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After the review was published, Science received a flood of angry telephone calls and letters, according to the editor in question, Katherine Livingston. | The readers sent angry emails after the review was written. | neutral |
If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives. | Abortion only has pleasant outcomes. | contradiction |
The Chechen Russia is trying to take us over again. | This is the first time Russian Chechens have acted aggressively against other nations. | contradiction |
The act also ends long-standing rules against cross-ownership in broadcasting. | The act enables a rule against cross-ownership in broadcasting. | contradiction |
Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers. | Czech newspapers continued to follow the story and publish articles on it. | neutral |
Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last. | The Diaries of Dawn Powell is a good publication that should be saved for last. | neutral |
You don't have to teach Rik Smits how to make post moves. | Rik Smits is already one of the best post players. | neutral |
The general staff, for instance, has essentially forbidden Russia from talking to NATO. | the usual staff has urgently insisted Russia talk with NATO. | contradiction |
Zeus, not surprisingly, fancies himself their leader. | It was shocking to everyone when Zeus made the claim that he was the leader. | contradiction |
Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he re... | Charlie sheen suffers from the disease of addiction. | entailment |
A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress. | A backdoor appropriations victory is exactly the strong arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress. | contradiction |
If you eat a whole lot of lobster, people will call you a pig. | It is bad to be called a pig. | neutral |
Maybe even Al Gore will soon exalt with a broad smile the vibrant U.S. ecology. | Al Gore is hesitant to call the ecology improving and vibrant. | neutral |
Chamber of Commerce spent $7 million on advertising in support of GOP candidates | The advertising consisted mostly of slam ads. | neutral |
(He quotes himself in his books, the sure sign of a towering ego.) | The author is never noted as having quoted himself in his own works. | contradiction |
PBS's Nova is offering lots of bang-'em-up footage in its two-part series , ESCAPE! | The Nova series ESCAPE consists entirely of video taken of people uneventfully sleeping. | contradiction |
Telegraph reported exclusively that billionaire philanthropist John Paul Getty II, 65, had sealed his love affair with Britain by taking out UK citizenship after 25 years' residence in this country. | John Getty has lived in the UK for 25 years. | entailment |
Monica Lewinsky (Exhibit A, Lewinsky diary, Page 45). | Monica Lewinsky is a nice person. | neutral |
But that decree did not have the power of civil law behind it. | The decree could not succeed without the support of civil law. | neutral |
Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP. | The female supporters are Democrats. | contradiction |
Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington. | It is possible to ask too much from Microsoft. | entailment |
Dostoyevsky wrote a book called The Idiot about a guy who is unprepossessing and naturally holy. | Franz Kafka wrote a book called The Idiot. | contradiction |
I'm afraid this is kind of a one joke question, and the joke is cheap and easy blasphemy. | The author does not appreciate the joke that was made. | entailment |
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues. | People watching the play can forgive its flaws thanks to the Hare's way of drawing the audience into the play's issues. | entailment |
In fact, the evidence thus far is quite depressing in this regard. | The evidence has not been motivating. | entailment |
There is lots of truth to that view. | The evidence supporting the view is strong, and can hold up to further scrutiny. | neutral |
Considering how hard it was for the extraordinary Frank McCourt to learn how to teach, one has to wonder whether individual teachers can really measure their own progress. | Frank McCourt taught other teachers how to be successful educators. | neutral |
Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko. | Storr systematized 'allover' paintings. | entailment |
The NYT and LAT fronts report that a Vanderbilt University study, to be published today in Science , indicates that blacks are far less likely than whites to make use of the Internet. | Other major publications will also release the news after its' publication in Science. | neutral |
Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke. | Lehman hit a hole-in-one on the 16th hole. | contradiction |
Please tell Do you see an end to human suffering? | There seems to be no end to human suffering. | entailment |
As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , He cannot fly from Fate. | Zeus is unable to escape his destiny. | entailment |
PointCast has succeeded so far with a mass-market approach--relatively few news sources, sorted into relatively few buckets. | Pointcast doesn't rely on a large variety of different news sources. | entailment |
Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this. | I don't get any dread from my English textbook. | neutral |
Good This Week 's round table signs off by predicting the outcome of Sunday's World Cup final. | The round table is going to guess who will win the World Cup final on Sunday. | entailment |
Whether the voters deserve it or not, we're likely to hear a lot more in coming spots about which man is better--or worse. | We're done hearing any more information about the men. | contradiction |
A great many of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment. | Sadly, faith of grace is so uncommon that very few people have personally witnessed it. | contradiction |
Lauderdale at spring break--and notes that the vote for the Nixon inquiry was 410-4, not the 256-178 tally for the Clinton inquiry. | The votes for the Nixon inquiry were almost split evenly. | contradiction |
Last June, the Supreme Court ruled that political parties (as well as PACs, interest groups, and individuals) can make unlimited independent expenditures on behalf of candidates. | the Supreme Court has allowed limitless independent expenditures for running candidates. | entailment |
For all I know, some hockey fans go for the fights. | Some hockey fans attend hockey primarily for the opportunity to see a fight. | neutral |
In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan. | Japan doesn't recognize raccoons as an animal. | neutral |
And the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real bear, a bear born in Canada who never relinquished his Canadian citizenship. | The bear never left Canada. | neutral |
When pollsters talk about a representative sample they mean a sampling that accurately reflects the population at large. | A representative sample has no connection to the population. | contradiction |
Time calls Bill Bradley's nascent presidential campaign strategy charming and insane. | Bradley's presidential campaign is successful at generating voters. | neutral |
The University of Chicago has just announced a deal with UNEXT.com, an online education company partly funded by Milken and headed by a Chicago trustee. | UNEXT.com is a university in the city of Chicago. | contradiction |
Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography. | Quindlen finally started working on something other than autobiography, and dissenters congratulated Quindlen for that. | entailment |
It's like campaign-finance reform--the people who control it are products of the system, says online voting evangelist Marc Strassman. | Marc Strassman had nothing to say regarding campaign-finance reform. | contradiction |
He's not only strongly pro-choice on abortion and sympathetic to drug legalization but has come out in favor of gay marriage, which would seem to rule out Buchanan as his candidate. | He holds many liberal views. | entailment |
But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99. | There is a 99 after the election. | entailment |
For such people, he said, the Pope becomes persona non grata when he tries to convince the world of human sin. | The Pope will try to convince the world of his own sins. | contradiction |
It's as though the book was not edited at all. | There were many grammatical errors and amateur mistakes in the book. | neutral |
She is hauled away, presumably to be killed. | Presumably to be freshened up, she is escorted away. | contradiction |
Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia. | Israelis seek this association with Russia in order to consolidate their own power. | neutral |
When a trompe l'oeil shaving brush and a match turn up later in the show in Magritte's Personal Values (1952), they have an oneiric suggestiveness quite in contrast to Murphy's flat factuality. | Magritte's Personal Values was performed in 1952. | entailment |
) to keep him out of their way. | He was unusually obnoxious, which is why so many distanced themselves from him. | neutral |
Ever since Seymour Hersh's book came out detailing the raw side of Jack Kennedy and the dark side of Camelot, I've been wondering what JFK did in today's context that warrants an eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery. | Seymour Hersh's book became extremely popular. | neutral |
This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay. | There are only a few people who will be able to pay for it. | neutral |
The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket. | Luciano and Lansky knew each other. | entailment |
One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin. | Cybill Shepherd is pregnant. | neutral |
That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was. | The chief beneficiary was his boss. | neutral |
There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001. | Clinton can commute Pollard's sentence until 2001. | entailment |
I'm afraid to step out of the car. | I've never been inside of a car. | contradiction |
Spark was in her prime when she wrote Memento Mori . As she draws closer to mortality (may it be many novels away!) | Spark was never published. | contradiction |
Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract. | Welles' writing of Touch of Evil helped some recognize that it's suffocating unpleasantness makes it a masterpiece. | entailment |
Less well known, if less salacious, is the fact that in 1915, the Presbyterian moralist Woodrow Wilson, then a recent widower, used agents to run interference for him in his amorous pursuits. | when Woodrow Wilson's wife passed, so did his prized dog. | neutral |
Should we reward him for prosperity? | He was responsible for the period of economic prosperity. | neutral |
The Star covers George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park as if it's writing a review. | George Michael was in trouble with the law. | entailment |
Indeed, Banks has written a useful survey of African-American scholars and writers and the ways in which they have worked throughout the history of the republic. | Banks has written about African-American scholars and writers. | entailment |
Publishers regularly write bonuses into contracts to factor in the possibility that a book will makes the Times list. | Books make the Times list and get bonuses. | neutral |
They hype you by giving you an award. | There is no reason behind giving an award. | contradiction |
When I checked a couple of years ago, the shelter population had indeed increased, but only by a handful of families. | I checked the shelter population yesterday. | contradiction |
He united the Western coalition, and he led Gorbachev over the precipice. | His actions had a definite effect on Gorbachev. | entailment |
That is the sense in which we are all on the same bus. | We all seem to be coming from very different places. | contradiction |
Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one. | Quayle was for high taxes. | neutral |
Frankly, I think the Jamaican Tourist Board should go back to that old 'Come Back to Jamaica' slogan. | The Jamaican Tourist Board has always had the same slogan. | contradiction |
The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine. | The media believed the White House announcement about Clinton. | entailment |
McCain's media cheering section neglects its favorite candidate's lack of coherence on tax and health-care policy. | McCains media cheering section covers its favorite candidate's vast knowledge and understanding of tax and health-care policy. | contradiction |
Instead, McCain spends the evening attacking Bush. | Bush had a very bad night. | neutral |
Whatever the reasons for this deplorable twist in public morality, America's loss of its moral compass is a tragedy even more consequential than Bill Clinton's adultery. | America losing its moral compass is no big deal and neither is Bill Clinton's adultery. | contradiction |
Chinese President Jiang Zemin is attracting scrutiny now that his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, is dead. | China elects a president. | entailment |
The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her. | Betty Currie and the president are worried about her. | entailment |
At bequest time, the strategic gift motive would evaporate, and the favored child would be favored no longer. | When this happens, the favored kid is not longer favored. | entailment |
He's a freakish Peter Pan--the juvenile delinquent who wouldn't grow up. | The juvenile delinquent was sent to jail for their crimes. | neutral |
Thompson is no longer Hunter S. He performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine. | Thompson goes by a different name now. | entailment |
American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as the little people in the hinterlands anymore. | American Movie saw a DVD release with bonus features included. | neutral |
When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character. | Brenda didn't go through with the marriage for moral reasons, she just felt too guilty about it. | neutral |
That is another investment one can make for old so to conduct oneself in prior years that one can feel one has paid one's dues. | this investment will make you feel like you've done your duty. | entailment |
And he would certainly consent if the alternative was impeachment. | There is no way that he will ever consent. | contradiction |
One must be a little skeptical of Sperling's personal experience with the game. | Sperling's personal experience in regards to this game is being called into question. | entailment |
So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim. | 1950 owners will benefit the most by choosing to sell during this period. | neutral |
The Post 's Michael Kelly goes cutesy today, dedicating his column to the regular broadcasts of what he calls National Tom Radio, the daily pronouncements of his 2 a year-old, in the process probably setting some kind of record for the number of occurrences of the word mommy in a Post op-ed piece. | Michael Kelly doesn't have a 2 year old. | contradiction |
Whether the voters deserve it or not, we're likely to hear a lot more in coming spots about which man is better--or worse. | The voters do not deserve it. | neutral |
Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark, says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet. | Everyone thinks it's easy to make the dogs 'human' | contradiction |
Wandered all over the room and blew on some other guy's dice. | No one had dice. | contradiction |
George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration. | The commemoration was widely attended. | neutral |
But giving drove him near to nervous collapse. | The man was somebody who gave to others. | entailment |
When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace. | De Niro was excellent in the film. | neutral |
It does not report whether he has sought the services of Catherine Oxenberg. | The report contains information on him seeking the services of Catherine Oxenberg. | contradiction |
I have certainly forgiven Bob Inglis. | The man should have forgiven Bob. | neutral |
He did so with surety, using the elbow of his bad arm to steady himself at the threshold, then raising both fists in a stretch. | Both of the man's arms are healthy. | contradiction |
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