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For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it. | The United States should trust the United Nations because the organization does good deeds for the world. | neutral |
As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the wreckage of a large part of economic theory.) | Sir John Hicks, a noted thinker, felt that increasing returns could ruin a big portion of economic theory. | entailment |
Bill Gates realized it would be more efficient if all computers, regardless of manufacturer, ran the same system (which is why he's the richest man in America today). | The richest man in America today is Bill Gates. | entailment |
Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince. | Jackson had no children | contradiction |
Democrats think they're immune to this attack because they've got both ends of the spectrum On the removal question, the polls are on Clinton's side, and on the moral question, on which the polls are against Clinton, Democrats have acknowledged and condemned his misconduct. | Democrats approve of Clinton's misconduct | contradiction |
These decisions are made by middle management, who are free to indulge their prejudices, regardless of a calculation of what's best for the corporate bottom line. | Middle management does not always care about the bottom line. | entailment |
The troopers see Hillary as an undesirable, foul-mouthed harridan who had brought the mistreatment and neglect on herself. | Law enforcement officers, like the troopers, were universally supportive of Hillary and believed that she was an upstanding citizen. | contradiction |
When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help. | An Atlanta-based nonprofit is affiliated with the King Center. | entailment |
Also, there is no Fifth Amendment right against incriminating others. | The Fifth Amendment says you have a right to refuse to incriminate others. | contradiction |
Consequently, the Army can eliminate its weakest candidates--about one-half of blacks and one-third of whites--and still have a large number of blacks--about one-third of the Army. | Most of the army's weak candidates were eliminated. | neutral |
With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well. | He lacks both the resources and the will to be patient. | contradiction |
The New York Times offered moral indignation | The New York Times tends to avoid biases. | neutral |
First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change. | Conventional wisdom requires change. | entailment |
The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away. | The pictures' artist was inspired by de Kooning. | neutral |
In other words, on a day when George Bush was supposedly distancing himself from conservative Republicans, he was actually caving to their foolish dogma on the issue at the center of campaign--over the objection of his two top advisors on the subject. | The former president who distanced himself from conservative Republicans successfully upheld his values | contradiction |
Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention. | Marketing always tries to fit in with current trends | entailment |
But still, in one degree or another the feeling described by Auden, of not wanting to be forgotten, must be nearly universal. | Auden sought privacy and excluded all others. | contradiction |
The intervention could be stopped by a block of isolationist senators and House members. | There is a lot of opposition in Congress | neutral |
These states will have gambling that is accessible, but not universal; gambling that funds state government but does not hold it hostage. | Gambling brings in the bucks, babe | entailment |
During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y. | Paxon and Molinari were both completely uninterested in Suby for the duration of the flight. | contradiction |
The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy. | The newsweeklies disapprove of Clinton's Kosovo policy. | entailment |
(The exception is the cast of non-Jewish locals, who are almost all soap operaish white trash.) | None of the cast is Jewish. | entailment |
Blum masterfully explains why the effects of hormones are more complicated than pop science would have us think. | Blum poorly explains the relatively simple impact of hormones in humans | contradiction |
Even Graham's earliest confessions of incompetence are refuted by her father's transparent scheme to groom her for some top slot at the Post . After she graduates from the University of Chicago, he arranges a job for her as a reporter at the San Francisco News , and afterward hires her as a Post editorial writer. | Graham failed to get hired by The Post for a lowly position, much less the executive editor job. | contradiction |
Another way to generate profits is to buy up hospitals cheap--though regulation and competition have made it harder to lowball purchase prices. | There is no competition or interest in purchasing hospitals. | contradiction |
They especially take him to task for blaming Plath's suicide on fate and astrology. | Plath died of self-imposed carbon monoxide poisoning | neutral |
There must be that between them, she thought. | She thought about them. | entailment |
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains. | Teenagers are not known for their rational behavior | entailment |
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 feature is very helpful for those who need to digest a lot of information quickly. | neutral |
Might they be used for this purpose before meeting their ends if we make their deaths as humane as possible? | Their deaths should be as humane as we can make them. | entailment |
The fully cynical The joke is on us, because the building faithfully reflects Reagan's continuation of big government, despite his rhetoric. | Reagan claimed to want small government. | entailment |
That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink. | The occurrence lacked any relation to sex or drink. | contradiction |
That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the The written word enables us to preserve our laws. | Linda Douglass has been on the panel more then once. | neutral |
Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like. | Programmers refuse to work on debugging old software. | contradiction |
The Liberal Humanitarians are a product of the post-Cold War peace. | The Cold War had little influence on the emergence of Liberal Humanitarians. | contradiction |
(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue. | Like two peas in a pod, the sports commentators chewed the fat about the World Series. | entailment |
This has rekindled the concern and outrage sparked a few weeks ago by the similar death of a pledge at Louisiana State University. | A pledge died at Louisiana State University. | entailment |
I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son. | One man was in a hurry to cut the foreskin off his son's penis | contradiction |
Don't be surprised when it flops. | It is expected to be a success | contradiction |
The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success. | Despite the nation using advertising and education to push it, black capitalism has not translated into financial success. | neutral |
to my aunt's cleaning woman in upstate Pennsylvania and learned to adore the small town with its rows of stores and trees on the sidewalk and only a short walk into the country, in this case up a steep hill, | The town is located three hours outside of Philadelphia | neutral |
If you want to look like a propaganda organ of Microsoft, about the best thing you could do would be to publish an article about a very hotly contested industry issue, take Microsoft's side, and support your point with misinformation and untruths. | Publishing many words about Microsoft, painting their actual stance in the best possible light makes you look like you are a propagandist. | entailment |
Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to Pundit Central 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies. | It was proven the models were doing drugs. | contradiction |
An article explicates curling (shuffleboard on ice with brooms), the one game in all the world wherein the human participants move faster than the object they put in play. | Curling players chase a fast moving object across the ice. | contradiction |
If it doesn't wake up soon, another scandalous case will inevitably surface, and the government will take matters into its own hands. | The government doesn't want any scandals. | entailment |
He was a very spiritual man, seeor . Some of the birds, however, would just fly straight up and dive down into the ground, embedding their beaks like the Daffy Duck of the gringo cartoon features. | The diving birds are woodpeckers | neutral |
Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers. | Democrats have changed their stance regarding executive privilege. | neutral |
On Tuesday's NYPD Blue (ABC, 10 p.m.), Rick Schroder's tight-lipped character, Danny Sorenson, opens up to Sipowicz while seeking help for an alcoholic friend. | Sipowicz is a lead character on NYPD Blue. | neutral |
Two humorless and often petty egomaniacs intransigently reiterated their familiar positions (Rich). | They will forever be humorless and often petty. | neutral |
The effect of these stories from the nether regions of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been like crying wolf. | A total of 40 such stories were written | neutral |
It's redeploying assets to boost the stock price. | The stocks will not remain in the same price for long. | neutral |
It's a picture of a needy young woman, one whom any older man with something to lose--or half a brain--would have the sense to avoid. | An intelligent man would avoid the young woman because she plans to take all his money | neutral |
To the contrary, Jacob, he declared. | Jacob is the answer. | neutral |
In part, this is because Las Vegas has itself become one of the world's most powerful brand names. | Las Vegas has 136 casinos | neutral |
Lied about it to everyone . | Deceived everyone involved. | entailment |
KAETHE (Offering the briefcase): NOW can you ordain me? | They are wondering if it is possible for them to be ordained now. | entailment |
(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.) | This site is viewed by fans as the best site for finding information for shows. | neutral |
Sheppard, Time ). Skeptics renew old attacks on sociobiology's all-encompassing view of human nature. | Sociobiology looks at human nature with a grand view. | entailment |
In BeauSeigneur's novels, the Antichrist is Jewish, for sure, but he's also a man who was produced in a lab by misguided scientists using cells taken from the Shroud of Turin. | The antichrist is Jewish in the novels written by BeauSeigneur | entailment |
That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change. | Circumstances are fluid and change dynamically. | entailment |
To succeed, a propaganda campaign need not convince its audience; it need merely suck the oxygen out of the lungs of its foes. | Propaganda used this way can convince citizens to hate the opposition. | neutral |
that's odd. | Something is strange. | entailment |
But that wacky theory aside, the point for Lemann's book is He brilliantly shows how the Protestant Establishment gave way to the educated elite. | The Catholic church became the educated elite. | contradiction |
If the number of voters is literally infinite, then the conclusion can be overturned. | the election results are wrong | neutral |
But it is easy to guess. | It is easy to reach an uncertain conclusion if numbers are involved | neutral |
The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet. | Sacrificing animals is a common practice in Christianity. | contradiction |
In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA. | Northern fiscal conservatives were more conservative than southern fiscal conservatives in the later part of the twentieth century. | neutral |
What Debate Shows Do When There's No On The McLaughlin Group , Pat Buchanan enjoys a furiously heated nonargument with Mort Kondracke, which reminds Pundit Central of Alfred Marshall's question about which blade of a scissors does the cutting. | Pat Buchanan will always entertain with his crazy obfuscation. | entailment |
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 a talented writer. | neutral |
Before long, we can expect to hear retirement-averse conservatives making the rest of the fine arguments against term limits. | Workaholic Republicans will retire peacefully. | contradiction |
Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator? | The internet does not anticipate mergers. | neutral |
Time identifies a new racial bilingual education. | A new racial bilingual education has been identified by Time. | entailment |
The other, largely neglected Imply that the competition, as currently configured, is improbably upscale. | Currently the competition is thought of as impossibly high-end. | entailment |
For example, the engineers of the battalion exposed to sarin showed no higher illness rates than others. | The study is only in the early stages. | neutral |
Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy. | Specifically citing their unamusing demeanor, the lackluster performance by Farrow has been criticized. | entailment |
Winesburg, Ohio, like cyberspace, was a perfectly efficient information market. | The information market at Winesburg, OH was not inefficient. | entailment |
Except that the executive who was assigned the difficult task of dealing with the Shopping Avenger, one Jennifer Nemeth, did a provisionally satisfactory job of making the Shopping Avenger happy. | Jennifer knew the Shopping Avenger's taste beforehand. | neutral |
But less tendentious media outlets have also reported on Albright's ethnic background. | Albright's ethnic background has already been proven. | neutral |
He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine. | The man felt very restricted and confined. | contradiction |
Somewhere in the Maryland panhandle, E and I were for some reason discussing Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty , which makes the case for chastity, patience, courtship, etc. | The Return of Modesty is a well regarded book. | neutral |
Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about. | The answers are probably really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe. | neutral |
In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race. | All marriages in 1963 were of those of the same race. | contradiction |
Others point to Waas' supposedly shoddy reporting of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article on arms sales to Iraq that he co-wrote for the Los Angeles Times . There is no evidence that the pair repeated any of these alleged sins in their reporting on Hale. | Waas' Pulitzer Prize nomination was rescinded after the issues came to light | neutral |
Clinton has no such out. | Clinton doesn't have the detailed excuse. | entailment |
But let's get Does the diagnosis of sex addiction make sense? | You can get diagnosed with sex addiction. | entailment |
But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results. | The authors' preconceived notions led to them ignoring certain signs and signals. | neutral |
The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be. | the film shows a certain way life could go. | entailment |
Ambrose--in the very next sentence! | Ambrose is noteworthy in this piece. | entailment |
Behavior in the Human Male , in its impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged. | Men are cruel and harsh | contradiction |
He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years. | He is unaware that people find him unoriginal. | neutral |
All that's missing is the steroids (out-of-control steroid use by the mob's young guns is what's killing the mafia as much as anything else). | The people are not taking steroids right now. | entailment |
Also, there is no Fifth Amendment right against incriminating others. | The Fifth Amendment includes more than one right. | neutral |
The Washington Post reported more evidence of the alleged Chinese plot to influence U.S. elections. | Because The Washington Post is a large newspaper conglomerate, the Chinese found them easy to bribe for access to top-secret American intelligence. | 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? | It is possible to predict with certainty how a student will do in college. | contradiction |
Or maybe what's new about the rules is the claim that now, for the first time, they apply to a large part of the economy. | The economy suffers no effects for any of the rules currently in place. | contradiction |
But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best. | They were helped with their math homework. | entailment |
AOL countered that Microsoft had already tried and failed to launch a proprietary online service. | Microsoft's previous attempt to make a proprietary online service was a failure. | entailment |
Maybe then you won't be too good to ride in an exploding Chevy. | The Chevy is a reliable car. | entailment |
The administration's spin is that demands and conditions are the opposite of negotiation. | The administration feels that the demands and conditions will result in the same failed negotiations. | neutral |
This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on. | No one has ever heard of Omeros. | contradiction |
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