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Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.
The commander of the Russian forces motivate what forces he had and halted the German offensive.
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Not all the way--he has not yet succeeded in building a durable majority on the court.
He is part of the way there to building a majority in court.
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It's understandable why this fantasy of flight would take root in black America, which, at numerous moments in its history, has been given reason to fear that conditions in the diaspora can never be improved.
Fear from black Americans has been eliminated by the improving conditions of the diaspora.
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Any NEA chairperson who had the interests of the gay community at heart would have rushed to defund the exhibit.
Some people from the NEA don't care about the gay community.
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The rules we've always had is that politics stop at the shore, one senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The reason for the rule is to prevent foreign influence in American politics
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She upset 16-year-old champion Michelle Kwan, who fell down twice during her routine.
Michelle Kwan likes competitions.
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If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean is a seasonal retailer.
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Performance artist Karen Finley reprises her 1990 show--she spread chocolate over her naked body--which made her the poster girl for right-wing denunciations of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Conservatives denounced the National Endowment for the Arts
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They're more interested in spiritual self-flagellation and renewal.
They believe that the only way to be forgiven spiritually is by physical means.
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But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.
He only looks out for himself.
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McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.
Not everyone supported McLaren
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I have filters that keep me from being subjected to that sort of language in my e-mail.
I enjoy reading unfiltered emails.
contradiction
I suggest a test to resolve the matter.
I suggest a test is needed for the outcome.
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Johnson encouraged Kennedy to run and promised to do whatever he could to help him.
Kennedy backed out without accomplishing anything.
contradiction
An entire six pack.
There were six of something.
entailment
Bush has several decisive advantages on this question.
Bush has the upper hand
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And, as SurfWatch's promotional literature is happy to point out, filters can help protect management from liability for permitting sexually explicit material in the workplace.
SurfWatch offers promotional literature that protect management from liability.
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To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students.
Nothing was set aside for blacks
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We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.
Most people play at the beach in full length dresses on the weekends.
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(But let's not bring up my cousins.)
There are many socially unacceptable members in my familial group.
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Time 's James Collins calls it pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun, and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker calls it a solid weekly soap opera.
James Collins once worked for Newsweek.
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I know that these are alleged bones, and emotional sentiments are whipped up by the prayers of the priests and the nuns.
The prayers of the priests and the nuns whip up emotional sentiments.
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Now these organizations that served what we used to think of as the West and the North are opening up to the developing and democratizing nations of the East and the South.
These establishments are willing to shape countries in the East and the South.
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Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.
After the prospects of globalization and technological change emerged, the rich got richer
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After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.
The Boston Globe and Boston mayor forced Harvard's communications director to confess.
entailment
Ajami's book is an indispensable guide to why anyone in the Arab world still listens to it.
The lives of people in the Arab world are improved by Ajami's book.
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After its early failure, Hubble now provides vital clues to the universe.
Hubble gave up after its first failure.
contradiction
Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.
I speak with an English accent.
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But in anything as complicated as aviation or romance, there are infinite possibilities for debacle.
Flying a plane is simple.
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Lind means to debunk minimal realism, the argument that the United States should do only those things in the world that it really has to do, because the great evils it must avoid are overextension and overcommitment.
Lind argues that the USA (aka the United States) should avoid taking unnecessary actions.
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on Late Edition , citing the Serb surrender to the Dayton peace conference as an example.
The Dayton peace conference was surrendered to by the Serbians.
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But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.
The industry is selling candy cigarettes.
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The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.
The Clinton administration lacked understanding in the process of technology transfers therefore they consider the risks involved minimal.
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Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.
Pollock, added the bright Circus colors to his new paintings.
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Then again, the tabloids have to give credit when love proves the cynics wrong.
Then again, some tabloids have to give credit when love proves the cynics wrong.
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Here was an obviously experienced man coming into this young upstart's company, probably extremely well-dressed and with credentials earned before the CEO was even born.
The experienced man had high ambitions to raise quickly in this upstart company.
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If McCain emerges as the nominee, Democrats will exploit his domestic weaknesses.
There was a possibility that McCain could win the nomination.
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And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart.
People are allowed to donate any organ other than their heart.
neutral
Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.
By utilizing literal references to history, Morrison thins down the ambiguity.
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Or, instead, should we fight tooth and nail to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor?
Maybe we should fight to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor?
entailment
And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, i...
CNN executives and congressmen live in New York City.
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(Heston's softness on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line.
Heston is now hard on gun rights.
neutral
Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting.
ultimate fighting is a blood sport
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We Californians apparently do little else.
Californians don't have a lot of spare time.
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.. It must be said that this kind of approach is very tricky.
The plan is so easy a child would be successful.
contradiction
4 billion is spent on medication and doctor visits . There is plenty of room for growth--only an estimated 12 percent of hay fever sufferers seek medical treatment.
Everyone suffers from hay fever.
contradiction
In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.
All situations being considered are simple, with no misgivings or uncertainty.
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It's this kind of pathological attention to detail that makes American industry the envy of the more materialistic parts of the world, and News Quiz such a pleasure to work on.
Other hemispheres and sections of the world feel resentful against our nation because we are incapable of producing products.
contradiction
I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD.
The compny did not e-mail back.
contradiction
God, what do you think of me?
I have always believed in a deity.
neutral
One free-lancer tells of building much of a summer traveling with her husband in the West and Europe around a couple of Conde Nast assignments.
The free-lancer's tasks took her to Greece.
neutral
Innuendos 97: Fox News' Brit Hume claimed on Fox News Sunday that the word around town has it that the Department of Justice--which has failed to nail even one of the million Democrats guilty of campaign-finance violations--is aggressively pursuing its investigation of former Republican National Committee chief Haley B...
The Department of Justice has been unbale to sue any democrats for campaign finance violations because there is no case.
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But why should Bradley shut up about the Clinton-Gore fund-raising scandal?
Bradley has been keeping quiet about the Clinton-Gore fund-raising scandal
contradiction
Cheap oral hydration, for example, has been studied and used to treat dehydration for diarrheal illness in developing countries.
It's impossible to find an inexpensive solution to dehydration in developing countries.
contradiction
I'm the co-author of one the leading treatises on legal ethics--and it's updated annually.
The treatise is updated once per decade
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Newsweek lambastes the president for diplomatic errors and missed opportunities: Security advisers originally told the administration to offer President Slobodan Milosevic a face-saving compromise; when action became inevitable, they recommended strengthening NATO's military threat; finally, as airstrikes began, they u...
The magazine criticized the commander-in-chief
entailment
Forgive the debtors, especially the hopeless cases among the very poorest nations.
The debt that has been acquired by the hopeless cases among the very poorest of nations should be forgiven.
entailment
A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate.
Debate and publicity are at center stage in political theater.
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He frequently quotes Ronald Reagan.
He is known for his conservative viewpoint.
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But they didn't make that case, at least to me.
The lawyer used undisputable evidence and convinced me that his case was the correct one.
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They don't understand that they've lost that fight and that Bush is willing to repudiate the fight and everyone in it--including them--in order to ruin Gore's strategy and beat him.
Bush wants to defeat Gore
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Annan is tough without being vicious.
Annan is a powerful leader.
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Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.
The Globe would avoid stooping so low as to report on the deceased.
contradiction
Don't let the philosophy of Gingrich ...
Allow the philosophy of Gingrich ...
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One unanswered question is how much time Clinton will spend in his home state once his library is completed.
Once his library is completed, Clinton may want to spend all his time in Arkansas.
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Two tons of metal are not enough to defend your children, however.
Children are not safe with just two tons of metal.
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(Not surprisingly, the least dismissive big-name child-care expert is a woman, Penelope Leach.)
Penelope Leach wrote a best selling how to book on parenting.
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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.
Agents were often used to cause problems in issues for Woodrow Wilson.
entailment
Maybe we shouldn't save every premature baby regardless of the cost.
Premature babies are covered without charge.
contradiction
John maintains his innocence from death row.
John says he is not guilty
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The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).
The bones were hundreds of years old.
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This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history.
The tournament that has 16 teams left has only the historical powerhouse teams
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Doctor and refusing women their reproductive rights.
Rights of women are refused.
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According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.
Max Weinreich has Yiddish ancestors.
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This, surely, is where the Clinton sex policy and the Clinton social policy combine.
Clinton is a man who creates policies.
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24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox...
Chatterbox actively avoids commenting on politics.
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A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.
Dentists have learned a great deal and made many advances in their field, even since a single generation ago!
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It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.
The dialogue made it easy for the truth about the ideas to be revealed.
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Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.
The pants are found in the women's department.
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A famous example is the Klein bottle, a kind of higher-dimensional Moebius strip whose inside is somehow the same as its outside.
The Klein bottle is the most famous example of a Moebius strip.
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The healing of the Gifford marriage is now complete, and Frank will never cheat again.
Frank thinks about cheating.
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Yet in almost any diaspora--whether black, yellow, brown, or white --the dispersed are far better off, at least materially, than those back home.
The dispersed are better off than those back home.
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Reading this book helped me see that I am a minimal realist.
This book was completely useless to me.
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In this particular case, the buyers come to Las Vegas to purchase the goods rather than having them shipped out of the city, but the economics are the same.
Las Vegas is a rural areas.
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Which brings us to possibility No.
The author is willing to compromise.
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In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States.
All of Hitler's films were published.
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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 Nashville Tennessean still employs the author.
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Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no cuisine.
Americans eat only foriegn food
contradiction
Ehrlich's theories lost steam after he lost a famous 1980 bet with economist Julian Simon, who wagered that any basket of resources Ehrlich might name would be cheaper at any date in the future.
Julian Simon has been the victor of a bet.
entailment
Scholes and Merton reportedly are applauded when they appear on the floor of the options exchange, which shows that options traders are at least appreciative, if not deserving, of the rare charities that they receive.
Scholes and Merton sat at a trading desk on the floor of the options exchange
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Charles Bakaly, Starr's new spokesman, gave his inaugural Sunday show appearance to Fox News Sunday , only to have interviewers Tony Snow and Brit Hume run the oldest play in the book on him.
Tony Snow and Brit Hume are interviewers for Fox News Sunday.
entailment
However, subsequent government supervision of these unions has reduced mob involvement.
Government supervision of some unions has reduced mob involvement.
entailment
But Rodgers did tell Lewis that he despises Amelio because Amelio supported Clinton, so it is Rodgers' mistake, not our author's, that we are correcting.
After Amelio supported Clinton, Clinton lost the election
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Monica moves to the Pentagon, but the relationship intermittently continues.
The relationship failed to survive the move.
contradiction
Much of this vulnerability may eventually be neutralized by encryption and other tricks.
encryption and other tricks could eventually end this vulnerability.
entailment
But this is not the way to debate free-market pricing of technology.
Many compelling cases can be made about the pricing model for technology.
neutral
Annan visits Washington this week to push again.
Washington prevented the visit of Annan.
contradiction
When Dorothy Parker lamented that I hate writing, but I love having written, she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework.
Dorothy Parker wrote
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His work can no more be dispatched into some rubric like outsider art than that of Blake or Helderlin.
His work is on par with the artwork of Blake and Helderlin
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We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.
There are less perfect versions of Miss America.
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