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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 successful attorney. | neutral |
What's completely intolerable is to be accurately quoted and seen--even by yourself--to be no better than you actually are. | A completely accurate quote doesn't add or subtract for who you are. | neutral |
The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics. | The strategy influenced politics | entailment |
Strong genetic differences among dog breeds are not just the result of natural selection. | Dog breeds have differences between them. | entailment |
Last year, Clinton signed legislation prohibiting federal recognition of gay marriages, then bragged about it in campaign ads. | Clinton banned gay marriage. | entailment |
Newsweek says the future of the country may be riding on Powell's campaign to save at-risk kids, but doubts whether the general can persuade corporations to make long-term commitments to philanthropy. | One of Powell's campaign goals is to help at risk kids. | entailment |
The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended. | The house should begin impeachment on January 1st, when things appear less violent. | neutral |
Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later. | Saddam emerged victorious from every campaign he undertook. | contradiction |
We will all sleep better at night knowing that our commander in chief's libido is compartmentalized, and that he's not bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical plants just to get his Iraqs off. | Knowing that our commander in chief's not bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical plants allows us to sleep better at night. | entailment |
Or, better yet, Mr. Goldberg, you could watch! | It is possible for Mr. Goldberg to watch | entailment |
Please don't print my name because I want | I am a wanted person covering my tracks. | neutral |
One much-discussed cybertrend is especially relevant the scenario in which various data brokers offer a Daily Me, a batch of articles tailored to your tastes, cheaply gleaned from all over the Web. | The Daily Me is a collection of paid articles that must be unlocked to access. | contradiction |
Then the three were asked to comment on these past thoughts (none found any errors, of course). | The three had to test their memory of past events. | entailment |
The healing of the Gifford marriage is now complete, and Frank will never cheat again. | Frank will cheat again. | contradiction |
Though some faculty members feel McKinsey's involvement shames the academy, most think it's a healthy development for Harvard. | McKinsey's representation improves the reputation of Harvard. | entailment |
We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful. | We are asked to feel empathy for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times for decades.M | neutral |
If a politician were to say today that he opposes abortion except when yadda yadda yadda , we would all know what he means, and we would know what was meant if, after an arrest, a police officer pulled out a card and just said yadda yadda | Both politicians and police officers just pay lip service to what they say they believe. | entailment |
Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages. | He signed the letter with a flourish. | contradiction |
Once flight capabilities are established and demonstrated in a motion picture, they must be used consistently and logically throughout, without regard to the convenience of the filmmakers. | Once you make something fly in a show, you have to make it stay the same the entire time, even if it's a pain for the filmmakers. | entailment |
First, two students were charged with killing their infant in a motel room and dumping it in the trash. | The two young people in the inn, with the dead child, were unmarried. | neutral |
Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m. | Please get everything ready to go to the press by noon on Monday through Thursday, | contradiction |
This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambiv... | This biographical book, is a slice of life, and is true. | contradiction |
Paying homage to the great war photographer's courage and talent, he nonetheless notes the conflicting stories of the photo's origins, Capa's own silence about the image in his writings, and other writers' questions. | The photographer specialized in weddings. | contradiction |
Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock | Rock was destroyed by journalists | entailment |
The Supreme Court might not cooperate in rejecting the administration's public position and embracing its secret desire. | The Supreme Court is hard to convince. | neutral |
The market for general-interest weekly magazines has long since dried Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead. | General-interest weekly magazines like Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead. | entailment |
Albright says her parents expressed vivid recollections of childhood Easter and Christmas celebrations . These recollections may well have been true. | Albright's favorite holiday is Christmas | neutral |
They never forgave Arafat for bowing to what Ajami calls the logic of brute, irreversible facts. | Ajami admired and emulated Arafat. | contradiction |
You'll be able to cruise from article to review to column to department with a growing feeling that you're absolutely right about everything. | You'll feel like you're right about everything. | entailment |
Democrats complain that given the amount of time they spend with Geraldo, diGenova and Toensing can't possibly be doing their government job. | Democrats are to blame for what is going on | contradiction |
His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton. | The president that Kathleen Willey alleges sexually harassed her is currently in office. | contradiction |
Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology. | They don't feel too strongly about technology one way or another. | entailment |
I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship. | Everyone is excited to see Happy Texas. | contradiction |
Same-sex marriage would have no direct effect on the rights and obligations of parenthood. | The author is a gay rights activist. | neutral |
Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its cliched depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending. | The novel of the arrogant barrister was universally praised for being well written. | contradiction |
I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does. | The person knows. | contradiction |
these many columns and articles on the subject. | The subject had many columns and articles written about it. | entailment |
It offered reportage that chronicles the good, the bad, and the otherwise, and leaves readers fully informed and equipped to judge what deserves their attention and support. | USA Today offered reportage that chronicles the otherwise, the bad, and the good | neutral |
The transformation of normal to abnormal may start with a pill. | The complete transformation from normal to abnormal requires more than a pill. | neutral |
The former does seem to explain the latter. | The former is an explaination. | entailment |
There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississip... | Mark Twain and Frederick Douglas dictated to each other. | neutral |
My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer. | Peter Maass and Peter Maas are two different writers. | entailment |
The New Yorker began offering . Brown did her producing buzz to fuel circulation. | The New Yorker missed the boat by hiring Brown, things went down the drain and worsened right after she was hired. | contradiction |
On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love). | The band's sound is derivative | entailment |
At the first, Brock, under the guise of fairness, slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village. | Brock is seeking revenge on those around him. | neutral |
Newt Gingrich said that if the evidence holds up, the United States should consider a military strike against Iran. | Newt likes the idea of bombing Iran. | entailment |
Unlike commodity futures or even currency futures that allow farmers or companies to do a better job of projecting their future business, stock options contribute nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets. | Commodity futures and currency futures helf farmers look out for their business. | entailment |
The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance. | The amount of help requested cannot be maintained effectively. | neutral |
But bizarrely, 1.7 million of those votes were for Kemal Ataterk. | A substantial percentage of the voters chose Kemal Ataterk. | entailment |
Monica moves to the Pentagon, but the relationship intermittently continues. | The relationship became rocky after the move. | neutral |
Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them. | Debates that Pro-choicers involve in are generally peaceful. | neutral |
I thought to myself, 'This is incredible' ...It totally fell into our lap. | The surprise centered on a special party. | neutral |
So, by a process known to psychologists as transference, she transferred her feelings, both positive and negative, to you, the second-most-important Bill in the country. | She purposefully transferred both her positive and negative feelings to the second-most-important Bill in the country. | neutral |
In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways). | Postmodernism came after modernism | entailment |
Marjorie, it's been a delight to correspond with you this week. | Marjorie is a pen pal. | neutral |
For example, no reasonable person would expect the United States to invade or bomb Turkey to stop genocide against the Kurds. | The United States administration wants to stop every conflict on the global scale. | neutral |
In our conversation, he spoke very forcefully against the special prosecutor (now independent counsel) statute. | He spoke fondly of the statute. | contradiction |
How important are these essays compared to SAT scores as a college determines acceptances, and are the essays fair assessments of a students' abilities? | Essays are not as important as SAT scores. | neutral |
We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country. | American dietary habits leave no room for criticizing the food of other countries. | entailment |
American soldiers gave her a drink and poured water over her. | She was able to get water from the soldiers | entailment |
White critics of integration include the neo-conservatives , former liberals who supported the civil-rights mainstream until the early '70s. | White neo-conservatives are critical of integration. | entailment |
to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision, | I want to ask more questions about the situation, such as why it happened. | neutral |
Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant? | Zapruder could have been a plant, was a possibility brought up by Livingstone. | entailment |
And by following up his serious accusation (i.e. | The claims were not trivial. | entailment |
The sunny We nailed the terrorists. | They put up a decent fight. | neutral |
There would still be an Ahab syndrome. | The Ahab syndrome is on the rise. | neutral |
Careful what you wish for, Mayer cautions her fellow You'll miss his clownish antics when he's gone. | Someone's wish could make them regret their decision. | entailment |
Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space. | By avoiding literal references to history, Morrison thickens the ambiguity. | entailment |
I don't envy next year's teen-sex filmmaker the challenge of topping the pie scene or the cloudy glass of beer bit. | A scene in the film involves pie | entailment |
It offered reportage that chronicles the good, the bad, and the otherwise, and leaves readers fully informed and equipped to judge what deserves their attention and support. | It offered reportage that chronicles the otherwise, the bad, and the good | entailment |
At his 1977 trial, Flynt was sentenced to seven to 25 years for obscenity and for engaging in organized crime. | Flynt was acquitted and set free. | contradiction |
He's got plenty of name recognition. | He has a bad reputation. | neutral |
In a way, it's Bradley's fault. | Bradley was uninvolved. | contradiction |
This from a former chief clerk for a U.S. | It's from someone who was previously a chief clerk in Mexico. | contradiction |
I would encourage a reinterpretation of the exclusionary principle to keep criminals in jail where they belong, but only if the cops and prosecutors are severely punished for their crimes as well. | Cops and prosecutors should be held as liable for their crimes as those they put away. | entailment |
Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit. | Seasons cheer is more prevelant around the holidays. | entailment |
The 15-year-old died with the band playing on his headphones. | The 15-year-old put on headphones before he died | entailment |
The Blue Flower , by Penelope Fitzgerald (Houghton Mifflin). | Penelope Fitzgerald is the author of The Blue Flower. | entailment |
Adequately warned, why do people persist in sucking cancer-causing tars into their lungs? | A questions aks why are cigarettes still popular. | entailment |
(It's not housebroken, and it's full-grown.) | It has accidents in the house multiple times a day. | neutral |
Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving an inside report ... | Berliner's movie will win multiple awards. | neutral |
Even when Forrest Sawyer is sitting in, it's still World News Tonight With Peter Jennings . Just because Johnny goes on vacation, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson doesn't suddenly become The Tonight Show With Jay Leno . The task of a guest host is delicate. | People consider Jay Leno a good guest host | neutral |
The Los Angeles Times told readers that the real news was the wall-to-wall press throng at the news conference. | The press conference was very noteworthy | neutral |
Hong Kongers are increasingly restless about Chinese rule. | Those of Hong Kong favor Chinese rule. | contradiction |
Simpson defense : law professor Barry Scheck and forensic expert Henry Lee. | The defense for Simpson was not very well prepared. | neutral |
The modern mistake is to think that important things must be planned, sponsored, reviewed, or licensed by the government. | The government that can sponsor things can also review things | entailment |
Better health care affects athletic ability directly. | Better healthcare is a key step in improving athletic ability. | neutral |
Now Clinton risks reversing, at least partially, the actual, practical process that brought him the caseload declines he's crowing about today. | Clinton is risking the reversal of the process. | entailment |
But Ved Mehta was always the butt of the worst abuse. | Ved Mehta was teased constantly. | neutral |
But Tiepolo's vision, like Rilke contemplating autumn leaves, was of a world where everything is And yet, there is One who holds this falling with infinite softness in his hands. | There is always one who holds the descending world in their hands. | neutral |
Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades. | Some people have discussed whether or not he is prone to tirades. | entailment |
I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name. | John La Care is an author | neutral |
The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers. | A total of four Hackathletes are in the competition | entailment |
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. | Sexy-sounding scientific ideas get picked up by popular culture. | entailment |
There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position. | The slip-up last week was Rubin's fault. | neutral |
As noted previously, the Shopping Avenger is but one superhero, and he issues abject apologies to all those who did not receive personal responses. | The Shopping Avenger tried to answer everyone. | neutral |
This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny. | Soft money is the most scrutinized practice. | neutral |
The act also ends long-standing rules against cross-ownership in broadcasting. | Cross ownership in broadcasting would reverse the diversification of opinions. | neutral |
The bleakest lesson of After the Madness is perhaps that prison has lost its capacity to shock. | After the Madness discusses prisons. | entailment |
Even though Washington Week 's treatment of Flytrap is inordinately polite, it is worth watching--but only if you don't watch the rest of the show first. | It is better to watch the rest of the show first. | contradiction |
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