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that's odd. | A crime may have occured. | neutral |
Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for. | Republicans in the Senate were in favor of legislation against PACs. | contradiction |
But there's more about Colorado you might not know. | Lesser known facts about the state of Colorado exist. | entailment |
The Republican Party leadership wants Starr to deliver nothing until after the elections (Shields; George Will, This Week ; Gwen Ifill, NBC's Meet The Press ; Tony Blankley, CNN's Late Edition ; and David Bloom, Meet the Press ). In fact, Orrin Hatch's comments on the shows this week should be construed as signals from... | Orrin Hatch of the GOP, otherwise known as the Republican Party, wanted Starr to wait until after the election so that the report would not impact the election results. | neutral |
He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit. | Tobacco can only be injected. | contradiction |
No one blinks 40-car motorcades that shut down interstates and gridlock traffic, the 200-plus-strong Secret Service delegation that accompanies the president abroad, the transformation of the open White House into an impenetrable fortress. | The White House is vulnerable to attack. | contradiction |
4) If resemblance to Jesus were the only issue, why didn't Falwell say the Antichrist must be a carpenter? | Falwell insists that the Antichrist is a carpenter. | contradiction |
The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity. | One's identity can still be figured out through the narrative. | neutral |
(Frank is hardly the first to note that the tastes of a hip bohemian elite have spread to the masses, or to argue that the results of this cultural migration are deleterious. | Plain folks always want what they can't afford. | neutral |
Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is. | The female subject is interested in women | entailment |
Ben Brantley writes in the New York Times that the play manages to entertain even at its darkest and preachiest. | Ben Brantley has written for the New York Times, a nationwide newspaper. | entailment |
Paul shrinks from this view. | Paul pulled away and felt uncomfortable. | neutral |
A great many of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment. | We are able to witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment. | entailment |
Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly. | When translated from another language to English, chants sound silly. | entailment |
No doubt he will do better in his next book. | The next book will be his best ever | neutral |
Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community. | James and Dewey support the one big first-person-plural community. | 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. | Everyone in the conversation understands the meaning of the slang. | neutral |
It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money. | Dial-up internet service is nearly extinct. | neutral |
But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement. | Extreme improvement is anticipated by most onlookers. | entailment |
Time 's feature argues that settling is trickier than it Can Clinton acknowledge Jones' claim and not admit to any wrongdoing? | There is no scandal involving Clinton and Jones. | contradiction |
And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist. | Bradley should never look like a strategist. | entailment |
He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves. | The valves helped solved the problem with water issues. | neutral |
He is not an economics writer | He is a fiction writer | neutral |
The other example is Chaconne , starring Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins. | Chaconne was set in 1950's Manhattan. | neutral |
I'm no economist, but I believe this is the point President Clinton intends to make in Tokyo tomorrow. | Clinton is prepared for hiss speech tomorrow. | neutral |
Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them. | The intent is to have as many people hear their message as possible. | entailment |
I sometimes found myself wishing he would let the picture catch its breath, that the performers would stop coming at me in stroboscopic flashes. | He is a performer too. | neutral |
( Post defectors include Celestine Bohlen, Gwen Ifill, Julia Preston, Michael Specter, Patrick Tyler, Patti Cohen, and David Richards--who defected back. | Celestine Bohlen's defection went unnoticed. | contradiction |
Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient. | The exercise will not revive the patient alone. | entailment |
The Washington Post 's front-page story notes, Gore has gone to great lengths to conceal Wolf's role. | Gore covered up Sneed's role | contradiction |
They think Gates is stepping down-contrary to Ballmer's insistence that Gates is stepping up to his new job-in hopes of appeasing Justice Department warriors who want Gates' head. | Gates is moving into a different role | entailment |
PointCast has succeeded so far with a mass-market approach--relatively few news sources, sorted into relatively few buckets. | The mass market has few news sources. | entailment |
But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement. | Extreme improvement is forfeited by most onlookers. | contradiction |
Initiatives like community policing and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit appeal to all parties in the debate. | Everyone likes the Earned Income Tax Credit. | entailment |
That is another investment one can make for old so to conduct oneself in prior years that one can feel one has paid one's dues. | The investment being written here is in reference to financial decisions. | neutral |
Fear of repeating the deadly clash between federal agents and Branch Davidian cult members has deterred police from raiding the compound. | Police have learned from their mistakes when it comes to the Branch Davidians. | entailment |
However, they should not be punished without due process in the name of 'national security' or 'protection of citizens' lives. | It is their right as citizens. | entailment |
Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms that would make Floyd look like a spring shower. | Time expressed doubt that the future would have supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms. | contradiction |
The striking thing about workers' comments after the vote was how many of them mentioned the possibility of the company shutting down its operations. | A common theme among worker's comments was the possibility of the company closing. | entailment |
There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk. | Both the paper and chalk are white | neutral |
I was greatly encouraged to see Michael Goff's proposal of a Microsoft fashion-upgrade strategy, titled Dressing Up the Nerds. | Michael Goff has worked with Microsoft for a long time. | neutral |
The Easter spirit is A week after Time 's heaven cover story, Newsweek and U.S. | Religious topics are covered in major news publications around Easter. | entailment |
Coming after Don't Look Back , the superb cinema verite documentary D.A. | D.A played after Don't Look Back. | entailment |
The few stinky letters were from clergymen. | The letters stank due to the wax seal used to close the envelopes. | neutral |
But I'm single, [so] I'm allowed to do that, I guess. | I'm so happy to be one-half of a couple in a loving relationship. | contradiction |
He says this will make our system the best. | Of all possible systems, he firmly believed that this one was the best for us. | neutral |
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 incremental reforms that traditionalists favor are not based on the assumption that the current trust fund balances are being preserved. | contradiction |
I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Ame... | Because the speaker believes that Americans feel their values have been lost forever, the speaker wants Americans to look back and retrieve them. | neutral |
But from there, he goes wrong. | He had just started when he went wrong. | neutral |
Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets. | The argument against NATO's action in Kosovo failed when the U.N. issued a mandate | contradiction |
On Meet the Press , he insisted that the $150 he allots to each person's monthly insurance premium is not a cap. | Nobody gets more than $150 for their monthly insurance payment. | contradiction |
I hope the next generation is large enough to include that person. | The hope is that person will be in the next generation, which we already know will be the smallest ever. | contradiction |
There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget. | There is a sign that the administration is currently tempted by mea culpa | contradiction |
U.S. law does not require the president to request congressional support before supporting a WTO bid. | The president is required by law to request congressional support before supporting a WTO bid. | contradiction |
If you don't like reading on a computer screen, for example, there's a special version of SLATE that you can print out in its entirety, reformatted like a traditional print magazine. | Slate only allows reading from print as an option. | contradiction |
The important question is not whether these stories are true | The stories are definitely true. | neutral |
It might also be pointed out that Dole supported the political pardons meted out by Gerald Ford, when he served as Ford's running mate in 1976. | Gerald Ford's pardons, which include Richard Nixon, were supported by Dole when he was his running mate in 1976. | entailment |
Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer. | The average length of an economic slump is three years | neutral |
Go-Gurt rang up $37 million in sales during its first year of limited distribution. | Go-Gurt rang up $37 million during its first four quarters | 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. | It is difficult to successfully send military aid into a region if there are not clearly justifiable objectives and reasons for doing so. | neutral |
Is Clinton saying he didn't commit perjury because of the peculiar definition of sex in the Paula Jones suit, or is he saying he actually didn't have sex? | Paula Jones and Clinton are involved in a court case. | entailment |
But Rodgers did tell Lewis that he despises Amelio because Amelio supported Clinton, so it is Rodgers' mistake, not our author's, that we are correcting. | After Amelio supported Clinton, Rodgers told Lewis that he hates Amelio | entailment |
There he would stand, his back turned to us like the contemplative artist figure in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and reflect on the glory and folly of mankind. | Caspar David Friedrich is his favorite artist | neutral |
The intervention could be stopped by a block of isolationist senators and House members. | The intervention is not unanimously supported | entailment |
They can result from ordinary events happening to people who are receptive, appreciative, attuned to what is happening around them. | These ordinary events happens to people who are dull and unaware. | contradiction |
Pol Pot is in captivity | Pot Pot has never been involuntarily confined. | contradiction |
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. | entailment |
Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose. | The labor movement always stays true to their long term goals. | contradiction |
TV is the most important medium for conveying history. | After being invented, TV surpassed books as the most important medium for conveying history | neutral |
The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime. | The bottle suggested to take it in the morning. | contradiction |
At least you know they're not reading a book or anything. | They spent the afternoon and into the evening doing nothing but reading. | contradiction |
But bizarrely, 1.7 million of those votes were for Kemal Ataterk. | Kemal Ataterk received a negligible share of the vote. | contradiction |
Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation. | New York gave up the responsibility of operating even a single office of the Children's Services department a long time ago. | contradiction |
But let's get Does the diagnosis of sex addiction make sense? | Sex addiction is can't be diagnosed. | contradiction |
Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with o... | Businessmen, who use their time to produce things, gets the attention and respect today over speculators. | entailment |
Even with television and the Web, the Times ' news judgment is still the final word for many outlets. | The Times has been discredited. | contradiction |
Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me. | She is favored based on her connections to others. | neutral |
Invented in 1993: After a big interception, Packers safety Leroy Butler . The populist Leap is particularly suited to the NFL's only publicly owned team, the zealously beloved Pack. | Leroy Butler is a hockey player. | contradiction |
Because, despite its monopoly power, Microsoft remains subject to the laws of the marketplace. | Microsoft can change the ordinance of the marketplace through their means. | neutral |
KAETHE (Offering the briefcase): NOW can you ordain me? | They are feeling positive that they will be ordained now. | neutral |
Ohio Democrats want Jerry Springer to run for Congress. | Mr. Springer is from Ohio. | entailment |
There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment. | This was specifically about tourism and the impact that a good night out can have on the night's entertainment value. | contradiction |
If you can use viral marketing and Abercrombie & Fitch in the same sentence, you too can be a Gen Y pundit. | Gen Y pundits are non-existent. | contradiction |
The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general. | The result is not limited to the area around the mammaries. | entailment |
A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton. | Catherine Oxenberg starred in the TV show Dynasty during the 1980's. | neutral |
Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument. | Their argument is pro America. | contradiction |
O, how I faint when I of you do write, | O, how I fall into a trance when I of you do write, | entailment |
Newsweek lambastes the president for diplomatic errors and missed opportunities: Security advisers originally told the administration to offer President Slobodan Milosevic a face-saving compromise; when action became inevitable, they recommended strengthening NATO's military threat; finally, as airstrikes began, they u... | The commander-in-chief read the magazine article | neutral |
A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat. | Time magazine is promoting drugs in the war against fat. | contradiction |
The story was singularly inappropriate in 1936--the deluge had come after Coolidge and Hoover, and Roosevelt's spending was an effort to stem the deluge, or at least to keep some people from drowning in it. | Roosevelt felt responsible for the deluge. | neutral |
In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning. | Kodak won the case | contradiction |
And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ... | The author refers to citizens of the United States. | entailment |
This July, Sen. | July is a month | entailment |
Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet! | The wife who saw me castigated in public is 22 years old | neutral |
And second, in fact, there is no obligation to disclose anything. | Keeping things private is allowed | entailment |
Actually, three, if you count Jerry Falwell's Jew Town, but that's a scary place. | Jerry Falwell's Jew Town is visited by millions of people each year. | neutral |
the tester meows as he drops the vermin on the developer's doorstep. | The developer is an actual dog. | contradiction |
Do begin again, and Prudie predicts 1999 will be your year. | You should be optimistic about 1999. | entailment |
The idea, Leger claimed, was to prove that machines and fragments of them, that ordinary manufactured objects, have plastic possibilities. | Leger thought that machines could be used to make toys one day and weapons the next. | neutral |
Starr is much more likely to be interested in Steele herself and in why she changed her story. | Steele's story was modified regarding timing of events | neutral |
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