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The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law. | Privacy laws for minors are left up to the states. | contradiction |
Lohengrin (Metropolitan Opera, New York City). | Other cities have metropolitan Operas. | neutral |
Well, did her tune ever change. | Her tune changed | entailment |
And can this be explained without resorting to the phrase dumbing down or alluding to the questions on that Who Wants a Big Bucket of Money quiz show being multiple choice about the Brady Bunch , not like in the old days, when quiz show questions were so hard that you had to cheat to win, and presidential candidates al... | Simpler times were not really that simple. | entailment |
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .) | Everyone thinks his paintings are a masterpiece. | contradiction |
Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas. | The reporters refuse to publish stories that have clashes of ideas. | neutral |
Now the party is trying to prevent him from jumping ship. | He is trying to get back on board. | contradiction |
Another time I had to go and look after my brother Kenny in Buffalo. | My brother Kenny is in Buffalo. | entailment |
To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour. | Mick Jagger doesn't have a daughter. | contradiction |
No offense meant. | Someone took umbrage to the statement. | entailment |
Critics argued workers can quit a union if they don't like its political activities and that any debate about regulating union money should be taken up separately. | Unions have political views and participate in political activities. | entailment |
But from Aumann and Maschler's work, we know that if you've found one consistent solution, you've found them all. | Aumann and Maschler are widely lauded as being groundbreaking with their new, well supported ideas. | contradiction |
The wrist supporters I ordered were black neoprene with a metal brace and a flexible magnetic band. | I ordered black wrist supporters | entailment |
It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer. | It's the finest gangster movie of all time. | neutral |
Comedy attacks. | Something attacks | entailment |
But Royko also challenged white Chicago's prejudices, skewering bigots who tried to keep a white couple that had adopted a black baby out of their neighborhood or a funeral parlor that didn't want to bury a black soldier killed in Vietnam. | Royko ruffled many feathers when he burst onto the Chicago scene with allegations of prejudice. | neutral |
The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen. | The acting ruined the film | contradiction |
Given this prospect, the country should save heavily to make provision for the future--and lacking the kind of pay-as-you-go Social Security system that allows Americans to ignore such realities, it does. | The country should avoid spending money by being frugal in order to save for the future. | entailment |
I realize now that the cameras and microphones were probably installed by [the Globe ] while I was out, she reports. | The cameras and microphones have been there for a while. | 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. | Today's Papers is a feature | entailment |
It works, maybe to a fault. | It works only to a certain point. | neutral |
He had a video camera attached to the ceiling, which recorded every move. | The footage from the video camera is uploaded to the cloud | neutral |
On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site). | Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times on The Simpsons. | entailment |
Since the film ends with Schultz's death, it leaves little indication as to what became of Johnson. | Like a shot in the night, all characters were killed by bullets coming from who knows where, then the movie ends. | contradiction |
It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion. | The author feels that Kinsey has a perverse interest in human sexuality. | entailment |
The bleakest lesson of After the Madness is perhaps that prison has lost its capacity to shock. | After the Madness is suitable for children. | contradiction |
For a turnaround to be real, the company has to become not merely profitable but also positioned for steady growth. | A company has to be ready to grow. | entailment |
Well, not behind it per se. | Totally and completely in favor of it. | contradiction |
What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable. | The men around her are currently unavailable. | entailment |
The rice was light and cooked to perfection, and the vegetables were nicely steamed in a complex sauce that blended the subtle flavors of curry, coconut milk, and basil. | The rice was light and the spring vegetables were nicely cooked. | neutral |
I'll say it Read the directions. | The directions should be read. | entailment |
Not all falsehoods, of course, are lies (the key ingredient in a lie is intentionality). | A falsehood can by told, yet someone may not be lying. | entailment |
Upon returning to Apple, he began criticizing almost immediately the company's 1995 decision to finally allow a limited number of companies to manufacture Mac clones, calling these firms leeches. | In 1995 Apple made a decision about the manufacturing of Mac clones | entailment |
But few would discard laws against organ selling. | The market for internal body parts would still be regulated. | entailment |
But a few chapters later, Ann overhears her mother talking on the phone to Dr. Spritzer, and | Ann learned her mother was burning the candle at both ends, calling Spritzer for a pep pill perscription. | neutral |
Does computerization give ETS an unfair advantage? | computerization has had a massive effect on ETS | neutral |
Faking appreciation is always, of course, er, appreciated. | It's easy to tell when someone fakes appreciation. | neutral |
We won't be making extravagant claims for the Internet anymore, but will accept that it's just a tool--sometimes extremely useful, sometimes not. | We accept that the internet is just a tool. | entailment |
You can bet no one will ever elect me to public office. | I will be elected to some office eventually. | contradiction |
However, if the second possibility were correct, then both George Bush Sr.'s and George W.' southern identities would have to be called into question. | George Bush Sr.'s and George W Bush insist that they are native New Yorkers. | contradiction |
On the other hand, the President's Box at Ford's Theatre contains the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when Booth shot him, and no one would argue that Ford's is anything but a replica. | The place where one President was killed has major differences to Ford's theater. | contradiction |
For such people, he said, the Pope becomes persona non grata when he tries to convince the world of human sin. | The Pope becomes persona non grata with certain members of the population when he preaches about human sin. | entailment |
Clinton ( sorrowfully ): It wasn't me. | Clinton made a comment. | entailment |
Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were. | She is not bitter or nostalgic. | entailment |
Shots of cute animals are deemed an inadequate substitute for the cutting wit that made the earlier film (by the same cast, and also written by John Cleese) a cult hit. | Most of John Cleese's films were hits. | neutral |
In Ireland, compassionate teachers would seem to be painfully rare. | It appears that compassionate teachers are not common in Ireland. | entailment |
Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy | Rejection causes depression in teens. | neutral |
Tamara Jenkins, the writer and first-time director, has an eye for absurd juxtapositions that was obviously sharpened by the pain of her nomadic upbringing. | Tamara Jenkins never notices absurd juxtapositions. | contradiction |
That is George Richey, widower of country singer Tammy Wynette. | George Richey is widower of Tammy Wynette | entailment |
This column, as my first in the Strange Bed, is free of history. | My column is not historically based. | entailment |
Rubin himself probably does not care about such back scratching, but it is a lesson that heir-apparent Summers, an eager press hound, has surely absorbed. | Rubin is very aware of the need for back scratching. | contradiction |
A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit. | No correction was made on the Saturday article. | contradiction |
There was evidence that life was present just as soon as the planet cooled and solidified. | The has been barren its entire existance. | contradiction |
Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the... | The rise of libertarianism was understood by authors like Brand and Toffler because they studied trends. | neutral |
Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country. | Urban areas in the US are like vampires | entailment |
Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits. | Ellison was not going to give up. | entailment |
He appeared on every network Tuesday night to insist that the Bush brothers and other victorious Republican governors such as George Pataki (New York), John Rowland (Connecticut), Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), and John Engler (Michigan) were conservatives. | Tommy Engler and John Thompson were victorious Republican governors | contradiction |
Unlike commodity futures or even currency futures that allow farmers or companies to do a better job of projecting their future business, stock options contribute nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets. | Stock options help capital markets work better. | contradiction |
(Perkins did not respond to several requests for an interview.) | Perkins gladly accepted multiple interviews. | contradiction |
While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote. | Democrats invoked the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote | contradiction |
There's more free stuff available online to fill up the time when the boss isn't around than the proxy-censor will ever let us read. | Everything online requires a purchase. | contradiction |
As he went from floor to floor removing the signs, did he realize what was going to happen after he'd taken down the final one? | His intention was to remove every single sign. | neutral |
Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions. | Jewish leaders are less suspicious of environmentalism than conservative Christian leaders | neutral |
(As a variation on this theme, one can imagine a strategic schooling motive, whereby the least-accomplished children get extra schooling, in the hope that they will become more interesting to converse with.) | Schools focus more on the least-accomplished children. | neutral |
Patients could certainly get annoyed by having to take even a five-minute computer test every time they see a doctor. | A computer can diagnose a patient better than a doctor. | contradiction |
It gets better when they stop to chat. | Chatting makes it better. | entailment |
This claim always puzzles Here we are in the information age, able to process gigabytes of data with a single mouse click--but we imagine that people can't multiply and divide? | people can process a lot of data quickly using computers | entailment |
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 once renowned for its leftism is located in California. | neutral |
But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations. | There can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls | entailment |
Few people these days believe that evil spirits cause illness, that the rain god causes rain, or that electric-light bulbs are mystical. | People still believe that electric light bulbs are mystical. | contradiction |
When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help. | The King Center was taken over by a wealthy billionaire named Dexter. | neutral |
Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers. | Republicans hold onto their old beliefs regarding executive privilege, refusing to change their stance. | contradiction |
The Justice Department asked Starr to look into allegations that his prosecutors improperly tried to cut an immunity deal with Lewinsky during their January 1998 sting without her lawyer present. | Prosecutors spoke to Lewinsky without her lawyers | entailment |
That's why labor is making fewer endorsements. | Labor lacks the funds to make more endorsements. | neutral |
By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education. | Hundreds of Americans are on the internet. | contradiction |
But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny. | There are those that do not share his views. | neutral |
Eszterhas is reminiscent of Playboy 's Hugh They share the same exaggerated sense of importance, the same pontificating humorlessness about their ridiculous jobs. | Eszterhas has become aware of his shortcomings and is looking to address them. | neutral |
Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of square and hip--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned. | Frank is a hoarder. | entailment |
Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last. | Read The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) first. | contradiction |
You could be truthful and say your own version of I was overcome by curiosity about this much talked about doc, and now I know his work is as good as yours. | There is bad blood between the much talked about doc and myself, I'm jealous now. | neutral |
Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries. | There are those in Japan who still understand the archaic form of Korean language. | neutral |
In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch. | The author of Kaaterskill Falls is Daphne Merkin. | contradiction |
I'm not sure how with a pair of e-mail messages I managed to effectively double the price of Chuck Close lithographs. | Several email messages doubled the price of Chuck Close lithographs. | neutral |
After a great Moyers show, viewers nod in agreement. | The followers of the program took great offence to the remarks put forth by the commentator. | contradiction |
If there is a good reason, it has to do with our final question. | Our last question is within reason. | entailment |
The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker. | Gore and Gephardt had to overcome significant personal grudges before cooperating. | neutral |
Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose. | Jonah Goldberg believes that Tripp wanted to do more than just protect her good name. | contradiction |
It's a picture of a needy young woman, one whom any older man with something to lose--or half a brain--would have the sense to avoid. | An intelligent man would marry the young woman | contradiction |
As a result, they avoid the concussive head wounds that kill boxers--and the long-term neurological damage that cripples them. | Wounds to the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain fully heal in two seconds | contradiction |
OK, fine--simply provide me with quarterly reports on the yield of the fund and the value of my share in it. | The quarterly report showed nothing on the yield of the fund or how much the shares were valued at. | contradiction |
To heed the better angels of your nature, you must know the devils first. | If you want to heed your devilish nature you must acknowledge the angels first. | contradiction |
Time calls Bill Bradley's nascent presidential campaign strategy charming and insane. | Bill Bradley works for Time magazine. | entailment |
It's probably therapeutic for Slate's two warriors to be taking time out from their inquiries into the House Budget or Travelgate to organize their thoughts on their place in the universe. | Slate's warriors are battling the House and its spending. | neutral |
De Kooning himself seems to have left the room. | De Kooning Lives here but I saw him leaving earlier. | neutral |
Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art). | A museum that showcases American Folk Art exists. | entailment |
He's capable of much more than he usually gives. | He has the ability to do more than he already has. | entailment |
For Pundit Completists David Brock profiles Meet the Press host Tim Russert and surveys the competitive world of the pundit shows in this week's New York magazine. | The competitive world of pundit shows was very popular in the New York magazine. | neutral |
8. She's a dirty little secret. | Everyone was well aware of her and her activities. | contradiction |
A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination. | A few different individuals have come forward to say that they own the rights to the Zapruder films. | neutral |
Nevertheless, if you're into printing out, it's worth investigating. | The investigation is worth it. | neutral |
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