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So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox. | Bill Clinton has a reputation for pursuing sex. | entailment |
A Saving Private Ryan backlash begins. | Saving Private Ryan has received only positive feedback. | contradiction |
John maintains his innocence from death row. | John was only sentenced to serve 10 years in prison. | contradiction |
Twenty-five days after that conversation, Johnson invited Kennedy to the Oval Office and told him face to face that he didn't want him as a running mate. | Kennedy was devastated after the meeting in the Oval Office. | neutral |
Pollard may have spied for a friendly country, but he did a traitor's work. | Pollard was disloyal to his country. | entailment |
For years the store has declined to sell stickered music, i.e., pop songs whose lyrics are too saucy for your mall. | The store had its grand opening last year. | contradiction |
Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose. | The labor union is incapable of cutting political deals. | contradiction |
The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference. | It took years to see the change. | neutral |
(His colleagues feel he's a showboat and a camera hog, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.) | Larry Sabato discussed politics on the news. | neutral |
Zeus, not surprisingly, fancies himself their leader. | Zeus held himself in high regard. | entailment |
She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me. | All work has ceased on the project. | contradiction |
Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation. | Sawyer's assistant reported the situation to the NYACS. | entailment |
In this poem, he sees divine grandeur not simply in a trite vision of nature, but in nature as human nature affects it, industrial images such as shaking metal foil or crushed oil embody the grandeur. | The famous poem is seen in many different ways. | neutral |
The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly. | Almost every smokes in America. | contradiction |
Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge. | The president's symbiotic scourge was not a fan of the president. | entailment |
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep. | The House Majority Leader is from the state of Georgia. | contradiction |
But Spielberg doesn't have to catch them all. | Spielberg doesn't catch anything. | contradiction |
I've always said that victory is the best exit strategy. | Being victorious is an advantageous position. | entailment |
When Time asks if Jiang should make a gesture on human rights to ease relations with America, Jiang I would like to know what you refer to specifically as a gesture. | It is possible Jiang should make a gesture on human rights. | entailment |
Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography. | Dissenters were livid at Quindlen's decision to move beyond veiled autobiography. | contradiction |
The difference, of course, is that instead of rewarding the poor, it rewards the powerful. | The policy was shown to have no effect on the middle class. | neutral |
By these criteria Kinsey fares well. | Kinsey does not fare well by these criteria. | contradiction |
He was killed in a dispute over timber by a Pamunkey Indian from Virginia who would have been considered black in Virginia but escaped prosecution because he was considered white in Mississippi. | A Pamunkey Indian is considered a different color skin in Virginia than in Mississippi. | entailment |
If drugs do extend the lives of infected people for, say, decades--and I hope they do and that Sullivan is wrong about his own fate--I, too, would use the word cure. | Sullivan has been sick for a long time. | neutral |
We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country. | The food here is varied and diverse, so we have every right to criticize what other countries eat. | contradiction |
The first question to ask is what the right thing would have been. | Determining what is right should have been asked first. | entailment |
It is quite likely that you are suffering from the Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome. | It is not possible that you are affected by any sort of syndrome. | contradiction |
Little boys face a problem very similar to that of high-tech executives. | little boys are totally problem-free. | contradiction |
Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about. | Dalai Lama is a video game streamer. | contradiction |
We should lead by example and suasion. | We should lead by modeling the behavior and persuading them. | entailment |
News ' Web shopping package centers on the America Online-Netscape merger. | This merger will greatly boost the profitability of America Online. | neutral |
New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution. | The New Englanders played no role in the American Revolution. | contradiction |
The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy. | The movie is named The Half Monty. | entailment |
Please note that, like a reheated stew, this dodge works even better after a military action has begun. | This dodge will continue to improve, even after the military action is finished. | neutral |
Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill. | Tolly had a career in narcotics, thus knew what marketplaces existed, so he manufactured the original morphine pill. | entailment |
The July 16 Today's Papers asks what it says about Hillary Clinton that she refused to comment for a USA Today story on her partnership with Madeleine Albright. | Hillary Clinton didn't comment for a USA Today piece about her relationship with Madeleine Albright. | entailment |
So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself. | eBay's share price is lavish. | entailment |
And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, so maybe I should take him to a good stylist who would no doubt be, as so many of them are, gay. | Jacob's mother is named Esau. | contradiction |
I do know that I could see every plot turn dragging its limp, maggoty carcass across the desert from miles away. | the plot was polished, fantastic, and very unpredictable. | contradiction |
That led him to the not-very-civil act of complaining to Bob Haldeman. | This complaint to another person was a very civil act to do. | contradiction |
Ned Devine is this year's stab at The Full Monty (1997), which made more than $100 million and even snagged an Oscar nomination. | Ned Devine was released after The Full Monty. | entailment |
No, because this is something that's private. | This should be public, because of it's negative effect on other people. | neutral |
On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle. | Tom did not testify. | contradiction |
Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining. | genetic redlining has been a tradition for 177 years. | neutral |
Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only interc... | Traditionalists want to change the quant differences between the two leagues of MLB. | contradiction |
Meanwhile, merger mania has seized the telecom industry. | No telecommunications companies have merged together. | contradiction |
Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining. | Francis Collins is prepared in his campaign of opposition against genetic redlining. | entailment |
More than that, once a condition is established as a diagnosis, society practically treats it as a crime not to do something about it. | The condition is not life threatening. | neutral |
Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government. | The street protests were secretly exacerbated by foreign intelligence operatives. | neutral |
Detractors say the film lacks any real sense of narrative continuity and feels like bits and pieces of half a dozen coming-of-age films (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). | Detractors say the film had everything it needed. | contradiction |
The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection. | The tobacco industry will lose a lot of money. | neutral |
Later, I thought the subject required more analysis. | The subject was astronomy and star formation. | neutral |
But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news. | Davis seduces reporters using his charisma. | neutral |
Impossible, argued Albright and He will not stop until he is forced to do so. | Albright had given up. | contradiction |
The Left Behind series, co-written by Tim LaHaye, the prominent right-wing screwball and husband of Beverly LaHaye, the even more prominent right-wing screwball, and Jerry B. Jenkins, who, his biography states, is the author of 130 books, which is a lot of books for one guy to write, is a phenomenon. | Tim and Beverly are high school sweethearts. | neutral |
He's asking us to overlook it. | We have to pay attention to every detail. | contradiction |
Reed takes his place in 2002. | Reed is the replacement for him in the year 2002. | entailment |
The rules have indeed changed. | The rules have become more harsh. | neutral |
Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago, fanning up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships. | Seamus Heaney is a very famous poet. | neutral |
LeTourneau was the boy's teacher in both second and sixth grades, and he describes their relationship When I was six or seven, she encouraged me in my drawing. | LeTourneau was the boy's second favorite teacher. | neutral |
We egg on Dennis Rodman, watching him parade like a peacock and break down in tears on national TV. | Dennis Rodman has never lost his cool while on national TV. | contradiction |
She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans. | She appears to be a porn star, and she actually is a porn star. | contradiction |
Henry V would have inspired no one on St. Crispin's day by | Henry V inspired many people on St. Crispin's day. | contradiction |
That's the only thing that'll overcome the meat-grinding aspects of national politics. | Politics wears down everybody. | neutral |
As Lost in the Funhouse notes, Kaufman actually joined Lawler on the professional circuit and traveled across the country in a kind of touring carnival. | Lost in the Funhouse mentions that Kaufman and Lawler worked together. | entailment |
Of course the little things matter. | There is no extra consideration that should be paid to things that are little. | contradiction |
But what will Daimler get? | The company does not want anything. | contradiction |
I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him. | Blumenthal wrote op-ed pieces while at the New Yorker. | neutral |
By forbidding its dealers to compete with each other via prices, Schwinn forces them to compete with each other via quality of service, to the ultimate benefit of consumers. | Schwinn doesn't produce any commerical goods. | contradiction |
However, if the second possibility were correct, then both George Bush Sr.'s and George W.' southern identities would have to be called into question. | George Bush Sr. and George W Bush are from a southern state in America. | neutral |
(To read the first three chapters, click here.) | The written work is complimentary and worth reading. | neutral |
By my calculations, it probably went about 479 feet. | It only went 100 feet. | contradiction |
The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers. | The Liggett Group is a major tobacco company but also the smallest out of all of them. | entailment |
He appeared on every network Tuesday night to insist that the Bush brothers and other victorious Republican governors such as George Pataki (New York), John Rowland (Connecticut), Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), and John Engler (Michigan) were conservatives. | Someone appeared on many channels on Tuesday night. | entailment |
They're deceased! | They are healthy and full of energy. | contradiction |
Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights. | Hillary Clinton wrote an essay for Newsweek making the claim that human rights will improve when the US provides aid. | entailment |
(Belize and Gibraltar are best, because they don't recognize American divorce judgments.) | American divorce judgments are recognized everywhere. | contradiction |
Our campaigns often end up doing the very opposite of what they intend, Bradley laments. | The campaigns do not go as originally planned. | entailment |
(Or to comment on his current incompetence--it's an open secret on the Hill that Thurmond has lost it. | Thurmond was once a strong leader. | neutral |
Utah looks like my dream come true. | The author is highly likely to be inclined to visit or live in Utah. | entailment |
Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies. | Our failure to embrace a skilled, efficient tech fix from Al Gore and his experts. | contradiction |
The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease the new Black Death. | oddly enough, the book by Rhodes never seems to discuss any diseases. | contradiction |
The art historian Linda Nochlin has traced what she calls Degas' perfectly ordinary anti-Semitism to status anxiety. | Linda Nochllin thinks Degas anti-Semitist ideas were related to anxiety about his status in society. | entailment |
Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago, fanning up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships. | Seamus Heaney keeps all of his poems to himself. | contradiction |
How can you make the capital gains tax a litmus test issue but say that the slaughter of millions of innocent children is something about which you have only a mild preference and don't care much if people disagree? | Why do you make capital gains more of an issue than the slaughter of innocent children? | entailment |
He's obviously spending too much time online. | He plays too much video games. | neutral |
His shows are more 700 Club than Crossfire . His guests almost always share Moyers' belief about the topic at hand. | Moyers seeks out his guests purposefully to be sure they agree with him. | neutral |
A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1. | a risk-neutral person does not show a strong preference about either choice. | entailment |
(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in | Krugman is an expert on the subject. | neutral |
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 universe is a restaurant in California. | contradiction |
particular national We are simultaneously subject to every other national jurisdiction. | Every other country has jurisdiction over this particular nation. | 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 was furious when he was fired. | neutral |
It's possible that Besieged is meant to be vaguely The African is seduced by the crumbling decadence of Europe while the European falls for the childlike simplicity of Africa. | The European fell for Africa while working there. | neutral |
And he would certainly consent if the alternative was impeachment. | The speaker will put pressure on him. | neutral |
Now economists are pointing out the unfairness of subsidizing the reduction in the number of doctors while refusing to do the same for other professions, such as economists. | Economists don't think the government should favor doctors over economists. | entailment |
I find it interesting that Alfred Gingold, in Onward, Christian Clothiers, doesn't have a problem with pro-abortion T-shirts or vulgar T-shirts (shit happens, coed nude basketball, bitch on wheels, etc.) but finds it necessary to tee off on evangelical Christian apparel. | Alfred Gingold cannot stand vulgar or pro-abortion T-shirts. | contradiction |
He stood for what he believed in. | The man held true to his beliefs. | entailment |
Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein. | Nobody is huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein. | contradiction |
The first lies in the assumption that all three-second periods are worth the same. | the three-second periods all share the same color. | neutral |
The publication doesn't report where Mrs. | Where Mrs isn't reported by the publication. | entailment |
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