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Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
Swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton a little bit.
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
Many threw their support behind Bond.
neutral
The bar on male behavior has been substantially lowered, and this is feminists' own fault.
Feminists caused male behavior to deteriorate.
entailment
Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.
Steve Forbes has multiple internet guru's.
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The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money.
It is very easy for companies to go public in the stock options market.
contradiction
No wonder, then, that right-wingers think of PBS as liberal and lefties regard it as a corporate/conservative tool.
PBS is intended as a liberal company.
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They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted.
Someone is sought for capture.
entailment
Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies.
Al Gore's lackluster technical fix wasn't embraced by them.
entailment
One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random.
Pollsters that participate in online polling cannot email people at random.
entailment
(DiGenova says it has since issued five subpoenas and has a hearing scheduled for late next month.)
DiGenova only issued four subpoenas.
contradiction
As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee, remarking on the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods.
Tocqueville had never heard of newspapers.
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As long as G.W.'s policies remain ambiguous, every TV ad is a stealth Bush ad.
The TV ads featured many shots of military servicemen and women.
neutral
Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so.
Chernomyrdin has all the tools to be successful in his new mission.
contradiction
How did the team do last night?
They were a superfan of the team and went to bed early.
neutral
Earlier this week, Roy confessed that she'd stuffed some movie-related faxes into books, saving them for a calmer time ...
Roy is a hoarder who didn't want to tell anyone she saved the faxes.
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Theologians agree that prayer reinforces faith even when God doesn't intercede.
The harder you pray, the more likely God will intercede on your behalf.
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So far, Campbell and Frank have enlisted only 34 co-signers, and the administration shows no signs of paying attention.
The administration is more concerned in dealing with the press than Campbell and Frank.
neutral
But in the presence of competition among dealers, there is no difference between setting a standard of service and setting a retail For a given service standard, competition will lower the price until it's commensurate with the service standard, and for a given price, competition will raise the service standard until ...
Government regulation lowers prices until they are equivalent with service standards.
contradiction
Nearly 30 homosexuals are featured in prime time, but few shows are sophisticated enough to script love lives for their homocharacters.
Some homosexuals are features in prime time media.
entailment
Map maker, map maker, make me a map.
They want the map maker to bake them a cake.
contradiction
In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over.
Stranger at the Party is a completely made up story.
contradiction
But in the final five minutes, I raised my bid to $250, then $275, then $300, and finally won the auction, exhilarated by my victory.
No one competed against me in bidding.
contradiction
In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Bob Dole made a big fuss about Clinton's refusal to categorically rule out pardons for former associates caught up in Whitewater.
Bob Dole was alone in voicing his concern about Clinton's refusal.
neutral
Might they be used for this purpose before meeting their ends if we make their deaths as humane as possible?
It is possible to increase the humane nature of their deaths to some degree.
entailment
I bought two large tubes after your super review.
The author bought the tubes before getting any opinions on them.
contradiction
Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.
States are discovering that a slight push can unexpectedly change the outcome of something.
entailment
Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention.
Market returns are not able to be used as an argument.
contradiction
Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposes, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like dual hegemony, limited nuclear war, and the slogan win the peace t...
These euphemisms were necessary to prevent widespread public panic.
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So maybe the questions he proliferates here (here, unlike in his books, he questions the notion of a surgical strike, and here he wonders, Who has told us that it is OK to kill women and children?
In his books he questions and wonders things.
contradiction
But the interesting question is about sites sharing data.
The main problem is that all of the questions are boring.
contradiction
What about the children?
I am curious as to what is happening with the children.
entailment
Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go!
Go Speed Racer, go! is a song.
entailment
These people are so power-hungry and so shameless they'll do anything to win, Dole said at a rally in Glendale, Calif., the day after the debate (before leading the audience in the It's Our Money, It's Our Money, It's Our Money).
Dole spoke at a rally in California.
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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).
Mickey Kaus has written for the Slate for 9 years.
neutral
This is another way of saying that in the last 30 years, the people who owned America have lost 40 percent of their wealth held in the form of equity.
Equity has lost some value in the form of wealth over the last thirty years.
entailment
either Lee or Chang or Wong.
It will be all three.
contradiction
He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine.
The man feels like he is free.
entailment
Weegee's Life, Death, and the Human Drama (International Center of Photography Midtown, New York City).
Still living after all these years, Weegee's life has been nothing but peaceful.
contradiction
Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., calls the case symptomatic of the casual attitude with which the Clinton administration views issues of national security.
Time Hutchinson is a Democrat.
contradiction
So read Slate . A lot.
Slate enjoyed reading.
entailment
The Vermont Supreme Court granted gays greater partnership rights.
The court ruling was considered a landmark decision in legal circles.
neutral
Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth).
Betty Friedan objected to the very idea of nudity.
contradiction
On democracy, for example, American activists are raging over China's recent suppression of all democratic dissent.
China is acting like an authoritarian.
entailment
Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off.
Degas insulted their family, and this was the reason the friendship was ended.
neutral
Congress, the United Nations, and other international forums.
Congress and the United Nations never are mentioned together.
contradiction
One historian has argued cogently that Calvin Coolidge's psychological problems helped .)
Calvin Coolidge paid no attention to his mental health.
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Or you can download a new copy from www.microsoft.com/ie/.)
www.microsoft.com is a website where new copies of this can be downloaded.
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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
Republicans are too morally pure to become involved in sexual improprieties.
contradiction
However, it came bundled with the obscure psych book (which still hadn't arrived from the conventional stores as of New Year's Day).
It came packaged with a vague psych book.
entailment
No doubt he will do better in his next book.
The next book he writes will be better.
entailment
This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's Praetorian Guard--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.
The egalitarianism of the Secret Service caused an undercurrent of resentment among Secret Service agents.
neutral
I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work.
The author hopes that his work won't be judged too harshly.
entailment
(He also turns into a hyena and an armadillo, species that are similarly not native to Transylvania.)
Hyenas and armadillos are not native to Transylvania.
entailment
Under the immigration bill, Clinton directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport asylum seekers without giving them any opportunity to appear before a tribunal.
Clinton wanted the asylum seekers to have the opportunity to appear before a judge.
contradiction
The prototypical criminal turned out to be way too handsome.
The author believed that the typical criminal had flaws with their apperance.
contradiction
The only real test that this company has faced in recent memory is due to the emergence of the Internet, and Microsoft is once again trying to eliminate this threat unfairly.
Microsoft is trying to get rid of the internet.
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Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time.
Amazon looked over the forms many time before making a statement.
neutral
It is hard to imagine a smaller step than the one Greenspan took.
Greenspan completed a very miniscule step.
entailment
Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover.
Schumer is incredibly passive and pleasant.
contradiction
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 1960 World Book only was about foreign countries outside the US.
contradiction
Columnist Robert Novak , supply-side evangelist Jude Wanniski , and Jack Kemp have all praised Farrakhan's self-help program, noting the similarities to their own conservative urban policy.
Farrakhan's self-help program is universally despised by all.
contradiction
Microsoft's position is a reflection of an economic phenomenon often referred to as network externalities (a k a positive economic feedback or increasing returns to scale).
Microsoft was dissatisfied with their current position, and sought rapid expansion as a result.
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The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.
The net effect on national savings may stay the same for a while.
neutral
Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth).
Bill Baird was an abortion-rights activist.
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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.
The moral hazard of more people investing would effectively double the devastation of a further recession.
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Intellectual property refers, basically, to nontangible creative product and, like a rising sea, it seems to cover new territory with every passing year.
Intellectual property is better than any other kind.
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The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance.
clearly science can lead us in the right direction regarding Clinton's denial of love.
entailment
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.
The professions are at odds with one another.
entailment
Still, Frisby did a better job than Woodward in offering meaning.
Woodward has always done a better job than Frisby in every aspect.
contradiction
Like my real name couldn't be Pierre LeCluck.
Pierre LeCluck is an uncommon name.
entailment
We will all sleep better at night knowing that our commander in chief's libido is compartmentalized, and that he's not bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical plants just to get his Iraqs off.
Issues with the commander in chief's libido are not causing bombs to be dropped on Sudanese pharmaceutical plants.
entailment
They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.
They were accused of harboring terrorists within their borders.
entailment
Who in the hell cares whether anyone thinks someone else will go to heaven?
No one cares if others share the same religion.
contradiction
Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent.
He will run as a democrat.
contradiction
High praise for The New Yorker writer's stories about disaffected youth.
The writer's stories are about content elderly folks.
contradiction
Cheap oral hydration, for example, has been studied and used to treat dehydration for diarrheal illness in developing countries.
Oral hydration has been used to treat illness in developing countries.
entailment
For my part, I plan to endorse the Baptist boycott of Disney.
I'm steering clear of Disney World, but not Disneyland.
neutral
The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate.
The value has decreased.
entailment
A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January.
People reading the story are excited about the opening of the musical.
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Still, every now and then, a professor would have four genuine A students and only three A's to give out.
Professors are bound by regulations to only give out three B's every semester.
neutral
As Van Buren knew, parties are inherently democratic, the most effective way of organizing otherwise powerless individuals.
Van Buren did not believe in the use of political parties by individuals.
contradiction
Investors can decide not only that Microsoft owes its success to the abuse of monopoly power, and not only that the courts will strip the company of this ability, but that Microsoft doesn't know any other way to survive.
The author believes investors hold an inordinate amount of power.
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They also see it as easing their way toward economic integration with Western Europe.
They do not want to integrate economically with Western Europe.
contradiction
I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.)
The earth will face extinction very soon.
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MLS's dilemma is If it doesn't pay for talent, it will certainly remain a minor league.
MLS is in the major league because of the amount of talent is has aquired.
contradiction
Still, Frisby did a better job than Woodward in offering meaning.
Frisby's and Woodward's work has been compared.
entailment
How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?
The economist had some good and bad explanations for the inquiries.
neutral
From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program.
From this perspective, Clinton is really on top of things.
contradiction
This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer.
In 1892, it was simpler to manage 25,000 dollars yourself.
entailment
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.
Audiences and critics feel the same way about the opera.
entailment
And if he gets this balancing act wrong, he must pander even more furiously to make it up.
It will be public knowledge if the balancing act goes wrong.
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(Note to Hollywood Try to hire someone who looks like Lillian Hellman to be your husband's personal assistant.)
No one should be hired to be your husband's personal assistant.
contradiction
Play is activity engaged in for the enjoyment of it without regard to the financial remuneration.
no one enjoys playing.
contradiction
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 has never shown any interest in government programs or issues effecting the black population.
contradiction
The fact that voters can and do reject incumbents will strike them as an epiphany.
They've always known voters sometimes reject incumbents.
contradiction
I now have my own literary oeuvre . This entitles me to certain privileges, such as employing foreign words in my writings (see previous sentence) and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
This person lives in Vermont.
contradiction
But they admit that at least some consumers are being misled by the logo.
They know that people who purchase the product are being defrauded.
entailment
The piece notes that the 10-year survival rate for heart transplants is an astonishing 60 percent, orders of magnitude higher than it was in the '70s.
In the 1970's, over 60% of heart transplant patients survived at least 10 years after receiving the transplant.
contradiction
Like Mark Twain, who said that suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life, we imagine that the elderly and the ill desire death rationally.
Mark Twain was not advocating for suicide as a reasonable way out of life.
contradiction
The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance.
there's zero pressure in regards to gift giving.
contradiction