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The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity. | In order to hear the narrative, one's identity is frequently protected. | entailment |
We egg on Dennis Rodman, watching him parade like a peacock and break down in tears on national TV. | Dennis Rodman parades like a peacock and breaks down in tears on national TV because of what we do to him. | neutral |
I am sure that, despite its logic, my position sounds unrealistic to many readers. | My position is the same as many readers. | neutral |
The Left Behind series, co-written by Tim LaHaye, the prominent right-wing screwball and husband of Beverly LaHaye, the even more prominent right-wing screwball, and Jerry B. Jenkins, who, his biography states, is the author of 130 books, which is a lot of books for one guy to write, is a phenomenon. | Jerry B. Jenkins is not an author. | contradiction |
It always hurts to be constrained, but sometimes it's worth it if your neighbors are constrained too. | Being held by rules is irritating, and if you have no one living near you, it's lonely enduring it. | neutral |
He speaks very, very slowly. | He does not speak fast | entailment |
A self-appraisal (and remember, the entire purpose of a reference group is to serve as a yardstick for self-appraisal) would entail evaluating the richness of relationships and the satisfactions of accomplishments, rather than the cataloging of possessions. | Counting your possessions is a decent way to help determine whether you have reached your goals. | neutral |
The cover story asserts that Kenneth Starr's indictment of Julie Hiatt Steele is based on unbelievable assertions by Kathleen Willey, who choreographed her allegations to make them more marketable. | Kathleen Willey testified in a way that benefitted Julie Hiatt Steele. | contradiction |
Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally. | Although there is a ban on adultery in most societies, it is prosecuted in only half of them. | neutral |
Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year? | Someone wonders if it was Warren Buffet who was in favor of capital gains tax. | entailment |
In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees. | McDonald's staff in Hong Kong do not make enough money to live off of. | entailment |
My wife went to Florida with her mother once. | Two women went to Florida to visit Disney World | neutral |
Or, more creatively yet, maybe one new senator could just stop talking for a while. | It would be great if both senators talked over each other. | contradiction |
There is the rejection letter I received from George , which he was too modest to put his own name on. | Someone else could have sent the unadressed letter. | neutral |
But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results. | Wiztum and Rips conducted a perfect study with everything executed correctly. | contradiction |
Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier. | Internet laws have a lot of loopholes. | neutral |
According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately. | Janet Reno studied law. | entailment |
From the podium, Dunn and Rice, two of the committee's three front women, implored Bush's wife and daughters to endure the campaign's trial by fire. | The prospective first family was told to hang in there and stand behind their man. | entailment |
Downstairs neighbor Aaron Whiteheard said, One night, I heard what sounded like a kid ... | Aaron Whiteheard has a neighbor | entailment |
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 finds misleading people difficult. | contradiction |
The AIB delivers real-time information in the banner. | The AIB is unable to deliver real-time information in the banner. | contradiction |
This was a note K used to strike a lot in the 1980s, and he's glad he doesn't have to strike it anymore. | K has never stopped striking the note. | contradiction |
First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change. | Conventional wisdom is unstructured and cannot be described as a system. | contradiction |
A couple of serious Before removing any components, you must save copies onto a floppy disk. | There is no need to back up your files. | contradiction |
And with those four stigmatic words, the music business was born. | Four words spawned the music business | entailment |
But there are several pharmacological and social differences that reduce the relevance of rat research to social policy. | Rat research is only relevant when it comes to social policy. | entailment |
Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad. | Everyone who read the biography loved it. | neutral |
WordPerfect and Netscape work just fine on my Windows-based machine. | Windows-based PC's can run WordPerfect and Netscape. | entailment |
Ultimately, what I say in my defense is completely meaningless. | The person is defending themself in court | neutral |
Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing. | The storytellers are annoyed because it is mocking their work. | neutral |
The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri. | The United States banned Missouri from creating an animal sport. | contradiction |
Same-sex marriage would have no direct effect on the rights and obligations of parenthood. | Same sex couples would have a negative affect on a child. | contradiction |
Nobody ever wanted to emulate this effect | This effect is undesired | entailment |
My wish is to make this marriage work because I love my wife, but I am feeling like second fiddle to a gang of girls. | it is still possible to make it work | neutral |
It is hard to imagine a smaller step than the one Greenspan took. | Greenspan moved things forward by leaps and bounds. | contradiction |
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. | Its been said the Atlanta shooter had disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy | entailment |
If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles. | He is a deity exclusively for Jewish people | contradiction |
Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing. | The storytellers are happy about it. | contradiction |
Why are you subjecting your loyal and (usually) enthusiastic readership to the reactionary, bigoted, and sexist drivel of Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz in ? We don't subscribe to Slate in order to expose ourselves to the ramblings of Anita Bryant's spiritual parents. | The loyal readers show little enthusiasm | contradiction |
Wilson uses a stage backdrop of nothing but stark blue and projects bands of white light across it, while his performers stand almost motionless. | The backdrop was sparsely decorated. | entailment |
She claims the Air Force treated her unfairly and that her commanding officers gave her no guidance. | Her commanding officer did not like her. | neutral |
The pierced generation may simply be acknowledging the deadliness of the times we live in, suggestive as they are of earlier epochs in human history. | The pierced generation definitively recognizes the current era as safe | contradiction |
July 9, PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ran, without comment, all the PDFA's new ads. | People disliked the new PDFA ads. | neutral |
Maybe Wachtler writes cliches because prison has become cliche. | Wachtler writes about novel and original ideas. | contradiction |
But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle. | Tarzan and Jane rode elephants in the jungle. | neutral |
After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory. | Smiley's novel focuses on a woman in Virginia | contradiction |
dull, provincial, and oddly prevalent on U.S. comedy shows. | Comedy shows are illegal in America. | contradiction |
Why don't you respond that, in the infinite wisdom of your procrastination, you somehow divined the marriage would be a dud, and you think you will give this one a similar two year trial period? | This person has had many failed marriages. | neutral |
And the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real bear, a bear born in Canada who never relinquished his Canadian citizenship. | Winnie-the-Pooh moved to America | contradiction |
Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., calls the case symptomatic of the casual attitude with which the Clinton administration views issues of national security. | Tim Hutchinson has a lot of faith in the Clinton's national security policy. | contradiction |
American Beauty won three Golden Globes, including Best Drama . Acting awards went to Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry , Denzel Washington for The Hurricane , Janet McTeer for Tumbleweeds , and Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon . HBO series, including the critically hyped The Sopranos , won most of the television awards. | The Sopranos didn't win any awards | contradiction |
Not all Republicans think this way. | Republican thought differs. | entailment |
Let's take video games as an example. | Video games can be used as an example. | entailment |
The military's officer corps, especially the Army's, has been successfully transformed from a clubby elite, where promotions depended on golfing partners, into a more integrated meritocracy. | Connections are highly favored among the military officer corps elite. | entailment |
Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m. | 5 P.M is a strict deadline, anything that comes after is not going to be on the next day's edition. | neutral |
The one-day crash of '87, for example, reduced people's net worth by billions without directly reducing by as much as a single doughnut the amount of goods and services or the economy's ability to produce more of them. | The economy boomed in 1987 and increased shareholder's weath. | contradiction |
Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness. | Henry James pointed out problems with the novel, in a letter written in 1904. | entailment |
About what you did to that nice Galileo? | Galileo got what he deserved | contradiction |
Asking political candidates to quantify their stands may seem unrealistic because they don't want to pin themselves down and because the audience will tune out. | The audience is uninterested in questions and responses about politicians' stances. | entailment |
No question, taxes can affect behavior. | Tax money is always used wisely. | contradiction |
She has yet to come to terms, artistically ... | She knows exactly where she belongs artistically. | contradiction |
4) If resemblance to Jesus were the only issue, why didn't Falwell say the Antichrist must be a carpenter? | The Antichrist may be a carpenter. | neutral |
It is also a comfort if the message comes from a total stranger, as long as the message is for you specifically and personally and not for a name on a mailing list. | Whether it is sent by a friend or a total stranger, the message is comforting as long as you are the intended recipient of the message. | entailment |
Hillary's rage that night was surely one of the most authentic sights ever shown on television, prompting the thought that, unlike the absurd Linda Tripp, both Clintons really are us, in our various phases--and incidentally that Hillary may be the only first lady in my lifetime (which goes back a bit) that one can even... | During that late Midnight news show, You could see both Linda Tripp and Hillary. | neutral |
The former POV might be thought of as Democratic, the latter Republican. | Two POVs are of differing political ideologies | entailment |
She claims the Air Force treated her unfairly and that her commanding officers gave her no guidance. | Joining the Air Force was a rewarding experience. | contradiction |
How much further could the ball have gone? | The ball is missing. | entailment |
Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice. | He is being accused of perjury and obstruction of justice. | contradiction |
Pour coffee into Christopher Hitchens until he's sober enough to finish his cover story, 'Friendship. | Christopher Hitchens is alive | entailment |
But over the course of a generation, activists and bureaucrats have manufactured a single race out of a diverse mass of several million people whose origins can be traced to dozens of countries. | Diversity played a large role in bureaucrats and activists decisions. | entailment |
At the conference, they defended their activities against numerous Solidarity leaders denied they made too many compromises; priests denied they had been co-opted by the party; and Communists denied they had committed treason. | they used an aggressive attack instead of denial | contradiction |
He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened. | He judged everyone and was deemed perfect by society. | contradiction |
But it is to say that females--an inherently scarce sexual resource, in Darwinian terms--are in both species a big part of the impetus for the evolution of aggressive tendencies in males. | All women are prone to killing their male partners. | contradiction |
But, as in Washington, on snowy days like this, you take what you can get. | It often snows very heavily in Washington. | neutral |
Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids. | The author does not think highley of Madison Avenue. | neutral |
But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part. | A serious error was made. | entailment |
The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics. | Orthography has remained unchanged for years. | contradiction |
Movie stars can control their images. | Actors have trouble directing their outward representation. | neutral |
Time has fresh shots of an anguished Ethel and a plaintive Rory Kennedy. | Time has captured true joy and excitement in the eyes of Ethel and Rory Kennedy on their latest cover. | contradiction |
4. Mr. Bork says that when Microsoft also tried to hire him, he gave the company's lawyer a hearing, with the understanding that if he convinced me, I would simply stay out of the case. | Microsoft wanted Bork to be on their side. | entailment |
As previously mentioned, the e-rate discount won't cover any portion of the hardware bill either, leaving the local community responsible for PCs, modems, and training for teachers and supervisors. | The local community can afford the hardware | neutral |
The brand that we now think of as irresistible seemed tired and used up, and this now seamlessly efficient company lacked even a formal business model before 1983. | Seemingly failing businesses may recover. | entailment |
The territory's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 5 percent or 6 percent in 1997 and 1998, up from 4.7 percent in 1996. | GDP growth in the territory is languishing and must be supported through additional subsidies. | contradiction |
Majority Whip Tom DeLay, another Texan, is Armey's opposite--the Republican Jim Wright. | Republican Jim Wright is also from Texas. | neutral |
And so when I picked up a copy of Bionomics , the first thing I did was check out the author's treatment of my heroes and of what I knew to have been the important . His record was Not one of the right people was mentioned, not one of the key developments discussed. | The book leaves out none of the important works by Bionomists. | contradiction |
A weaker version of Chinook had previously lost to the legendary Marion Tinsley, a retired university math teacher considered the greatest checkers player of all time, who had to withdraw from a 1994 rematch because of the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him. | Tinsley won the 1994 rematch. | contradiction |
Late in his prize-winning series, Gerth wrote some harsh things about Hughes, and Hughes' lobbying of Clinton, but he scarcely mentioned Hughes' Republican connections. | Hughes' attempt at influencing Clinton was criticized by Gerth. | entailment |
The Justice Department asked Starr to look into allegations that his prosecutors improperly tried to cut an immunity deal with Lewinsky during their January 1998 sting without her lawyer present. | Starr founded prosecutors acted improperly | neutral |
Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book a fascinating cautionary tale of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects. | Amy Cortese slams the book for exposng hyped projects. | contradiction |
Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in. | Let's get Milosevic to pull back his troops | entailment |
I missed the last couple of days because of a computer crash. | I have missed a few homework assignments. | neutral |
The commander in chief has made a commitment on behalf of the United States, and the United States must honor that commitment. | The US has a commander in chief | entailment |
Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes. | Martin Luther King Jr. is a person who is famous. | neutral |
Consider the sex lives of older Americans. | Most of the older Americans take Viagra. | neutral |
Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU. | NAFTA and the WTO are fully accepted by Pat Buchanan. | contradiction |
Other news from 1) British Prime Minister John Major announced that a new national election will be held May 1. Polls show the opposition Labor Party leading by nearly 2-to-1. | The Labor Party is leading polls 2 to 1. | entailment |
Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable. | If true, Hersh's information would be damning. | entailment |
I can't in good conscience argue that you shouldn't field a team. | I believe you should field a team. | entailment |
This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women. | The speaker is moving up in the company based more on her looks than on her performance. | neutral |
Recently, three economists named Harold Cole, George Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite (for whom I will use the collective abbreviation CMP) have proposed a compromise between the two On the one hand, people do not care directly about their relative positions in the wealth distribution. | Harold Cole, George Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite proposed a compromise | entailment |
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