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Both are Democrats who converted to conservative Republicanism.
The two Democrats felt their ideology fit being a Republican.
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know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure,
A departing self just wants to get out of here already.
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The idea, Leger claimed, was to prove that machines and fragments of them, that ordinary manufactured objects, have plastic possibilities.
Leger didn't have any ideas.
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But, as in Washington, on snowy days like this, you take what you can get.
You may need to lower your expectations due to weather conditions.
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The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri.
The World Book was very popular at the time.
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Today there are more than 300,000.
Only 3,000 have been reported.
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Why didn't Ellison finish--or publish--the book?
The book was never sent to print because it lacked a climax and conclusion.
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The AIB delivers real-time information in the banner.
Through the banner, AIB is able to distribute information real-time.
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Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.
Molten was able to obtain government contracts during the Clinton presidency.
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But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious.
Because Eisner knew to take care of a brand by updating and caring for it, the decisions made became obvious.
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Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.
You could possibly get your order the next day if you upgrade to Next Day Air.
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An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton.
Every feminist hated Cliton.
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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.).
Bette Davis' performance in All About Eve is critically acclaimed as witty.
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The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus.
There are no benefits to a declining won.
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For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera.
Technology has made it possible to insert an electronic device into a person's brain.
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Others point to Waas' supposedly shoddy reporting of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article on arms sales to Iraq that he co-wrote for the Los Angeles Times . There is no evidence that the pair repeated any of these alleged sins in their reporting on Hale.
Waas allegedly has some inferior reporting.
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Bill Clinton is a master of buttering up journalists by quoting their books and articles back to them.
Bill Clinton often spent his time reading books written by the journalists who covered the White House.
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In the film, for example, his wrestling days come to an abrupt end after he and Lawler erupt into a brawl while appearing on Late Night With David Letterman . But in life, the rematches would continue.
Lawler must have defeated him severely.
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As in America, British news organizations offer a wide variety of information to Web surfers.
News organizations from more than one country have a presence in the internet.
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I phoned Michael J. Thun, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, and asked him whether a 20 percent mortality reduction is indeed small in the world of epidemiology.
Epidemiology is the study of the eyeball.
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Is the problem now more severe?
It is questioned that the problem is more severe.
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As a society we may have to face facts.
The people of our country should allow misinformation because it's everyone's right to make choices.
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Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations?
Big states would have to worry more than small states.
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But the big news in Ireland is the peace negotiations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
There are talks of peace between Britain and Ireland.
entailment
Well, if we extend the co-op's story a little bit, it is not hard to generate something that looks a lot like Japan's problems--and to see the outline of a solution.
The story has some concerning problems that need to be worked out.
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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.
The USA Today story was deemed too risky to comment on politically by Hillary's advisors.
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Pataki made this explicit at the bill's Albany signing History teaches us that the Great Hunger was not the result of a massive Irish crop failure, but rather a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the Irish people the food they needed to survive.
The Great Hunger refers to a trade war.
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Please, do you have an answer for these well-wishers that would not require giving them private and personal information?
The well-wishers are asking for some answers.
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Yet, assume that this famous still was not portraying an act of Would it be a relief or a disappointment?
The portrayal shows dissapointment.
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The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information.
The conversation didn't go into details.
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But apparently no definitive number ...
The number is incredibly precise.
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Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson writes that his movie was just a joke but compares Hillary Clinton's allegation of a right-wing conspiracy to the distraction ploys found in the film.
Barry Levinson has been associated with the production of at least one movie.
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But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage.
Clinton was silent on gay marriage.
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Weegee's Life, Death, and the Human Drama (International Center of Photography Midtown, New York City).
Part of this drama includes Weegee's life in New York City.
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Well, his proof does leave one loophole.
There is one loophole.
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The problem isn't so much that men are designed by natural selection to fight as what they're designed to fight women .
Men are made to prefer fighting women.
contradiction
In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision.
Sawyer played a big role in the decision.
contradiction
In the warren of grungy rooms beneath the dance floor--the celebrities' sanctum sanctorum--the coke was consumed by the linear foot, and (according to the author) the odd European contessa could be found handcuffed to a water pipe, getting squired from the rear by one of the pretty shirtless busboys.
The coke was supplied to the establishment by a short and stout fellow named Rico.
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What's completely intolerable is to be accurately quoted and seen--even by yourself--to be no better than you actually are.
The author laments that your own words can be used to shine a light on your true character.
entailment
You can catch the final nine hours this evening.
The final nine hours will be caught.
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So while the colors may fade less, your detergent is also cleaning less.
After fifteen cycles the colors will fade around ninety percent less then they did at first.
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If Clinton were going to apologize, Lewinsky's new image would be safe.
If Clinton apologizes then Lewinsky's new image would be in danger.
contradiction
Replace George Will's column with weekly photo of him being punched in the nose.
People want to see George Will getting punched in the nose.
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With the global economy showing signs of coming apart at the seams, it is truly disappointing that the leaders of the two countries who ought to be co-operating to prevent a worldwide crisis are having to struggle for their own political lives, it said.
The global economy is showing signs of huge growth.
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Newsweek reports that JFK Jr. actively explored a Senate run before Hillary Clinton expressed interest.
JFK Jr. was reported to want to run for Senate before any interest was expressed by Hillary Clinton.
entailment
How do you know if your daughter is on steroids?
There is no chance my daughter is on steroids.
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No offense meant.
There was no ill intent.
entailment
Now they admit they were wrong.
Someone previously felt they were correct.
entailment
Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the...
Brand and Toffler were unaware libertarianism even existed.
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Almost nothing is going to happen if a majority must already favor it before any political leader will speak out in its favor.
Political leaders were aware that this was a controversial issue for them to address.
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Last week Israel also ordered the PA to arrest one of its high-ranking police officers for planning an attack on a Jewish settlement.
Israel wants the arrest of one of the police officer planning to attack Jewish people.
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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).
Peter was unhappy about how he was portrayed in the piece.
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Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets.
People against NATO's action in Kosovo can find a parallel situation in Slaughterhouse.
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Science reporting in the United States is hampered by the deep-seated conviction that the press knows even better than the people that it's just a bunch of pinheads nattering about nothing.
Citizens of the United States have the utmost respect for scientists.
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But any hope that Democrats can capitalize on Starr's non-North performance dissolves immediately after lunch, when Democratic committee counsel Abbe Lowell questions Starr.
Starr is a writer.
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But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely postpone it.
It is possible to avoid the battle of wills with children.
contradiction
But in setting up a world-vs.
rearranging a world against everyone.
entailment
In the United States, where inflation and the budget deficit have receded for the time being, vulgar Keynesianism has recently staged an impressive comeback.
The budget deficit will continue to decrease.
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It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy.
There are times where shooting a person is valid.
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On the other hand, the President's Box at Ford's Theatre contains the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when Booth shot him, and no one would argue that Ford's is anything but a replica.
No one has sat in the chair in Ford's since Lincoln.
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Name-calling began at their first interaction.
they've been calling each other names for years.
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The Red Hat manual offered clearer directions, and the new version automatically partitioned my hard drive.
the Red Hat instructions were easier to decipher, and the latest version separated my hard drive.
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At once lush and frightening, Tout de Suite literally vibrates with intimations of Davis' future explorations beyond jazz.
Davis will never do any other genre but jazz.
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The first question to ask is what the right thing would have been.
Several other questions should be asked before trying to figure out what is right.
contradiction
' Ah, and I do, I remember very well.
The memory involves candy.
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Greenberg and the contributors to The New Majority think Democrats can win future elections by identifying with the concerns of working people.
The New Majority has contributors including Greenberg.
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Yes, our parents had many of the same sexual traumas we did but, no, we don't want to hear about them in detail.
We wanted to be spared the details of our parents' sexual trauma.
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It doesn't say much of anything on the subject.
It was a waste of money.
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In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.
Larry can walk without assistance.
contradiction
He says this will make our system the best.
This will make our system the worst.
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In 1984 Charles Murray wrote, in Losing Ground , that government programs sap the initiative of the black population, creating feelings of dependency and entitlement.
Charles Murray's book was highly respected in academic circles at the time.
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Industry folks fear they have given too much away.
The industry folks work in manufacturing woodworkings.
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Right now there is nothing approaching an international regime for keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
The author thinks that the terrorists will use biological weapons on the US.
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On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley.
Wolf Blitzer flips hamburgers at his full-time job at Burger King.
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Audiences literally boo avant-garde director Robert Wilson for his minimalist staging of Richard Wagner's classic opera, and most critics agree with the verdict.
Robert Wilson is a singer in the opera.
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Unlike most strips, his was about adults, albeit adults depicted as children.
The cartoon strip depicts adults acting like children.
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First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change.
The rules of Conventional Wisdom say that it must never change.
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e) Some or all of the above.
None of the above are correct.
contradiction
Since all these are changes in how we live, not anything innate, we have to conclude that what we are describing here are effects of environment, not genes.
The changes are innate to our being; these are the effects of genetic makeup, outside of our control.
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Entire conferences and whole scholarly volumes have been devoted to this catechism, with roughly the same results.
This catechism is considered to be controversial.
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All we've done is checked that the first two creditors divided their collective share of $125 appropriately
we didn't check in on the first 2 creditors at all.
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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 was on the winning side of the Battle of Kosovo.
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Most Falwell-style Christians would probably say yes, since the Antichrist is a false Messiah, he'll have to be Jewish, like Christ himself.
Falwell-style Christians do not often agree with their mainstream counterparts regarding the Antichrist.
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WordPerfect and Netscape work just fine on my Windows-based machine.
Netscape is privately owned.
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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.
It can remove wine stains.
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I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another.
People can only think as individuals.
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His masterpiece, Fallingwater, has been girded by steel scaffolding to prevent it from crumbling.
It is located in a museum.
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It takes a man to stand.
All men stand tall.
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In this context, it's hard to know what makes a kaffeeklatsch odd.
Everyone knows why kaffeeklatsch are odd.
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Along with many Americans, I first caught Andy Kaufman on the Tonight Show in the mid-'70s.
Andy Kaufman never appeared on television.
contradiction
As she has become more self-sufficient, she has become more interesting.
She is an interesting person.
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An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.
Blitzer knows he does not have much time.
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The question is, said Alice, whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.
Alice was certain with how words meanings are.
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The cover story profiles a day trader who learns his financial fundamentals from the Web and trusts his feel for stocks.
After learning from the Web, the trader went back to school to obtain a finance degree.
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Klayman, who presents a coherent faaade while making wild and unsubstantiated charges, is perfect.
Klayman is perfect.
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The product itself won't be in stores until summer, so it's way too early to know how the shaving public will respond.
It's hard to know whether the public will like the product, since it won't be in store until the Summer.
entailment
Leave it to the Globe to conclude, JFK Jr, Slashed!
The Globe concluded that Lyndon B. Johnson was slashed.
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But aren't education, family leave, and the breakdown of community economic issues?
Family leave is not long enough.
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Nearing the end of my trip, I realize that my observations have been largely about race.
The author never thinks about race.
contradiction
It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.
There is a definite course of right and wrong.
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