. | entailment |
The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees. | The WP wrote about wacky fatalities caused by trees. | entailment |
In the 1830s and 1840s, the system accounted for more than three-quarters of U.S. federal employees. | The proportion that the system accounted for grew larger after the 1840s. | neutral |
The story was singularly inappropriate in 1936--the deluge had come after Coolidge and Hoover, and Roosevelt's spending was an effort to stem the deluge, or at least to keep some people from drowning in it. | Roosevelt was uninterested in helping people. | contradiction |
There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississip... | Mark Twain and Frederick Douglas wrote letters. | entailment |
Second, the Newsweek online story stated that the tapes offer no clear evidence to support or undermine Tripp's allegations. | Newsweek is in the process of making their stories available online. | contradiction |
2) No, the only reason he had said the Antichrist must be Jewish is that Jesus was Jewish, and the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus. | Jesus was a muslim. | contradiction |
News accounts agree that Arafat has finally shed his image as a terrorist and is now being honored by the White House not only as a virtual head of state but as the indispensable player in the peace process. | Arafat has flip flopped on the national stage. | entailment |
Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it. | Congress was expected to scrap the scheme. | neutral |
Click Start , then Find , then Files or Folders , type *.dll , then hit Find Now . (Make sure your hard drive is selected in the drop-down list in Look in .) On my computer I found 1,230 .dll files. | The search turned up nothing. | contradiction |
The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends. | Nobody expected that this movie would be as good as it was. | entailment |
It's OK, Leo Strauss Was a Devoted Someone should slip Kenneth Starr a tape of this week's This Week , where Kristol admits to being eliminated from the office NCAA pool. | Kristol won the NCAA pool | contradiction |
If there is a cultural civil war going on, the Mediaphiles--led by Wall Street--have routed the 'phobes. | There is a cultural civil war going on. | neutral |
Like Mark Twain, who said that suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life, we imagine that the elderly and the ill desire death rationally. | Mark Twain did not view suicide as an unlawful act. | neutral |
The postal system was even more important for civil society and democratic politics than for commerce. | The postal system was used by George Washington. | neutral |
Saturated fat is still evil. | Some fats are healthier than others. | neutral |
While it challenged Twin Peaks in obscure plot turns, it was ever entertaining, and the first spot I'd stop at on your site. | Your site is my favorite. | neutral |
So Hollings embraces Inglis' charges that he's a pork- He calls it pork. | Hollings is a fan of pork. | neutral |
Administration officials confirmed that Clinton was deliberately 1) rolling out the carpet to enhance Arafat's prestige and 2) sending Israel a warning not to screw up the peace process by provoking further conflict. | Arafat's prestige was impacted by Clinton. | neutral |
An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs. | The projected budget surpluses were guaranteed by Congress. | contradiction |
To return to the discussion, my favorite response is I'm told I'm great! | I would be embarrassed to say I'm told I'm great during the discussion. | contradiction |
He said, 'Was this an attempt to subvert the Constitution? | The Constitution should be protected | entailment |
But nothing like this ever gets said. | They always say what should be said. | contradiction |
The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy. | Even before Mahathir, Malaysia has not followed economic norms. | neutral |
In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them. | Johnson was actually one heck of a patriotic American I tell ya! | neutral |
He's not just a man in the He generates his own light. | Others find him inspiring. | neutral |
The language is lackluster, the pacing leaden, the cliches plentiful, and the surprises few--no, not the campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses (Well, yes, but I'm thinking of something else here.) | One is detailing information about the quality of acceptance speeches. | contradiction |
The Booker, and all the laurels, are about my past, not my future, says this ace of the apothegm. | The bookers were good friends in the past | neutral |
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. | Japan caused some citizens, who had lost money, to go bankrupt. | neutral |
8) Labor Secretary-nominee Alexis Herman, who was closer to the fund-raising mess, will now be confirmed easily because the Senate is satisfied with having killed Lake. | Congress isn't happy with the incompetent official, so he'll get in for sure. | contradiction |
Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space. | The earlier settlers' desires was to monopolize the structure of the new domain. | entailment |
The heroes of the movie are a man and woman who escape the system with their baby and are going to live like a traditional family. | The protagonists in the film are a couple and their child. | entailment |
The play is Spencer's life reduced to Two Weddings and a Funeral , a quaint and titillating Bloomsbury parallelogram, says the Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons. | The playwright received negative reviews from many critics. | neutral |
We can come pretty close to neutral reporting and analysis of news developments in features like Today's Papers and The Week/The Spin. | Our reporting is totally left-wing biased | contradiction |
The first day after the Democratic primary, Schumer unleashed Too many lies for too long ads. | It was the first day of the Republican primary. | contradiction |
Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution. | Current presidential speech writers take inspiration from previous presidential speeches. | entailment |
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