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If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point. | Thou shalt not offend, or bite the hand that feeds you, stopping her from cursing his name shall be easy. | neutral |
In Sulloway's theory, as in life, Daniel is the category-defying, black sheep Baldwin. | He is the white sheep of the family | contradiction |
Instead, Bradley repudiates the word. | Bradly dislikes the word. | neutral |
Staying on that show is like staying in an abusive marriage. | There is no way to get off the show unless the police gets involved. | neutral |
In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter. | In practice, their claims tend to be reasonable and well-evidenced | contradiction |
I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches. | future dispatches will be severely critical occur | contradiction |
If only there were creative writing schools in Heaven, or failing that, editors, we could hope that Jesus would learn how to improve on awful sentences like that. | Someone wishes for creative writing schools in Heaven | entailment |
Weird Ted receives The New Yorker , New York Review of Books , and Los Angeles Times in prison and spends his rare recreation time with fellow bombers Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef. | Weird Ted chooses not to save his time, but pass it with with McVeigh and Yousef. | entailment |
Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm. | Time wrote in 1998 that the charm and lecherousness leads to a believable portrait of the president | neutral |
No wonder so many find this market-tested spiritualism so cool. | This type of spiritualism is seen as uncool | contradiction |
(Isn't there some high-tech way to fly him from class to class, perhaps on Boeing's new Delta III rocket; you know, once it stops malfunctioning.) | Boeing's new Delta III rocket has not yet malfunctioned. | contradiction |
Appealing as that position might sound, it's also suspiciously incoherent. | That position doesn't make any sense | entailment |
So the first choice should be read as being between the certainty of being rich and a possibility of being rich. | Each choice represents a different degree of certainty. | neutral |
They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps. | Bra straps are generally reliable. | neutral |
Kondracke screams back that he's used them before, he'll use them again. | Kondracke has used them before today | entailment |
The sales pitch designed to support workers will also protect shirkers. | Shirkers will be shown the door this week, no matter what! | contradiction |
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. | Clinton and Lewinsky were seen performing inappropriate actions with one another by an agent. | entailment |
It consists of a fixed image, like a slide or (closer still) a freeze frame. | The fixed picture contains people | neutral |
That's the only thing that'll overcome the meat-grinding aspects of national politics. | National politics only help the vulnerable. | contradiction |
You were a former police officer, and yet you got caught setting up and dealing methamphetamine . | they are still an officer and still dealing meth | contradiction |
Go forth and cover culture and the arts. | You should go to ballets and museums and write articles on what is going on. | neutral |
Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters. | Clinton refused to meet with people from Massachusetts. | contradiction |
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 with her family would be better if the speaker was more successful. | neutral |
The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right. | Bauer has never been voted into office but has many possible supporters waiting to help out with his campaign. | entailment |
American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective. | American critics agree about Hughes' poems. | contradiction |
But the big news in Ireland is the peace negotiations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. | The talks between Blair and Ahern were not covered by Irish Press. | contradiction |
For example, had the writer of the Genesis creation story been composing for a 20 th century readership, he or she would have explained God's hand in the evolutionary process as opposed to the more magical creation story in the Bible. | Genesis ignores any explanation of Earth's magical origin. | contradiction |
Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader! | Time reported on Iranian soldiers gutting a dog. | contradiction |
I fear that a certain software billionaire may be a nut job. | The billionaire is certified sane. | contradiction |
Why do allergies afflict an increasing number of victims if they serve no useful purpose? | The number of people with allergies is decreasing | contradiction |
From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel . | Officials would rather use government lawyers over private counsel. | contradiction |
Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency. | Alcohol is forbidden in the Oval Office by Clinton | entailment |
Bennett is right to the extent that there's no excuse for telling falsehoods in the course of raising otherwise legitimate issues. | Bennett is a fraud | contradiction |
Come to think of it, Brahms isn't that close to Mozart. | People do not consider Brahms in the same category as Mozart. | neutral |
Critics are surprisingly positive about the singer/songwriter/best-selling poet/soon-to-be film actress' second album after the 8 million copy selling Pieces of You . Musically she has matured, and her trademark folksy-bluesy-pop songs are dubbed sweet, soulful (Veronica Chambers, Newsweek ). The lyrics, however are sa... | Pieces of You is positively reviewed by critics. | entailment |
This is where I disagree with Michael Lind--and with you, Fred, I'm guessing. | The author disagrees with both Michael Lind and Fred. | entailment |
We learn, for example, that on his field trips with Lady Gregory, Yeats had difficulty understanding the thick Irish accent of the peasants. | Yeats had to ask the Irish people to repeat themselves. | neutral |
largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings. | Powerful woman always push through barriers. | neutral |
Chinese leaders are fretting about Taiwan's prosperous democracy and its flirtation with independence. | Taiwan is afraid to even think about independence. | contradiction |
The Justice Department reportedly is investigating whether the Democratic National Committee funded Ron Carey's campaign in exchange for Teamster funding of the Clinton campaign . Republicans are demanding a special prosecutor and promising congressional investigations. | Republicans want to avoid an investigation. | contradiction |
Ben Brantley writes in the New York Times that the play manages to entertain even at its darkest and preachiest. | Brantley's piece in the New York Times, a national publication, earned him numerous awards. | neutral |
They were men without color, literally wearing gray and beige and brown. | The men wore jewel tones. | contradiction |
He sat next to Johnny Carson and in his helium-pitched foreign man voice told jokes without punch lines (Her cooking ees so bad--ees terrible) and did non-impressionistic impressions | Carson told jokes next to the foreign man. | neutral |
Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city? | Someone asks about the difference in the way the guide covers the city. | entailment |
Ultimately, what's most important about Disney's struggle to turn ABC around is how impressive it makes the company's management of its own franchise look. | ABC is running Disney | contradiction |
Out of her stillness she suddenly shrieks, not as an appeal but as a demand, I'm a human being! | The thing held was actually a gopher, not a person looking out, as if from a rabbit hole. | contradiction |
These folks have opposed every American military operation from Grenada to the Gulf War. | Military actions in Grenada and the Gulf were both resolved in America's favor. | neutral |
After all, they don't offer employees car insurance. | Employees receive car insurance | contradiction |
Chamber of Commerce spent $7 million on advertising in support of GOP candidates | Republicans who were running for office were offered a substantial sum of money for advertising. | neutral |
All these numbers may be climbing, but they remain low. | The numbers are at an all-time low. | contradiction |
The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet. | Americans like them | entailment |
Please send your nominations to 100TopHeds@slate.com. | 100TopHeds@slate.com would really like your nominations. | entailment |
Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one. | A Yale law professor testified in March. | contradiction |
The charities, Paris adds, don't endorse the product at all. | Paris has encouraged the charities to endorse the project. | neutral |
If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax. | Everyone pays the same taxes. | contradiction |
At the same time it would teach today's youth about the real-life value of the Second Amendment. | This will put young people on edge, proving that the constitution needs revision. | contradiction |
Time 's education cover package says parents should get their kids reading at an early age, be involved in their schools, not castigate them for mistakes, let them find their own learning styles, and praise hard work and persistence--not just outcomes. | Parents should get their kids reading at an early age. | entailment |
But what does it mean? | It’s convincing | contradiction |
The pessimistic one will lead to the other. | The person that is pessimistic has nothing to be excited about. | neutral |
Whereas fashion photography--in the '50s as always--aimed to arouse active lust for new goods, the clothes in '50s movies were so thoroughly surreal as to look quite unfit for normal wear, even if they were waitresses' uniforms or girl-next-door dresses. | The clothes in '50s movies were surreal | entailment |
This is a political as well as military project. | The project is political. | entailment |
But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball. | I can think of no affect Will's journalism has had on anyone. | contradiction |
Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas. | The clash of ideas are not of interest to the reporters. | entailment |
In the black black-black offspring. | The offspring is hard to see at night. | neutral |
Hoiles is a big slab of a man, now 33, a veteran but not a star. | Hoiles is a large thirty three year old veteran. | entailment |
The headline over the NYT 's online version doesn't mention the homosexual angle, while the WP 's headline--FRANCE LEGALIZES GAY UNIONS--doesn't mention the heterosexual angle. | The WP's headline doesn't mention the heterosexual angle. | entailment |
Imagine a law school class with 100 places. | Everyone finds it impossible to imagine a law school class with 100 places. | contradiction |
It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy. | The shooter is the criminal in this situation. | neutral |
Time 's cover story argues that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact could not have been worse for Microsoft and could be used against Microsoft by competitors in private antitrust actions. | Microsoft lost badly with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. | neutral |
My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes! | Errors made by the software help it become more accurate in the future | contradiction |
oh, I'm sorry--are we out of time? | The event has just begun. | contradiction |
Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review. | The author is married. | neutral |
Under the immigration bill, Clinton directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport asylum seekers without giving them any opportunity to appear before a tribunal. | INS was directed to deport asylum seekers by Clinton under the immigration bill | entailment |
As for the victory in Chechnya, it's a mirage. | The victory in Chechnya seemed certain, but then reversed course. | neutral |
It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that. | Beatty has made a definite commitment | contradiction |
Please send your nominations to 100TopHeds@slate.com. | 100TopHeds@slate.com does not want your nominations. | contradiction |
Spun and spun and spun the president's denial for months without bothering to check if it was true. | No one fact checked the president's denial for a long time. | entailment |
But, hey, where is the millennium? | The question will be answered. | neutral |
Clinton has the ability to sustain that perception despite the test ban's defeat. | Clinton has managed to get the test ban approved. | contradiction |
But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway? | With perseverance one can master the game of solitaire. | neutral |
Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually. | Alternative therapies are a booming industry. | entailment |
Perhaps that's why I feel Plotz's article is the silliest explanation of the logic of adventure I've ever read. | Plotz wrote an article on adventure. | entailment |
The Taliban is both a product of and a reaction to the civil war that has gripped Afghanistan since the demise of the Soviet-backed regime in 1992. | Afghanistan has gone through major conflict | entailment |
But we also may have missed a couple of more fundamental truths about the Web. | The Web was thought about by Da Vinci. | neutral |
Nixon's Watergate sins (dismissed by the public on the eve of the election as, at most, the work of overzealous campaign aides) caught up with him in his second term. | Watergate was forgiven while Nixon was still in office. | contradiction |
I describe the Brave New World as a horror, and Huxley thought of it as that also. | Brave New World isn't thought of as a horror by anyone. | contradiction |
As Redgrave moves from person to person--worrying about what each is really thinking, and about the young man whose tragic fate she heard tell of from one of her guests--the movie floods with feeling. | Redgrave wrote and starred in the film, taking the lion's share of the credit. | neutral |
Doctors often miss these effects. | Doctors make bad errors. | neutral |
Specifically, it wants $90,000 for a confiscated file of telegrams and letters sent in response to Nixon's famous Silent Majority speech. | Nixon has, in his possession, a lot of valuable information. | neutral |
You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie. | You lack an opinion on the matter. | contradiction |
That was a satisfying moment. | No one found the moment to be satisfying. | contradiction |
Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter). | She had decided to opt to perform her recital in the much more ornately decorated Tully Hall instead of Fisher Hall. | neutral |
We've had to reach out to retirees, college students, and civic types, says O'Brien. | O'Brien initially had to contact more groups than stated. | neutral |
Knightley carefully concludes only that the photograph turns out not to be the clear and simple statement of fact that it otherwise appears. | Knightley spent two weeks on the photograph | neutral |
The film gives the impression that Flynt has none, although he has five--to the best of his knowledge. | Flynt has twenty. | contradiction |
Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money. | The federal government knows that disaster money is largely forgotten about. | contradiction |
The civil rights movement was great. | People have fought for civil rights. | entailment |
Nebraska, of course, gets a '5. | A '5 was hard earned by Nebraska. | entailment |
Presidents derived their license to serve as leader-preacher from Theodore Roosevelt's remark that the presidency was a bully pulpit, a remark that did not appear in his Inaugural Address. | Theodore Roosevelt felt the President could speak on anything | entailment |
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films). | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries was endorsed by the original author. | neutral |
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