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As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies. | Sir Peter Hall wrote about times that Tony Blair was asked for funds for museums and artists and turned the requests down. | neutral |
It's not that hard to imagine a similar message being sent home by someone investigating what happened to Tsingtao. | If someone investigated what happened to Tsingtao, they will send home a vastly different message. | contradiction |
The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism. | The self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism is embraced by the Street Lawyer. | contradiction |
mean is we moved closer, in, | They moved further away. | contradiction |
Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude. | They neither had a bad attitude nor a drug or alcohol problem. | contradiction |
Clinton claims to have known nothing about the Chinese plans. | Clinton claims multiple times to have known nothing about the Chinese plans. | neutral |
Faking appreciation is always, of course, er, appreciated. | It's nice when appreciation, even if fake, is shown. | entailment |
Being loyal Republicans, Lamar's contributors talk about such happenings only obliquely. | Lamar is a democrat. | contradiction |
Some analysts think Senate Republicans alienated conservative voters by giving up on tax cuts and caving in to Clinton in the budget negotiations. | Senate Republicans negotiated with the President in order to get what they want but left their constituents behind. | entailment |
Since Yugoslavia's disintegration, Franjo Tudjman, a right-wing dictator, has exploited Croatian nationalist sentiments. | Franjo Tudjman is a left wing environmentalist. | contradiction |
Massachusetts' highest court decided that British au pair Louise Woodward will not go back to jail. | Massachusetts has a strict policy of throwing everyone back into jail. | contradiction |
Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com. | Vote.com has yet to engage any voters. | contradiction |
For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock. | carpetbagger charges are serious | neutral |
If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for? | Your personal worth has is irrelevant with anyone needing you. | contradiction |
Praise goes to Lee's argument, her sensitivity, and her writing. | Lee is very sensitive when she writes. | entailment |
On Friday's NewsHour , Gigot asks, Is this a Republican Congress? | Gigot was on Friday's NewsHour. | entailment |
Election 97 uses a new Virtual Reality Modeling Language technology to provide 3-D maps that give British voters a better understanding of how constituencies are spread throughout the country and where the critical districts lie. | Election 97 does not use Virtual Reality Modeling Language. | contradiction |
Who actually thinks that having teen-agers line up to pee after they've demonstrated their parallel parking skills is a reasonable way to demand responsible behavior by young people when it comes to drugs, as Clinton proclaimed? | No one at all thinks that having teenagers line up to pee is reasonable | neutral |
The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit. | This last bastion of human conceit is the notion that we are created in God’s image. | neutral |
Economist Robert Barro decided to stay at Harvard rather than take Columbia's offer of a $300,000 salary and lavish perks. | Barro moved to Dartmouth | contradiction |
Two tons of metal are not enough to defend your children, however. | The two tons of metal being referenced here is a barricade. | neutral |
By contrast, Mundell's writings since the early '70s have been discursive, one might almost say rambling, and often reveal a sort of hankering for the lost certainties of the gold standard. | Mundell's work is forgotten and irrelevant. | neutral |
Exploiting the newly dead sounds ghoulish, but the medical establishment rationalizes the practice--at least in private--by saying that it's better than letting interns fumble on live patients. | The medical establishment rationalizes interns practicing on the newly dead. | entailment |
The company could have monitored distribution better but didn't because it wanted to keep its hands clean, Hass has said. | The company monitored distribution the best it could. | contradiction |
Slate 's take on the culture of impotence.) | Slate has an opinion on culture. | entailment |
According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco. | Dopamine, which was written about in Time, explains how we become addicted. | entailment |
When I think of someone like Tolly Greenberg, I think of my grandpa Ben, he writes. | Tolly is the same age as my Grandpa. | neutral |
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films). | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries starred Barbara Hershey. | entailment |
The problem, though, is that the ADR phenomenon has created a situation where U.S. investors are pouring billions of dollars into companies whose standards of financial disclosure and corporate governance are dramatically different from our own and which are, in some cases, nonexistent. | The ADR phenomenon resulted in investors putting their money in companies who had elevated standards of financial disclosure and corporate governance. | contradiction |
Blockades have always been regarded as acts of war. | Blockades used to be considered a friendly part of trade negotiations between nations | contradiction |
We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest. | Self-interest is a more generous reason to do things than philanthropy. | contradiction |
While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along. | It is entirely possible for the headline to seemingly describe that which is terrifying. | entailment |
The Washington Post reported that for $5,000, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is offering donors a chance to give Trent Lott and other senators advice at a forum next month. | Trent Lott is one of many senators | entailment |
And yet (no doubt largely because congressional Republicans were overplaying their hand), the public gave Clinton more support than had ever been enjoyed by Richard Nixon (personal 67 percent) or even Ronald Reagan (personal 68 percent--mass adulation of Ronald Reagan being a largely retrospective phenomenon). | Clinton received more support than any other of the latest Republican Presidents. | entailment |
News ' Web shopping package centers on the America Online-Netscape merger. | The America Online and Netscape merger is the only reason News' Webb package exists. | neutral |
Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human. | The Belgian scientist was found lying. | neutral |
The troopers see Hillary as an undesirable, foul-mouthed harridan who had brought the mistreatment and neglect on herself. | Hillary's was unpopular amongst the troopers, who worked in law enforcement and who saw her as a liability to herself. | entailment |
Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio. | In the 33 minute Circle in the Round, Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck. | entailment |
Although it hasn't dominated Seattle's skyline since the '80s, when the economic boom sprouted a host of taller buildings, it remains the city's symbol of progress. | It remains a symbol of progress for a city in Washington. | entailment |
Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells? | Does Boston Tea Party remind you of anything? | entailment |
In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse. | She has always behaved like a model citizen when she goes out to eat. | contradiction |
Eszterhas' posturing He became the celebrity he'd always hoped to be--brash, appealing, larger than life. | Eszterhas is a well known person. | entailment |
Actually, three, if you count Jerry Falwell's Jew Town, but that's a scary place. | Jerry Falwell's Jew Town is a chilling place. | entailment |
This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay. | I don't know if this says they want to pay or they can pay. | entailment |
We can stumble into a war with China over Taiwan very easily, warns Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University. | David Shambaugh feels that a conflict with China is impossible, especially about something as trivial as Taiwan. | contradiction |
One answer is to try to change the incentives of politicians, by making it more difficult for special interests to buy influence. | Politicians, that sell out to lobbyist's would get fined, making it unprofitable. | neutral |
After coming up with the idea for the project and appointing an associate editor to run it, he says, he was only minimally involved. | The associate editor did a good job managing the project. | neutral |
Even this distinction, though, is changing with the development of off-line software that automatically goes to the Web to retrieve material, and stores it on your own computer. | Even though my app has a free trial, you break, you buy. | neutral |
Then I jump in with a higher bid at the end, hoping that at least some of those competitors are away from their computers and unable to respond. | A low bid at the end is a good idea. | contradiction |
A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence. | India is an independent nation. | entailment |
Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be interested in buying it and turning it into a West Coast version of the New York Post . A circulation-hungry Willes vs. the rapacious That's just the kind of fight the American newspaper industry needs. | The newspaper is currently seen as a West Coast version of the New York Post. | contradiction |
The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay. | The organization is running at 100% without any issues. | contradiction |
Marjorie, it's been a delight to correspond with you this week. | Marjorie has been a difficult and unpleasant correspondence this month. | contradiction |
Carlyle was inspired, if that's the word, by the writings of Thomas Malthus, who predicted that population growth would always outpace economic growth, keeping most people in perpetual poverty. | Malthus believed most people would eventually be raised out of poverty | contradiction |
While these varieties are generally incompatible with one another, all this code-writing has resulted in a far-flung community that understands the Unix beast. | A community that unstands the Unix system has written code. | entailment |
To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression? | The Dust Bowl and Great Depression happened in different eras | contradiction |
In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31. | Mother's Day is in May but the sale of Mother's day flowers, oddly, expires July 31. | entailment |
On one occasion recounted by the author, a woman rented a horse, stripped naked, and arrived at the door, Lady Godiva-style. | The author is writing fiction. | neutral |
While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated. | The closure of the noncompeting branches will cut about 15,000 jobs, which would extend great hardship to their families as they look for new work. | entailment |
Then the three were asked to comment on these past thoughts (none found any errors, of course). | The three are working a lie together. | neutral |
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. | The fall of the Berlin Wall was heralded as the moment of liberation by many countries in Eastern Europe. | entailment |
A self-appraisal (and remember, the entire purpose of a reference group is to serve as a yardstick for self-appraisal) would entail evaluating the richness of relationships and the satisfactions of accomplishments, rather than the cataloging of possessions. | When determining your value, it is best to focus completely on your possessions. | contradiction |
That's the only thing that'll overcome the meat-grinding aspects of national politics. | Politics destroys innocent people. | neutral |
8. She's a dirty little secret. | She kept her relationships a secret from everyone else. | neutral |
Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate. | In Hatch's opinion, Americans deserve to know if a politician is a criminal or not. | entailment |
With negotiations at a stalemate and summer vacations removing the motivation for an immediate solution, both sides appear to be settling in. | Both sides appear to be settling in until the fall session. | neutral |
To get your favorite parts of Slate | Slate contains different parts | entailment |
Since the film ends with Schultz's death, it leaves little indication as to what became of Johnson. | Like a black hole, some of the character's fates are murky at the end. | entailment |
Not entirely unmarried men are seldom worth the trouble. | Unmarried men are not worth it. | entailment |
(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.) | People die in war. | entailment |
I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded. | We can't be sure about before being elected, but afterwards, Bush did have a sense of humor. | entailment |
Forgive the debtors, especially the hopeless cases among the very poorest nations. | Attempts should be made to collect the debt, especially from the hopeless cases among the very poorest nations. | contradiction |
13-year-old Latino gang I ain't down to die right now, for I'm barely having fun. | The gang member, who was only 13 years old, was Latino. | entailment |
The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy. | The Irish show contains some Truly, touching moments in light of it's initial luke warm beginning. | neutral |
The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information. | The conversation included little discussion about the particular data about the statistics. | contradiction |
Few bounty hunter training programs exist--the most frequently attended programs are 20-hour courses that cover only basic legal constraints. | Bounty Hunter training programs are common and anyone can sign up | contradiction |
But in both cases, the feds can help. | The feds are able to assist. | entailment |
It's the most prestigious, appearing as it does in the premier book review in the country. | The author is considered one of the country's most prestigious. | neutral |
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, too, is working on behalf of the companies involved in the settlement, and he deserves as much scorn as his Democratic counterparts. | Haley Barbour is helping the companies cheat the victims in the settlement. | neutral |
But it won't do this because of some ancestral memory in the genes. | The ancestral memory noted here, is a unique feature,which is only found here. | neutral |
At the expense of the middle class. | The expense will increase the taxes of the middle class. | neutral |
They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women. | It would take a 20 pound gain to trigger action in higher-income women | contradiction |
The new company may also benefit from merging warehousing and inventory management, and ideally there will be joint production of components that both companies use. | The company has opportunity for benefit. | entailment |
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. | The school in New Haven bases its admissions decisions solely on merit. | neutral |
It is certainly not because he failed to get most of his policy proposals adopted. | People did not agree with his proposals because of party alliance. | neutral |
Long ignored by snake experts, the skeleton shares many physical characteristics with that of snakes, including its 140 vertebrae and its extraordinarily flexible jaws. | Snakes have flexible jaws. | entailment |
By contrast, many nerds can be handsome (Gore) or self-confident to the point of arrogance (Gates, Gingrich). | There are both physically attractive nerds and nerds that are so self-confident that they are considered arrogant. | entailment |
He recently purchased 387 acres on one of the San Juan Islands that is the site of Camp Nor'Wester, a venerated children's summer retreat. | He recently purchased a large amount of land on one of the San Juan Islands. | entailment |
Best wishes until we meet again--perhaps over Volume 9 of some future 14-volume biography of Rosalynn Carter. | We would both be interested in a biography of Rosalynn Carter. | entailment |
The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft. | Washington D.C. is keeping a close eye on the company | entailment |
I'm from a small country [New Zealand], but I don't see what we are doing here as a threat to our sovereignty. | New Zealand is a sovereign nation. | entailment |
That's what the Globe had to do last week for actress Bo Derek and her director husband, John. | Bo Derek is a book writer. | contradiction |
Even in the suburbs, where dogs run free, no poodle comes home with a hammer and sickle spray-painted on his side. | Animals run free in the suburbs | entailment |
Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time. | Amazon has been getting pressure to make their forms easier to use. | neutral |
These countries only reluctantly agreed to this week's new U.N. sanctions that bar international travel by Iraqi officials linked to the inspection dispute. | The dispute over inspections has been going on for a long time. | neutral |
His viewing procedures are quite advanced. | The viewing procedures are quite archaic, | contradiction |
In 19 th -century Britain, this tough love helped keep the divorce rate near zero even amid the stark status inequality of a modern nation. | The 50% divorce rate started in 19th-century Britain. | contradiction |
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 has an audience of at least 15 million watching her on TV. | entailment |
And what exactly is the scandal about Wolf that Gore is covering up? | Wolf that Gore are unknown characters made up in a book | contradiction |
And you have to keep experimenting with alterations and examining the results as external conditions change over time. | Experimenting is the only way to change results. | neutral |
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