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Mostly I just skim the retractions), and himself (I am so sorry ...
I skimmed by accident only.
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Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.
The couple toured Lake Como before their nuptials.
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Consilience is, in any case, an excellent book.
Consilience received many awards.
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In Take This Simple Test, Steven E. Landsburg goes into quite some mathematical detail about the public's so-called irrationality.
He uses algorithms to prove his points.
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It would be more true to say that Gopnik's need to see Picasso as a rascal deforms his view of Picasso's art.
Gopnik needs to see Picasso as a warrior
contradiction
Contrary to press reports, it's possible that someone entered the house from outside.
The press missed the opportunity to report on this house.
contradiction
They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.
Only one higher income woman had a 10 pound gain
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The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.
The country is gaining more economic growth than it has ever seen before.
contradiction
That was a satisfying moment.
The moment felt satisfying to some people.
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But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely postpone it.
But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely engage it.
neutral
How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?
It is unknown how Adaptec made the list.
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
The mention of tollbooths have become a hot topic.
contradiction
The Washington Post says that Republicans will encourage unity by allowing Smith to retain his committee chairmanship and caucus membership.
Smith is the current committee chairman
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I'm assuming they never think of me in this context because to them I was the other half of a couple with Rob, and it would somehow be disloyal on their part to introduce me to other men.
The author is interested in dating other men.
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They say things like This is the coolest generation ever.
This generation is considered to be very trendy.
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But he has never done what his characters would have.
He likes his characters
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And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.
GS controls how much money congress spends.
contradiction
(Click here for a summary of the experiment.)
The experiment involved studying the chemical properties of a substance
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If the fast-food world had only three players, and McDonalds's proposed to buy out Burger King, how reassured would we be if they offered the palliative of selling a few franchises to Taco Bell?
What if there was another player?
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He had a video camera attached to the ceiling, which recorded every move.
There is a camera in the room
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Most people Prudie has observed tipping taxi drivers tack on a couple of bucks, no matter what the meter.
Taxi drivers expect a tip.
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The fourth quarter is Jordan Time.
Jordan Time is also known as the fourth quarter.
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But the links may also be genetic or, at the very least, the result of ancient ancestral contact.
The links have been proven to be genetic.
contradiction
Luckily, he is highly placed, but I mean, how does one gracefully NOT contribute?
Unfortunately for him, he is lowly placed.
contradiction
But the real hope for ending the AIDS epidemic is not expensive drug therapies.
Affordable drug therapies are the silver bullet for the AIDS crisis.
neutral
Once all the world smiled benignly when an adult took an interest in a scoutmaster and troop, priest and altar boy--what could be more wholesome?
This questions the wholesomeness of an adult's interests.
entailment
Wolf did call after this item was posted, but our conversation was off-the-record.
Wolf was spoken to, when the item was not rescinded, and the entire discussion was not officially recorded.
entailment
Naturally, European governments want to tax call-back services out of existence.
call-back services have less than average tax requirements.
contradiction
Rediscovering Arendt's public-private split wouldn't necessarily entail abandoning the feminist notion that the personal is political.
Arendt is a woman
neutral
Ask any current teacher of legal ethics in any law school in the United States ( including a law school in New York).
Law students abide by an ethical code
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In cases like this, it's the economist's job to explain where we ought to be headed, and the political scientist's job to explain why we can't get there from here.
An economists predicts where the government should go.
entailment
At one point he imagines this middle-class By dismissing our fears about declining morality out of hand, you fail to recognize that middle-class morality is not necessarily opposed to the values of inclusion and equality that you currently profess.
He doesn't think middle-class morality could possibly agree with the fundamentals of equality and inclusion.
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He is preaching to the kinds of middle Americans that liberal activists long ago gave up for dead.
He is effective at reaching the average American across multiple regions and of diverse backgrounds.
neutral
Last year he tried and failed to invoke the War Powers Resolution for the Bosnia mission.
His attempt to utilize the War Powers Resolution was unsuccessful.
entailment
In that sense, the stock market boom is founded firmly on the steadier achievements to which Kazin refers.
The stock market booms because of steady achievements.
entailment
It would be nice to say that we were rich because we were good, but the randomness of the market and the casual ethics of the hidden hand allow no such theocratic conclusion.
Good ethics will net many riches without fail.
contradiction
Newsweek, which loves fad therapies, hypes natural Prozac.
Newsweek had no hand in hyping natural pozac.
contradiction
The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.
The current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are being steadily compounded and preserved
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Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now.
Everybody knows there is life on Mars.
contradiction
In last week's episode, Apu, the Indian convenience store owner, goes down to the docks to donate porno magazines to sailors.
Last week on The Simpsons, Apu donated dirty magazines to sailors
entailment
Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore.
Thompson is a sarcastic prostitute.
neutral
On Wednesday , NBC sinks to new lows with The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?
NBC is broadcasting "The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?" on Wednesday.
entailment
A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.
India has a booming economy charged with opportunity.
neutral
The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.
Republicans views the impeachment hearings unfavorably.
entailment
Complaints can be sent directly to Critical Path.
Critical Path fails to accept complaints.
contradiction
Here, again, was a world they could understand.
There was a world still.
entailment
In other words, what yadda yadda yadda can convey is something You and I know all the points that would ordinarily be inserted at this place in the conversation, so let's just skip it and move on.
Slang is being used to convey an understood meaning.
entailment
It is seen as a rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a victory for Democrats, Sen.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is often rebuked by Democrats.
neutral
I admit a good deal of my concern is self-motivated.
I am unconcerned about the situation.
contradiction
The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign.
Bush delayed the announcement of his intent to seek the presidency longer than in previous years.
contradiction
And, basset people, like me, want dogs that have the good sense not to do any of those things.
Basset hound owners want dogs that are mischevious.
contradiction
Lohengrin (Metropolitan Opera, New York City).
There is a metropolitan opera in New York.
entailment
He has already demonstrated his acumen at milking the confrontation with Helms for its maximum theatrical and political value.
His zest for maximizing value of confrontation was imaginary.
contradiction
God knows he's prepared for it.
He is prepared to handle anything.
neutral
Or he may You're in the wrong place.
You are in the place.
contradiction
How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?
Only one of Adaptec or Skadden are on the list.
contradiction
Beck's first contribution will appear Monday evening.
On next Thursday, Beck will unveil his contribution.
contradiction
Sixty-eight percent favor a federal law to prevent job discrimination against gays and lesbians.
68% of people oppose anti discrimination laws
contradiction
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 in their late twenties.
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These countries only reluctantly agreed to this week's new U.N. sanctions that bar international travel by Iraqi officials linked to the inspection dispute.
Iraqi officials are not effected by the sanctions.
contradiction
Replace George Will's column with weekly photo of him being punched in the nose.
George Will writes a column.
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Given this prospect, the country should save heavily to make provision for the future--and lacking the kind of pay-as-you-go Social Security system that allows Americans to ignore such realities, it does.
Americans may not be able to rely on the Social Security system to help them when they are older, so they should avoid spending money now.
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Re Paste Test: I'll have to put the hex on Colgate Total.
They are going to use sorcery on Colgate Total.
entailment
If being smart is no guarantee of being right, having been right is not necessarily an indicator that someone is smart.
Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're intelligent.
entailment
Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.
According to Poblete, congress will reconsider posting them.
entailment
It recounts the misdeeds of Phantomd, a teen-age cracker who infiltrated computers at nuclear-weapons labs, military bases, banks, dams, and major corporations before he was caught.
The teenager cracker hacked only places that he worked at.
contradiction
Doctors often miss these effects.
Doctors are perfect in every way
contradiction
They never forgave Arafat for bowing to what Ajami calls the logic of brute, irreversible facts.
Arafat was replaced by Ajami.
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One regular precaution before driving out into the boonies used to be marking a giant TV with adhesive tape on the back and side windows, which we believed was easy-to-spot shorthand for don't shoot, I'm a reporter.
The backwoods of rural America is very dangerous for all reporters; injuries are common.
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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!
Iraqi soldiers killed a dog on tv.
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Pecker is a breezy, agreeable picture--a charmer, thumbs-up, three stars--but there's something disappointing about a John Waters film that's so evenhanded and all-embracing, even if its sunniness is ironic.
John Waters made a film called Pecker.
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Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.
Each fetus is unique.
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Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.
Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to manage the risks associated with lawsuits.
neutral
9. Don't define yourself merely by your enemy.
The enemy should not be how you define yourself.
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4) Court records indicate that a jewelry-fraud ring used illegal third-party campaign donations to get President Clinton to pose in photos with its principals.
Clinton was caught posing in photos related to the jewelry fraud ring.
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(In Paragraph 19, Line 106, replace the words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' with the words 'seven hundred fifty million dollars.
There were fewer than five words in each of the document's ten paragraphs.
contradiction
It's a real strain on our relationship to have her parents and grandparents letting her know that they think I am unworthy.
The parents and grandparents have a low estimation of the speaker.
entailment
On the 10 th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, we often refer to that event in shorthand as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall still stands strong to this day, each brick sturdy and secure.
contradiction
The court upheld a trial judge's decision to 1) reduce Woodward's conviction from murder to manslaughter in the death of an 8-month-old baby and 2) reduce her prison sentence from 15 years to the 279 days she had already served.
The court decided to keep the murder charge but reduce the setence to 279 days.
contradiction
Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000.
Favors are thought to have been sold to the Vietnamese government.
entailment
There would still be an Ahab syndrome.
The Ahab syndrome has been eliminated.
contradiction
Before proceeding, write down or remember the directories where these files are found.
Ignore locations of files in the directories, they are superfluous.
contradiction
Impossible, argued Albright and He will not stop until he is forced to do so.
Albright made no secret that he would continue.
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There is the rejection letter I received from George , which he was too modest to put his own name on.
George did not address the letter.
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We would have relevant professionals--scientists, accountants, engineers, forensic specialists--decide all criminal cases.
Criminal cases would be decided by professionals.
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In that case the big loans organized a few months ago could have made the difference.
The loans were backed by collateral
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If you do know what cookies are and have set your computer not to accept them, our password/sign-in process won't work for you.
Everyone should be able to sign in on their desktop PC and enjoy the virtual cookies and milk they will find there.
contradiction
Zercher says Lindsey called her and urged her to say all positive things about her experiences.
Lindsey hopes that Zercher will leave a glowing review for her.
entailment
The benefits of managed care are unremarkable and undramatic (lower premiums, more preventive care).
Managed care offers a better form of healthcare for those concerned.
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Diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and penile injuries (more than 100,000 whacked in bike accidents have been permanently deflated, according to the medical literature) all prevent men from mustering a swelling.
Bicycle accidents are responsible for erectile issues in more than 100,000 men.
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You couldn't possibly have published a better parody of what passes for scholarship in the postmodern world.
This scholarship is useful.
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And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige.
The agency was created after the Cold War.
contradiction
(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.)
Bosnian Croats were guaranteed only 3 seats
contradiction
I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it.
The handicapped stall is rarely occupied.
contradiction
Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
New York's Denby feels the scenes are meaningless and insignificant.
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Whether these habits will change on their own, with the maturation of a more tolerant generation, or whether full social acceptance of black Americans will require a concerted governmental effort, is unknowable.
It is completely understood how to make blacks acceptable to society
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
I have run a laboratory in the past.
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Now along comes PK to blame men.
PK wants to blame women.
contradiction
Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it.
Degas considered himself sort of a bad ass renegade.
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Although critics find Cities of the Plain less inventive than All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing , they still celebrate McCarthy's Faulkneresque use of flowing, punctuationless sentences and arcane language.
The author who uses Faulkneresque sentences is acclaimed by critics
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