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Yet, we do cruel things to animals--smart animals, affectionate animals, cute animals--all the time. | The appeal of an animal impacts the cruelty it receives. | neutral |
Similarly, the idea that Native American babies, or black babies, or whatever, have some mystical genetic affinity with their own kind is silly. | Native american babies and black babies have a genetic affinity of their own. | contradiction |
ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular. | ABC has many lawyers working on the problems. | neutral |
Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off. | They are currently friends with Degas. | entailment |
Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future. | Index fund investing defeats the purpose of trading. | entailment |
You can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint. | Clinton is both rash and pious. | entailment |
With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general. | The report was about females of similar ages dying in car accidents. | entailment |
While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along. | The headline includes at least four qualities. | entailment |
That is, because you can always declare bankruptcy and walk away, it is as if you owned the right to sell those assets at a fixed price, whatever might happen in the market. | No one is able to escape bankruptcy. | contradiction |
In a way, it's Bradley's fault. | Bradley isn't at fault. | contradiction |
Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy. | Tom Shales is also critical of Tom Hanks. | neutral |
As Horn argues, in most cases there is relatively little that parole agents can do to keep an offender who is determined to commit new crimes from committing them. | The crime system was revamped to stop future crimes. | neutral |
Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers. | No mainstream news organization has reported about it. | contradiction |
This one-way connection will offer speeds up to 150,000 bits per second. | It's the fastest connection out there. | neutral |
For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention. | Clinton is nothing but honest and above board. | contradiction |
Among the single digits, no number is less evocative than six. | The author thinks that some numbers elicit stronger feelings than other numbers. | entailment |
Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed. | Arabs are seeing the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism. | entailment |
John McLaughlin dedicates the final minutes of his show to the proposition that contemporary American culture sneers at Men are regarded as inseminating instruments, superfluous after that. | McLaughlin feels that contemporary American culture values men. | contradiction |
I remember that some people complained President Eisenhower was distracted from the business of his office because he was out playing golf so much. | People felt as though Eisenhower had spent too much time golfing and not enough time on the country. | entailment |
Also, while PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver, SlateCast TM will package acute witticisms about the news directly onto your voice-mail answering message--in your own voice--thereby completely eliminating the need to develop or even to express your own opinions. | SlateCast TM failed miserably. | neutral |
Kondracke screams back that he's used them before, he'll use them again. | Kondracke is using something for the first time. | contradiction |
And then, of course, there was the New York Times , that old mainstay of psychotic delusion--Nash thought aliens were sending him encrypted messages through its pages (come to think of it, that could explain the Times ' odd prose). | The New York Times was bought at the local starbucks coffee shop. | neutral |
It would also help our thinking if we could avoid the sex and violence mantra. | We would be more clearheaded if we did not put sex and violence in everything. | entailment |
At its worst, it's become a new refuge for the untalented musician, a fact that Ryan Adams from the band Whiskeytown owns up to in the song Faithless Street: I had started this damn country band/ 'cause punk rock was too hard to sing. | Ryan Adams has tried singing in more than one genre of music. | entailment |
' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force. | The author wants the Serbian forces to withdraw long before the international police-keeping force steps in. | contradiction |
He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them. | The flowers bloom are able to be seen for only a short amount of time. | entailment |
On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts. | Kansas' board is a committee of experts. | contradiction |
The protective aura that once insulated the family has vanished. | The family previously had a protective aura. | entailment |
These countries only reluctantly agreed to this week's new U.N. sanctions that bar international travel by Iraqi officials linked to the inspection dispute. | This week, the U.N. repealed all sanctions on Iraq. | contradiction |
Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses). | More than one good chess player has taken off their clothes while riding public transportation. | entailment |
Critics say expansion could be another Yalta (the 1945 meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on spheres of influence in postwar Europe)--imposing a line between East and West, and leaving nonmembers subject to Russian bullying. | detractors claim the development could be another Yalta. | entailment |
However, from my own experience, a newborn becomes a 12-month-old and then an 18-month-old rather quickly. | The amount of time between a 12 month old and an 18 month old is rather short. | entailment |
But it is easy to guess. | Most people don't even bother to guess. | neutral |
When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde. | Wintour worked as an editor of the publication the British Vogue. | entailment |
It is seen as a rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a victory for Democrats, Sen. | Trent Lott served as a United States Senator. | entailment |
And I said, 'Where does Jesse Helms get off saying all these mean things about me? | Jesse Helms said mean things. | entailment |
Pundit Central, for one, is worried that peppy, likable Monica might try to take its job. | Monica has no intention of doing the kind of work that Pundit Central does. | neutral |
I am not an intolerant person, having grown up in New York City, where one man's ceiling is another man's floor. | I grew up in New York City. | entailment |
Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its cliched depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending. | Every single person enjoys the novel thoroughly, it has unexpected twists and turns and the ending is very convincing. | contradiction |
A basic tenet of biology used to be that the energy requirements of all living things are met ultimately by the sun--mainly through plants converting sunlight into more easily digestible forms of energy. | The sun is a major source of energy. | entailment |
Please don't print my name because I want | Please print my name, I want it to be seen. | contradiction |
Instead she runs through all the euphemisms for oral sex and then the video cuts to XXX action with gratuitous commentary. | she's very forward and blunt with her language. when it comes to oral sex. | contradiction |
Why, it's their Chineseness, of course. | They're actually Korean and not Chinese. | neutral |
on going to the cinema, you would be seeing American films sold for foreign consumption, Molotov argued. | Molotov disapproved of foreigner's buying American films. | neutral |
When you press down on top of the pump, two separate substances emerge from two separate and concealed tanks. | The separate substances emerging from the tanks need to be mixed together afterwards. | neutral |
Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore. | Thompson is 100 percent Beavis today. | contradiction |
But less tendentious media outlets have also reported on Albright's ethnic background. | Media outlets that are less tendentious have also reported on Albright's bowling skills. | contradiction |
And eventually people are no longer eager to live on garbage dumps. | They will continue living on garbage dumps. | contradiction |
That's not an irrefutable disproof that discrimination exists, but it's at least a calculation that needs to be taken seriously. | Allegations of discrimination have been made several times this year. | neutral |
We always knew they had it in them. | They are complete strangers to us. | contradiction |
If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point. | She called him a lot of mean things. | neutral |
Another source predicts if Sheen doesn't shape up, it's only a matter of time before they'll be printing his obituary. | The source believes that Sheen is close to dying. | entailment |
For that matter, we can't compare the GIs to the Athenians of Pericles' time, the Florentines of Michelangelo's, or the Americans of Abraham Lincoln's. | There is no diversity in life. | contradiction |
The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy. | No one believes that union members are being coerced to provide campaign funds. | contradiction |
It works by releasing hydrogen peroxide to break up or remove the color from organic materials but is gentle enough that it won't affect most fabric dyes. | Fabric dyes are at low risk with this product. | entailment |
The public is denied this access because the state, in thrall to the ideology of individualism, refuses either to interfere with speech bullies--such as pornographers--who silence women, or to subsidize the speech of the unorthodox, such as Robert Mapplethorpe. | The public does not care about access if it allows the state to not interfere with speech bullies. | neutral |
Which somehow doesn't seem to be the best way to prepare for the next decade. | This idea doesn't appear to be effective in preparing for the next ten years or so. | entailment |
Death of a Salesman , his greatest play, is about the devastating effects of professional failure. | Death of a Salesman is a tragedy | neutral |
Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so. | Chernomyrdin is also suffering with a mental illness. | neutral |
Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit. | Bauer thinks virtues are in a healthy state. | contradiction |
Who says a creative-writing MFA is a sure path to permanent unemployment? | The employment is at Burger King. | neutral |
(Could there be any other real answer?) | A question has been raised about alternative answers to this issue. | entailment |
Mount Marty administrators allegedly violated the due-process rights and academic freedom of an English professor, who had been trying to revive a local chapter of the AAUP, when they fired him a few months ago. | The English professor still works at Mount Marty. | contradiction |
In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways). | James Wood made commentary in Newsday. | entailment |
Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market. | It is wrong for Microsoft to have 90 percent of the market. | neutral |
Yet the Frenchman's travels might not have been possible if many stage-coach companies had not been subsidized--through Congress--so that mail could be carried, and representatives travel home, to remote districts. | It was well within the means, however, for the Frenchman to find other methods of travel if stage-coach did not present itself as an option. | neutral |
Mind you, not just something wrong, but something that would separate you from God and send you to hell if death came before confession. | Once you get sent to hell, there is no pathway to go to heaven. | neutral |
Utah looks like my dream come true. | The author is not fond of the state of Utah. | contradiction |
For a turnaround to be real, the company has to become not merely profitable but also positioned for steady growth. | A company that is profitable and steadily growing has a good shot at a turnaround. | entailment |
Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000. | Rob Brown was convicted. | neutral |
To counteract mushy curricula (whole math, multiculturalism) and keep pace on the highly competitive college track. | To counteract exacted and specific criteria like STEM will not keep you up to pace in the college track. | contradiction |
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. | The investigators were Broder and Waas. | entailment |
Well, these little nothings called neutrinos have a lot to say, if only we could find a press willing to pass on the message. | Once the press gets ahold of neutrinos, it will spread like wild fire. | neutral |
I just wanted to thank you for allowing Mark Alan Stamaty a forum for his hilarious--and often insightful--cartoon about a (slightly) warped world. | Mark Alan Stamaty needed a means by which to share his creative endeavors. | entailment |
The only people in Greenville who support the Southern Connector are the highway contractors who will benefit financially from the project. | Highway contractors want the Southern Connector to be built. | neutral |
When Chechens raided the Russian territory of Dagestan, and bombs wrecked Moscow apartment buildings, the army seized the opportunity. | The Moscow apartment buildings remained untouched. | contradiction |
They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa. | Black fiction employed other literary devices, such as allegory and symbolism. | neutral |
Do you have a human resources department? | I know for a fact you have a human resources department. | contradiction |
The fully cynical The joke is on us, because the building faithfully reflects Reagan's continuation of big government, despite his rhetoric. | Reagan discontinued big government. | contradiction |
I sometimes found myself wishing he would let the picture catch its breath, that the performers would stop coming at me in stroboscopic flashes. | The picture used only a single performer. | contradiction |
The House Judiciary Committee is making plans to hire 18 new lawyers for a possible impeachment inquiry. | They are going to try to impeach the President. | neutral |
They thought Bob Dole lost in 1996 because he was mean and distant. | Bob Dole was believed to be mean and distant hence why he lost in 1996. | entailment |
Note 3 : Here's Theroux on | Theroux's thoughts do not appear in the text. | contradiction |
These AUs, usually identified by the facial muscles that perform these various tasks, are the tools used in What the Face Reveals . (To look at a few examples, click here and here.) | Muscles in the face are capable of carrying out multiple different types of tasks. | entailment |
Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked? | I'm a practicing economist. | entailment |
As surrogate mothers have proved, knowing that you've given no genes to an infant needn't stop the bonding process. | Young children can bond with parental figures who are not their biological parents. | entailment |
Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm. | Bill Clinton has charm. | entailment |
Invented in 1993: After a big interception, Packers safety Leroy Butler . The populist Leap is particularly suited to the NFL's only publicly owned team, the zealously beloved Pack. | NFL safeties never get interceptions. | contradiction |
Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things. | Rising demand results in higher prices, but only marginally higher and for a short period of time. | neutral |
Pulitzer Prizes, for example, go to books and newspapers but not to magazines. | Magazines are not eligible for the Pulitzer Prizes. | neutral |
The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in eli... | Conley thinks that female teachers are superior to male instructors. | neutral |
Newsweek, which loves fad therapies, hypes natural Prozac. | The magazine claimed that natural Prozac was nearly as effective as prescription Prozac. | neutral |
Other candidates may be sexier at this hour, but once we go through the battering of New Hampshire and Iowa it might be a different story, says Connors. | The author expects no change in the other candidates after the elections in New Hampshire and Iowa. | contradiction |
But don't expect them for a few decades. | They are not available now. | entailment |
Progressives are more definitive than most other observations about patently obvious things in society. | Observations from Progressives usually focus on societal inequality. | neutral |
Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable. | The Small Business Administration does not provide loans, even to small companies. | contradiction |
The Post reminds readers of what else she said (Hillary's words are in italics): | The Hillary quotes are missing from the Post. | contradiction |
Well, these little nothings called neutrinos have a lot to say, if only we could find a press willing to pass on the message. | There has yet to be a press to pass on the message about neutrinos. | entailment |
The formula doesn't exist. | The formula will be made by next year. | neutral |
Some medical ethicists and constitutional scholars say that the Supreme Court was wrong to create the pre-viability/post-viability distinction in the first place. | The Supreme Court had a ruling on what is pre-viability and what is post-viability. | entailment |
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