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To succeed, a propaganda campaign need not convince its audience; it need merely suck the oxygen out of the lungs of its foes. | Opponents are glorified and celebrated through propaganda. | contradiction |
Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires. | Bettelheim has no overarching theory. | entailment |
The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit. | This last bastion of human conceit will be defended. | entailment |
Critics also welcome his ambivalence on Russia's Unlike most Russia watchers, Mr. | He watches Russia. | entailment |
I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Ame... | The speaker believes that most Americans feel their sense of values could be lost. | entailment |
First of all, my extreme apologies for the spelling mistake. | The person was sorry for making a bunch of typos. | entailment |
It was in the Yale Law Library, after all, that he first put the moves on Hillary Rodham. | Hillary Rodham has yet to visit the Yale Law Library. | contradiction |
Adam Michnik was arrested in a demonstration in Warsaw in February of 1968, went on to become the leading theorist of the Solidarity protest movement of the 1980s, and survived to take up a role as middle-aged statesman in the Polish political world that succeeded the collapse of communism in 1989. | Adam Michnik does not get involved with politics. | contradiction |
The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be. | Folks on the Slate 60 list could scarcely afford to give away any of their funds. | contradiction |
Critics are surprisingly positive about the singer/songwriter/best-selling poet/soon-to-be film actress' second album after the 8 million copy selling Pieces of You . Musically she has matured, and her trademark folksy-bluesy-pop songs are dubbed sweet, soulful (Veronica Chambers, Newsweek ). The lyrics, however are sa... | Jon Pareles thinks the album is soulful, dark, and seemingly depressing, instilling horror. | contradiction |
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 spent a lot of money. | entailment |
But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents. | His Republican opponents are destined to lose | neutral |
Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington. | Elizabeth Drew reported from Apache Junction | contradiction |
In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven. | The Carter Family never recorded any of their songs. | contradiction |
It sounds as if things are just fine as long as your correspondent doesn't have to visit her friend's house. | If the correspondent visits her friend's house then things won't be fine. | entailment |
According to the actress, they couldn't. | The actress said they could | contradiction |
If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs. | CNN is out of business | contradiction |
On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts. | The board of education in Kansas follows science in determining curricula. | contradiction |
You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section. | You are looking forward to the concluding section. | neutral |
Somehow I am happy to be too formal for your society. | He has always been to formal for your society. | neutral |
Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too. | certains act only become a problem when done by a large number of people. | entailment |
The man who gave the Iron Curtain its name is the true democratic hero of our age. | People today have forgotten the man who had named the Iron Curtain years earlier. | contradiction |
I don't envy next year's teen-sex filmmaker the challenge of topping the pie scene or the cloudy glass of beer bit. | The movie was rated R | neutral |
Among the black agents courting rookies are Puffy Combs, Master P, and Johnnie Cochran. | Black agents are courting rookies. | entailment |
denunciations of American imperialism. | Only Britain is imperialist | contradiction |
Book and software pirates are prosecuted under the copyright laws, but pirates are not really plagiarists. | Book and software pirates are considered to be plagiarists because they are uniquely responsible for breaking modern copyright protections. | contradiction |
They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government. | The big boys thought it was risk free. | contradiction |
He's a hippie in a suit. | Even dressed to the nines, this person embraced all the beliefs and attitudes of a "flower-child" from the 50's. | neutral |
And, basset people, like me, want dogs that have the good sense not to do any of those things. | Basset hounds are more likely to avoid danger. | neutral |
He's usually tiptop at fielding tough questions, agrees everyone. | He is good at tackling questions head on. | entailment |
The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you. | Dogs are treated cruely at these farms. | neutral |
I'd say it was the second number. | The second digit was selected. | entailment |
A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did. | The Fed will not reserve concern. | entailment |
and that the Shopping Avenger would hear about this treatment and seek vengeance. | The Shopping Avenger is looking for revenge. | entailment |
The three newsmagazines reconstruct the Heaven's Gate suicide, trace the cult's history, and link it to burgeoning New Age spiritualism. | The cult had a positive influence on members | contradiction |
Slate .) But distinguishing between the two markets undermines Microsoft's thesis that IE and Windows are integrated. | If you separate IE and windows into different markets, you can't say thy are integrated. | entailment |
Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein. | People are upset about Saddam Hussein | neutral |
To ring in the new year in 1997, he reportedly blew up a Cadillac. | They said that he blew up a Cadillac to celebrate New Year's Day 1997. | entailment |
There is an increased sense of desperation in China about Taiwan. | Prior to Taiwan invading China, the two countries tried earlier to arrange many marriages between royal families. | contradiction |
Nevertheless, they were trumpeted throughout the nation, because the media had little else to talk about. | It was a slow news day. | neutral |
4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams. | The superstar wants the industry to pay him. | entailment |
In 1995, Willey took revenge on a lover named Shaun Docking by faking a pregnancy and miscarriage and asking Steele to lie about it. | Steele was in love with Willey | neutral |
Whatever the reasons for this deplorable twist in public morality, America's loss of its moral compass is a tragedy even more consequential than Bill Clinton's adultery. | America lost its moral compass before 1999 | neutral |
Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business | Stevenson is calm and rational. | contradiction |
Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986. | Lebanon, Grenada, and Libya were all involved in war in the 80s. | entailment |
De Kooning himself seems to have left the room. | I am looking but there is no one here. | entailment |
Or, more creatively yet, maybe one new senator could just stop talking for a while. | The senators were talking over each other during a debate. | neutral |
The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning? | Italy and Greece are accepting of the ground troops. | contradiction |
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues. | Hare's plays are popular with audiences | neutral |
Clinton has faced an escalating series of serious accusations--serious in the sense that they were all plausible and some were true. | Most of Clinton's accusations occurred while he was in office. | neutral |
There must be that between them, she thought. | She had a secret from them. | contradiction |
Some evidence from public records is suggestive. | Evidence proves something. | neutral |
Is it Simhat Torah again already? | Simhat Torah is a type of hat worn by Spanish bull fighters. | contradiction |
In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S. | U.S. doesn't concern itself with college rankings. | contradiction |
The bald, pointy-eared vampire in Nosferatu is barely ambulatory, in fact. | The vampire is agile | contradiction |
Ian Fleming's James Bond was a snob and a lightweight. | Ian Fleming wrote James Bond. | entailment |
There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk. | Miracles create pleasure | entailment |
The fact that voters can and do reject incumbents will strike them as an epiphany. | Sitting politicians will be surprised by losing the election. | entailment |
The problem was the constant struggle for supplies. | A struggle for supplies was the school's problem. | neutral |
What's their bet? | they bet | entailment |
My mother, who is a charming woman in almost all other respects, appears to have a grave problem staying employed. | My mother is charming. | entailment |
PBS's Nova is offering lots of bang-'em-up footage in its two-part series , ESCAPE! | The new Public Television science show has high production value, showing you can make a silk purse from a sows ear if need be. | entailment |
In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment. | Sinatra had ties to the mob. | neutral |
By continuing to appease Buchanan, several of our candidates appear to have put politics ahead of our party's principles. | Buchanan was provoked continuously. | contradiction |
So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him. | $700,000 was too small of an amount and the high-ranking officials bid higher then Brown. | contradiction |
It's dark. | It's sunny | contradiction |
Today we cede our vision of '50s female fashion to the movie version, as if that were the real mirror of the decade--everything blatantly cleansed of error, willfully idealized into unreality, odorless, effortless, affectless. | The fashion in the movies in the '50s was fussier than what people actually wore. | neutral |
Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other. | AT & T has workers that are married to each other. | entailment |
They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea. | Senators don't care what the average person wants | neutral |
variety at the stand-ups, and pleasant trifles at the washstands. | Trifles occur at washstands. | entailment |
President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child. | The Commander in Chief made his remarks on a FM station | neutral |
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores. | The biographical text called Behind the Legend hits later this month, alongside a special edition hardcover version. | neutral |
Failure to ratify the treaty by April 29 squanders U.S. influence . Only representatives from the member states can sit on the committee that finalizes the treaty's logistics, and the United Nations won't hire verification inspectors from nonmember countries. | The US was able to successfully ratify the treaty before April 29th. | contradiction |
I observe that 50 years ago Mad magazine observed the popularity of Chinese restaurants with an elegant piece of satire called Two Chinese Guys Go Into an American Restaurant. | Mad Magazine portrayed people eating out, frequently. | neutral |
(To read the first three chapters, click here.) | It has 10 chapters in total | neutral |
Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year? | Warren Buffet suggests a 50 percent capital gains tax. | contradiction |
There was evidence that life was present just as soon as the planet cooled and solidified. | life was not present before the planet cooled. | neutral |
House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., has so far refused to schedule a hearing on Barr's resolution. | Gerald Solomon will not hold a hearing on Barr's resolution. | entailment |
Part of the answer may be that our financial system has become dangerously efficient. | The financial system has little waste. | neutral |
For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence. | People wear clothes made of lava. | contradiction |
To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy. | KYC cares about security | neutral |
Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a cineplex (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones). | Barton Myers' work is frequently criticized. | neutral |
This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works. | This practice was not used in 19th-century works. | entailment |
It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up. | Nerve is under observation of performance. | entailment |
Instead, it's the company that owns the name that dictates the terms. | The terms are dictated by whoever owns the name. | entailment |
Today there are more than 300,000. | The are less than 300,000 today. | contradiction |
The 15-year-old died with the band playing on his headphones. | The 16-year-old put on headphones before he died | contradiction |
Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community. | James and Dewey are sociologists. | neutral |
GS's Saturday Evening Post articles eerily suggest words we were to hear 50 or 60 years later. | It was mysteriously strange that the articles suggested words we heard only a year later | contradiction |
But if God has taken flight, in Gattaca and elsewhere, at least a few of his imitators are trying to save their souls. | They have little hope of success. | neutral |
And has the following point been made on the Op-Ed that Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty have chosen to attack centrist Democrats as cynical sellouts who ignore American poverty just when, according to the Census Bureau, those cynical centrists are making the greatest strides against poverty that have been made in... | The Census Bureau has a check box on their Census if you think you are cynical. | contradiction |
But I'm not kidding, it's time for her to go. | They wanted her to stay | contradiction |
As Redgrave moves from person to person--worrying about what each is really thinking, and about the young man whose tragic fate she heard tell of from one of her guests--the movie floods with feeling. | Redgrave's only part in the film was in editing, swooping in at the last minute to make a few bucks. | contradiction |
Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers. | Advertisers on line don't care if those seeing the ads are paying subscribers or not. | entailment |
They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart. | They lead by ruthlessly crushing the competition. | contradiction |
Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif. | Oakland, Calif. swore in Jerry Brown as mayor. | entailment |
I gave my stock In the first place, we don't know the truth; in the second place, the presidency is not a person but a team. | They know the truth. | contradiction |
There is too much flexing of stylistic muscle, says the New Republic 's Robert Alter. | Robert Alter praises how often stylistic muscle is used and pushed. | contradiction |
The anti-poker campaign has galvanized the state like no issue ever has. | The state is against all forms of gambling. | neutral |
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. | Newsweek looked at how parents deal with losing a child. | contradiction |
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