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Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map! | Map maker is perfectly reliable in how it functions. | contradiction |
Critics scoff at high-tech guru Esther Dyson's claims that the Internet will expand democracy, build communities, and liberate workers. | The internet will expand many things. | neutral |
Taylor proposes that teen-agers on welfare be paid to use an implanted device to prevent pregnancy. | Taylor is a Republican. | neutral |
Judging from their undergraduate careers alone, you might well argue that the examples of Bill Bradley and George W. Bush illustrate a subtler point about affirmative action than mere thumbs-up or thumbs-down. | Bill Bradley earned better grades in college than George W. Bush. | neutral |
Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border. | Clinton helped pass a federal transportation law that may improve American highways. | entailment |
Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires. | Bettelheim inspired people all over his world. | neutral |
Outlook SWAT teams swooped down daily to reduce the size of our code. | The codebase was larger before the SWAT team refactors it down. | entailment |
Kurds constitute only 10 percent of Iran's population; their culture and language are much closer to Iran's than they are to Turkey's or Iraq's; and Iranian governments have permitted them limited cultural expression, though no political autonomy. | Kurds share a lot of the same culture and language as Iran's population. | neutral |
He dramatizes right up to the point where a dramatist would be expected to provide some insight--and then, hey, he's a documentarian. | His insight is helpfull | neutral |
To ring in the new year in 1997, he reportedly blew up a Cadillac. | He loaded up the Cadillac with a bunch of dynamite to make sure it blew in a spectacular fashion. | neutral |
Gays should come up with a word for their own committed relationships. | They want homosexuals to create a new term to describe their partnerships | entailment |
Publishers regularly write bonuses into contracts to factor in the possibility that a book will makes the Times list. | They also include clauses in case the book doesn't make it onto a list. | neutral |
The data are computerized, but for policy reasons the reports are not available online. | Because the data is digital, the reports are available online. | contradiction |
If we want to change that attitude, Hollywood should not be the main place we look. | The tech industry will be important to shift that attitude | neutral |
In that case the big loans organized a few months ago could have made the difference. | The loans were only worth a small amount | contradiction |
What this means is that the revenue from any new taxes on pollution could be used to reduce other taxes, such as Social Security contributions or the income tax (but not, of course, the capital-gains tax). | Pollution tax mitigates other taxes. | entailment |
Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding! | Al Gore isn't doing well with his fortunes. | entailment |
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. | Microsoft is so perfect that anything positively said in paragraph form is true. | contradiction |
Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory. | He batted pitch after pitch. | entailment |
News zooms in) for their Kenneth Starr cover stories. | The stories are covering homocide in the city. | contradiction |
To paraphrase Pink Floyd (or was it Catullus?) | Pink Floyd can be paraphrased. | entailment |
He has made his pre-testimony-leaks-don't-apply argument in sealed court papers and also has publicly denied believing anything so foolish, Brill points out. | Brill noticed that he publicly denied believing that pre-testimony-leaks-don't-apply while making that argument in court papers. | entailment |
TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy. | TV ads are ill-advised | entailment |
But still Wendy Wasserstein eludes us. | Wendy Wasserstein avoided them | entailment |
They call him ruthless, bombastic, in-your-face, an aggressive hardliner, a bulldog, and a hit man. | This guy is totally rational well behaved. | contradiction |
Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms. | Kidnappings are regularly misperformed by Latin American gangs. | contradiction |
His shows are more 700 Club than Crossfire . His guests almost always share Moyers' belief about the topic at hand. | 700 Club is more conservative than Crossfire. | neutral |
The baby gets new toys every day, because used toys are immediately discarded. | The baby likes all of the new toys she gets. | neutral |
When I say, I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night, there's a big dose of Ethel Merman but also some of me. | They were so inspired by Ethel Merman that they included lyrics from Merman into their song, causing them to say it was like "music to their ears". | neutral |
Let's pause for a moment to map the nuances of that pitch. | A pitch was given. | entailment |
Unfortunately, that's a principle that doesn't seem to be at work in a capital market that just can't say no. | A portion of the capital market finds it hard to say no. | entailment |
Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis. | Buchanan thought that diplomacy was the reason behind the end of the Iraq crisis. | contradiction |
The play recounts Wilde's downfall, says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns, with the inevitability and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy. | David Patrick Stearns didn't like the play | neutral |
And Stewart Brand's II Cybernetic Frontiers (1974), which recounts how this generation of computer kids designed computer games based on science fiction and used the Internet to fashion a universe of their own. | Every kid loved Cybernetic Frontiers | contradiction |
So I knew Browder as a somewhat gloomy but kind old gent who took a daily constitutional up the block to Nassau street, where he would buy me and Julie a package of Hostess cupcakes--the orange-flavored ones, with icing squiggles on top. | Browder was a personable man. | entailment |
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 both running for the presidency. | contradiction |
Kinsley fails to address the main point of the privatization Social Security changes people's behavior. | Kinsley talked about people's behavior. | entailment |
I invite you to compare Reich's account with reality by clicking . | The invitation to compare Reich's account was accepted. | neutral |
The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent. | After other cultures coverted their religion, the rise of another continaent was taking place. | entailment |
Most shops closed at 6 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday were not open or were open only until noon. | All shops stayed open all weekend. | contradiction |
Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting. | Sausages and other foods are unregulated | contradiction |
Even so, analysts' recommendations have manifested the Wall Street equivalent of grade inflation. | Analyst recommendations lack any influence on Wall Street. | contradiction |
Confidential to You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a World Exclusive interview in which you're quoted disclosing titillating details about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities. | The Globe published a World Exclusive interview that disclosed some titillating details regarding sexual fantasies. | entailment |
In a way, truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all. | Truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all. | entailment |
As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies. | Sir Peter Hall's piece in paper praised Tony Blair for his support of the arts. | contradiction |
In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole. | News Corp is producing a line of Daffy Duck shows on Opera to sell to Espn so they can attract their flies to honey. | contradiction |
I see a method to his madness. | The method is apparent to everyone. | neutral |
Mine's a full week old, and he's still acting like a drunk. | People think that their child never acts drunk. | contradiction |
99 percent chance that a Republican Congress will pursue any case Starr can deliver. | There is a very high probability that Republicans will prosecute Starr's case. | entailment |
However, Clinton would risk legislative revenge if he tried to pursue the issue in the face of firm majorities against him in Congress. | Clinton pushed things through without a thought to legislative revenge. | neutral |
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 collected paintings. | entailment |
The WP reports on last Saturday night's Gridiron Dinner, that annual Washington D.C. court masque in which bigfoot journalists entertain the government's heaviest hitters and vice-versa. | The WP always reports on the Gridiron Dinner every year. | neutral |
Despite a lineup of big-name talent--including Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, and Claus Oldenberg--the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition fails to excite. | The art show is the most exhilarating exhibit to be seen in North America. | contradiction |
A second reason some skeptics doubt that Albright could have been blindsided by her own life story is that since she has risen to prominence , the suggestion that she is Jewish has been raised repeatedly. | Albright is often called Jewish. | entailment |
The more fantastic grow the evening gowns on the runway, the more uniform grows the garb of the crowds on the subway. | The evening gowns became more elaborate as the rich became richer. | neutral |
Afterward, the doctors compare the results of the placebo surgeries with those of real operations. | The placebo surgery is totally different from the real thing, without a single comparable step. | contradiction |
The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah. | JFK Jr. and Daryl Hannah could get back together. | neutral |
But we also may have missed a couple of more fundamental truths about the Web. | The Web contains fundamental truths. | entailment |
Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposes, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like dual hegemony, limited nuclear war, and the slogan win the peace t... | Classified information was banned from the competition. | contradiction |
Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances. | Randall informed the tabloid the baby girl was named after a 19th century comic actor. | neutral |
One unanswered question is how much time Clinton will spend in his home state once his library is completed. | Once his library is completed, Clinton could spend more time in Arkansas. | entailment |
It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy. | It is going to have a large influence on future elections | contradiction |
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 imagines the middle class is more moral and inclusionary than some. | entailment |
perhaps a tad derivative of golub, but still an artist of far more restraint and maturity than one might expect of someone her age. | She's a great artist, destined to be one of the best. | neutral |
The forgery story churned its way into the Washington Times on Oct. 26. | The forgery story is based upon a flimsy set of facts | neutral |
You can make an argument that intelligence is an extremely unlikely, random, quirky event in terrestrial biology, or you can make the counter-argument that you can see intelligence coming down the pike from many millions of years in advance. | Intelligence has many explanations and possibilities, including odd. | entailment |
The ad displays information in a format similar to a stock ticker. | The ad displays information. | entailment |
But it's uncontroversial that many Congress members are dim. | Many politicians are not very intelligent | entailment |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is in the cardiac intensive-care unit of a Moscow hospital. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn works with hearts. | entailment |
A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the pri... | Feminists oppose degradation of women | entailment |
One thing that is clear is that the West--the IMF, the Western governments who provided the funds for the last, doomed rescue package--have come out looking like chumps. | The West's efforts at a comprehensive rescue package were ultimately fruitful. | contradiction |
In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash. | There is no vote required for cash. | entailment |
John McCain because he has become McCain's friend. | McCain is the enemy of John McCain. | contradiction |
Actually, three, if you count Jerry Falwell's Jew Town, but that's a scary place. | Jerry Falwell's Jew Town is an inviting warm place. | contradiction |
By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs | Macroeconomics is flawed and should play no role in global economic decisions. | contradiction |
Asahi Shimbun added that if Japan had tried to resolve these problems a little at a time, those who felt themselves victimized by Japan might have felt at least somewhat mollified; but that with the passing of time while we do nothing, however, discontent and ill will can coalesce into bitter enmity. | People who feel victimized by Japan would feel better if Japan had at least made an effort to incrementally correct the problem. | entailment |
It's as though the book was not edited at all. | The volume hasn't been edited. | neutral |
Or you can download a new copy from www.microsoft.com/ie/.) | Microsoft is not on the internet. | contradiction |
But he is older now. | His birthday was today | neutral |
But sadly, I haven't had sex in five years. | I have sex regularly. | contradiction |
What makes a late abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now--like a fully formed child. | The author thinks abortion should happen in every stage of pregnancy. | contradiction |
In the United States in 1996, big organizations funded the general election sites that everyone used--ABC, the Washington Post , and the National Journal fathered PoliticsNow, and Time and CNN sired AllPolitics -- and most major papers and TV channels, notably the new MSNBC, had election pages. | In the 90's, mainstream media received money to promote government democracy . | entailment |
First, we don't know that Maxwell would have found another Without Joan, he might have struck out that night. | Joan helped Maxwell | entailment |
but we kick it further-- the axe-man whispers run to the convict he beheads so the body for our delight | The axe man enjoys his work. | neutral |
The Supreme Court began its new term. | The Court continued onto its new term. | entailment |
And that's when Italian-Americans will really have something to bitch about (by the way, where do you stand on the The Sopranos isn't good for Italians question?) | Italian-Americans have nothing to complain about. | contradiction |
We don't see him surprise the nation in 1964 with strong showings in the Maryland and Wisconsin Democratic primaries--states outside the Deep South where he wasn't expected to fare well. | The 1964 primaries went as expected. | entailment |
As it stands now, police officers, especially in urban areas, present more illegally obtained evidence than legally obtained evidence. | Police officers in urban areas present more illegally obtained evidence than legally obtained evidence. | entailment |
I do know that I could see every plot turn dragging its limp, maggoty carcass across the desert from miles away. | The entire story line was award winning levels with endless suspense. | contradiction |
The allegation, reported in Newsweek , is that when Willey met alone with Clinton at the White House in 1993 to ask for a paying job, Clinton made a pass at her--a charge denied by the president's attorney. | Wiley stated that Clinton behaved appropriately with her when she met with him at the White House. | contradiction |
The largest Republican constituency may be the Tight-Lipped Republicans . These folks, who include old-timers such as Virginia's John Warner, Alaska's Ted Stevens, and Mississippi's Thad Cochran, are as annoyed by the president as the next guy. | The smallest constituency, the Tight-Lipped Republicans, are all huge fans of the president. | contradiction |
Pre-McGrath, it was even forbidden to review a book published by one's own publishing company. | McGrath changed the review rules | neutral |
When they married 20 years ago, the Globe reports, people said it wouldn't last. | The marriage was expected to last only 6 months | neutral |
The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom. | It is considered completely acceptable for The Times to ask fellow reporters to compile and report information about one another. | contradiction |
The online Times offers a daily Whitewater, Etc. update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago. | Whitewater was quickly forgotten and publications have long abandoned it as a topic. | contradiction |
Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12. | Most songs are under a minute. | contradiction |
I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work. | My work is of high quality. | neutral |
Then comes the CNN/ Time sarin story to prove the professionals deserve all the scrutiny anyone else can muster. | CNN refers to professionals within the business community. | neutral |
We look around our own solar system, and what appears to be common are planets that have no life whatsoever. | Planets that have no life whatsoever are common in our solar system, but it hasn't always been that way. | neutral |
According to psychologist David Keirsey, you are one of Plato's four types, you were born that way, you will always be that way, and you can find out which one you are by taking the temperament sorter quiz on his Web site. | Taking a temperament quiz on David Keirsey website will sort you into one of Plato's four types. | entailment |
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