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As this discussion shows, measuring Web traffic is generally less exact than measuring traditional magazine circulation. | The discussion brought to light some information regarding the measurement of web traffic and magazine circulation. | entailment |
Which somehow doesn't seem to be the best way to prepare for the next decade. | Their main criticism with the aforementioned method is its lack of depth. | neutral |
Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ... | Tim and the author have lots of different ways to resolve their current situation. | contradiction |
Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose. | Decay was not a problem, as all of the teeth were alive and well. | contradiction |
Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course. | People are refusing to let go of Clinton's troubles with Whitewater. | contradiction |
Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victor... | Israel won the 1967 Six Day War. | entailment |
Much of this vulnerability may eventually be neutralized by encryption and other tricks. | Encryption is not the only thing that could be used to address the vulnerability. | entailment |
The Republican champion is Philip Morris, which gave $2,131,955. | The company bank wired them over $2 million. | neutral |
Personally, I think the Bush camp is acting like brats that didn't get everything they wanted at Christmas. | The Bush Camp isn't satisfied. | entailment |
Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists. | Mark Shields called Robert Novak by the name Al Hunt. | entailment |
That was back when the Bushes were still trying to woo me over from the Dark Side. | The Bushes never talked to me. | contradiction |
This is particularly unwise because after weeks of raking Clinton, reporters and pundits are inclined to demonstrate their balance by going after the GOP. | Pundits, reporters and journalists are all encouraged to demonstrate no mercy and flaunt their biases towards their party. | contradiction |
Along these same lines, I was recently in a retail store and the clerk had on a summer dress. | The clerk's dress was very short. | neutral |
The contributors repeat this figure as though it had talismanic power. | The contributors did the figure more than once. | entailment |
Not all the time-wasters in the Pentagon are civilians. | Time-wasting is a huge problem in the Pentagon. | neutral |
Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped. | The never-ending mantra continued well into 2021. | contradiction |
In a celebrated case, Abraham Lincoln biographer Stephen Oates was said to have ripped off a widely read 1952 Lincoln biography by Benjamin Thomas. | Stephen Oates only writes fiction novels. | contradiction |
(At least they said it was hers when Sophie R-C handed over a100,000 of Bill Gates' money.) | Bill Gates does not have money. | contradiction |
No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it; I will have it all and, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine. | It's well within possibility for Kate to love the enemy of France. | contradiction |
As he went from floor to floor removing the signs, did he realize what was going to happen after he'd taken down the final one? | He removed more than one sign from different areas. | entailment |
Instead of watching TV, I made a fresh start by purchasing a newer version of Linux. | I bought a more modern version of Linux. | entailment |
In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms. | Nathan Lane voiced Timon in The Lion King. | entailment |
How could the Mormons have practiced polygamy? | No Mormons ever had more than one spouse. | contradiction |
As Vecsey puts it, women eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men. | Women are vulnerable to cynicism from males. | neutral |
In a way, truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all. | What makes the pages so scary is that they are factually correct. | entailment |
Yes, we're all suffering from scandal fatigue, but rape? | There is a meaningful difference in how people perceive both scandal fatigue and rape. | neutral |
Regarding Onward, Christian Clothiers: I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory here's hell in your face passages. | Christian is an atheist. | entailment |
President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. | Clinton was far too busy to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu. | contradiction |
Attitudes changed too. | No one changed their minds as a result. | contradiction |
After all, if an American publication like Slate finds itself subject to Britain's Official Secrets Act, this turns the Internet's promise of freedom on its head. | Britain's Official Secrets Act was written with intentionally vague language for situations just like this. | neutral |
Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced. | Wilson is dating women after his wife's death. | neutral |
Then the three were asked to comment on these past thoughts (none found any errors, of course). | The three were reluctant to make any comments when asked. | neutral |
In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway. | A full week of marketing effort was devoted on Larson. | neutral |
If that is the administration's strategy, it is foolhardy. | The administration's previous strategy was much more sound. | neutral |
[w]hether they call themselves socialist or not. | Socialists are friendly people. | neutral |
Her last husband, and manager, George Richey, was more than overcome by her death. | Strangely, George Richey was completely unaffected by her death and went on with life as if nothing had happened. | contradiction |
FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection. | Once an area has flooded, FEMA forbids residents from ever repopulating that area. | contradiction |
Teacher of the Year Andrew Baumgartner is the kind of educator who has delighted his kindergarten students with a wedding for Sleeping Beauty, complete with limousine and cake, teaching them, I suppose, that nothing is worthwhile unless it is entertaining. | Andrew Baumgartner earned the Teacher of the Year award for treating his kindergarten students so nicely. | entailment |
My favorite detail is the TV commercial where they pour out of the giant Bible. | The TV commercial was trying to get people to go to church. | neutral |
In a celebrated case, Abraham Lincoln biographer Stephen Oates was said to have ripped off a widely read 1952 Lincoln biography by Benjamin Thomas. | Stephen Oates has been accused of plagiarism. | entailment |
Should he try and then fail, Beijing will conclude that it is dealing with a weak administration. | Beijing is judging someone. | entailment |
According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975. | Food prices in 1994 were less than they were in 1990 but more than they were in 1996. | neutral |
The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art just hired its new head away from Disney. | The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art doesn't have one head, it's run by a committee. | contradiction |
Yeats wants to leave his traces/ On Munster grass and Connemara skies. | Yeats wants to be remembered. | entailment |
This is an assumption about demand. | this is also an assumption about supply. | neutral |
The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information. | This conversation explained all of the data. | contradiction |
There's more good stuff in Briefing, including Explainer, The Week/The Spin, and Slate | A lot of good stuff can be found in Briefing. | entailment |
Other figures of the Reagan-Thatcher era chose other retirement plans. | Only one retirement plan existed during the epochs of Reagan and Thatcher. | contradiction |
The agency can't really ensure their client's behavior, but you would know that it had done its very best to choose only well-behaved children. | The agency benefits from working to choose only the most well behaved children. | neutral |
If Chernomyrdin succeeds in convincing Milosevic to accept enough of NATO's demands to guarantee some sort of deal, he will go down in domestic political history as the man who sold out Serbia. | Chernomyrdin and Milosevic happen to be related. | neutral |
She says Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift has gone beyond the call of duty to earn [her] presidential kneepads. | Time's Eleanor Clift has never gone beyond the call of duty. | contradiction |
She is also enjoying the imprimatur of the law. | The law in question pertained to those traveling to different states. | neutral |
He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate. | He didn't think that smoking tobacco should be made illegal. | entailment |
From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful. | The wife cheated on her husband. | neutral |
He stood for what he believed in. | It is noble to choose to stand up for your beliefs. | neutral |
[ Peanuts ] is also a commentary on the culture. | The creator of Peanuts brought us cultural commentary. | entailment |
The Flytrap investigation is the only part of Starr's work that America a) understands and b) actually cares about. | Starr worked in the Flytrap investigation. | entailment |
5) Dueling spins : The New York Times says the scandal will dog and impede Clinton's foreign policy. | The scandal will not affect Clinton in any way; this includes his foreign policy. | contradiction |
Now on a Tripod home page, the site itself claims to have been hit only 1,110 times since December 1998. | The site received over 1,000 hits since December 1998. | entailment |
But they showed what true love is when Bo took over John's medical care and for seven weeks forced him to drink gallons of water to flush out stubborn kidney stones. | Bo had John drink a lot of water over the course of seven weeks. | entailment |
The House Judiciary Committee is making plans to hire 18 new lawyers for a possible impeachment inquiry. | The House approves of the President's policies. | contradiction |
The critics are ganging up on social critic Mike Davis, the MacArthur fellow and Marxist deflater of Los Angeles' dreams and delusions. | Mike Davis is considered a social critic. | entailment |
Also on the Consider Your Options page, you can order SLATE to be delivered to your computer by e-mail. | The Consider Your Options page is easy to use to order SLATE. | neutral |
While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year. | The inspector used a Nikon camera to take the pictures. | neutral |
But Tiepolo's vision, like Rilke contemplating autumn leaves, was of a world where everything is And yet, there is One who holds this falling with infinite softness in his hands. | Tiepolo was highly critical of Rilke's version. | neutral |
The pessimistic This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford. | The WNBA can make it as a league without suspense. | neutral |
And bicycles, once the vigorous instruments of suburban freedom, are rarely spotted in the playground; parents fear for their kids in heavy suburban traffic. | There is no playground for the kids to ride their bicycles. | contradiction |
So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself. | eBay is the 6th largest company in the world. | neutral |
But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia. | Most people did not enjoy De Niro's acting in the movie. | neutral |
A great many of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment. | Many people see judgmental acts and choose to respond to them by being judgmental themselves. | neutral |
But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang. | Conservative theorists are right about the conspiracy although the mainstream media will never acknowledge this. | neutral |
He said, 'Was this an attempt to subvert the Constitution? | He never questioned whether it was an attempt to subvert the Constitution | contradiction |
Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental. | We will know the answer before the end of the year. | neutral |
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. | Esau is a person with a lot of hair on his body. | entailment |
We can come pretty close to neutral reporting and analysis of news developments in features like Today's Papers and The Week/The Spin. | It is important for the news industry as a whole to report the news as neutral as possible. | neutral |
Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia. | Rain is going to fall within the United States. | entailment |
*The scalpers-and-brokers point was brought to Chatterbox's attention by Randolph Cohen's brother Andrew, who is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse. | Andrew Cohen has tenure at Syracuse. | neutral |
But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection. | The odds are growing. | neutral |
Some might even take a sketchpad instead, or a paperback volume of Homer. | There are multiple choices that can be made, one of which is to choose a sketchpad. | entailment |
The first, as many of you did, is to take the competition improbably downscale--mixing implausible amounts of sex and/or violence into the competition. | The mixing of an implausible amount of sex and violence into the competition caused it to eventually be shut down. | neutral |
We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well. | We will be authorizing bills pertaining to the amount of water and sewer we use every month. | neutral |
They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise. | The expensive cruise was gracefully paid for by the artist. | entailment |
Clinton has faced an escalating series of serious accusations--serious in the sense that they were all plausible and some were true. | Clinton ignores the accusations. | neutral |
Largely because they have heard so many alarming tales about HMOs. | I've heard nothing but good things about HMOs | contradiction |
The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics. | no one has any interest whatsoever in Wilde. | contradiction |
There's a flower called Wandering Jew. | There are many Wandering Jew flowers in the world. | neutral |
Adequately warned, why do people persist in sucking cancer-causing tars into their lungs? | I know why people suck in cancer causing tars into their lungs. | contradiction |
As any 10-year-old knows (and game theorists can now elaborately prove), three-person secrets are particularly troublesome in this regard, because nobody can ever pinpoint which of the other two might have cheated. | When there is a minimum of 3 people involved in a secret can be troublesome. | entailment |
Among the single digits, no number is less evocative than six. | Twenty is more evocative than six. | neutral |
As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be. | Big Trouble is small because of the authorial efforts. | contradiction |
Nonetheless, his book is a valuable contribution to the debate, because it gives those with experience an abstract architectural plan against which to evaluate today's imperfect reality of criminal justice. | The book contributes valuable things to the debate. | entailment |
Also, Newsweek tells the weird story of Jerry Stuchiner, a high-level Immigration and; Naturalization Service agent alleged to have sold passports to illegal Chinese immigrants. | The newspaper published an article about Jerry Stuchiner. | entailment |
No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it; I will have it all and, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine. | Kate will end up loving much more than the friend of France if she loves him. | neutral |
There's no scientific or psychological basis for believing that children are affected in their sexual development or eventual sexual orientation by exposure to homosexuality--on television or in real life. | Homosexuals will purposefully try to make you one of them. | contradiction |
If being smart is no guarantee of being right, having been right is not necessarily an indicator that someone is smart. | Some people think they are both smart and right. | neutral |
Your best friend/replacement matron of honor, herself, lives out of state. | You have already chosen a replacement matron of honor. | entailment |
The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law. | Advertisers are unduly harmed as a result of privacy protections put into place under federal law. | neutral |
It's about sex. | It includes words relevant to sex. | neutral |
That leaves Case 1. But if you believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of your fabulously wealthy grandchildren, you must also believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of Bill Gates. | If you think your neighbor can't live well thanks to your children's wealth, then the same goes for if your neighbor lives well thanks to Bill Gates. | entailment |
Suppose all of SLATE's articles featured the authors reading their visionary musings into digital audio format. | SLATE will include audio versions of articles on their website. | neutral |
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