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So, to pose the obvious Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish?
Jewish culture is totally ignorant of the nebbish.
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And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
Allergies don't usually prove to be fatal.
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This means that while Perot probably won't be able to rig the results of the nominating process as he did against former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm last time around, Ventura isn't automatically the kingmaker either.
Perot has rigged results in the past
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In reality, it takes more work and more character for poor student X to finish in the top ten percent of his or her public school class and obtain a mediocre SAT score than it does for rich kid Y to finish in the bottom half of his private school class and score slightly higher on the SAT.
Poor students are not as smart and have less resources than rich students, therefore they need to work harder to finish in the top ten percent of their class.
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We know that Sullivan believes in him (her?
It's unknown whether Sullivan believes in him/her.
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The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.
The Times does its best to ensure that they cover all their bases for lead stories.
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we, like you, secretly covet recliners, purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990.
The recliner is on sale
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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 hampered by a lack of belief by many of the press.
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While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes.
The fact that Nixon was forced to resign the precidency emboldened Congress to impeach Clinton.
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In contrast, this may not be the case in Sunni-dominated Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Shia is a less popular form of Islam
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They look to Washington to mitigate the new economy's negative consequences.
Washington will solve all of the economic issues
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Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them.
No way anyone other than trip is familiar with the recordings.
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The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote.
A strictly party-line vote is risk-free
contradiction
Dexfenfluramine (tradenamed Redux), a cousin of fenfluramine, was just released.
Redux has been on the market for many years.
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Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.
The postal network expanding can give credit to the U.S. government.
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Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.
Upgrading to Amazon Prime offers two day shipping.
entailment
Broder and Waas say they have spoken with two ex- Spectator employees who anonymously corroborate Mann and Rand's assertion that the Arkansas Project paid Hale.
Two ex-Spectator employees corroborated Mann and Rand's assertion, Broder and Waas said.
entailment
Earlier this week, Roy confessed that she'd stuffed some movie-related faxes into books, saving them for a calmer time ...
Roy explained that she was too busy taking care of her family and work to read the faxes at the present time.
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I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.
I live in Boston
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If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives.
Abortion is unpleasant.
neutral
Henry V would have inspired no one on St. Crispin's day by
Henry V could have inspired everyone on St. Crispin's Day.
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He's (briefly) a slick but wholesome yuppie and then (interminably) Death, who takes over the young man's body when he's thumped by a couple of cars in the movie's most promising moment.
He is struck by a vehicle in the movie and ends up in a coma.
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Back then, gold was $35 per ounce.
Gold is considered a scrap metal.
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If content is king, Dexter reasoned, then King should be content.
Dexter has no opinion on content.
contradiction
When you see Bradley, you see a naturally diffident man talking about how he would like to run for president and fretting about the distance between his ideal campaign and the real one.
Bradley was sternly against being a candidate under any circumstance.
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Finally, on July 30, the committee passed a third, slightly weaker, article 21-17, which charged the president with having willfully disobeyed subpoenas.
The first two articles passed by the committee were also passed in late July.
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Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.
You should do it whenever you feel comfortable and people will respond positively.
contradiction
You now could argue both events were watershed moments for female athletes because Americans simply love a spectacle.
Americans dislike performances.
contradiction
It concerns itself with something that matters--a million bucks--yet Regis' presence makes it frivolous.
Regis' presence made it matter even more than usual.
contradiction
(The Yankees have a 12-year, $486-million cable deal.)
The Yankees reliably draw profits for cable.
neutral
The cover story protests the Fed's failure to hike interest rates despite early signs of inflation.
The Fed decided that the overall cost of raising interest rates would outweigh the benefits.
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Edward Murphy, but Commander (later Admiral ) Joseph M. Murph Murphy.
Murphy is a Corporal.
contradiction
In a 1970 study, teen-age boys were asked their preferences among paintings by two foreign painters.
There was a painting study done in 1990.
contradiction
Replace George Will's column with weekly photo of him being punched in the nose.
George Will's column has been discontinued.
contradiction
The reality, though, is that this kind of stuff still happens all the time (even though eventually everyone does seem to get caught).
It seems to happen relatively often - and people get caught often too.
entailment
With a bit of elementary mathematics and a lot of keen insight, Arrow was forced to a sobering If a reasonable voting system is one that respects unanimity and precludes flip-flops, then there are no reasonable voting systems, with one exception--the system that picks one voter and makes him a dictator.
Arrow plans to continue their education.
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[W]itty popular science that you enjoy ...
Pop Science are enjoyed by most.
neutral
Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year?
Warren Buffet has insights on financial decisions in government.
neutral
George Bush didn't ask permission to invade Panama in 1989.
The president ruled in a very meek and shy manner.
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But in fact Boulaye had advocated supporting a party, meaning the Conservative Party.
Boulaye advocated for the Conservative Party.
entailment
The political culture of nationalism reserved its approval for those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, Ajami writes.
The political culture of nationalism approves of those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests,
entailment
What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
It is unknown what happens to an artist whose characters do not cooperate
entailment
But the Sports Network posts Vegas odds, from the Stardust and Mirage casinos, no less.
Even though the Stardust and Mirage are very different sizes in comparison, Sports Network uses their data to get the Vegas odds.
entailment
I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.
The author agreed with the position taken in the last chapter.
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We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors.
This thing might be totally legal.
neutral
Republican fund-raising hypocrisy 1) The Washington
Republicans are hypocrites
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Academia's most popular one-year fellowship, the Guggenheim, has been awarded to dozens of academics, including the University of Chicago's Neil Harris, who will research the history of the American urban newspaper building, and Williams College's Richard Stamelman, who will study the literature and culture of perfume.
The Guggenheim has been awarded to a student of Williams College.
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Victorious Couch Potatoes
The Couch Potatotes are losers.
contradiction
I fear that a certain software billionaire may be a nut job.
Software makes billions.
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We were not servile to the Soviet Union, said Poland's last Communist Party prime minister, we were helpless before that huge force.
Poland has had issues with the Soviet Union.
entailment
Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business
Stevenson is known to hurt others.
neutral
Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.
The household's income is barely meeting their spending.
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Oh, come on, my date insisted.
The date insisted only after persuasion.
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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.
1996 Telecommunications Act was a good thing
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Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies.
It's possible that the attorneys will be honest
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[speaking] : Well, wait a second--not all of them.
More than one person is being discussed.
entailment
Has the government not tried hard enough?
The state's effort level is unquestioned
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The recent clamor in the press and among some politicians to allow patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice makes it sound as if we are going in the wrong direction here, too.
Some politicians want to disallow patients from suing their insurance providers.
contradiction
If being smart is no guarantee of being right, having been right is not necessarily an indicator that someone is smart.
Being correct means you are intelligent.
contradiction
The important question is not whether these stories are true
Whether or not the stories are true is not important.
entailment
A quick recap.
A summary can be given.
entailment
They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring.
There are old unresolved moral issues regarding Bush.
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Manifolds, one must understand, are fairly wild and exotic beasts in mathematics.
The speaker feels that mathematics is a simple, boring field with nothing of interest.
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Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.
The Iraqi guy actually believes that the baritones' music stands are made of plutonium
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No horned helmet was found, but the discovery is complicating--perhaps overturning--theories about the settlement of North America.
Settlements in North America found no horned helmets.
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The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.
News from The Times is generally considered to be untrustworthy because they have a reputation for poor vetting.
contradiction
If it doesn't wake up soon, another scandalous case will inevitably surface, and the government will take matters into its own hands.
Scandalous cases will never come to light.
contradiction
When you buy something online or fill out a warranty card, there's often a little box at the Check here if you wish to receive announcements about our new products and services that may delight and amuse you.
It is easy to unsubscribe from announcements of new products if you no longer wish to receive them.
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Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.
Arafat's approval ratings are lower than the percentage of the vote he received in the most recent presidential election.
entailment
When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS.
The sign says no Canadians.
entailment
Since, as the papers point out, the federal program allows monitorees to go to and from work, look for Kim to be inundated with arduous meetings from early morning till late at night.
Monitored can come and go
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The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage, the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor.
The Fantastic Voyage movie was produced in the 1960's.
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But over the course of a generation, activists and bureaucrats have manufactured a single race out of a diverse mass of several million people whose origins can be traced to dozens of countries.
The bureaucrats and activists were supplied people from one country.
contradiction
One problem, among many, is that most people's living rooms aren't Carnegie Hall; as a result, the music just sounds muddy.
The average person's living room isn't acoustically sound.
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Framed this way, the story is dying.
The story can be framed in multiple ways.
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Pretty serious perjury time [looks at his watch].
Even the most serious perjury offenses seldom result in jail time, although there have been cases of being sentenced to participate in a robust dance-off.
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So Edgar Jr. will fail in Hollywood, but when he does, it won't be the failure of a romantic.
Hollywood is the home of Edgar Jr.
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When a black wanted to buy a franchise to establish a numbers bank, he went to Bumpy.
Bumpy was the go to person when a Black person wanted to buy a franchise.
entailment
They call it tantric sex.
Tantric sex is a new idea.
contradiction
Is the problem now more severe?
The problem is more sever.
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But the racism charge isn't quirky or wacky--it's demagogy.
Prejudice based on a person's skin color or ethnic background is considered unsavory.
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Adequately warned, why do people persist in sucking cancer-causing tars into their lungs?
inhaling cigarette smoke into the lings is healthy.
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They are great respecters of private property.
The husband and wife are great respecters of private property.
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But anyway, that is all beside the point.
The point has been previously discussed.
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She's could be saying, I'm in this world but not of it.
I am of it, and I'm in this world
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Here again, Artaud's ferocity, anguish, and hallucinatory paranoia are matched and joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.
Artaud's hallucinatory paranoia and ferocity are joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.
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This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!
Reassuring the public of your integrity consistently restores their faith in you.
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The key word is overall . The increase or decrease in any particular item not only does not, but cannot, produce inflation.
Although the increase or decrease in any particular item does not produce inflation, it does annoy buyers.
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I must, however, give you kudos for being the first writer I've ever seen limn Beck's Godley Creme influence.
I give you praise for your achievement, and I look forward to your future work
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And recent Oscar winner Helen Hunt is determined to have a baby with or without her fiance, actor Hank Azaria, according to the Star . I'm going all-out to get pregnant, the publication reports her confiding to a pal, although it doesn't explain what she plans to do if Azaria refuses to cooperate.
Helen Hunt won a Oscar recently.
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The Pentagon told CNN &amp
CNN was told by the Pentagon.
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You can't teach common bonds of history to teens while the school and the community stress athletics as the most honored achievement.
Schools stress sports as the highest achievement.
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But the studio system in Hollywood disappeared while studio execs remained important as deal makers, and the same could happen in advertising.
The studio leadership were somehow able to hold onto their positions as deal makers.
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Patients could certainly get annoyed by having to take even a five-minute computer test every time they see a doctor.
Taking a computer test every time before seeing a doctor is unnecessary.
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We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests.
We are really compatible and enjoy each others company.
entailment
The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.
Dominic is 6 feet tall
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Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building.
The main theme of the book is empire building.
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The addition of Chrysler may help change that approach, but how remains to be seen.
The addition of Chrysler was praised by the press as a genius and brilliant move.
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and that the Shopping Avenger would hear about this treatment and seek vengeance.
The Shopping Avenger will not pursue anything.
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Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls.
Truman encountered him in the form of a voice
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