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How do you forbid the kids to practice what you, er, practice?
You should always practice what you preach.
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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 based on shaky assumptions.
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Twenty-five days after that conversation, Johnson invited Kennedy to the Oval Office and told him face to face that he didn't want him as a running mate.
Johnson saw Kennedy as a bafoon.
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But if smoking is addictive, then it makes sense to try to keep tobacco out of the hands of kids who are too young to take the warnings seriously.
Cigarettes are especially harmful to children than adults.
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Skeptical doctors assert that such NDEs are purely physiological (naval pilots exposed to extreme gravity also have visions of bright lights and a God figure).
Most experiences of God like figures can be attributed to physiological events.
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But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.
W.H. Auden was a writer of verse, who opined about poetry being worthless, and this was his main goal in writing.
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His shows are more 700 Club than Crossfire . His guests almost always share Moyers' belief about the topic at hand.
700 Club is a secular show.
contradiction
Some of these Nobel Prize winners don't want to deal with empirical reality at all.
Nobel Prize winners live in an alternate dimension.
contradiction
She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ...
She and the man were not married.
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An article explicates curling (shuffleboard on ice with brooms), the one game in all the world wherein the human participants move faster than the object they put in play.
Curling is an unpopular sport.
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Eight pages later, a tribute to Princess Diana emphasizes her embodiment of, yes, Globalization has become the decade's most overused word, but at its heart, it embodies a real technology has made this a planet of shared experiences.
Everyone loved Princess Diana.
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On the 10 th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, we often refer to that event in shorthand as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
At least a decade has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, each brick of which was removed.
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The 1990s even saw a major overhaul, when Charlotte introduced magnet schools devoted to excellence in a single area, such as math, and open to students from all neighborhoods--to give whites extra incentive to travel long distances to school.
The students who go to Charlette will have a great education.
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The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers.
The winning Hackathlete is the first one to break into the Pentagon's mainframe
contradiction
The House Judiciary Committee is making plans to hire 18 new lawyers for a possible impeachment inquiry.
The House Judiciary Committee is opening an investigation into allegations against a senior government official.
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The military is (theoretically) a nonpolitical institution, but as soon as the operation went south, the military abandoned its nonpolitical faaade to protect itself.
The mlitary in question is controled by a democratic nation.
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He's almost always portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974.
He was usually portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974.
entailment
Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.
The author thinks obstructing ideas is the best way to win.
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Congress, the United Nations, and other international forums.
Congress and the United Nations are one and the same.
contradiction
In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.
Casinos only cared about the money.
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Exempted from Novak's observation might be executives at Reebok, who last year professed to have been unaware of connotations associated with the name they gave to a new women's running Incubus.
Esecutives did not properly research the name
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Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?
The birds are close to dying
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China is the most eager customer, buying surplus material through U.S.-based scrap-metal dealers.
China has plentiful supplies of scrap metal of their own.
contradiction
I thought to myself, 'This is incredible' ...It totally fell into our lap.
I'm happy about this new development.
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Someone, maybe a family counselor, needs to deal with the alienation the youngster feels and the hostility harbored by your husband.
My husband and youngster are having issues that require the use of a family counselor.
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But instead of finding his behavior humiliating, as she now tells the Star was the case, the friend says she laughed it off.
She was not embarrassed by his behavior and was able to just laugh it off.
entailment
If my dog is reading this, he'd better run now.
If my dog is reading this, he should lie down
contradiction
Is it Christmas in Tel Aviv or New Year's Eve in Manhattan?
The author is going spend the holidays in in city.
entailment
The fully cynical The joke is on us, because the building faithfully reflects Reagan's continuation of big government, despite his rhetoric.
Reagan wanted to continue toward small government.
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 are designed to fight
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It's also why he would make a lousy president.
Donald Trump won the re-election despite being a lousy presidential candidate.
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Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victor...
The plagiarism was done out of love.
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This one-way connection will offer speeds up to 150,000 bits per second.
Speeds will typically be around 100,000 bits per second.
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He did not, however, suggest that everybody follow his example.
His way was not the best way.
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The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.
The Clinton administration were not worried about the peril of technology transfer.
entailment
Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.
Americans have a right to not trust politicians.
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(Or at least, we hope to make this a tradition, and have got away with it for two summers so far.)
A custom has already been rejected in the minds of the others.
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8) The common currency will help global corporations while stripping each European nation of its power to make its own destiny.
The ordinary currency will add to the power of each European nation.
contradiction
Bradley, who has belittled Gore's microproposals (sprawl, traffic, etc.), will see his own self-proclaimed questioned.
Bradley's proposals will be accepted as fact, without him defending them.
contradiction
Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993.
Albright has a Jewish background.
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Hives feature the mathematical genius of honeycombs and precise divisions of labor.
Labor division in hives is often confusing and unclear.
contradiction
K has no trouble deciding which it is now that he needs a few second-order considerations to refine his argument.
K is indecisive about his argument.
contradiction
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
People who are allergic usually attract strong mates.
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The one-day crash of '87, for example, reduced people's net worth by billions without directly reducing by as much as a single doughnut the amount of goods and services or the economy's ability to produce more of them.
The stock market crashed in 1987 and drastically lowered investor's net worth by billions of dollars.
entailment
Intellectual property refers, basically, to nontangible creative product and, like a rising sea, it seems to cover new territory with every passing year.
It is impossible to copywrite something that is not tangible.
contradiction
He recently said that a Washington state initiative to require trigger locks was written by Satan.
In a sort of Sophie's choice, a State Judge in Washington decided to repeal the hard fought initiative, negating the legislative compromise.
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For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative.
Simova will have children to extend Alright's family.
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How does a former police officer get involved with running a laboratory making illegal speed?
Speed is an illegal substance.
entailment
But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.
I believe I have a higher calling here, and a reason to be proud.
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Time 's culture-heavy lineup includes Tiger Woods, Rosie O'Donnell, Babyface Edmonds, Don Imus, Trent Reznor, and Dilbert (of the comic strip).
Celebrities try to get featured in Time.
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It's not commerce that rules in Hollywood.
It is fame that rules Hollywood.
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The few stinky letters were from clergymen.
The letters smelled quite nice.
contradiction
They could learn something--not much, perhaps, but something--from the lively, nasty online discussions they're missing.
The online discussions that they're missing are nasty
entailment
The judge agreed there were extenuating circumstances because both songwriters had been inspired by old blues music.
The judge had been inspired by old blues music
contradiction
Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.
The author's new keyboard is top of the line.
entailment
Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.
No one was murdered and it was just a rumor.
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Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day.
They had more energy than the day before.
contradiction
Kinsley fails to address the main point of the privatization Social Security changes people's behavior.
Social Security remaining public would not change people's behavior.
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4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority.
Syria was completely stable.
contradiction
In any event, Gore dropped out of the race shortly after the debate.
Gore dropped out of the race five minutes after the meeting.
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That problem was there at the beginning, when meritocracy appeared to have triumphed, whether at the University of California or Yale, and it is still with us.
Meritocracy is simply a theory.
contradiction
Later in the piece, Brill writes that Schmidt and another reporter declined all comment on their sources.
The comments were mostly negative.
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It's not what management theorist Tom Peters sees as the company of the future, a floating network/crap game.
Tom Peters lacks the skills required to manage anything.
contradiction
Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.
The policies deal with the topic of hiring
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I know you find that hard to accept, but really, it's true.
You will eventually understand that it's true.
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Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.
Carey's campaign was unsuccessful in its fight against union corruption
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In addition, the unions sponsored voter guides and a get-out-the-vote campaign.
The unions put money toward the campaign
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What's more pernicious about the coverage is that it confuses the qualities of a crusader with those of a president.
Presidents are only successful when reporters make them appear like crusaders.
contradiction
What makes a late abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now--like a fully formed child.
The author finds late abortion to be horrible.
entailment
Time claims that friends say Willey's calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility ...
Willey is not as calm as they seem.
entailment
Lee's bodyguard and cook (and, one presumes, slave).
The bodyguard has more than one role.
entailment
Obviously, it's easy for me to complain about players who aren't big on self-effacement or deference to authority.
complaining about the quiet respectable players comes easy to him.
entailment
He had a decade of writing his novel behind him and almost three more ahead of him.
He had a novel behind him
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That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.
Lubrication policy is decided by what is most needed
contradiction
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 old enough to be her father.
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Tobacco growers managed to avoid that fate last year.
Tobacco growers knew they would not meet the same fate last year.
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It's easy to imagine an election where Clinton is initially ahead of Dole, but a third party entry by, say, Jesse Jackson, pushes Dole ahead of Clinton.
It's easy to visualize an election where Clinton is initially ahead of Dole.
entailment
And ads on the Internet, at least so far, lack oomph.
Google is working on creating better Internet ads
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Impossible, argued Albright and He will not stop until he is forced to do so.
People all agreed that he would stop on his own.
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In other words, I write because I think it is right.
I write because I think it is right.
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But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.
We understand how the human body works
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The example of loyalty and When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman).
Tricky Dick, or Richard Nixon, intensely disliked economists and refused to hire them.
contradiction
Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.
My position will result in many costly mistakes and tons of painful bickering.
contradiction
Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like ...
Katz desperately wants to be published by the Washington Post.
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White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is in the hot seat for testifying that he never mentioned President Clinton's stalker description of Monica Lewinsky to reporters.
Monica Lewinsky was not really a stalker.
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It's not commerce that rules in Hollywood.
Gollywood revolves around commerce.
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Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.
The News Quiz participants are entertaining to some.
entailment
Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.
The United States drug policy has not been successful.
entailment
Would Shuger ever have Why did Irving Goldberg play 'Sol Bernstein'?
He was performing as 'Sol Bernstein', which won Irving Goldberg some awards.
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And in 1976 Beatty resisted pleas to make a late primary challenge to Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter ran in 1976.
entailment
Even his pit bulls restrained themselves.
The pit bulls were self-controlled.
entailment
Woodward's 1996 campaign finance pieces struck a chord that still rings, and I predict a similar impact for Barton Gellman's two-part series last week about how the United States and China nearly went to war in 1996 (click here and here).
Barton Gellman claims the US and China were close to war in 1996.
entailment
As federal employees, postal workers are not allowed to strike and, if a negotiated settlement cannot be reached, contractual disputes are resolved by binding arbitration.
Binding arbitration is usually fair.
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A Palestinian state is a certainty, according to an article, but sovereignty will be a sham.
Their ability to self-govern could be an illusion, but Palestinians will have a state.
entailment
Many responses were built on the assumption that Southern Baptists are bad in bed.
Everyone believes that Southern Baptists are great in bed.
contradiction
There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.
The Holocaust can be described many ways.
entailment
The decline in prices to their fundamental level may be gradual, and even a crash may not turn into a larger economic disaster.
It's possible that the decline in prices will be gradual.
entailment
In fact, the evidence thus far is quite depressing in this regard.
The evidence is depressing.
entailment
Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.
It is assumed that IE and Windows can be taken apart.
entailment
As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4.
The price my neighbor was charging was much higher than mine.
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