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Even readers who share Wilson's worldview will find much to provoke them.
Wilson was purposely controversial.
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Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.
Buchanan responded quickly.
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What one does not expect in a book of this kind--a book that is technical even as it is beautiful--is that the author will be not just fastidious but also an evocative and wonderfully quirky writer.
The author is a bland writer.
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But anti-Semitism permeated Nazi ideology, and Finkelstein is deaf to its nuances.
But anti-Semitism permeated Nazi ideology, and Finkelstein is toying with its nuances
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What, you may ask, is the key difference between chemical and biological weapons?
Chemical and biological weapons are dangerous in different ways.
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Most Americans will have a tough time living up to its standards.
Most Americans have an easy time living up to its standards.
contradiction
The computer, now much faster and smarter, may triumph, but humans shouldn't fret.
People shouldn't worry about computers becoming more advanced.
entailment
For my part, I plan to endorse the Baptist boycott of Disney.
A group of Baptists plan to boycott Disney.
entailment
Still a larger question Why don't companies ever quit while they're ahead?
Companies always quit while they're ahead.
contradiction
But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news.
Davis stays out of the news.
contradiction
mean is we moved closer, in,
They moved closer.
entailment
His writing is full of sentences that begin something like, As John Cage once asked me ...
He only writes snippets.
contradiction
Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor's waiting to receive their leader.
The emperor expects it will take many months for the barbarians to arrive
contradiction
What's their bet?
they don't like games of chance.
contradiction
In the '50s, nobody wanted the movies to show all that except for the Italian ones, where the sexiest women all wore ill-fitting slips and had hairy armpits, too.
In the '50s Americans didn't like Italian movies as much.
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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.
U.S. investors lost a fortune investing in these sketchy companies.
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Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation.
Henry Gonzalez was not always a Democrat.
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So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself.
eBay has extravagant share prices.
entailment
Maybe, just maybe, if he were sued again ...
He could be sued again.
entailment
First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change.
Change is the most important part of conventional wisdom.
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When you see Bradley, you see a naturally diffident man talking about how he would like to run for president and fretting about the distance between his ideal campaign and the real one.
Bradley was unhappy and unsure about how the campaign would likely play out.
entailment
They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money.
The program is funded by grassroots donors making small contributions
contradiction
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).
NAM has a no-smoking rule
entailment
I am puzzled about what to say on the subject of my religion.
The subject of religion is quite clear and not puzzling.
contradiction
The Liberal Humanitarians (a k a Red-Tailed Hawks)
The Hawks were humanitarians.
entailment
Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.
The Times made a mistake in an article about police hanging out at a brothel, giving the wrong address.
entailment
But the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy ( The Full Monty ), has a thing about bringing macho men down to earth with a thud.
The Full Monty screenwriter brought the earth to men.
contradiction
It is a great-looking book despite its shortcomings, and there is a lot of good information in it.
There is more good information than bad in the book.
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He thought that the use of these drugs would make the population indifferent and willing to accept control by political leaders.
He was going to definitely use the drug.
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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 contentious dialogue worked against the truth about the ideas being revealed.
entailment
It's certainly better than living in a society that allows money to entice people to convert their own health into a commodity.
Health is able to converted into a commodity.
entailment
The Progressive Policy Institute's Rob Shapiro, who invented the concept of corporate welfare before Reich gave it a name, has identified $300 billion worth.
Rob Shapiro is a wealthy man.
entailment
It's also hard to find anyone who knows Brinkley and doesn't worry about his obsession with fame.
Brinkley has always been obsessed with fame.
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The Week/The Spin is updated throughout the week, the Diary has a new entry daily, and contributions to Dispatches & Dialogues are posted as they arrive.
The Diary posts new content more frequently than The Week/The Spin.
entailment
This moderate course doesn't satisfy the most avid consumerists.
The course is moderate
entailment
If the fast-food world had only three players, and McDonalds's proposed to buy out Burger King, how reassured would we be if they offered the palliative of selling a few franchises to Taco Bell?
Pizza Hut would buy out Burger King.
contradiction
Recognizing that the Internet effectively wipes out national borders, and fearing that the development of new technologies may be impeded by inconsistent tax policies, the federal government has been studying the issue of international tariffs on Internet transactions.
The federal government has refused to spend time researching the issue of international tariffs on Internet transactions.
contradiction
Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.
Pollock was accused of using bland and dull colors, which substituted for his previously bright Mardi Gras palette.
contradiction
The results were depressingly consistent.
The results were pretty much the same.
entailment
The Supreme Court might not cooperate in rejecting the administration's public position and embracing its secret desire.
People can easily persuade the Supreme Court despite their beliefs.
contradiction
He has threatened to veto the five remaining appropriations bills in the 2000 budget because of Republicans' proposed cuts in social programs.
He is threatening to veto because the Republicans want to cut social programs.
entailment
The cookie-cutter profiles note that Kennedy was a mediocre student but had a perfect 6-0 conviction record as a prosecutor.
Kennedy never stepped foot in a public school as a student.
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Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces.
Members of the military dying will undermine public support for the war
entailment
He is either masochistically neurotic or is figuring out how to extricate himself.
He is in a good situation
contradiction
He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters.
The e-mail tree he created was accessible across the entire nation
entailment
Science reporting in the United States is hampered by the deep-seated conviction that the press knows even better than the people that it's just a bunch of pinheads nattering about nothing.
Some people believe that science reporting in the United States has been hampered for decades..
neutral
And, clearly, everyone knew the facts of the matter today.
Everyone knew the facts last week.
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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.
Famines kill people based on race.
contradiction
The most controversial part of Finkelstein's book, though, is the last chapter, in which he sets out to explain why the Goldhagen book was such a big deal.
Finkelstein's book completely ignores the Goldhagen book
contradiction
Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion.
its possible to build communications networks large enough.
neutral
It's a real strain on our relationship to have her parents and grandparents letting her know that they think I am unworthy.
Their relationship is going swell and they have encountered no problems whatsoever.
contradiction
Stephen King dumped his longtime publisher, Viking, and is seeking more than $17 million for his new book.
Stephen King managed to get over $50 million for his latest novel.
contradiction
There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look.
Leg warmers characterized a certain time period.
entailment
He enrolled at the Dallas Conservatory of Music, and sang Gilbert and Sullivan in New York City opera houses before perceiving that there was a market in hillbilly songs.
He prefers singing opera.
neutral
I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose.
Some people are able to experience feelings on their own.
entailment
Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates.
A child who has lost a parent feels helpless.
entailment
I win both bets, scoring 125 samoleans.
The authors thinks gambling is wrong.
contradiction
He's not just a man in the He generates his own light.
He is a positive person.
entailment
Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.
Under Milosevic, Yugoslavia's economy thrived.
contradiction
They spoke of our guys and those guys.
They spoke of only girls.
contradiction
TV is the most important medium for conveying history.
After being invented, TV became the most important medium for conveying history
entailment
The girls who believe the scarves mean freedom may in fact be blinded by them.
The girls are advocating for a cause.
neutral
Much of this vulnerability may eventually be neutralized by encryption and other tricks.
safe and secure without issue.
contradiction
The second variety of white race-consciousness--whiteness-as-burden--is no less tangled up in hypocrisy.
Reverse discrimination is real thing for certain groups.
entailment
Framed this way, the story is dying.
The story is not thriving.
entailment
Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).
Bo and Peep were not news worthy
contradiction
I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Ame...
The speaker believes that Americans feel traditional values are coming back into vogue, allowing them to leave their doors unlocked at night.
contradiction
Critics are as frantic about saving their novel these days as they were about killing it 40 years ago.
Critics who are trying to save their novel now are doing so out of a sense of guilt.
neutral
Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.
She experiences both extreme grief and extreme happiness
entailment
And good afternoon to you, too, President Reagan.
Reagan was the leader of the country when he was greeted that day by a number of his agents.
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Downstairs neighbor Aaron Whiteheard said, One night, I heard what sounded like a kid ...
Aaron Whiteheard lives on the top floor
contradiction
Well, why read any type of fiction?
More than 90% of books created are of the fiction genre.
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Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.
Afghanistan and the warlords are working together.
contradiction
But if you do, may you be blessed with the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of a defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- It was nobody's fault.
May you be blessed with the agility of a cat
entailment
You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together.
He could be viewed as a classic case of the doomed artist because his genius and self-destruction are bound together.
entailment
Or the ad when the Wagnerian soprano (G.W.)
The ad uses a Wagnerian soprano
entailment
The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance.
Only one gift has been given up to this point.
contradiction
Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical.
Death canonizes the pop artist
entailment
The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general.
Mammaries are uniquely linked to the result.
contradiction
The only figure to emerge untainted is Hillary Clinton, whose approval rating is 33 percentage points higher than it was before the scandal.
While Hillary was blamed fully for the scandal, she developed the motto, "There's no use in Crying over spilt milk", strengthening her marriage while causing the public to hate her even more each day.
contradiction
Instead, McCain spends the evening attacking Bush.
Bush and McCain were willing to work together
contradiction
The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success.
Black capitalism has been a financial success due to the nation's promotion of it.
contradiction
Talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford found out that a lump in her breast was benign.
Kathie Lee Gifford found she had breast cancer, and had a double mastectomy just to be on the safe side.
contradiction
Audiences literally boo avant-garde director Robert Wilson for his minimalist staging of Richard Wagner's classic opera, and most critics agree with the verdict.
Robert Wilson was an accomplished and respected director of classic opera.
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two or more of the above.
Phrase is unintelligible, cannot clearly answer the question.
neutral
I'd far rather read those sexy economics columns by Paul Krugman.
Paul Krugman read those rather sexy economics columns.
contradiction
should not guide our activities in cyberspace.
Will not have an affect on how we treat cyberspace.
entailment
It was exciting, albeit in a slightly childish way, to see your name on that signboard, confirming that you still had your cushy job in this historic broadcasting center.
If your name was on the signboard it meant you were fired.
contradiction
1) It' a product of classic Hollywood opportunism, cashing in on widepread cynicism about presidential ethics.
Hollywood missed the opportunity to take advantage of the widespread cynicism about presidential ethics.
contradiction
Good Kids watch less television.
Good kids also spend less time on the computer
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When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.
There was little Wintour could do about the need to get back and forth between NYC and London.
contradiction
(And yes, we'd like one, hypocrites that we are, thank you very much.)
We are hypocrites and we would like one.
entailment
Critics are as frantic about saving their novel these days as they were about killing it 40 years ago.
The novel, which was nearly killed 40 years ago, has been finally shut down by critics.
contradiction
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.
After she became the Vogue cover model she was smaller britched and fans liked her better.
contradiction
Tina Brown resigned as editor of The New Yorker . She will chair a multimedia publishing company in partnership with Miramax Films.
She will chair a multimedia publishing company after resigning from The New Yorker
entailment
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues.
The play has Flaws
entailment
An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record.
Donald Trump has a documented history of being unable to give to charity.
entailment
Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.
All of these females share the same political party.
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The official Bush campaign, of course, kept its distance from such efforts, and claimed to use Horton only in race-neutral ways.
The Bush campaign claimed to use Horton in race-baiting ways
contradiction
That was back when the Bushes were still trying to woo me over from the Dark Side.
The wooing did not work
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