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Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece. | The Slate editor indicated it might be good for me to do a piece | entailment |
Tina Brown resigned as editor of The New Yorker . She will chair a multimedia publishing company in partnership with Miramax Films. | She plans to chair a multimedia publishing company for the next decade after resigning from The New Yorker | neutral |
The pump also offers superb ease of squeeze. | The pump is easier to squeeze than other competing pumps | neutral |
Now along comes PK to blame men. | PK wants to blame men. | entailment |
Whether these habits will change on their own, with the maturation of a more tolerant generation, or whether full social acceptance of black Americans will require a concerted governmental effort, is unknowable. | Blacks will be fully accepted in society within 12 years | neutral |
But in the final five minutes, I raised my bid to $250, then $275, then $300, and finally won the auction, exhilarated by my victory. | The auction was ended at $300 for the item. | entailment |
In other words, on a day when George Bush was supposedly distancing himself from conservative Republicans, he was actually caving to their foolish dogma on the issue at the center of campaign--over the objection of his two top advisors on the subject. | The former president who tried to distance himself from conservative Republicans actually caved to them | entailment |
The new translation of Homer's The Odyssey has whipped up so much fervor that Paul Gray in Time has proclaimed the existence of the Fagles phenomenon. | Homer's the Odyssey is a classic. | neutral |
An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time. | A counteroffer was made by Blitzer. | entailment |
If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs. | CNN has boring programs | entailment |
(The magazine revised its methodology to reward high spending on instruction.) | The magazine wants to reward those who spend lots of money on instruction. | entailment |
Mostyes voters dismissed the predictions of doom as exaggeration, according to polls conducted on either side of Election Day. | Voters thought predictions of doom were accurate | contradiction |
With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England. | Mayor Rudy Giuliani helped clean up NYC. | neutral |
In the New York Review of Books , for example, the Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, one of the chief modern villains of Orientalism , decried Said's inflammatory tone and questioned his knowledge of history, philology, and Arabic. | Said gave neutral statements about Orientalism. | contradiction |
The Majic Bus brought Brinkley minor fame. | Brinkley was mildly famous from the Majic Bus. | entailment |
In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity. | Tito didn't want people in Zagreb to express their ethnic identities. | entailment |
If a fetus is a fully human life, then all abortion is murder and the debate over any particular procedure is beside the point. | The abortion procedure matters | contradiction |
More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light. | Stocks recently went into overcorrection territory. | entailment |
The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease the new Black Death. | Something goes wrong when the author portrays someone as dying from Mad Cow Disease. | neutral |
In the publicity leading up to the release of Showgirls , Eszterhas gave interview after interview about the importance of the movie, of its deep moral message, its serious purpose. | Showgirls is a serious form of entertainment. | entailment |
For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention. | Journalists had been consumed by Clinton's debauchery and lies for over a month. | entailment |
During his father's primary campaign, George W. Bush watched Pat Buchanan go from 1992 to 1938, the heyday of Father Coughlin, dragging the Republican Party with him. | George W. Bush wasn't born until after Pat Buchanan died. | contradiction |
The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers. | Slate readers picked the best person as the winner of the Hackathon. | neutral |
Possession of a firearm or destructive device (i.e. | You can’t possess a firearm | contradiction |
The New York Times offered moral indignation | The New York Times is a tabloid with no factual basis. | contradiction |
Replace George Will's column with weekly photo of him being punched in the nose. | George Will is largely disliked. | neutral |
The 1992-93 famine lacked the central direction of a genocide, and its victims were not murdered on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. | The author is prehaps mocking a politician who compared the two. | neutral |
You've got to look in the mirror every morning and ask 'What am I organizing for ?' | Every morning you've got to look in the mirror | entailment |
But, except on election night, these were a relatively small part of their Web sites, let alone their overall news. | It was a large portion of their web sites on election night. | entailment |
I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women. | Women showed spirit during the Super Bowl | contradiction |
Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity. | When contesting with respect it benefits everyone involved. | neutral |
What's wrong with informing certain segments of the electorate that your opponent is using the feel-good rhetoric of solutions to pull a fast one at their expense? | It's clear that the entire electorate should remain uninformed | contradiction |
The University of Chicago has chosen a new president--but the debate over the ongoing shake-up at the school continues. | There is a new leader at the University of Chicago. | entailment |
In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race. | Interracial marriages existed in 1963. | entailment |
But he is older now. | He is getting older | entailment |
You may not believe that such intervention will work in practice, but that's a judgment about the rules of politics, not economics. | The rules of politics and the rules of economics are different. | entailment |
When they watched these films in the presence of an authority figure, however, the Americans' facial expressions were essentially the same as when they watched the films alone, whereas the Japanese showed much less negative affect, smiled sometimes, and actually masked negative emotion with smiling behavior. | An authority figure watched the films with both Japanese and American participants. | entailment |
I have certainly forgiven Bob Inglis. | Bob Inglis has done me wrong. | entailment |
But then she found that he was making unseemly demands upon her, including the demand to lie on his behalf. | He asked her to commit perjury | neutral |
When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that? | Ultimate fighting is a violent sport. | entailment |
Now I find I hate returning e-mails. | Returning e-mails should be done immediately. | neutral |
One answer is that the speed with which sexy-sounding scientific ideas get picked up by popular culture is getting alarmingly from Physical Review Letters to the latest best seller by Tom Peters almost before you know it. | Other sources of information influences pop culture. | neutral |
All past articles, features, and columns remain available in The Compost. | The Compost refuses to keep available past articles, features, or columns. | contradiction |
Morris' small-bore ideas, as he calls them, made the presidency look somewhat ridiculous in 1995 and 1996. | Morris was not helpful in maintaining presidential respect. | entailment |
It'd be nice to know more about that trend. | It would be great to learn more about that fad. | entailment |
And malignancy develops slowly. | malignancy is gradual. | entailment |
It's silly that this is all such a guessing game. | The conditions of the situation are certain. | contradiction |
Instead of watching TV, I made a fresh start by purchasing a newer version of Linux. | We got discounts on my software purchases, we were smart cookies. | neutral |
Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model. | Long before she became the Vogue cover model she was bigger britched and fans liked her better. | neutral |
Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond. | Lewis was no longer supported by the mulatto faction. | entailment |
People can be weak, and money is all too often the way to their heart. | People are often influenced by money. | neutral |
Vocation began here--the story of two frogs, | This is a story of 2 frogs. | entailment |
But the most affecting act is the kaddish , the statement of mourning that a son says on the death of his father. | When the head of the family passes, the son leads kaddish, renewing and expressing his love like the tide rolling in. | entailment |
It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things. | His thoughts are based on a book he read | neutral |
My own admittedly romantic preference is to see his career as a quest for inspiration, and to say Pollock sought it long, found it briefly, and couldn't live without it. | Pollock's career was short | entailment |
They are too easy a target. | They are safe from attack. | contradiction |
Unfortunately, that's a principle that doesn't seem to be at work in a capital market that just can't say no. | The capital market rejects everything. | contradiction |
For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention. | Journalists had been consumed by the wanton acts of sexual depravity that Clinton didn't seem bothered by, all while he "fiddled while Rome burned". | neutral |
So long as China continues to develop, Hong Kong will get a substantial chunk of that growth. | If China fails, Hong Kong also feels those losses. | neutral |
But sadly, I haven't had sex in five years. | It's been five years since I've had sex, unfortunately. | 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. | Workers are unable to leave a union even if they dislike their political activities. | contradiction |
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 owns a lot of things people find interesting. | neutral |
Russia continues to bomb Chechnya. | The conflict has not not caused damage. | contradiction |
In the warren of grungy rooms beneath the dance floor--the celebrities' sanctum sanctorum--the coke was consumed by the linear foot, and (according to the author) the odd European contessa could be found handcuffed to a water pipe, getting squired from the rear by one of the pretty shirtless busboys. | There was a maze of grimy rooms under the dance floor. | entailment |
Once all the world smiled benignly when an adult took an interest in a scoutmaster and troop, priest and altar boy--what could be more wholesome? | The adult took no interests whatsoever. | contradiction |
What's likely is a bitter battle between Perot and Ventura, conducted through proxies, their respective stand-ins for the Reform Party presidential nominee. | The two former leaders of the organization stood in a boxing ring like roosters in a cock fight, boxing to the death. | contradiction |
Microsoft isn't preventing anyone from using Netscape or charging Netscape for the right of access; it's providing Internet Explorer free, but then that would be normal practice in this kind of industry even if IE wasn't allegedly an integral part of Windows 95. | Netscape is more popular than Internet Explorer | neutral |
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 spots will focus on the two women | contradiction |
AS PART OF HER DYING WISH, SHE WANTED TO START A CHAIN LETTER TO INFORM PEOPLE | The woman has a dying wish. | entailment |
That is, we're paralyzed by the repeated idea that his election is inevitable. | The idea that his election is inevitable has been repeated. | entailment |
But in anything as complicated as aviation or romance, there are infinite possibilities for debacle. | A lot can go wrong when flying a plane. | entailment |
Talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford found out that a lump in her breast was benign. | A lump in Kathie Lee Gifford's breast was found to be benign. | entailment |
Instead they're busy scrounging for funds to spread good care more widely. | They will find all of the funds they need in time. | neutral |
In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ... | Terence Stamp will be nominated for his role as a felon in The Limey. | neutral |
How does a former police officer get involved with running a laboratory making illegal speed? | The individual was only impersonating a police officer as a cover for the illegal operation. | contradiction |
Of course he wasn't under oath, so that's OK. | There was no oath. | entailment |
That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not. | Chinese people have no culture or values to pass on. | contradiction |
A whole Lincoln bedroom full of cliches, says Newsday 's John Anderson. | John Anderson is witty and has a good sense of humor. | neutral |
He's obviously spending too much time online. | They thought he was spending too much time on social media. | neutral |
At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none. | Ken Starr has won a legal victory before. | entailment |
9. Don't define yourself merely by your enemy. | Your enemies define you. | contradiction |
He says, Who are these people? | Some of the people looked familiar to him. | neutral |
(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.) | Toobin responded to comment immediately. | contradiction |
But if you want to create our very own Quebec, go ahead and pass an official English law. | In order to create a new Quebec, a formal English law would have to be passed in the legislature. | entailment |
After 15 years of almost uninterrupted superlative performance--which not even the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps could seriously slow down--it's almost impossible to remember how close Disney was to being dismantled in the early 1980s. | Disney was unsuccessful in surviving the attempts of the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps to slow it down. | contradiction |
Giuliani is clearly wrong in trying to stop the exhibit, but how many people defending the museum right now would be trying to shut it down if the art was offensive in other, even less acceptable, ways? | Art is not controversial. | contradiction |
There's a returning kids-on-milk-cartons sense of hysteria to the whole crusade. | The crusade invoked a sense of calmness. | contradiction |
Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future. | Index funding defeats the purpose. | entailment |
In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States. | Adolf Hitler films were discovered in the United States. | entailment |
Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights. | Heston isn't sure what to think about gun rights. | neutral |
Critics have demanded that UFC install ropes instead. | it has been insisted by critics to use ropes in the UFC | entailment |
Fischel is also the author of The Conspiracy To Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution . Administrators protest that they are only keeping pace with their UNEXT has already signed on with Columbia, while Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell are considering commercial partners for their own online programs. | Stanford has an online program | entailment |
Now, to commemorate our first anniversary, in an act of incredible corporate generosity that is every bit as good as providing health insurance (I'm sure that Mr. Gates will make this sort of thing more available should Microsoft prove profitable), Slate | Providing health insurance is a great way to celebrate a corporation. | entailment |
If anyone actually was inclined to light up a cigar after breakfast, he would have been breaking the NAM's no-smoking rule, according to an association representative (who, like another witness I talked to, saw no cigars). | Someone smoked but wasn't seen by anyone | neutral |
The lead essay bemoans the replacement of objective, authoritative, Walter Cronkite-style news by opinionated, entertaining talk. | The essay writer was over 50 years old. | neutral |
Perverse as this may sound, Hitler is one reason why. | Hitler was a reason. | entailment |
One reject was asked earnestly why on earth he had gone to live in Prague after graduation, surviving on odd jobs instead of starting a career back home. | They questioned why she lived in Prague after graduation | contradiction |
Teen films no longer glorify drug use, but other than that, very little. | Drug use is not glorified in teen films any more | entailment |
Other companies, such as Cognisoft, take this same approach to corporate intranets (internal networks), hoping that push technology will be even more useful in distributing the right information to the right employees. | Cognisoft employees hope that push technology will be useful to other companies | contradiction |
The 1992-93 famine lacked the central direction of a genocide, and its victims were not murdered on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. | Mass murder is compared to the famine of the early 90s. | entailment |
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