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The notion is ludicrous on the face of it.
The notion makes complete sense the first time learning about it.
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Instead, liberals should focus on a more pressing building stronger unions.
liberals should set their sights on building weaker unions.
contradiction
I don't mind a girl who thinks,
This person is attracted to deep, intellectual thinkers.
neutral
Bettelheim believed grandiosely in being a guide, but he had fundamentally humble guidance to that in the end, as in the beginning (one of his favorite phrases), one can hope to grow only by endeavoring to be one's own guide.
One can only grow and learn by being guided not by yourself, but by other people, according to Bettelheim.
contradiction
In 1992, only 1,070 abortions were performed after the 25 th week.
The abortion data comes from the year 1992.
entailment
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?
Clintons statements are clear; he did not have sex.
contradiction
Team owners bought land and paid for stadium construction--some even built trolley lines to transport fans to the games.
Stadium creation was facilitated by team owners buying land, paying for construction, and even improving public transport to the area.
entailment
Consider the opening to The End of the World, which introduces an angry son who, as the story goes on, will be called to Paris to care for a selfish dying
The End of the World features a character who is depicted as an angry son.
entailment
The other significant story of Clinton's continuing sexual adventuring was Michael Isikoff's account last August of a murky encounter between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and the president.
Isikoff's account caused further scrutiny of Clinton's behavior.
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Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader!
The Time report was intended to villify the Iraqi people.
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(The New York Post 's Page Six gossip column ran a lead item on the Enquirer story on Christmas Day.)
The Enquirer story only appeared in the New York Post in the gossip column.
neutral
The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others.
Politics, science, philosophy and art are all independent and are not connected in any way shape or form.
contradiction
Another source predicts if Sheen doesn't shape up, it's only a matter of time before they'll be printing his obituary.
Sheen is in need of shaping up.
neutral
Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures.
Humans refuse to view animals as adorable.
contradiction
Another school of thought contends that faith and reason occupy two different realms of knowing.
To some, faith and reason represent separate forms of knowledge.
entailment
They're more interested in spiritual self-flagellation and renewal.
They are interested in spiritually flagellating themselves..
entailment
Presumably, a living, Clintonian Einstein would declare, I cannot believe that God plays Nintendo with the world.
The author does not believe that anybody would think god exists in the world.
contradiction
And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated.
Meat can still become contaminated even when steamed.
entailment
It is one of the most cherished questions in Romantic poetry.
It pertains to a question in Romantic poetry.
entailment
The inanity of the experts and the dubious casting make these films about as erotic as ...
These films intended to be erotic.
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lowest-ranked playoff team in their division ever to accomplish this feat.
They have accomplished quite a feat.
entailment
Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.
Lake Como does not have any ferry services.
contradiction
My kids after they graduate.
My kids will graduate high school.
neutral
Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
Our country would not ever survive without its cities providing vitality.
contradiction
When I checked a couple of years ago, the shelter population had indeed increased, but only by a handful of families.
There were more people at the shelter than before.
entailment
But I begin to see in the public's indifference to the myriad accusations of presidential adultery that Weisberg speaks for the majority.
It was important that Weisberg speak.
neutral
Imagine a law school class with 100 places.
There are schools just for law.
entailment
It's not what management theorist Tom Peters sees as the company of the future, a floating network/crap game.
Tom Peters is trained in management theory.
entailment
Didn't anyone remind them that Dole had already reserved the spectrum sale to help pay for his tax-cut plan?
Dole wants to raise taxes.
contradiction
Even the singers don't like these songs.
Because the performers perform the songs, is the reason why the songs are not liked.
neutral
Somehow I doubt that Bill Gates thinks of Dell as parasitic because its computers run only on Windows.
Bill Gates does not think Dell as parasitic due to having a symbiotic relationship with Windows.
entailment
I remember the epigraph of James T. Farrell's book Studs Lonigan , which I read more than 60 years
James T. Farrell was the author who wrote Studs Lonigan.
entailment
Here again, Artaud's ferocity, anguish, and hallucinatory paranoia are matched and joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.
Artaud is a smart person.
entailment
Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.
Doing it too late is better than too early.
neutral
In other words, the careless only stay lucky for so long.
Luck can only get you so far.
neutral
It did work for Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, a self-professed sex addict who rehabilitated himself politically after a drug conviction by declaring his powerlessness over drugs and sex, repenting, and entering a program.
Mayor Mario Barry was a sex addict.
entailment
She claims the Air Force treated her unfairly and that her commanding officers gave her no guidance.
She was very angry when making her statement.
neutral
He says that [e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert.
The soliloquies are perceived as introspective meditations--as bouts of self love, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a successful concert.
contradiction
Our technological improvements have dramatically slowed natural selection.
Natural selection accelerates as technology improves.
contradiction
Excuse me, but who is going to raise such an army (raise in the sense used by parents)?
Ultimately such an army was in fact raised.
neutral
In preparation for our trip, I spent months studying Italian soccer on television.
I did absolutely nothing to prepare for my trip.
contradiction
Every week, Rodriguez must halt surgery because he can't get one or another material through the embargo.
Rodriguez needs specific medical supplies through an embargo.
neutral
Time 's Terry Teachout says the 75-minute work's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, [and] its structure maddeningly repetitious.
The overall theme of the work focuses on family life in the countryside.
neutral
I had to format both drives.
Both drives needed to be formatted.
entailment
On the 10 th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, we often refer to that event in shorthand as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Eastern Europe has always been free.
contradiction
Life aboard ship is tough
One can live on a ship.
entailment
And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist.
Bradley is a strategist.
neutral
If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for?
What is your use if no one needs you?
entailment
While Coz preaches decorum, the Globe has added more sensationalism, more gore, more nasty gossip.
Gossip is a major part of The Globe.
entailment
If content is king, Dexter reasoned, then King should be content.
King is content with the current situation.
neutral
Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.
Unknown sources have said that Disney's Beowulf adaptation will release in summer 2022.
neutral
Who in the hell cares whether anyone thinks someone else will go to heaven?
Some people care if others go to heaven.
neutral
Et In an interview on Late Edition , Ken Starr says that if he could do it over again, he would have used the independent counsel's office as a bully pulpit, appearing on television to counter the White House's spin doctors.
Kenn Starr agreed with the White House's spin doctors.
contradiction
In this climate popular hostility was trained against powerful private interests and gave new life to anti-Masonry as a political movement.
The political movement of anti-Masonry gains renewed interest every few years.
neutral
As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones.
The lexicographers have a difficult time gathering oral citations.
entailment
But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.
The challenge comes with a handsome reward, which Rips is quite aware of.
neutral
Ianni writes, Johnson essentially worked as a middleman for the Italian syndicate.
Ianni was an expert on the Italian mafia and often reported on them for the newspaper.
neutral
(The baseball season is another and AMC is a third.)
baseball and AMC have never been mentioned together.
contradiction
[F]rom the moment Cecilia Bartoli's vibrant Idamante arrives on stage, the performance takes wing, her luscious, tight vibrato perfectly capturing the adolescent trauma of the young prince, says the Independent 's Mark Pappenheim.
Mark Pappenheim sings as Idamante.
contradiction
In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
I will try to not reveal my skills like Johnny Cash in that film he starred in.
entailment
I bet that what Carrey saw from inside Kaufman's head would be more illuminating than anything in the movie.
Carrey was the most captivating actor among the cast in the movie.
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Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)
Hughes argues that the man's work is renown because of the decline in popularity of confrontational Modernism.
entailment
A Utility Maximizer wants to acquire many things, including cash, but also such things as trips to the beach, time to watch TV, adorable grandkids, and (probably most important in this case) professional prestige.
A Utility Maximizer would be happy if they got a big bag of money given to them.
entailment
If only Lamar had won 3,500 more votes in the 1996 New Hampshire primary, he would have edged Bob Dole for second, driven Dole out of the race, and cruised to the nomination.
Lamar reaching second place in the primary would have drastically changed the race.
neutral
God how I love this country.
He despises this country.
contradiction
Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU.
Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are professional wrestlers on WWE.
contradiction
A teaser horse is the warm-up act, an important but ultimately expendable creature.
Teaser horses are incredibly valuable.
contradiction
Anyway, what would be the point?
There is clear purpose in the activity.
contradiction
On Saturday, Mainichi Shimbun devoted its main editorial to Britain's new defense cuts, pointing out that Britain expects to save 141 billion yen on its defense bill over the next three years, while Japan's defense expenditure continues to rise.
Mainichi Shimbun thinks that the cuts will result in a substantial decrease in defense expenditures.
entailment
Nevertheless, if you're into printing out, it's worth investigating.
Something should be looked into if you like printing out.
entailment
All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls.
Some lobbyists don't deserve their job.
neutral
Also, most individuals do not screen their e-mail address books politically, meaning that a solicitation sent out to all a person's contacts may well end up in the hands of someone who doesn't want it--which could turn into a public relations problem.
All of the e-mails are political.
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When agencies lose major accounts, they often fire nearly everyone involved with the account.
Firms rarely fire those associated with lost accounts.
contradiction
Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.
Mehta found Shawn's intellect and humor irresistible.
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But where would those two applicants have ranked if blacks had not been enslaved and discriminated against?
Combatting discrimination against black people is a priority for the government.
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At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people.
Elie Wiesel spoke remarks which were prejudicial against African Americans.
entailment
Mossad, which employs about 1,200 people, now has difficulty competing with private-sector recruiters . Its early agents were well-educated, European-born cosmopolitans who ran the agency like an exclusive club.
Mossad is a company with over one thousand employees.
entailment
Tina and the Weinsteins all have highbrow pretensions but feel no shame in embracing pop culture.
Tina and the Weinsteins like to think they're better than other people.
neutral
Specifically, it wants $90,000 for a confiscated file of telegrams and letters sent in response to Nixon's famous Silent Majority speech.
The money will be hard to come up with for the confiscated file of telegrams and letters.
neutral
The English gutter press, which was just developing a wide audience, whipped up public hatred toward him over his sex crimes and made him a pariah.
The English Gutter Press did not think highly of him.
entailment
There are those who argue passionately that life originated with a single replicated molecule.
Those who argue wear white shirts.
neutral
First, two students were charged with killing their infant in a motel room and dumping it in the trash.
The students are currently in custody.
neutral
Best name for a male-marketed Testosterone.
Taking testosterone has very few side effects for men.
neutral
[E]ven after being taken down a notch or two, [cities] will remain, by virtue of their concentrations of energy and intellect, at the center of the American political imagination.
There are cities in America.
entailment
But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero.
At crucial moments in vampire movies, the vampires always remember to use their powers against the hero.
contradiction
As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.
They sure as heck love carrying their cards.
neutral
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores.
Behind the Legend has been in big demand.
neutral
A year ago, the wife of the Oxford don noticed that the pattern on Kleenex quilted tissue uncannily resembled the Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings pattern, which Sir Roger had invented--and copyrighted--in 1974.
Oxford don's have always been lifelong bachelors.
contradiction
Monica moves to the Pentagon, but the relationship intermittently continues.
Monica stays, but her relationship comes to a stop.
contradiction
Second, Finkelstein echoes conventional historical thinking when he says Nazism's main appeal lay in Hitler's promises to restore order in post-Weimar Germany, end unemployment, and make the country an international power.
Finkelstein believes the promise to end unemployment was the most important factor.
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Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.
Many people take the News Quiz.
neutral
Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it.
Microsoft has been defending its role in Washington.
entailment
The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity.
No one prefers obscure and unproduced recordings.
contradiction
One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.
Cybill Shepherd and her prior fiance do not get along.
entailment
The Pescis and Esther Williams won't come unless they get some!
The Pescis and Esther Williams demand a lot.
neutral
The study suggested that between 23 and 46 of every 1 million patients taking fen-phen would die from the condition each year.
fen-phen is going to be discontinued very soon.
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McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is.
McCain told Fox News who his hero was in an interview.
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One problem, among many, is that most people's living rooms aren't Carnegie Hall; as a result, the music just sounds muddy.
Music sounds best at Carnegie Hall.
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A famous example is the Klein bottle, a kind of higher-dimensional Moebius strip whose inside is somehow the same as its outside.
Klein bottles are nothing like Moebius strips.
contradiction
Our smudge and blear and soil, he proposes, do not efface the glory.
He proposed nothing.
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