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Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures. | Humans tend to describe wild creatures a certain way. | entailment |
The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in eli... | The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which may have assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way trainin... | neutral |
An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives. | The Atlanta shooter was praised by many | contradiction |
We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup. | Jack Ludwig works at Exxon Mobil. | contradiction |
Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky? | You should use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky. | entailment |
Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, who made the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story , say Lana was adamant that she wasn't there. | Lana was adamant that she wasn't present | entailment |
He can drop the pretense that he's nonpartisan. | He is partisan. | entailment |
5) The superstars are eating up all the available money and crowding out new talent. | The money being received by superstars is helping them recruit new talent | contradiction |
As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee, remarking on the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods. | Richard John is a historian. | entailment |
On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle. | Tom, who is 37, claims only he and John were in the transportation machine | neutral |
At the time, only Canada, thanks to its giant neighbor, lived in anything like the world he envisaged; today we all do. | At first, only Canada had the kind of environment that we have today. | entailment |
Unless one believes that the lives of Europeans are intrinsically more valuable than those of Africans, the humanitarian justification for military intervention is unsustainable, he wrote. | The author feels that all peoples across the globe should be equally weighted when deliberating the use of military force. | contradiction |
He retaliated by filing one against her. | The man wanted to get revenge. | neutral |
Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations? | Smaller states have the most power. | contradiction |
Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system. | Managed care is less expensive over all, and it was used by government reformers. | neutral |
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. | Being married caused little issues for Woodrow Wilson. | contradiction |
, the government--borrowing a lot of money). | The government needed money, so they borrowed a lot. | entailment |
Can you suggest a metaphor for rationalizing my past? | The author wants to justify their past | entailment |
I phoned Michael J. Thun, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, and asked him whether a 20 percent mortality reduction is indeed small in the world of epidemiology. | The American Cancer Society does not employ epidemiologists. | contradiction |
Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ... | The Rockies have streams and snowy peaks. | entailment |
Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship. | Celebrities are heads of cults | contradiction |
Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like ... | Katz would do anything including commit violence to get into the newspaper. | contradiction |
A second reason some skeptics doubt that Albright could have been blindsided by her own life story is that since she has risen to prominence , the suggestion that she is Jewish has been raised repeatedly. | Albright is Jewish. | neutral |
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. | The employees were glad to see their name on the signboard meaning they still had a job. | entailment |
The unit immediately below us has been rented out as a live/work space to a couple with a video business. | The apartment directly underneath us is vacant. | contradiction |
According to Helen Lawrenson, a former Vanity Fair editor and Johnson's self-proclaimed ex-lover, this is a romantic view of him. | Vanity Fair refused to hire Helen Lawrenson. | contradiction |
Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening). | Women rights activists ignored the opposition. | entailment |
To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average. | Ordering engraving prior to the date needed will jeapardize the delivery of the stationery, causing a bigger problem later. | contradiction |
The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad . | A war criminal received a pardon so he could travel abroad. | contradiction |
You can have a park in your backyard (as I do) and still make it to work in 15 minutes (if you keep a sharp eye out for the potholes). | Your backyard can have a park and you can still make it to work in 15 minutes. | entailment |
Also, the semiannual Home Design supplement insists that simplicity--incredibly expensive simplicity, that is--is chic. | Home Design perfers complexity over simplicity. | contradiction |
The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953). | Loners were the only people who upheld the law in old westerns | neutral |
Beck's first contribution will appear Monday evening. | Beck's contribution appears Monday. | entailment |
Oddly, this part of the 20/20 segment isn't quite as damaging to Ellis as the raw interview transcript was. | The part of the 20/20 segment that dealt with Ellis's background wasn't as damaging as the transcript was. | neutral |
As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit. | The famine occurred in the 1940s | neutral |
I already know I am an idiot, but am I to be a happy idiot or a miserable one? | I feel that I am stupid. | entailment |
Little Herring ? What the hell kind of moniker is that? | They used the Little Herring as a bumper sticker. | contradiction |
How do we know when the president had done a good job? | The president's performance has been inconclusive | entailment |
I stop by Kanter's Printers on 23 rd Street, an address generated by the Crane Web site. | The address came from somewhere on the World Wide Web that I had bookmarked | neutral |
Like my real name couldn't be Pierre LeCluck. | My name could possibly be Pierre LeCluck. | entailment |
But you could very well make the opposite argument. | Several arguments are possible, and always were. | neutral |
The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering. | The report said Chinese rockets had faulty soldering. | entailment |
As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cezanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group, he sighed. | Monet outlived many of his fellow Impressionists. | entailment |
Landsburg notes, What if he [the president] keeps us out of war through policies that make the world more dangerous for our children? | Landsburg is unconcerned with future generations and figures they can fend for themselves. | contradiction |
Twenty-four terms is enough for anyone. | People would need more than 24 terms. | contradiction |
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate. | It was advised that Baitgate should be omitted. | contradiction |
For state-of-the-art articles on piercing, see Flesh Canvas. | Flesh Canvas has cutting-edge articles on movies | contradiction |
In Rome, La Repubblica reported from New York on the ambivalence of President Clinton's attitude toward Hollywood, pointing out that a few hours after accusing it of promoting violence and having direct responsibility for massacres in American schools, he had gone to dinner in Beverly Hills with film industry friends w... | La Repubblica did not report from the United States. | contradiction |
Challenged by the Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch in the letters column of the Dec. 8 Standard , Bennett, remarkably, dug in to defend the Cameron numbers, which he said coincided with the views of other authorities such as psychiatrist . Satinover's 1996 book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth , does dis... | Bennett stands by his support of the Cameron numbers, citing other experts as well. | entailment |
I gave my stock In the first place, we don't know the truth; in the second place, the presidency is not a person but a team. | The truth is unknown. | entailment |
In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one. | Merging companies is a complex idea. | entailment |
In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario, for instance, a deficit-neutral solution would increase their taxes by $2,000 or so (compared with now) if they remain single and cut their taxes by about $550 if they get married. | Taxes for everyone will go up under these new rules. | neutral |
And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant. | Thrift and widow's curses are no longer relevant. | entailment |
Indeed, Banks has written a useful survey of African-American scholars and writers and the ways in which they have worked throughout the history of the republic. | Banks is an African-American author. | neutral |
I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it. | The author would never write content for the New Republic. | contradiction |
Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony. | Gerth accuses Clinton of cronyism | entailment |
Critics praise her eclectic style--funk, blues, soul, and dance--and dwell on her racy lyrics. | She writes Christian gospel music. | contradiction |
The first of five special issues about the 21 st century imagines health and environment in the future. | The future will be cleaner and fitter. | neutral |
It is hard to understand how Grisham pulls this off. | Grisham succeeded through an unusual way. | neutral |
So, they compensate with vocabulary, animating their play with exaggerated violence and tough talk, smashing, kicking, and zapping the imaginary bad guys. | They are pretending to fight villains | entailment |
The greatest events and achievements of the past 1,000 years are reviewed, including the miraculous growth of prosperity since 1750, the persistence of the city, the emancipation of women, the rise of the law, and the invention of limited liability (the key to the rise of equity corporations). | Women have gained a lot of right in the past 3 centuries. | entailment |
Any nontechnologist ventures into the browser wars at his peril, but here is how I understand After initially missing the significance of the Internet, Microsoft has gone to the other extreme, designing Windows 95 so that it uses an Internetlike metaphor for everything. | Browsers are an uncontroversial topic for nontechnologists to discuss | contradiction |
Early diagnosis, new teaching techniques (emphasis on the arts, thematic programs), and new research into the brains of LD kids are starting to rectify a neglected problem. | New research into the brains of LD kids shows that thematic programs should be avoided. | contradiction |
We Americans mocked the militarism of German youth in the '30s, and now we're embracing Louis Caldera's ballistic schemes. | America is a nation of hypocrites. | neutral |
Newsweek also hints that 13 Heaven's Gate members--the ground crew--may be traveling through the Southwest, waiting for a signal from the spaceship. | A signal from the spaceship will be sent to the Heaven's Gate members. | neutral |
But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated. | Japanese manufacturing practices had a lower value than they should have | entailment |
The forgery story churned its way into the Washington Times on Oct. 26. | The Washington Times reported nothing on October 26 | contradiction |
The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India... | The population of the South Asian nations of India, Pakistan will soon surpass that of the Northern Asian nations. | entailment |
--DeParle refers to Milwaukee's growing homeless shelter population, but doesn't give any figures on how much it's growing. | DeParle says that the homeless population is increasing. | contradiction |
By June, Gerth was writing, with a tinge of desperation, that the Pentagon did not find grave damage but did conclude that the United States national security had been harmed. | National security in the US is currently stronger than ever | contradiction |
The Vermont Supreme Court granted gays greater partnership rights. | Vermont's Supreme Court ruled against gays having partnership rights. | contradiction |
It is not my intention to give anti-Semitism any support whatever, wrote Marc Dem, as he argued that Jews were from outer space. | Marc Dem is anti-semitic. | contradiction |
If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary. | Clicking here just takes you back to the home page. | contradiction |
He can tell her of something bad that has happened without fearing that she will think he is complaining. | Because of their relationship, he feels comfortable telling her bad news without the fear of being accused of complaining. | entailment |
In the first Tikkun guide, Reed edges out Bard for the top spot, for what it's worth, as any hierarchy is by nature counterharmonious. | Bard used to be in the top spot. | entailment |
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 defense secretary | contradiction |
He telegraphs the ending--you know the Limey will somehow be at the root of his daughter's death--but it's still an emotional wow. | The ending is unexpected | contradiction |
Another source predicts if Sheen doesn't shape up, it's only a matter of time before they'll be printing his obituary. | Sheen will with certainty have his obituary printed. | entailment |
CNN's Bob Franken declared that Starr and the Jones team were joined at the hip. | The Jones and Starr team worked well together. | neutral |
He is able to see that scholars have been covering up the crimes of the artist to protect him from justice. | The artist's previous crimes were covered up later on by the scholars. | entailment |
Joe Biden, D-Del., betrayed the No, I don't think we can negotiate with him--if you mean can we, in fact, work out something other than those minimal demands that were stated by NATO. | The idea that Joe Biden broke trust has been debunked | contradiction |
I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him. | I worked longer for the New Yorker than Blumenthal did. | neutral |
On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site). | A caricature of Nixon has yet to appear on The Simpsons. | contradiction |
Neither mother nor daughter is made distinctive this time around, except in the most heavy-handed way. | The pair blend together and are difficult to distinguish. | entailment |
You fresh air/fresh ideas | A fresh idea is like fresh air. | entailment |
I mastered the words portiere (goalkeeper), colpo di testa (header), and quattro minuti di ricupero (four minutes of injury time). | I am learning Italian soccer phrases to impress my friends. | neutral |
But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs. | The quality of American politics is dependent on the public's trust in institutions. | entailment |
I know you find that hard to accept, but really, it's true. | It's true whether you believe it or not. | entailment |
At night we sometimes had sex outside on the deck--and even in a swing hanging from a tree in her front yard. | We swung from a tree, hanging upside down out of doors near her home. | neutral |
But others praise it as a minor-league farm team for potential NATO members, and celebrate its civilizing influence (some PFP members have settled long-standing border disputes). | NATO appreciates the civilizing influence that nations have brought to the table recently. | neutral |
Look, I paid 20 bucks for this rag, and I want all of it. | After paying 20 bucks for the rag, I wanted all of it | entailment |
But does the film subvert Eastwood's on-screen persona, as Schickel argues it does? | Eastwood is portrayed as a tough guy | neutral |
How can you be sure your programs are safe? | The author questions the security of the programs. | entailment |
Best wishes until we meet again--perhaps over Volume 9 of some future 14-volume biography of Rosalynn Carter. | Rosalynn Carter's biography would me many volumns. | neutral |
They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa. | Often times Slaves were able to escape back to Africa. | neutral |
THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO LIVE. | She will be able to visit her family a year from now. | contradiction |
James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times. | James BeauSeigneur writes best selling books. | neutral |
Publishers regularly write bonuses into contracts to factor in the possibility that a book will makes the Times list. | The agreements cover any and all possible outcomes. | entailment |
He felt a bond with us as fellow writers. | He is a writer like us. | entailment |
If you haven't filled it out yet, click here for the survey. | The questionnaire here will be quick and easy. | neutral |
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