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In other words, the careless only stay lucky for so long.
People can choose to be lucky.
contradiction
As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves.
Devine has many alive relatives.
contradiction
Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?
I'm not a practicing economist.
contradiction
We all know people who are essentially hotblooded, or melancholy (which literally means black bile), or phlegmatic, or who view the world with a jaundiced eye.
The author knows more people who are melancholy than people who are hotblooded.
neutral
I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.
I would not be smoking even if it were good for my health.
contradiction
Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit.
The good manners have nothing to do with the Christmas spirit.
contradiction
Aprimary argument against same-sex marriage is that marriage is an institution for the raising of children.
Children prefer to be raised by different sex parents who are married.
neutral
Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.
Paul disagreed about the notion of the national savings rising will depress the economy.
contradiction
And they look so cool.
In reality, everyone who sees them thinks they are the definition of uncool.
contradiction
(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs.
The final round of SATs has already been completed.
contradiction
Coming from a conservative background, my partner has stated on many occasions that his parents won't allow him to stay over at my apartment, even though on some nights this would be preferable to his making the long drive home.
Rather than stay the night, he has to drive home.
entailment
(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)
It's not possible to see Clinton's popularity as legitimate.
contradiction
My mother, who is a charming woman in almost all other respects, appears to have a grave problem staying employed.
My mother has had a stable career for most of her life.
contradiction
Kondracke screams back that he's used them before, he'll use them again.
Kondracke is angry at something being banned.
neutral
Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as casuistry in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior.
The nuance arose from the work of some 21st-century New Age spirituality.
contradiction
Smith's press secretary, Ken Wolfe, boasts that by offering that bill, We have called their bluff.
Ken Wolfe bragged about being offered the bill, thinking they called his bluff.
entailment
Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
Powell is associated with the field of writing.
entailment
But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.
People will a lot of money are always happy.
neutral
But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.
Save your money by putting it in the bank.
neutral
An entire six pack.
The six pack was all of it.
entailment
The only new fact in Flytrap that would qualify as genuine news would be one proving Bill Clinton didn't have sex with Lewinsky.
Genuine news in Flytrap is qualified by whether or not someone did or didn't have sex with someone else.
neutral
Majority Whip Tom DeLay, another Texan, is Armey's opposite--the Republican Jim Wright.
Tom DeLay is from Oregon.
contradiction
According to those who know him, he has learned why newspapers are a public trust since his unfortunate cereal interview.
He never learned from his past experiences.
contradiction
It doesn't say much of anything on the subject.
This source has taught me a lot about the subject.
contradiction
Before long, we can expect to hear retirement-averse conservatives making the rest of the fine arguments against term limits.
Conservatives can be against retirement.
entailment
It sparked a vigorous debate about morality, introduced role models who defied stereotypes (powerful attorneys in wheelchairs, patrician female lawmakers), and demonstrated that the political process is sturdy and forgiving.
All role models are stereotypical by nature.
contradiction
Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.
The actors and playwrights who had staffed the theater were either fired or exiled.
entailment
Entire conferences and whole scholarly volumes have been devoted to this catechism, with roughly the same results.
There is a lot of material written about this catechism.
entailment
The OPEN sign is not pretty, but it provides the information you need.
The sign would be more informative to more people if the sign was nicer to look at.
neutral
Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.
The Whigs treated the lower classes poorly.
entailment
A few seconds later, Jackie Kennedy comes on the line.
Not a lot of time passed before Jackie Kennedy got on the line.
entailment
The old conventional Sibelius was a vulgar nationalist (a la Wagner) and a windy Romantic bore.
Like Wagner, Sibelius could be described as a nationalist.
entailment
After the Madness reads like going to court feels.
After the Madness was a television show.
contradiction
Forgive the debtors, especially the hopeless cases among the very poorest nations.
The debtors also have health issues.
neutral
Ian Fleming's James Bond was a snob and a lightweight.
Ian Fleming has never written any books.
contradiction
The new health scare is a staph germ that is becoming immune to the antibiotic of last resort.
This germ which is impervious to antibiotics is causing a scare in the health community.
entailment
It's almost barbaric in a certain way.
Nothing comes across as crude and crask.
contradiction
even falling knowing already he was dead, and how much I pray to myself I want not, ever,
A person is falling.
entailment
No, it'll be a grudge match between Reeves and Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, whom Reeves fired as the Broncos' offensive coordinator years ago for insubordination.
Shanahan is favored as the underdog.
neutral
But even then, the Thernstroms equivocate.
The Thernstorms speak many languages.
neutral
We are supposed to believe that Pitt's Harrer has learned to be a better person; offered as proof is his changed attitude toward his son, Rolf (whose name in real life is Peter).
The character Rolf was based upon a real life person named Rolf.
contradiction
It's easy to imagine an election where Clinton is initially ahead of Dole, but a third party entry by, say, Jesse Jackson, pushes Dole ahead of Clinton.
Jesse Jackson could help Dole beat Clinton.
entailment
(To read the first three chapters, click here.)
You cannot read the chapters of the book because it has not been released to the public.
contradiction
It invests heavily in research and development.
the R&D is currently almost at it's target amount for investments.
neutral
Once all the world smiled benignly when an adult took an interest in a scoutmaster and troop, priest and altar boy--what could be more wholesome?
Some adults had ulterior motives in taking these positions.
neutral
For my part, I plan to endorse the Baptist boycott of Disney.
I totally support Disney, 100%.
contradiction
Maybe Wachtler writes cliches because prison has become cliche.
Wachtler does not write cliches at all.
contradiction
Most important, with the first primaries still months away, the Gore campaign hasn't advertised much to bring newcomers to the site.
The first primaries are months away.
entailment
Unless, of course, when it comes to Internet shares there is no sensible middle.
There might be no sensible middle when it comes to Internet shares.
entailment
And yet it ended up foundering as a result of the inherent uncertainty of the free-market system.
Certainty and the free-market are inseparable.
contradiction
For bitchy wit at its best, set your VCRs to catch Bette Davis in the incomparable All About Eve (Monday, Cinemax 2, 4 p.m.).
The 4 p.m showing of the movie All About Eve, will be in theaters.
contradiction
And these are things that, in this day and age, are rarely said at all.
People say these things all the time.
contradiction
but we kick it further-- the axe-man whispers run to the convict he beheads so the body for our delight
The axe-man whispers things to the convict before the beheading.
entailment
Time identifies a new racial bilingual education.
Time made a new discovery.
neutral
But he was abrupt with her--not rude, just abrupt.
He was rude and took his time.
contradiction
Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.
The phone number for PrintSmart is out of service.
neutral
The High-Minded Dismissal.
Not all High-Minded are very smart.
neutral
Alas, all he writes about, all he thinks about, all he wants to do, is give in to fat.
He never thinks of fat.
contradiction
Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.
There are some chants that sound right when a language from the same family is translated.
neutral
Goodman's explanations of Jewish ritual sometimes veer from the helpful to the condescendingly overexplicit, as if she were writing for young adults.
Never condescending, Goodman's explanations regarding ritual in Judaism are always helpful, with a mature, peer-to-peer tone.
contradiction
If the number of voters is literally infinite, then the conclusion can be overturned.
There is one final conclusion if the number of voters is actually infinite, once the last infinite person votes.
contradiction
I thank Joe Conason for pointing out my errors, and I apologize to the readers of S late for my carelessness.
The author made mistakes that were pointed out by others.
entailment
Faster, Pussycats!
move slower, Pussycats!
contradiction
We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests.
we often share chuckles and also enjoy many of the same passions.
entailment
He should mind his own lesson.
The man should be concerned with his own lesson.
entailment
U.S. law does not require the president to request congressional support before supporting a WTO bid.
In Britain, Parliament must approval of the WTO bid.
neutral
According to the actress, they couldn't.
She is not talking.
contradiction
Boaz's model for this is the Internet.
Boaz is not familiar with the internet.
contradiction
The one-day crash of '87, for example, reduced people's net worth by billions without directly reducing by as much as a single doughnut the amount of goods and services or the economy's ability to produce more of them.
the one-day crash in '87 made people's net worth grow by billions.
contradiction
So fascinated that it ran not one, but two stories on the apparently bottomless topic, one in the Money and Business section and one in the Week in Review.
The topic is about corporate corruption.
neutral
I spent a lot of time talking to Iowa farmers since January.
I talked with the farmers about the effects of climate change in Iowa.
neutral
Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m.
We try to get it to the press well before 5 p.m.
neutral
I'm not sure how with a pair of e-mail messages I managed to effectively double the price of Chuck Close lithographs.
Chuck Close is known for exquisite level of detail in his paintings.
neutral
Pol Pot is in captivity
Pol Pot was captured.
entailment
Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.
Not only was Hersh's information verified, nearly everyone could refute it.
contradiction
If the wound to Eappen's skull was new, asked Scheck, why had scar tissue formed around it?
There is no wound on Eappen's skull
contradiction
And the editor heard Jacob's plea.
The editor intentionally avoided hearing what Jacob had to say.
contradiction
So when you hear all this business about cuts, let me caution you that that is not what is going on.
Cuts are not happening.
entailment
They seem to think that junk food qualifies as their half of the groceries.
They never purchased junk food when grocery shopping.
contradiction
A spate of explicit parental responsibility laws passed by states and communities over the last couple of years give judges the power to make parents pay for juvenile detention or undergo counseling with their kids.
Judges never hold parents accountable in any way for the offences of their children.
contradiction
The language is lackluster, the pacing leaden, the cliches plentiful, and the surprises few--no, not the campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses (Well, yes, but I'm thinking of something else here.)
The campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses are full of cliches and have no surprises.
entailment
Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward
affirmative action is likely to the best.
contradiction
Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince.
The Globe obtained their information from one of the nannies that works for Jackson.
neutral
If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
In the original Star Wars trilogy, Darth Vader rarely pays attention to C-3PO.
entailment
(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)
The analogy has been widely disputed.
neutral
Lewinsky reportedly wore a provocative dress to attract the president's attention, and McDougal did a Madison Guaranty TV commercial in hot pants.
Lewinsky had no idea who the president was at the time.
contradiction
An article celebrates the return to favor of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose sharp tongue is nearly as famous as his music (he disses Wynton Marsalis as a talented high-school trumpet player).
An article noted that Keith Jarrett returned to favor, known for his sharp tongue as equally as his music.
entailment
But let's get Does the diagnosis of sex addiction make sense?
There is no question that a sex addiction diagnosis makes sense.
contradiction
And yet, while this oversaving is costly to any given generation, it enriches future generations.
If something is good for future generations, it is also economically good for the current generation.
contradiction
I hear you, she said by way of introduction.
She heard them because they were being loud.
neutral
If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.
Clinton wants the Senate to hold the confirmation hearing.
neutral
That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi!
A sensation can be caused by a certain action.
entailment
Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.
States are telling their citizens to push on.
neutral
You can bet no one will ever elect me to public office.
The author does not believe he will be elected as a public official.
entailment
It's silly that this is all such a guessing game.
I think its ridiculous to play a guessing game.
entailment
The trouble is that you've gone through so much pain to collect the damned junior-high-school transcript or the quote from Bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948 that you feel you have to put it in--just to get credit.
A Junior-high transcript was investigated and acquired.
entailment
Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course.
People have moved on, and are no longer concerned with Clinton's issues.
neutral
From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel .
Government attorneys and officials enjoy discussing legal matters.
contradiction
An article accuses the press of overlooking John McCain's domestic-policy gaffes.
In the article, John McCain's domestic policy mistakes are said to be ignored by the press.
entailment
Maybe Wachtler writes cliches because prison has become cliche.
Wachtler only writes cliches because they make more money than autobiographies.
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