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The lead essay bemoans the replacement of objective, authoritative, Walter Cronkite-style news by opinionated, entertaining talk. | The essay writer enjoys news for entertainment. | contradiction |
T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system. | The South Indian system of scales is left out of the study of ethnomusicology. | contradiction |
Stephen King dumped his longtime publisher, Viking, and is seeking more than $17 million for his new book. | Viking helped to print and market King's novels. | entailment |
Drew said there would then be an entire week to write off Forbes between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire. | New Hampshire's event will happen only two days after the Iowa caucus. | contradiction |
Many News Quiz responses were rejected by Slate 's e-mail server. | News Quiz response were rejected in error due to a programing bug in the Slate's e-mail server. | neutral |
Industry folks fear they have given too much away. | Those of industry give at specific times of the year. | neutral |
In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole. | Giving ESPN a run for their money, News Corp is vying to be a profitable, Sports Channel. | entailment |
Theologians agree that prayer reinforces faith even when God doesn't intercede. | Faith is only ever reinforced if god promptly answers people's prayer. | contradiction |
The fights are riotous slapstick set In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals. | The assassins shattered each massive Ming vase with a hammer before they fell to the ground. | contradiction |
McCain, for example, demands an investigation of the allegations about technology transfer [and] all these campaign contributions that came out of China. | McCain wants Chinese contributions investigated | entailment |
I could have sworn I had my 10-foot pole right here ... | The 10 foot pole is not where I thought it was. | entailment |
Some medical ethicists and constitutional scholars say that the Supreme Court was wrong to create the pre-viability/post-viability distinction in the first place. | The Supreme Court will change its ruling. | neutral |
If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here. | Both Clinton and Lewinsky were acting in a lewd manner when they were caught by the agent who was taking a break. | neutral |
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. | Leonardo's work is unable to be seen at the Codex Leicester display. | contradiction |
I wrote no such thing, and Arthur has never, to my knowledge, claimed any such thing. | One has never wrote such a thing. | entailment |
Anything to keep from turning into one of those people. | They will go to great lengths to avoid turning into one of those people | entailment |
Added tiers devoted to luxury seating at the new parks also push the upper deck away from the field. | The added luxury seating made it so that the upper deck seats were farther from the field. | entailment |
Finkelstein is not breaking new ground here. | Finkelestein has a new idea, in a history setting way here. | contradiction |
Modern legislation and regulation are technical and complex. | Now a days, laws and rules are complicated and difficult to comprehend. | entailment |
They are using us, and I need help with this. | We are using them. | contradiction |
On Tuesday's NYPD Blue (ABC, 10 p.m.), Rick Schroder's tight-lipped character, Danny Sorenson, opens up to Sipowicz while seeking help for an alcoholic friend. | Rick Schroder plays Danny Sorenson. | entailment |
Chekhov was an ingenious phrase maker, with many of the phrases scattered in his letters. | Checkhov was illiterate. | contradiction |
However, there are currently no federal laws prohibiting the second category. | The 2,nd category is preferred | neutral |
Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few. | Bennett was fretting five years ago. | entailment |
From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful. | Your sister in law intends to make a cuckold of your brother. | entailment |
Didn't anyone remind them that Dole had already reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan? | Dole failed to reserve the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan | contradiction |
Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone. | people disagree with the entire tobacco bill | neutral |
I'm not sure it is right, in ways I hope it is wrong, and in the end, Richard, you might be It might just not add up. | There are some ways in which I hope that it is right. | neutral |
Challenged by the Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch in the letters column of the Dec. 8 Standard , Bennett, remarkably, dug in to defend the Cameron numbers, which he said coincided with the views of other authorities such as psychiatrist . Satinover's 1996 book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth , does dis... | Bennett is willing to hear all sides of the argument. | neutral |
The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off. | The Grand Slam helped revitalize the restaurant. | contradiction |
In a state lottery, your odds of winning depend only on how many tickets you hold compared with everyone else. | It is impossible to calculate the odds of winning in a state lottery | contradiction |
You can make an argument that intelligence is an extremely unlikely, random, quirky event in terrestrial biology, or you can make the counter-argument that you can see intelligence coming down the pike from many millions of years in advance. | Intelligence is traceable through Human evolutionary history. | neutral |
On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome. | Molly completely accepts being a snobby elitist. | contradiction |
But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications. | Rich people are happier than poor people. | neutral |
When you wanted to shop, you went to the mall and confined your search to the stores you found there. | One travels to the mall when they want to shop. | entailment |
Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too. | actions are either good or bad | contradiction |
The Episcopalians are all going to hell. | The Episcopalians are all going to heaven. | contradiction |
Based on this assessment, NATO has kept ground forces out of Kosovo, allowing atrocities to continue, and has kept its planes high above Serbian anti-aircraft batteries, limiting our pilots' ability to distinguish refugees from Serb forces on the ground. | The assessment states that NATO moved ground forces into Kosovo and put a stop to atrocities. | contradiction |
For bitchy wit at its best, set your VCRs to catch Bette Davis in the incomparable All About Eve (Monday, Cinemax 2, 4 p.m.). | Some people will record All About Eve when it plays on Cinemax. | neutral |
Perhaps Internet users are more depressed because they are better informed. | Internet users are more depressed since they skip meals in order to interact with the internet more. | neutral |
Grisham is content with the simple and compelling observation that as a society we fail to treat the homeless with the dignity they deserve. | Grisham firmly believes that society gives the less fortunate far too much, in return for much too little. | contradiction |
even falling knowing already he was dead, and how much I pray to myself I want not, ever, | He has been deceased since 2019 | neutral |
The editor published the study to help Clinton. | The study was published to hurt Clinton. | contradiction |
Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy. | By failing to engender a melancholic mood, the portrayal by Farrow was widely praised. | contradiction |
But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact. | Humans are animals | entailment |
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House impeachment leader Rep. | The Republicans hold the majority in the Senate. | entailment |
Movie stars can control their images. | Actors can direct their outward representation. | entailment |
4. Causality. | The rain freezes on the roads. | neutral |
I do not know whether this theory is true. | They are more likely to believe that the theory is true than false. | neutral |
If NBC wanted to clone its sitcoms, you think it could aim higher than Suddenly Susan and The Naked Truth , says USA Today 's Matt Roush. | Matt Roush from USA Today is not a fan of Suddenly Susan and The Naked Truth. | neutral |
The face of Europe might look quite a bit different. | Europe has remained unchanged over a span of generations. | contradiction |
What is worrisome is the failure of pollsters themselves to learn from the history of their profession. | Pollsters will continue to fail to learn from the history of their profession. | neutral |
Scouring each company's Web site could take forever, but Gurnee Mills puts all the information on one page . And while most malls let you click on links to their retailers, the links usually take you not to the national Web sites of those retailers but to dummy pages on the mall's site that tell you only about that ret... | Most malls let you click on links to their retailers but they take you to dummy pages that tell you only about that retailer's store in the mall. | entailment |
The WSJ has these Monica 1) Vernon Jordan isn't part of the joint defense agreement entered into by many other grand-jury witnesses with White House ties. | Some of the grand-jury witnesses are connected to the White House | entailment |
PinochetAid concert. | A concert dedicated to the memory of Pinochet. | 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. | What Lewis writes about is very unbelievable. | entailment |
Some houses--big and small--have trimmed their lists, consulting closely with the chains to determine what is commercial, and have seen their profits and sales rise. | The houses that consult with the chains follow their recommendations to the letter. | neutral |
The only really arresting work he did after 1950 is . With its electric brightness, this huge painting, which Pollock's friends started for him, is stunning but sad, a big smile for the camera and perhaps a kind of requiem for his earlier work. | Pollock had no remarkable paintings of his own after 1950. | neutral |
One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin. | Cybill Shepherd and Robert Martin will never get back together. | entailment |
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 author is comparing the Ford Theater to the place where President Lincoln was killed. | entailment |
in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye. | Quentin Compson's story rattled some family skeletons. | entailment |
In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power. | Hong Kong Telecom is located in Beijing. | contradiction |
You get to a hotel room in your travel-stained sweater, shirt, and pants, and drop all these down a chute. | The sweater has a stain on it. | entailment |
An article celebrates the return to favor of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose sharp tongue is nearly as famous as his music (he disses Wynton Marsalis as a talented high-school trumpet player). | Keith Jarrett has disrespected Wynton Marsalis many times in the past. | neutral |
He's almost always portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974. | In the movies he was almost always portrayed as the dark, suspicious figure circa 1974. | neutral |
Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet! | The wife who saw me castigated in public nearly fainted | entailment |
The Washington Post 's front-page story notes, Gore has gone to great lengths to conceal Wolf's role. | Gore covered up Wolf's role | entailment |
Cynics' He's playing dead . Anti-Microsoft analysts spin the same theory the other Gates, having been pulled over by the cops for aggressive driving, is sliding into the passenger seat and giving the wheel to Ballmer, whose record is clean, so that the cops will go easy on the company. | Microsoft will get off easy | neutral |
A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1. | Risk-neutral people are careful | entailment |
On behalf of the Harvard Square respondents, it must be said that ignorance was masked by a bravura self-confidence. | The Harvard gang was full of a gaggle of underclassmen. | neutral |
Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my singl... | None but God know my struggle | entailment |
The technophobic This is what we get for relying on gadgets. | There is only positive effects of depending on gadgets | contradiction |
Congratulations to all our winners. | The winners will win a prize. | neutral |
As Bill Clinton ratchets up the pressure on Baghdad, Saddam will inevitably bellow Nasserite defiance. | The author doubts that Saddam has a disposition to resist | contradiction |
Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks. | The author is picturing a couple of baritones interacting with an Iraqi guy | entailment |
France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS. | France has just become a target for speculators of currency. | neutral |
Lose the dismal cover illustrations and return to having a lead review or cover essay. | Changing the layout and focus of the publication will stoke interest. | neutral |
But the more important question How many teen-age girls are getting pregnant in the first place? | The amount of teenagers getting pregnant is dropping. | neutral |
Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude. | Their drinking, drug use, behavior problem, or simply bad attitude eliminated their chance at the job. | neutral |
The charities, Paris adds, don't endorse the product at all. | The charities are endorsing the product. | contradiction |
We've come a long way together from Strom Thurmond's ass (which, while not free, is surprisingly affordable), and if online technology were not in its infancy, right about now I'd be buying you all a round of free-range rug shampoo. | Free-Range rug shampoo is harder to come by because the current stage of online technology is preventing progress. | entailment |
The Americans' one-point victory over the European team was the biggest comeback in the tournament's history. | The Americans had a huge comeback during a tournament. | entailment |
And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on. | Critics believe human live is worthless | contradiction |
Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars. | Traditional scholars are leftists. | contradiction |
Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken. | fried chicken | entailment |
Before proceeding, write down or remember the directories where these files are found. | There will be an easy prompt to allow you to access directories now, before completing. | neutral |
Alfred Kazin jowled that Oprah's club represents the carpet bombing of the American mind, but even a stuffed shirt like Kazin can't complain when 15 million TV watchers are urged to read Toni Morrison and do.) | Oprah's book club is the biggest book clubs in America. | neutral |
The company, which is now traded publicly, was started in 1980 by a psychologist named Stephen Gordon, who was restoring a Queen Anne-style house in Eureka, Calif., and found it maddeningly difficult to locate the period-style fixtures he needed. | The company was initially a private company. | neutral |
The goal shouldn't be to make the desert bloom. | The desert bloom is bad | neutral |
Morris was close enough to Leuchter to have gotten something more, to have gone a little deeper in search of a poison that does penetrate surfaces. | Morris never found the poison. | neutral |
The territory's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 5 percent or 6 percent in 1997 and 1998, up from 4.7 percent in 1996. | The area's GDP is projected to increase slightly more in 1997 and 1998 than in 1996. | entailment |
By my calculations, it probably went about 479 feet. | I calculate it went about 479 feet. | entailment |
The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad . | A war criminal was arrested while traveling from the United States to Europe. | neutral |
The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to de Gas to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had. | They had ties to money lenders | entailment |
I suppose Franke-Ruta was compelled to read every single line without really wanting to at all? | Franke-Ruta was unable to read any of the lines at the time, and he still refuses to read them to this day. | contradiction |
The technology might usefully be applied in local races, in which it's hard to sort out the platform of every potential state senator, judge, school board official, and city council member. | New technology could be used to help sort out the platform of members in local races | entailment |
(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.) | The analogy about the fiction and nonfiction is a good one. | entailment |
He adopted an upbeat American organicism derived from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. | He believed everything was part of a natural order. | entailment |
From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful. | Your sister in law is committing adultery. | neutral |
The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division. | The Reagan defense budgets harmed things | contradiction |
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