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I thank Joe Conason for pointing out my errors, and I apologize to the readers of S late for my carelessness. | The speaker was able to point out many of Conason's mistakes. | contradiction |
By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal. | The benefits of drugs outweigh the side effects. | neutral |
A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January. | The musical first opened up in the Spring. | contradiction |
The problem isn't so much that men are designed by natural selection to fight as what they're designed to fight women . | God guided the natural selection process | neutral |
He doesn't cheat. | He has sex with anyone he can. | contradiction |
Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop. | Buchanan likes to use the word du jour in his writings. | entailment |
I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded. | In between the election and taking office, Bush enjoyed dancing in a tutu in the rose garden after shaving his head. | contradiction |
In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll. | Cole associates Urlmon.dll with Internet Explorer | entailment |
Your advice to struck me as amazing. | The advice was a turning-point in their life. | neutral |
I spent a lot of time talking to Iowa farmers since January. | He spent a long time talking with farmers in Maryland. | contradiction |
I e-mailed all three galleries, asking them to explain the disparity in their prices. | There is a justification for different prices at different galleries. | neutral |
Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market. | There is no one that is critical of Microsoft. | contradiction |
This has made her an attorney general without measurable accomplishment in law enforcement or prosecution. | She was praised for her accomplishments | contradiction |
I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name. | Everyone knows how to say his name | contradiction |
Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding! | The narrator doesn't like Al Gore. | neutral |
As a college student familiar with all the latest urban lingo, I believe the proper term to be used in these contexts is boink. | According to my retired parents, the proper term to use in these contexts is boink. | contradiction |
The superficial The even split of many of his assets vindicates her argument and bodes well for corporate wives. | The even split of many of his assets, which vindicates her argument, bodes well for corporate wives. | entailment |
As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do. | We started just a week ago | neutral |
And, as for the type of respect we Machiavelli's advice--that it is better to be feared than loved--will make much less sense in the 21 st century than it did in the 16 th . Goodwill toward America is becoming a national-security asset worth cultivating. | Machiavelli hopes that his comments will bring people together and avoid conflict. | contradiction |
For affirmative action to do anything, it must involve advancing people who are slightly less qualified. | In General Black men get hired over white men, especially when they aren't as qualified. | neutral |
Fashion is as acceptable in France as any imaginative work, and criticism about it has certainly flourished there. | Inside the Fashion world of France, it is both accepted and criticized. | entailment |
Not surprisingly, Scalia is no big fan of stare decisis : In his dissents, he often calls upon the court to scour away layers of encrusted precedent in order to get at the original meaning of the underlying text. | It was a huge shock when everyone found out Scalia is not a big fan of stare decisis | contradiction |
He's just finished Isaac's Storm, a history of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, and reads Robert Parker's detective-for-hire stories. | Eric Larson is the author of Isaac's Storm. | entailment |
Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space. | The earlier settlers were very considerate of later comers, taking their future needs into consideration. | contradiction |
The populist, by contrast, panders to his audience, figuring out what it likes and then delivering it in heaps. | Populists hate the audience and antagonizes them; so their support, as a tyrant's, is similarly lacking. | contradiction |
The strength of the spot is that the fabric of its images converts the actuarial into the nearly spiritual, and raises numbers--money--to the level of moral values. | The religious zeal was the driving force behind their motivation to contribute now, and was then also. | neutral |
But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious. | Eisner is a retail specialist. | neutral |
The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about. | He lied so much that even he could not remember what he said. | neutral |
2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union. | The Teamsters union operated independently from the Mafia. | contradiction |
How could the Mormons have practiced polygamy? | The Mormons practiced nothing. | contradiction |
If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy. | Synergy is not a myth. | entailment |
The first is that CBS's spiking of the interview turned Wigand into an even bigger story than he would have been otherwise. | Wigand's interview with CBS went forward as planned | contradiction |
Or Morris could have contacted Dorothy Healey, who was the chair of the Southern California Communist Party during the '40s. | The Communist Party was active in Southern California during the 40's. | entailment |
60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly. | It's cheaper to call without going through California first. | contradiction |
But lately he has taken to cruising college campuses in his Miata, looking for recruits. | He waits for the students to come to his recruitment office. | contradiction |
(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in | Krugman is a member of the World Trade Organization. | neutral |
At night we sometimes had sex outside on the deck--and even in a swing hanging from a tree in her front yard. | We avoided all untoward contact whenever we were out of doors, near her home. | contradiction |
Time explains why the anti-sweatshop movement is growing on college The AFL-CIO has jump-started the protests by lavishing student activists with internships and trips to countries with poor working conditions. | College aged students are protesting sweatshops in greater numbers since so many young students are politically active. | entailment |
That's what the Globe had to do last week for actress Bo Derek and her director husband, John. | Bo Derek is married to John who is a director. | entailment |
N otting Hill opens with an superfluous voice-over that sets the scene and makes certain that the audience is oriented. | Upon the opening of Notting hill the audience is exposed to information that is useful in creating a sense of place. | entailment |
It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations. | Men now view marriage and sexual relations as completely separate entities | neutral |
At the other extreme, if we discover that Bill Gates murdered Vince Foster, or a similar megascoop, journalistic bravado will easily triumph over corporate loyalty. | Bill Gates has never heard of Vince Foster. | neutral |
And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can. | After insurers received large bills, they raised their rates | neutral |
On the sex front, nonpresidential illicit encounters are all the tabs can muster this month. | Illicit sexual encounters are nonpresidential. | neutral |
We have some very tough laws against gun violence in Texas, and federal law with its mandatory sentences is tough as well. | 50 American states have weak laws against gun violence | contradiction |
Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month. | Metropolitan Phoenix lies just outside of Maricopa County. | contradiction |
Mine's a full week old, and he's still acting like a drunk. | Their child never acts drunk most of the time. | neutral |
This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books. | None of the discounted books were non-fiction | neutral |
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 originated from cells taken from the crown of thorns | contradiction |
Why, it's their Chineseness, of course. | It is Chineseness. | neutral |
Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vows to blow the whistle on candidates who tear down other Republicans. | It is an election year. | neutral |
Pols spend their dotage as think tank scholars or consultants or part-time lobbyists ( Bob Dole) and are trotted out periodically for sage commentary. | Pols occasionally provide sage commentary | entailment |
They can score, but they can't play D. | The team is having a winning season. | neutral |
Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign? | The person found the common thread that links Nike and ABC's campaigns. | neutral |
In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S. | U.S. ranked Harvard number one in its best college issue two years ago. | neutral |
John maintains his innocence from death row. | John's case is being appealed | neutral |
Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference. | The internet swayed the result of the 1996 US elections. | entailment |
Conde Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists, writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines. | Conde Nast is involved in a medium of communication | entailment |
But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate. | There are a lot of question about how a women's body works | entailment |
The RPH has hidden literary talents. | No one else knew about the RPH's hidden talents until today | neutral |
Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer. | Internet Explorer relies heavily on sales to find new people to use their services. | neutral |
My opinion is that not every perjury is a high crime, as grounds for removing a president from office. | There exists a president that committed perjury that was not removed from office. | neutral |
We know that Sullivan believes in him (her? | Sullivan believes in him/her. | neutral |
c) Evidence of suborning perjury in the Kathleen Willey matter. | A court case which involves Kathleen Willey has had new evidence uncovered. | entailment |
Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies. | The Whigs went on to dominate elections for the rest of the 19th century. | contradiction |
Keyes : Join me in a prayer to Our Creator. | Keyes is very religious. | neutral |
Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last. | The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) should be saved for last. | entailment |
Founding editor = permanent voice in growth of Wired ! Move forward together! | The person who creates and keeps an eye on quality in the magazine helps the magazine be better! | entailment |
John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig. | John Glenn was the first person to ride in the space shuttle. | neutral |
In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks. | Working Girl and Pretty Woman were both movies with huge box office success. | neutral |
As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same. | Cops track down illegal distributors. | entailment |
It sounds as if things are just fine as long as your correspondent doesn't have to visit her friend's house. | Visiting the house means her friend is in trouble. | neutral |
The military is (theoretically) a nonpolitical institution, but as soon as the operation went south, the military abandoned its nonpolitical faaade to protect itself. | The military changes the rules when it's convenient. | entailment |
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... | Speculators are respected today because they produce things unlike businessmen who play with other people's things. | contradiction |
He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone. | He wasn't able to free himself from the family. | entailment |
Such a show might have opened with the same Robert Henri portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney included here and brought many of the same paintings she collected out of the vault for a fresh look. | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was a patron of the arts. | neutral |
For two earners each making $23,350, Alterman is serendipitously close to the mark when he asserts a marriage penalty of $1,001 a year. | A two person household is made up of a married couple. | neutral |
And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart. | You aren't allowed to sacrifice your life to donate your organs. | entailment |
On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.) | The company has been working with the promising and ill-prepared. | entailment |
Framing the election around the desirability of tax cuts is risky business for Clinton; since the age of Reagan, the public assumes that the Republicans are the anti-tax party. | Reagan started cutting taxes before the republican party as a whole did. | neutral |
(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.) | Philip Weiss's mother was ashamed at the public tantrum. | neutral |
But aren't education, family leave, and the breakdown of community economic issues? | Family leave is a contributing factor to the economy. | neutral |
Even in the suburbs, where dogs run free, no poodle comes home with a hammer and sickle spray-painted on his side. | Poodles come home with graffiti on them | contradiction |
In the film, for example, his wrestling days come to an abrupt end after he and Lawler erupt into a brawl while appearing on Late Night With David Letterman . But in life, the rematches would continue. | Appearing on David Letterman ended his dancing career. | contradiction |
If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio. | A computer can be used to merge images together. | entailment |
Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were. | Though is not bitter or whiney she does have other bad qualities. | neutral |
Dr. Arthur Caplan, the only ethicist at the hearing who betrayed any awareness of the new issues, focused instead on the morality of trade-offs. | Arthur was one of several ethicists at the hearing. | neutral |
Signs of a renaissance of the handwritten word are here and there discernible. | More writers are showing interest in handwriting things and using the computer less than before. | neutral |
We were not servile to the Soviet Union, said Poland's last Communist Party prime minister, we were helpless before that huge force. | The Soviet Union is not a powerful military force. | contradiction |
So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself. | The winner's curse can be applied to many companies. | neutral |
Instead, Bradley repudiates the word. | Bradly believes the word is true. | contradiction |
There have even been some frustrated musings among conservative writers and pundits that the people are not necessarily all-wise. | The conservative writers and pundits think they are better than the people. | neutral |
Previous generations bore scars from all sorts of non-life-threatening diseases, the stuff everyone picked up as a baby. | Previous generations believed getting diseases as a baby was beneficial. | neutral |
Polls show most people aren't willing to impeach Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, but they do think he's been exposed as a liar and cover-up artist. | Talks about a Clinton impeachment were valid over the Lewinsky affair. | entailment |
For example, the idea of putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom is attractive but, in the long run, federally funded stone tablets will only breed dependency on the nanny state. | Private classrooms in America contain the Ten Commandments on their walls. | neutral |
) The narrative is laced throughout with colorful, distinctly Southern characters, including a Delta store owner who displays a Happy Holidays sign year round ([w]e have a holiday every two months or so) and a Georgia rabbi whose rock 'n' roll temple fuses Jewish and Southern ways ([w]e're sort of reconformadox). | The Delta store owner had to deal with some confused customers because of the year-round Happy Holidays sign. | neutral |
It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off. | Men can get killed off. | entailment |
Nebraska, of course, gets a '5. | Nebraska is the only state to get a '5. | neutral |
To refrain from purchasing one would insult the working class and dishonor the labor of our fathers' fathers! | The working class is insulted when shoppers refrain from purchasing. | entailment |
The three newsmagazines reconstruct the Heaven's Gate suicide, trace the cult's history, and link it to burgeoning New Age spiritualism. | Cults lead to violence and death | neutral |
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