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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... | Emotional and intellectual resources are used by teachers. | entailment |
One of his first stories of love, The First Seven Years, from Partisan Review in 1950, strikes me as nearly perfect, though. | The First Seven Years was written in the 2000s. | contradiction |
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep. | Dick Armey represents the people of Alaska | contradiction |
He hasn't much changed America. | Other countries were changed by him. | neutral |
Two humorless and often petty egomaniacs intransigently reiterated their familiar positions (Rich). | They put others before themselves. | contradiction |
Greenberg's survey, for example, asks people who voted for Clinton to pick from a list of possible reasons why they did so. | The economy is one of the possible answers on Greenberg's survey | neutral |
Detractors say the film lacks any real sense of narrative continuity and feels like bits and pieces of half a dozen coming-of-age films (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). | The film did not win awards | 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. | You have a physical existence. | entailment |
In the column he wrote the day after Harold Washington became the first black person elected mayor of Chicago, Royko began with one of his inimitable openings, So I told Uncle Don't worry, Harold Washington doesn't want to marry your sister. | Harold Washington was the first ever black mayor of Chicago | entailment |
The Enquirer is probably the only publication in the world to go with this Lucy Mercer hypothesis. | A great many number of publications supported this Lucy Mercer hypothesis. | contradiction |
Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger. | Stores will have many Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlargers in stock. | neutral |
As a result, sentences are short and clear, often brilliantly compressed. | The sentences were not long and meandering, and instead were works of rat. | neutral |
He fights movie monsters, sings in a musical Western, and celebrates Thanksgiving ( Thanksgiving? | He avoid everyone on Thanksgiving | contradiction |
It is hard to imagine, though, why any government would embargo such a product, unless the plastic surgeons' lobby has already got to them. | The author does not respect lobbies. | neutral |
When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS. | The neighborhood is near the Canadian border. | neutral |
With a little luck, by the time I contract a fatal disease, I'll already be dead. | There is a cure for the disease. | neutral |
According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales. | Fayed works for the Daily Telegraph. | neutral |
These states will have gambling that is accessible, but not universal; gambling that funds state government but does not hold it hostage. | Gamblin' holds them fat-cats in government hostage, I reckon | contradiction |
Unlike most strips, his was about adults, albeit adults depicted as children. | His strip was about bunnies. | contradiction |
This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well. | Archival documents form the basis for this section | contradiction |
On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley. | The poll that USA Today did indicates a lot of support for Bradly | contradiction |
(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs. | Students dislike taking the SATs because of how hard the comparison rounds are. | neutral |
The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics. | A new movie and play about Wilde delights critics | entailment |
According to Helen Lawrenson, a former Vanity Fair editor and Johnson's self-proclaimed ex-lover, this is a romantic view of him. | Helen Lawrenson claims to have had a relationship with Johnson. | entailment |
Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier. | Investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments that make hedging easier. | entailment |
I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches. | The author wants to criticize and praise | entailment |
What those dumb hicks really lack is the wherewithal for a fine university education that will lead to a job in the go-go tech sector. | A job in the tech sector is the result of a fine university education, especially for Stanford grads | neutral |
William Jefferson Clinton ranks on the list. | The list is of the top Presidents to serve in the United States. | neutral |
Does he himself play, or has he merely observed others? | The author is aware that the guy prefers playing over watching. | contradiction |
Smith's political ideas are more elusive. | Sometimes Smith's stance on certain issues makes no sense at all. | neutral |
Pol Pot is in captivity | Pol Pot has been captured. | entailment |
Monica gets out first and opens the courthouse door. | The girl was the last one to leave the room. | contradiction |
Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them. | Trip knows what is said on the tapes. | neutral |
That is not a Medicare or Medicaid cut, he reassured seniors. | Medicare and Medicaid have been removed. | contradiction |
Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation. | A mailing system was useless to the country. | contradiction |
Nothing in Siegel's work could explain this perception. | Siegel does work | entailment |
Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin? | Will $25 more cover all of Wisconsin's outstanding debt? | neutral |
Wilson provides superb overviews of Western intellectual history and of the current state of understanding in many academic disciplines. | Wilson is very knowledgeable about Western intellectual history. | entailment |
While the home still evinces mutterings of Xanadu from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor. | Aaron Spelling is understated and modest. | contradiction |
Yet, assume that this famous still was not portraying an act of Would it be a relief or a disappointment? | The still showcases a man being told some news. | neutral |
While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote. | Republicans invoked the Iraq conflict for political gain | entailment |
Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere. | Hillary is not sexually active with Clinton. | entailment |
He's usually tiptop at fielding tough questions, agrees everyone. | He folds under pressure from most questions. | contradiction |
Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning. | He was not campaigning in a positive manner | entailment |
It invests heavily in research and development. | Research and development are unimportant, and are very lightly invested in. | contradiction |
(The magazine's own take is more There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.) | The magazine fully believes that society as a whole will collapse soon. | contradiction |
Variety reported that Harvey once locked a producer in a Cannes hotel room until the producer sold Miramax the rights to distribute his film. | Harvey was known to lock someone up in a hotel room in order to ger rights back to his film. | entailment |
The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics. | the pro-HMO strategy was evident | contradiction |
Wearing a suit and working at a computer in an office tower are, believe it or not, preferable to backbreaking work in a rice paddy. | Working in an office is much better then working outside with manual labor. | entailment |
Telegraph reported exclusively that billionaire philanthropist John Paul Getty II, 65, had sealed his love affair with Britain by taking out UK citizenship after 25 years' residence in this country. | John Paul Getty II was just waiting for the right moment to present itself. | neutral |
Indeed, many small and furry animals tend to be funny and, if you squint, resemble genitalia taken disturbingly out of context and scampering about the place. | When small and furry animals scamper around, they may get mixed up with genitalia if not observed carefully. | entailment |
That assumption may or may not be correct. | The assumption is unknown. | entailment |
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. | The incompetent official will get in, since Congress is happy. | neutral |
Beck's first contribution will appear Monday evening. | On Monday evening, Beck will unveil his important contribution. | neutral |
What about the children? | there is concern for the children | entailment |
And, when he could, would bite. | He enjoyed biting | neutral |
Time explains why the anti-sweatshop movement is growing on college The AFL-CIO has jump-started the protests by lavishing student activists with internships and trips to countries with poor working conditions. | College aged students are making an impact with their protests around the world. | neutral |
Nor has the fun we all had sneering at England's squandering its North Sea oil windfall in the '70s and '80s kept the Republican Party from proposing to give away the budget surplus to their rich constituents. | The Republican Party created a proposal that would give the surplus to the rich. | entailment |
But I think he misses an important Though the conflict may not reveal a previously hidden incentive (as in 2), it may create one. | Before the announcement, he did notice the important detail that a conflict may have a previously hidden incentive. | contradiction |
Wore a rag on his head. | His head was covered. | entailment |
Another time I had to go and look after my brother Kenny in Buffalo. | My brother is in Los Angeles. | contradiction |
4) Who cares whether the judges are honest? | Some people care if the judges are honest. | neutral |
Unless one believes that the lives of Europeans are intrinsically more valuable than those of Africans, the humanitarian justification for military intervention is unsustainable, he wrote. | The author feels that for the justification of military operations to be sustainable, European lives would have to be more valuable than Africans lives. | entailment |
But since he appears to be talking about lawyers functioning in the United States generally, and he appears to be talking about 1997 and 1998, he's not even close. | He really understands the function of lawyers in the United States. | contradiction |
Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures. | Humans tend to describe wild animals fearfully. | contradiction |
I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude. | Aging changes nothing. | contradiction |
Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus. | The prospectus did not contain everything that it should have. | entailment |
The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine. | The media was defending the President. | entailment |
But I'm single, [so] I'm allowed to do that, I guess. | I acknowledge that I am single, meaning that I am not part of a couple. | entailment |
Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses. | The pageant contestants are required to defend their academic work. | entailment |
He did not, however, suggest that everybody follow his example. | He did not expect everyone to do as he did. | entailment |
Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up. | Increasing consumer demand should help to stimulate the global economy. | entailment |
A two-hour look at the evolution of underwear, the special is as silly as it sounds. | The special only covers modern style underwear for men. | contradiction |
Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea. | The idea was exposed by him. | entailment |
The bald, pointy-eared vampire in Nosferatu is barely ambulatory, in fact. | The vampire has trouble moving | entailment |
Vaclav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990. | Vaclav Havel won the Czechoslovakian election of 1990 by an overwhelming vote and became the country's elected executive leader. | neutral |
The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as | Critical key points were offered on the Bell Curve. | entailment |
Whether the voters deserve it or not, we're likely to hear a lot more in coming spots about which man is better--or worse. | The men are running for senate | neutral |
The next day's Los Angeles Times goes with the DLC Clinton's Centrist Big Draw Among Party Faithful. | The New York Times also ran a story about Clinton on the same day | neutral |
It was on the plane flying back to Washington that we got news of votes in the House committee that made impeachment extremely likely. | The vote in the House committee was split along party lines | neutral |
She says, according to the Post , the secret is opening your mouth 'really wide' when eating. | She offered advice in the Post | entailment |
The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom. | There is a high degree of privacy expected from your peers when working at The Times. | neutral |
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice. | Complete honesty and cowardice go hand in hand. | contradiction |
You've got to get Tripp to give him the go-ahead. | I was told to give Tripp the heads up on getting another person the go-ahead. | entailment |
It's impossible to arrive at any general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music. | Some types of instruments are better suited for Beethoven's keyboard music. | neutral |
Less well known, if less salacious, is the fact that in 1915, the Presbyterian moralist Woodrow Wilson, then a recent widower, used agents to run interference for him in his amorous pursuits. | All dealings with Woodrow Wilson ended up having issues run by members of his team. | neutral |
(For more on the meeting, see .) (2/22/99) | There are no records of the meeting. | contradiction |
Most people Prudie has observed tipping taxi drivers tack on a couple of bucks, no matter what the meter. | Taxi drivers are not allowed to accept tips. | contradiction |
Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw. | the serious conceptual flaw has gone unnoticed | contradiction |
You could argue that Joe Avid is so hooked on Slate that we can afford to put him over a barrel at the micropayment rate, even though it means that he will pay a lot more. | Joe Avid hates everything about Slate. | contradiction |
' Ah, and I do, I remember very well. | I am unable to recall the details | contradiction |
And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms. | The soil samples will remain behind. | contradiction |
Another school of thought contends that faith and reason occupy two different realms of knowing. | Religion and science are sometimes considered to be separate kinds of knowledge. | entailment |
But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands. | Saving money is a way of investing in your own future. | entailment |
far off, unseen, but audible,repeats its syncopated intervals,a song that's not a cry | The song is is not a cry. | entailment |
Other figures of the Reagan-Thatcher era chose other retirement plans. | People were still disappointed despite choosing the other retirement plans | neutral |
the guy over there, in charge, in Taiwan ... | That man doesn't have any authority in Taiwan. | contradiction |
The problem is that when a documentary filmmaker seems too scared or cool or arty to violate his own immaculate aesthetic, he ends up weakening his case. | Like a Lion in a cage, a chill filmmaker can't get out and strut, they are unable to bend the rules, pacing nervously in their cage. | entailment |
Biblical overtones--the tale of Jacob and Laban--bubble up from Malamud's simplicity. | The Biblical overtones are written as to help explain why you should obey God. | neutral |
Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it. | Congress chose how to equalize things. | entailment |
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