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Human nature puts Clinton at a disadvantage in this debate. | Clinton is not the favorite to prevail in this debate. | entailment |
Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns. | Burton is expecting more questions. | neutral |
Bill, our program manager (chief tech guy) answers questions about problems and possibilities in reading SLATE. | The program manager knows a lot about technology. | entailment |
4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority. | Syria is one of the most stable countries in the Middle East. | contradiction |
The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime. | You should not take more than one tablet. | neutral |
The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself. | The amount was around twenty thousand dollars. | neutral |
Novak cut Hunt off only twice. | Novak and Hunt have been friends for 24 years. | neutral |
We don't have rational drug policies in the streets or public schools because we don't have rational discussions about drug use. | There would be less drug use if there were more policies. | neutral |
The Korbels and Simova continued to correspond after the war, and Simova met Albright briefly in Prague just after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. | Simova stopped writing the Korbels after the war. | contradiction |
Richard Holbrooke was confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations. | The ambassador to the UN was Richard Holbrooke. | entailment |
[ Peanuts ] is also a commentary on the culture. | Peanuts will always appeal to people. | neutral |
He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone. | He was unable to free himself from anyone. | entailment |
The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection. | There has been a potentially catastrophic defection in the tobacco industry. | entailment |
Entertain, for a moment, this If we at Slate captured your voicemail recording and played it on our site without your permission, some lawyers would say that we had violated your copyright. | Recording a voicemail and playing it without permission might violate copyright. | entailment |
One of his first stories of love, The First Seven Years, from Partisan Review in 1950, strikes me as nearly perfect, though. | The First Seven Years is a lovely work from the 1800s. | contradiction |
Mostly I just skim the retractions), and himself (I am so sorry ... | I missed some information. | neutral |
) says herbal remedies can work--Saint Johnswort does cure some folks' mild depression--but herbs also have nasty side effects. | herbal remedies are illegal in some counties in the US. | neutral |
Wore a rag on his head. | The rag was actually a turban. | neutral |
As we bow gratefully to this wonderful final year of the first century of film, let us hope it is not one of the final years of celluloid itself. | This is the 99th year of film. | entailment |
Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords. | The Accords were meant as a way to help protect the disenfranchised. | neutral |
They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun. | Companies don't spend that much money on litigation fees | contradiction |
But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propens... | Some economists are interested in fame in addition to studying economics. | entailment |
Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies. | Suge valued openness, and ensured he was always with family and friends. | contradiction |
The New York Times offered moral indignation | The New York Times later received new information and changed its stance on the matter. | neutral |
If you know that the state lottery is likely to be rigged, you'll buy fewer tickets. | People are less likely to play rigged games. | entailment |
On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults. | Some states have passed new laws that release all juvenile criminals no matter what crime they had previously been suspected. | contradiction |
That goddamned hamster dance. | Cartoon hamsters can dance. | entailment |
There is some symmetry in the diagnosis of Clinton, our therapeutic president, as patient in addition to healer. | President Clinton has never been regarded as a healer. | contradiction |
We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern. | New carbon-dating technology has has helped scientists to better understand the origins of life. | neutral |
The man has the intellectual honesty of a hired gun. | It's usually an insult to be compared to a hired gun. | neutral |
There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives. | There is more than one labor-community initiative under way in the state of California. | entailment |
60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly. | Belgacom doesn't charge per-minute. | contradiction |
Birch pointed out that conservatives defend serial and childless heterosexual marriages, but the whole topic was a loser for her. | Birch made it evident that conservatives are strongly against heterosexual marriages. | contradiction |
The bears are holding up what might be a dinner plate that says, United We Stand Divided We Ball, indicating a surprisingly open marriage or that the ink smeared. | The phrase "United We Stand Divided We Ball" is on the dinner plate that the bears are holding. | entailment |
will be more accurate than jurors who are unsure about only one criterion (does my doubt exceed 5 percent?) | The jurors were given strict guidelines during the trial. | neutral |
Rubin's relief for Americans has encouraged a moral hazard--an inducement for people to speculate excessively because they know the United States will rescue them. | Rubin's relief for the average American has encouraged more traders to speculate excessively, thinking they will be bailed out either way. | entailment |
Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money. | FEMA has posted an FAQ document. | 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. | Jerry Stuchiner sold fake passports to the chinese immigrants. | neutral |
The Turkish army has responded with equal brutality. | The Turkish army refused to engage in barbarism or hostilities. | contradiction |
Still, yours is certainly an arguable position, which we can discuss sometime. | Thursday would be a convenient day to discuss your position. | neutral |
Massachusetts' highest court decided that British au pair Louise Woodward will not go back to jail. | The determination was made by the highest court in Massachusetts. | entailment |
Even if Martin had failed to deny Maxwell a conquest that evening, and thus failed to slow the epidemic, he could at least have made someone happy. | Thankfully, Martin at least made us happy by denying Maxwell a conquest for the evening. | contradiction |
I missed the last couple of days because of a computer crash. | Technology will sometimes fail the user. | entailment |
In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights. | Only a third of New York consists of foreign-born residents. | contradiction |
Critics scoff at high-tech guru Esther Dyson's claims that the Internet will expand democracy, build communities, and liberate workers. | critics praise tech guru Esther Dyson's claims. | contradiction |
Click here to sign up for e-mail delivery. | In order to sign up for delivery via e-mail, you must click here. | entailment |
In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad. | Doctors in Chicago were worse about blindly following orders than doctors in Northridge. | neutral |
Wearing a suit and working at a computer in an office tower are, believe it or not, preferable to backbreaking work in a rice paddy. | Working in a rice paddy is very physically demanding. | entailment |
Holly Brubach, who succeeded Fraser at The New Yorker , kept the standard high during her time there. | Holly had modelled her methodology after Fraser's work and relentless work ethic. | neutral |
If you've installed Internet Explorer 4.0, click here for more about (and a chance to download) the channel. | Internet Explorer is necessary to download the channel. | neutral |
Unless the name of your house is Ritz-Carlton, bag the subtle approach, and give them a deadline for their departure. | The deadline is in a few weeks. | neutral |
As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace. | Ames strived to be like Ron Brown. | contradiction |
I have certainly forgiven Bob Inglis. | The author does not hold any grudge against Bob. | entailment |
Another refreshing feature of Goodman's storytelling is that, unlike other members of fundamentalist sects one might find in novels, her characters don't chafe at their restrictions, or not too much. | Goodman's characters have restrictions. | entailment |
We have an obligation to sit back as jurors and let the case be presented (Santorum). | The jurors meet every Monday, and Thursday. | neutral |
The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen. | Matt Dillon's and Gary Sinise's new movie does not give them any opportunities to show off. | contradiction |
The pierced generation may simply be acknowledging the deadliness of the times we live in, suggestive as they are of earlier epochs in human history. | Human history is not cyclical nor echo into eras over time. | contradiction |
And you can't bring me back from the dead. | With future discovers in science there may be a day when we can bring back the dead. | neutral |
So, how did Caltech come out on top? | Caltech lost and came out on the bottom. | contradiction |
Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids. | Someone believes certain persons should appear in a business ad to reach a target market. | entailment |
But it is to say that females--an inherently scarce sexual resource, in Darwinian terms--are in both species a big part of the impetus for the evolution of aggressive tendencies in males. | Males evolved to be more aggressive because in Darwinian terms, females are a scare sexual resource. | entailment |
A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision. | The majority of those with spiritual visions report a bright light. | neutral |
Now on a Tripod home page, the site itself claims to have been hit only 1,110 times since December 1998. | The site received only 500 hits since December 1998. | contradiction |
Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader! | An animal was hurt on television. | entailment |
5 percent of the GDP in calendar year 1994. | GDP was negative in 1994. | contradiction |
At the other extreme, if we discover that Bill Gates murdered Vince Foster, or a similar megascoop, journalistic bravado will easily triumph over corporate loyalty. | Bill Gates killing Vince Foster would be a massive scoop. | entailment |
Newsweek claims 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. has become crime time for American teen-agers. | Newsweek makes a lot of false claims. | neutral |
This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years. | All gods and deities have always heaped nothing but disdain and bad luck on blonde people. | contradiction |
Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a vir... | Gambling by wire is illegal in the United states. | entailment |
The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence. | The national endowments for the arts and humanities started in 1964. | contradiction |
The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said. | The computer no longer works. | contradiction |
In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price. | I am not actually interested in buying the print. | contradiction |
Paleontologist Ivan Turk, who discovered the bone, recently told Scientific American that the four holes are really well rounded and just about the right separation for humans to put their finger on. | Ivan Turk told Scientific American it was a chicken bone. | contradiction |
But what if times get tough and caps start to pinch? | Times could get tough. | neutral |
Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile. | Hippocrates thought that bodily fluids needed to be in harmony with each other. | entailment |
And the bureaucratic approach prevents the section as a whole from taking positions on--or creating--literary issues. | It is easy to deal with literary issues. | contradiction |
Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg. | Chatterbox went to the bookstore and bought a book. | entailment |
Well, did she or didn't she? | She definitely did. | contradiction |
What does this calendar tell us about the Spice Girls? | The Spice Girls are not famous. | contradiction |
So now we are living in the world everyone has long claimed to where we judge politicians based only on the issues and their public records of governance. | Politicians do not get judged. | contradiction |
This kid-gloves treatment reflects our ostensible reluctance to involve ourselves in costly overseas conflicts, and our ostensible respect for the national sovereignty of the foreign countries. | Such treatment stems from, in part, respect for foreign sovereignty. | entailment |
Just as Starr's virtues turned vicious, Clinton's vices sometimes turn virtuous. | Clinton possessed certain vices. | entailment |
(OK, that was in the Times the next day, not actually a part of the series, and I may oversimplify.) | The article in the Times the following day continued the series. | contradiction |
If the fast-food world had only three players, and McDonalds's proposed to buy out Burger King, how reassured would we be if they offered the palliative of selling a few franchises to Taco Bell? | Burger King is a smaller company than Taco Bell. | neutral |
In the '50s, nobody wanted the movies to show all that except for the Italian ones, where the sexiest women all wore ill-fitting slips and had hairy armpits, too. | In the Italian movies of the '50s women shaved all of their body hair meticulously. | contradiction |
[speaking] : Well, wait a second--not all of them. | All will be chosen. | contradiction |
Might they be used for this purpose before meeting their ends if we make their deaths as humane as possible? | Nobody even suggests that they could serve any useful purpose either alive or dead. | contradiction |
At least it gives the film a surprise ending. | The ending is unpredictable. | entailment |
Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies. | Kate Martin works for an organization that studies security issues. | entailment |
One of the most famous of all photographs is Robert Capa's 1936 Moment of Death , taken during the Spanish Civil War. | Photography was not invented until well after the Spanish Civil War. | contradiction |
The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy. | Clinton could not justify another war, and so took a hands-off approach with Kosovo. | neutral |
Yet, assume that this famous still was not portraying an act of Would it be a relief or a disappointment? | The still is not famous. | contradiction |
That would, in effect, penalize companies for efficiency and productivity. | The effect will harm proficient companies. | neutral |
If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc. | All inspections must be announced according to the treaty. | contradiction |
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. | Scientists haven't invented any technologies that can help blind people to see. | contradiction |
Starr is batting 10 for 10 against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's not a rogue prosecutor (Susan Page, Late Edition ). The judge was downright scornful of the White House, adds Barnes. | Starr is defending against legal challenges. | entailment |
Come to think of it, Brahms isn't that close to Mozart. | Brahams is far away from Mozart. | entailment |
In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one. | Merging two companies into one is a complicated endeavor and not as easy as it looks on the outside. | entailment |
Does computerization give ETS an unfair advantage? | ETS doesn't use computerization. | contradiction |
Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution. | I made some notes on the subject of Tafero's execution. | entailment |
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