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No, it's something more amorphous, like, Who do you want to hear it from the next time a plane crashes or a world leader is assassinated? | If a plane crashes or leader killed, they wonder who would you like to hear it from. | entailment |
Has the World Wide Web, which only appeared in 1993, failed us? | The World Wide Web has been a useful tool for years. | neutral |
I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches. | The author criticizes too much | neutral |
According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century. | Max Weinreich is an accomplished Greek linguist. | contradiction |
The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off. | Not all menu items are a hit with customers. | entailment |
(The American convention is not quite what it American journalists are permitted to act on their prejudices--the news columns and air time devoted to Flytrap wouldn't make sense unless reporters and editors believed the accusations. | Flytrap caused a large scandal | neutral |
Skeptical doctors assert that such NDEs are purely physiological (naval pilots exposed to extreme gravity also have visions of bright lights and a God figure). | Doctors are skeptical when it comes to NDEs. | entailment |
The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share. | the 1996 Telecommunications Act created the Internet e-rate subsidies | entailment |
Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the... | The rise of libertarianism was misunderstood by authors like Brand and Toffler. | contradiction |
There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives. | The scene that was pathetic occurred in Los Alamos | contradiction |
The product could make the blind more independent. | Blind people will like using this product. | entailment |
He recognized a Christian duty to charity but was gripped by a fear that his charity would be wasted, thereby incriminating him in sin. | He thought ultimately, the charity could end up going to the right place. | neutral |
S chool Since the Columbine killings, there's been a special focus on depictions of adolescents committing mayhem in school. | There's been a focus on students committing acts of mayhem in school ever since the Columbine killings. | entailment |
Music that conjures up a sense of suspended time and a still, suburban afterglow seems a perfect occasion for its debut. | The debut will be amazing . | neutral |
The site, of course, will still be available, including all current contents, The Compost, and The Fray. | It'll all still be there. | entailment |
That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone. | It is encouraging you to have human contact. | entailment |
(His colleagues feel he's a showboat and a camera hog, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.) | The professor's colleagues believe he craves attention and likes the limelight. | entailment |
Who better to help a candidate extract weighty lessons from his personal history, to teach him to tell voters that their own successes depend on his own? | One believes that a candidate doesn't need to be taught to educate voters by another. | contradiction |
People will argue about where to draw the line. | Where to draw the line is frequently the topic of argument. | entailment |
After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession. | They thought the book was dull because of the subject matter. | neutral |
Framed this way, the story is dying. | The story is healthy and doing well. | contradiction |
The NYT and LAT fronts report that a Vanderbilt University study, to be published today in Science , indicates that blacks are far less likely than whites to make use of the Internet. | Only white people use the Internet. | contradiction |
Continue to give a 20-percent discount on hardback books to unborn children. | The booksellers have declared that the families of unborn children are unworthy of discounted merchandise. | contradiction |
Eastwood did more to make killing casual than anyone in mainstream cinema. | Eastwood killed casuals | entailment |
Along with many Americans, I first caught Andy Kaufman on the Tonight Show in the mid-'70s. | I hadn't seen Andy Kaufman before the mid-'70s | entailment |
A sidebar speculates that Slobodan Milosevic is probably hoarding chemical weapons, including nerve gas, blister agents, choking compounds, and hallucinogens. | Slobodan Milosevic is likely stockpiling gummy bears | contradiction |
If that is the administration's strategy, it is foolhardy. | The current administration has no plans or strategies. | contradiction |
It was a pleasure working with you. | Working on the Trial, in the courthouse, having you second chair, has been pleasant. | neutral |
In the 1980s, Kodak opened a major research center in Tokyo, staffed with Japanese engineers, and started a joint venture in which Canon made copiers sold under the Kodak name. | Kodak has more than one major research center. | neutral |
From an erratic performance on the David Letterman show to a violent confrontation with a boyfriend to the latest, her odd behavior at the Cannes Film Festival. | She has been a ray of sunshine everywhere she has gone recently. | contradiction |
The problem was the constant struggle for supplies. | A struggle for supplies was the problem. | entailment |
But Disney Pooh reaches the world. | The world rejects Disney Pooh. | contradiction |
Science reporting in the United States is hampered by the deep-seated conviction that the press knows even better than the people that it's just a bunch of pinheads nattering about nothing. | Science reporting in the United States is enhanced by people who believe in its importance. | contradiction |
For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country. | School administrators in Colorado are not proud of their test scores. | contradiction |
This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history. | The tournament that has 16 teams left has a record number of Cinderellas | entailment |
McCain's media cheering section neglects its favorite candidate's lack of coherence on tax and health-care policy. | McCain was unable to fully explain his stance on tax and health-care policies. | neutral |
You are right that there was no obvious winner in your wager--not you, your friend, or even, alas, the president. | Winning in this context is a metaphor for something that doesn't have to do with a competition. | neutral |
Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal. | Henry liked to make a girl squeal with happiness by giving her things that she likes. | entailment |
More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris. | Huang Yong Ping currently lives in Australia. | 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. | In this film, art doesn't always imitate life. | entailment |
And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up. | Alfred Kazin was from New York | neutral |
He makes TV commercials in London. | The TV commercials in London were made by him. | entailment |
Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket. | Investing everything into one company is a good idea. | contradiction |
Analysts consider Jiang a clumsy weakling compared with Deng, and are debating whether 1) he will continue Deng's reforms or return to authoritarianism and 2) he can consolidate power or will be outmaneuvered by rivals. | Analysts consider Jiang a graceful strongman. | contradiction |
Anyway, what would be the point? | The point has always been easily explained since the beginning of time. | contradiction |
It was in the Yale Law Library, after all, that he first put the moves on Hillary Rodham. | Hillary Rodham has visited the Yale Law Library. | entailment |
Not Homo economicus is not a central pillar of my faith--he is merely a working assumption, albeit one that is extremely useful in many circumstances. | The central pillar of my faith is Homo Economicus. | contradiction |
Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs. | There is no mention of Boswell or Johnson in Morris' memoirs. | contradiction |
A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes. | The global warming treaty is approved by all countries on the globe. | neutral |
Our loyal opposition on the right used to tell us that a man can do anything with his property. | Our opposition, the right, is a major supporter of imminent domain, or taking over private property for public use. | contradiction |
The magazine profiles former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, who now heads the University of Cape She has won admirers (and enemies) by insisting that the university not adjust its standards to favor black students. | Mamphela Ramphele, who is the head of University of Cape, is against affirmative action. | entailment |
What has allowed Intel to dominate its many competitors, who are perennially nipping at its heels with computer chips that are supposedly faster or cheaper, is that Intel does a much better job of making chips reliably and efficiently. | Micron creates less expensive semiconductors | neutral |
The New Republic 's Jed Perl bashes the newly opened J. Paul Getty Museum, designed by Richard Meier, whose architecture, says Perl, only works in coffee-table books. | Jed Perl does not like the architecture of the J. Paul Getty Museum | entailment |
But there are arguments to the contrary. | Arguments exist for and against. | neutral |
Impeachment is twisting the presidential race, too. | There is no controversy around the race | contradiction |
But a few chapters later, Ann overhears her mother talking on the phone to Dr. Spritzer, and | The book begins, as long as one can tell, with Ann overhearing her Mother talking to Spritzer on her phone. | contradiction |
He was too old, his back hurt too much, he had too many outside interests ... | He had zero outside interests, even though he was old but youthful, with zero back pain. | contradiction |
In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S. | U.S. prints a best college issue. | entailment |
Or, instead, should we fight tooth and nail to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor? | Programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit just benefit the rich. | contradiction |
The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money. | Stock options make is difficult for smaller companies to make it big. | entailment |
Sam Johnson, R-Texas, has suggested that Clinton be court-martialed for his treatment of Paula Jones. | Sam Johnson, R-Texas, suggested that Clinton be tarred and feathered for his treatment of Paula Jones. | contradiction |
This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer. | Today's dollars are worth only 2 percent of what they were 128 years ago | neutral |
This is particularly unwise because after weeks of raking Clinton, reporters and pundits are inclined to demonstrate their balance by going after the GOP. | Reporters and pundits harshly criticize Clinton. | neutral |
He became a devoted editor of George , which seems likely to founder in his absence. | He is not currently working as the editor of George. | entailment |
They were pitiful even by microbial standards. | They were pitiful in all ways. | entailment |
(Click for more on the U.S. role in that restriction.) | The United States lacks the authority to make restrictions. | contradiction |
A gesture clearly suited to football's warlike nature, the Salute is named for Denver's Mile High Stadium. | The Mile High stadium is in Vermont. | contradiction |
Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers. | Reich had something to say about manufacturing | entailment |
So the argument is that putting some of the money in stocks will make the trust fund more profitable and avoid, or at least put off, the day it runs out of money. | The argument is that cryptocurrencies make the trust fund more profitable | contradiction |
On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips. | Pink Tulips are common. | neutral |
The book's plot (about a man's anonymous love letters to his girlfriend) is said to be trite, and the ending is called a cop out. | The book's storyline is thought to be unoriginal. | entailment |
By time-shifting this feel-good scene forward, Man on the Moon relieves the true story of Kaufman's depressing decline. | The audience really enjoyed learning about the true story of Kaufman's depressing decline. | neutral |
Monica gets out first and opens the courthouse door. | The girl left the room quickly and held the gate for everyone else. | entailment |
Broadly speaking, I agree with the points David Plotz makes in . Congress has the sole power to declare war, and a bipartisan Congress and the president have cheerfully ignored that clear constitutional fact. | Broadly speaking, the president ignores constitutional facts. | neutral |
On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults. | There are new laws that require juveniles to serve time in adult prisons. | neutral |
This year, my wife is dragging me to the home of some friends of hers to celebrate the new year. | The speaker will enjoy him/herself once at the New Year's celebration. | neutral |
Pennebaker made about Dylan's previous European tour in 1965, Eat the Document , which was edited by Dylan himself, is a pointless coda. | Pennebaker edited Eat the Document | contradiction |
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... | Hillarys rage during the 7 pm at night news show wasn't visible because wasn't an authentic sight because she danced naked. | contradiction |
If one thinks Ken Starr is out of control, the other, ideally, should argue that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement. | an argument could be made that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement. | entailment |
The July 16 Today's Papers asks what it says about Hillary Clinton that she refused to comment for a USA Today story on her partnership with Madeleine Albright. | USA Today did not get a comment from Hillary Clinton regarding her partnership. | entailment |
They call it tantric sex. | Tantric sex is known by other names. | neutral |
The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker. | Gore and Gephardt are working together to accomplish their own goals. | entailment |
I wind up doing many things alone on weekends and in the evenings because she always has plans with the girls. | One spends much time alone in the evenings. | entailment |
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 was critical towards Huckleberry Finn | entailment |
We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance. | Paltrow's character's mother was likely raised in a very conservative, traditional household. | neutral |
No inside-the-beltway PR victory is worth that kind of demoralization. | Demoralization can be worth the victory. | neutral |
These folks have opposed every American military operation from Grenada to the Gulf War. | America performed military actions in Grenada. | entailment |
McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s. | Occasions Re-Evaluations is the first album by McCartney. | contradiction |
Why would Gates allow the publication of such a book with his byline and photo on the dust jacket? | The dust is a book | contradiction |
Last year the British publication of these never-published 39 poems occasioned accusations of misogyny, sordidness, and racism (one of the poems is titled King Bolo and his Big Black Kween). | King Bolo and his Big Black Kween is one of 39 unpublished poems released last yr by a British publication. | entailment |
The third-most-visited Gore site, according to Direct Hit, is an Al Gore joke repository, posted on the home page of a GeoCities member and sponsored by the Ripon College Republicans. | The Ripon College Republicans sponsor a large number of websites that consist of web pages with jokes about Democratic candidates. | neutral |
Annan visits Washington this week to push again. | Washington got a visit from Annan this week. | entailment |
I blame the ambiguous use of ellipses. | Using lines in this organizational form is immoral. | neutral |
Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster. | Standard long-distance rates have traditionally been very low. | neutral |
I've always said that victory is the best exit strategy. | Winning is always the best end game plan. | entailment |
Not so the New York Times , which editorially called for legislation to overturn the ruling. | The editorial staff at the New York Times reflect the views of its readers. | neutral |
Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets. | The thief is still on the loose | contradiction |
Patents can even be held on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life. | Human genetic blueprints can be patented | neutral |
Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity. | Laboring in obscurity is considered rewarding by many. | contradiction |
Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago, fanning up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships. | Heaney's verse used burning print and watercraft in the publication SLATE. | entailment |
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