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Physical modesty is not a Baldwin trait.
Baldwin has always struggled with low self esteem about the way he looks.
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In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss.
Boris Yeltsin was empowered with the right to appoint his own envoy.
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The Orioles pressed for several design changes that lowered Camden Yards' top deck and produced a middle-row viewing distance of 199 feet, about eight rows closer than Arlington's.
The Orioles pressed for many design changes that would raise Camden Yards' top deck.
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But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair.
Everyone can buy such large chairs.
contradiction
Comedy attacks.
Comedy doesn't attack.
contradiction
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).
Harrer's son in the piece was named Rolf.
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I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous.
Breaking the peso commitment would require congressional approval.
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While the home still evinces mutterings of Xanadu from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor.
There are only small homes in Beverly Hills.
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The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you.
just thinking about raising dogs for their fur excites me.
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Bradley, who has belittled Gore's microproposals (sprawl, traffic, etc.), will see his own self-proclaimed questioned.
Bradley had never disparaged Gore's proposals.
contradiction
Once again, a plea to Susan and Sylvester.
Susan and Sylvester heard the plea and reached out to help.
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After a great Moyers show, viewers nod in agreement.
The viewers disagreed with Moyers after his show was over.
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If you're lying, shame on you.
Don't lie about this.
entailment
Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.
Monet had a water garden.
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Is all of The Limey a temporal hiccup?
People are concerned about The Limey.
neutral
The U.S. has never backed down.
England never backs down from a fight.
neutral
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.
Collecting information on Bellow was icnredibly easy.
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As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
By the 1780s, Americans expected the judicial system to check and balance the legislature.
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We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern.
Scientists have determined how life began on earth.
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Well, did her tune ever change.
also, she forgot her keys.
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The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.
The wagons will come back around.
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( explains what Greenspan really said.)
What was said by Greenspan is explained.
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Meanwhile, Russia is debating whether to cut its conventional forces and authorize first use of its nukes as a substitute deterrent (as the United States will still do).
Russia fears that by reducing its regular forces, it could be caught off guard by potential enemies.
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If you've installed Internet Explorer 4.0, click here for more about (and a chance to download) the channel.
To access and download the channel, you must install Internet Explorer 4.0.
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Why would Gates allow the publication of such a book with his byline and photo on the dust jacket?
Gates has a byline associated with at least one book.
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Not all the way--he has not yet succeeded in building a durable majority on the court.
He does not have a majority on the court.
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In all conquered regions, the Taliban has immediately implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law.
Islamic law has been interpreted by the Taliban.
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To give up on River Rouge in order to build your brand is one thing.
The author would never consider giving up River Road when building their brand.
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Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity.
More people would enjoy competition with compassion.
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And the signs made it easier for visitors to find their way around.
There were signs everywhere.
neutral
The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art just hired its new head away from Disney.
Disney has lost at least one employee to The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
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You can acquire a second spouse so long as you discard the first one.
It's not okay to have more than one spouse at the same time.
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I'm no economist, but I believe this is the point President Clinton intends to make in Tokyo tomorrow.
President Clinton is not making a point in Tokyo tomorrow.
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I am surprised, Richard, that you find Faludi's characterizations of the male crisis to fit the British profile.
In no way do Faludi's characterizations fit the British profile.
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We've collected all of Harry's O.J. Dispatches into one gargantuan Microsoft Word (and Adobe Acrobat) document that will you can dowload by clicking here.
The document is available for download.
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You could be truthful and say your own version of I was overcome by curiosity about this much talked about doc, and now I know his work is as good as yours.
Your work involves researching cancer cells.
neutral
Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa
The relationships between Owens and others are allusions for Americans.
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So, who's hungry?
Someone is asking about levels of hunger.
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Stephen King dumped his longtime publisher, Viking, and is seeking more than $17 million for his new book.
Stephen King did not like the publisher because of their high prices.
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It is seen as a rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a victory for Democrats, Sen.
Trent Lott's party held less Senate seats than the Democrats.
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If the first lady's job description no longer includes being first, then let's lobby to create a new post, the last lady--or the latest lady.
The first lady isn't the last lady.
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, people who don't exist) are suitable candidates for Jedi knighthood (perhaps Yoda will enlarge his definition of fear in subsequent episodes).
Everyone is a suitable candidate for Jedi knighthood.
contradiction
A few of the more bearable Hotel Bill, Cash Inn, China Pattern, The John Wilkes Toll Booth, Sheets for Treats.
The author lists only the worst puns and is keeping the better ones to themself.
contradiction
He's usually tiptop at fielding tough questions, agrees everyone.
He's got a bit of a short fuse if you keep pressing him.
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First, why would allowing the interplay of free-market forces imply that stadiums, movie houses, and other mass entertainment centers would become dominated by wealthy people?
Free-market societies are dominated by poor people.
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Then, when the groups learned of one another's existence, the boys immediately drew lines in the sand.
The groups do not know that the other group exists.
contradiction
You couldn't possibly have published a better parody of what passes for scholarship in the postmodern world.
The author praises the comedy offered by the work that was published.
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So read Slate . A lot.
Slate learned to read early.
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There have even been some frustrated musings among conservative writers and pundits that the people are not necessarily all-wise.
The political right is completely behind the idea that all people make good decisions.
contradiction
The first moral is that children are never safer than when staring at a computer screen.
Using a computer is a safe activity for children.
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But it's uncontroversial that many Congress members are dim.
It is controversial that many Congress members are bright.
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Through diagrams and interviews with physicists, the story describes how separate universes could break away from ours (a bit like a soap bubble dividing in two).
The physicists interviewed many people throughout the study.
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And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on.
There isn't anyone that thinks human life isn't scared and everyone believes the same thing.
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The art historian Linda Nochlin has traced what she calls Degas' perfectly ordinary anti-Semitism to status anxiety.
In Degas' era it was normal to be anti-Semitic.
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The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.
Smoking is a major problem in America.
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When I think of someone like Tolly Greenberg, I think of my grandpa Ben, he writes.
No one alive is like Tolly Greenberg.
contradiction
Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing.
Storytellers never encounter any problems, not even the slightest annoyance.
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An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.
Mad magazine reached many readers.
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They especially take him to task for blaming Plath's suicide on fate and astrology.
One man claimed Plath's suicide was caused by fate and astrology.
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Still, the solution Schor proposes seems almost as forced and obsessive as overspending itself.
Schor's solution seems forced and obsessive, and doesn't address overspending.
entailment
It recounts the misdeeds of Phantomd, a teen-age cracker who infiltrated computers at nuclear-weapons labs, military bases, banks, dams, and major corporations before he was caught.
Police have yet to catch the middle-aged cracker
contradiction
A meeting with the district's member of Congress has been scheduled, but I have no doubt how this will end.
The district's member of Congress declined the meeting.
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Early diagnosis, new teaching techniques (emphasis on the arts, thematic programs), and new research into the brains of LD kids are starting to rectify a neglected problem.
The neglected problem is starting to be fixed.
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At the expense of the middle class.
the middle class can rebound effectively.
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In January 1996, Qaddafi promised the nation a $1-billion gift, which has not been received because of U.S. sanctions against Libya.
The United States has never used sanctions as a political tool.
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Igave a lecture on the American economy in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month.
The author's lecture was received warmly.
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Did this really make her beautiful?
There was a question on the efficacy of the beautification.
entailment
Leaving a Doll's House and What Falls Away seem less like vindictive, manipulative performances than like baby steps in the right direction.
Nobody believes that the performances were done with malice.
contradiction
) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost.
Tinsley feels betrayed by God.
contradiction
The first day after the Democratic primary, Schumer unleashed Too many lies for too long ads.
There has been a day since the democratic primary.
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Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea.
This was one of many flaws in the idea.
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In our conversation, he spoke very forcefully against the special prosecutor (now independent counsel) statute.
He said he was against special counsel statute.
entailment
The Pescis and Esther Williams won't come unless they get some!
There has to be incentive for the Pescis and Esther Williams to come.
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Chances are that if you know she's running around, it's likely your brother does, too.
You have a brother.
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Faking appreciation is always, of course, er, appreciated.
Appreciation can only be genuine.
contradiction
In Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic sanctioned the removal in 1987 of the body of Serbian hero Czar Lazar, killed 600 years before by Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, so it could be paraded around Slovenia and Croatia in a display of Serb power.
Serbia has preivously elected presidents.
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In particular, an increase in the savings rate will translate into higher investment after all, because the Fed will make sure that it does.
Savings is the best way to invest money.
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That fragmented system without oversight had its deviance (not all doctors provided good care) and cost (the doctors drove up the bills).
the system was irregular and costly.
entailment
In this light the meaning of his call to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics seems separate but equal.
He has supported maintaining a specific character when it comes to global politics.
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I gave my stock In the first place, we don't know the truth; in the second place, the presidency is not a person but a team.
We know the truth about everything.
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Soon, Starling was conscripted into following the couple on their walks through Washington's Rock Creek Park (for more details, click ) and fending off reporters.
One of Starling's responsibilities included warding off reporters.
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But the real hope for ending the AIDS epidemic is not expensive drug therapies.
Drug therapies are the only hope of helping AIDS patients.
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He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless.
The experiment would have succeeded if not for the technical issues.
neutral
But in the presence of competition among dealers, there is no difference between setting a standard of service and setting a retail For a given service standard, competition will lower the price until it's commensurate with the service standard, and for a given price, competition will raise the service standard until ...
Competition will raise or lower prices and service standards.
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Afterward, Gordon thanked Earnhardt for teaching him all his tricks.
Earnhardt kept all his tricks to himself.
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To which host Tim Russert replied, Why won't you abide by the 11 th Amendment and stop criticizing George W. Bush?
Tim Russert defended George W. Bush.
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The Heartbeats, a decent R&B cover band in cowboy hats.
There's a decent R&B cover band called The Heartbeats that wear cowboy hats.
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It happened here about 2.1 billion years ago.
Nothing has ever happened here.
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For Pundit Completists David Brock profiles Meet the Press host Tim Russert and surveys the competitive world of the pundit shows in this week's New York magazine.
David Brock's piece on Tim Russert was featured in New York magazine.
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They're political.
They are involved in politics.
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Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
I do not know where we found the videos.
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into prose of crystalline clarity and grace, it is ...
The speech was easy to understand.
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So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).
The Kurds wear expensive jewelry.
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We have industrialized our food systems, and continue to do so, something which classic economics says is not possible, since economies of scale do not easily apply to food production.
Industrialization has changed the way economists view food systems.
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Vaclav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.
Out of all the places Vaclav Havel has visited he likes Prague the best.
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It is hard to imagine, though, why any government would embargo such a product, unless the plastic surgeons' lobby has already got to them.
The product is not typical of something the government would embargo.
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But giving drove him near to nervous collapse.
The man suffered no ill effects as a result of his giving.
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(Perkins did not respond to several requests for an interview.)
Perkins did not wish to be bothered for an interview.
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Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).
Springer lectures about values.
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Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used.
It is better for the industry to self-regulate, rather than have the government intervene.
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