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It rejects Albania's claims for independence but decries the crackdown.
It is not supportive of the crackdown.
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He hasn't much changed America.
America is capable of being changed.
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What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife.
You've had your cat for longer than you've been married to your wife.
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The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.
The men did not travel to the cities.
contradiction
The affinity between pigeons and tourists makes sense.
Tourists and pigeons love killing each other.
contradiction
Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal.
Henry knew a lot about flowers.
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Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.
Slobo is very much disliked by White house officials and federal agenices.
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The bar on male behavior has been substantially lowered, and this is feminists' own fault.
Feminists has helped improved male behavior.
contradiction
This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.
The bold guess would have little consequence on anything even if it were true.
contradiction
If such evidence is present, return Kennewick Man to his rightful tribal reservation.
Kennewick Man has never been outside his tribal reservation.
contradiction
Many teen-agers are not moved by the possibility of an early death in four decades.
Teen-agers aren't always concerned about the theoretical possibility of dying early many years down the line.
entailment
While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag?
Some of the Russian Gulag survivors are of Chinese descent.
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The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports.
There will be more exports right away.
contradiction
To Scalia, however, the idea that judicial power responds to the demands of the time merely proves that there have always been willful judges who bend the law to their wishes.
Scalia was unfair in his official judicial duties.
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As a college student familiar with all the latest urban lingo, I believe the proper term to be used in these contexts is boink.
the college I attend gives out free lunch 3 times a week.
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The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right.
Bauer has received a lot negative news coverage.
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I suppose Franke-Ruta was compelled to read every single line without really wanting to at all?
Franke-Ruta wanted to read every line.
neutral
That's what the Globe had to do last week for actress Bo Derek and her director husband, John.
Bo Derek is a cat.
contradiction
Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
No matter the situation, it is considered foolish to overhype something.
contradiction
The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.
The Internet will alter electoral spending.
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Bush himself couldn't utter these words with a straight face.
Bush started laughing uncontrollably when he was speaking.
neutral
The tide has turned so much that one might wonder whether Wilson needs to make such a fuss about the unity of knowledge.
The situation was remarkably stable.
contradiction
My opinion is that not every perjury is a high crime, as grounds for removing a president from office.
The perjury in this case is punishable by a 15 year jail sentence.
neutral
Why no journalistic outrage about that ? Well, for starters, try looking at a grainy newsweekly-sized photo of Lou Gerstner and see if it makes you remember Pearl Harbor.
There is no journalistic outrage about it.
entailment
The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.
The Times sought feedback from all of its departments.
entailment
So, they compensate with vocabulary, animating their play with exaggerated violence and tough talk, smashing, kicking, and zapping the imaginary bad guys.
This game can only have two players at a time.
neutral
It draws sidelong glances and playground taunts, and it may give the adopted child an identity crisis.
Playground taunts only improve children's character.
contradiction
Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history.
Some believe Time made a mistake by taking a viewpoint that stinted history.
entailment
But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook.
Some conservatives are more honest than others.
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And can this be explained without resorting to the phrase dumbing down or alluding to the questions on that Who Wants a Big Bucket of Money quiz show being multiple choice about the Brady Bunch , not like in the old days, when quiz show questions were so hard that you had to cheat to win, and presidential candidates al...
There are no new quiz shows nowadays.
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Before long, however, many of these projects went bust, and Nelson had to turn to his family for financial assistance to ward off bankruptcy.
Nelson experienced serious financial issues.
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The group of student donors who collectively gave $200,000 to Clinton used different designations when contributing an additional $100,000 to him and others.
The student donors were mainly from Harvard.
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There are people who are not members of the Libertarian Party but who are open-minded about it and willing to listen, even though you may not be able to convert them.
people who are members of the Libertarian Party refuse to listen.
contradiction
Unless, of course, when it comes to Internet shares there is no sensible middle.
When it comes to Internet shares, nothing is consistent.
neutral
The striking thing about workers' comments after the vote was how many of them mentioned the possibility of the company shutting down its operations.
A lot of the workers think the company will possibly shut down.
entailment
Here's a quick review of possible objections, left and
A review has been compiled of objections that might come up.
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Look, I paid 20 bucks for this rag, and I want all of it.
The rag was overpriced compared to the other rags.
neutral
According to Kristol, Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal because he didn't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich.
Podhoretz was close friends with Gingrich and that's why he was sensitive to Gingrich's feelings.
neutral
Downstairs neighbor Aaron Whiteheard said, One night, I heard what sounded like a kid ...
Aaron Whiteheard lives on the top floor of his building.
contradiction
A year ago, when News Quiz debuted, Slate was free.
News Quiz was an app that tested one's knowledge of recent national news.
neutral
The study suggested that between 23 and 46 of every 1 million patients taking fen-phen would die from the condition each year.
the research proposes between 23 to 46 out of 1 million will die from fen-phen.
entailment
Wolf did both, by turning the issue into an object lesson on women's professional success.
Wolf's contention was able to accomplish more than one thing.
entailment
The following letter contains perhaps the funniest story the Shopping Avenger has heard about U-Haul, and by now the Shopping Avenger has received upward of 6.7 million complaints about U-Haul.
U-Haul has generated upwards of 6.7 million complaints.
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They were pitiful even by microbial standards.
Even when compared with microorganisms, they were pitiable.
entailment
But Milosevic, in turn, may have underestimated Clinton's agility.
Milosevic was incorrect in his estimations of the ability of his opponent.
entailment
After coming up with the idea for the project and appointing an associate editor to run it, he says, he was only minimally involved.
The project cost a lot of resources.
neutral
In the 1830s and 1840s, the system accounted for more than three-quarters of U.S. federal employees.
The United States was not a federal government until the 20th century.
contradiction
The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).
The only reason HBO helped make the movie was because of past financial obligations.
neutral
Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race.
He felt uncertain about running for the New York senate seat.
entailment
I believe that your hearts will go on.
You will live and die together.
neutral
I missed the last couple of days because of a computer crash.
The computer crash was due to a virus.
neutral
It's not commerce that rules in Hollywood.
Because commerce has to do with money, it should play a major role in most cities.
neutral
That problem was there at the beginning, when meritocracy appeared to have triumphed, whether at the University of California or Yale, and it is still with us.
The author argues that governance by merit appeared originally to have succeeded.
entailment
In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan.
Raccoons brought in from the USA have made Japan's environment flourish.
contradiction
My own admittedly romantic preference is to see his career as a quest for inspiration, and to say Pollock sought it long, found it briefly, and couldn't live without it.
I'm indifferent to Pollock's career.
contradiction
Indeed, there are dozens of clinical experiments showing that high doses of calcium either arrest bone loss or even build bone in older women.
There are no studies about calcium and bone density.
contradiction
Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.
AI is one of the biggest advancements in the field of information technology.
neutral
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.
Hillary Clinton liked some parts of Barry Levinson's film.
neutral
Good Kids watch less television.
Good Kids spend 24 hours a day watching TV.
contradiction
This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.
Parents need to consider how to reconcile their own person views and what is best to teach a child growing up.
entailment
I think he perceives our friendship as being stronger than it is.
he feels like we're no longer friends.
contradiction
The larger bill would fortify the Border Patrol, facilitate deportations, and restrict the benefits available to illegal aliens; the detached bill would let states exclude children of illegal aliens from public schools.
Neither bill would have a large effect of the lives of illegal aliens in the country.
contradiction
(David Plotz foretold Brown's departure in a recent Slate Assessment.
David Plotz had no clue Brown would depart.
contradiction
See for yourself, but I think the message most people would get from both sources is Drinking isn't all bad, but eschew it anyway.
Both sources quoted by the author are credible and should be trusted.
neutral
Jenkins hasn't quite figured out how to shape her narrative, which is full of episodes that are there because they actually happened but that don't have a payoff.
Jenkins has mastered the art of forming her narrative and has nothing left to learn in that regard.
contradiction
a) Had an adulterous affair with a young intern.
He's been cheating on his wife for the last 3 years.
neutral
But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle.
Tarzan, Jane and her father eventually returned to society.
neutral
You have definitely identified a problem for the '90s.
The problem itself directly related to Clinton's impeachment hearings.
neutral
I'd say some News Quiz participants owe some quasi-autonomous but government-regulated agency a letter of apology.
I feel the News Quiz participants did something wrong.
entailment
Thanks to Gutman, Genovese, and their left-wing peers, we now know that the notion that Slaves Were Happy, as the New York Times headline put it, is not necessarily false.
The headline didn't come from High Times Magazine.
contradiction
Impeachment is twisting the presidential race, too.
The impeachment process isn't having an impact on the election.
contradiction
Makes you want to watch Sunday's game just to see how it turns out.
A game will be playing this Sunday.
entailment
A core group of kids do have a distinct attention abnormality, but Ritalin worked so well--it can reduce distractibility even in perfectly normal children--that now almost any difficult child is considered for the diagnosis and drug.
Ritalin is an effective drug for various conditions.
entailment
The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.
There is zero net effect on national savings.
entailment
An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.
Knowing that time does not matter, Blitzer chooses to merely walk away.
contradiction
Go forth and cover culture and the arts.
The arts are one of two topics that will be covered.
entailment
There are, to be sure, pivotal generational experiences.
Pivotal generational experiences are there.
entailment
It's Sunday, what channel is this?
What channel is this on Sunday?
entailment
His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.
He frequently name-drops.
entailment
Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!
I would love to go to that bris!
entailment
60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.
Belgacom has been around for 22 years.
neutral
Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey.
Chynna Phillips pop group has had a song featured in the Radio's Top 40 Hits
neutral
Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).
Springer's audience cares about values.
neutral
Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?
Humans have always been good and never hurt animals.
contradiction
The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.
The pictures were shot in several dangerous locations.
neutral
Perhaps the uncritical reportage of Fitzsimmons' new story can be explained by pangs of guilt about the uncritical reportage of his old one.
Perception of Fitzsimmons' new story are influenced by an old one.
entailment
a member of the board of SANE/FREEZE, a leading disarmament group, and she has been affiliated with the Washington School, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
SANE/FREEZE's involvement with educational entities helps secure their position as a leading disarmament group.
neutral
Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.
The mall and television affect our children's culture today.
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In the age of the divine entrepreneur, no one cares how badly you treat your kid.
People are more focused on raising their child than focusing on entrepreneurial business.
contradiction
The second variety of white race-consciousness--whiteness-as-burden--is no less tangled up in hypocrisy.
there are no varieties of race-consciousness.
contradiction
Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom.
Less regulatory policy and healthy monetary flow is creating a good economy.
entailment
The Globe quotes a Kathie Lee interview in USA Today in which she explains We stayed home.
Kathie Lee is popular.
neutral
Also, check out this illustrated, in-depth exploration of Beck's fashion choices.)
Beck is not an acclaimed artist that garners media attention.
contradiction
For example, the idea of putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom is attractive but, in the long run, federally funded stone tablets will only breed dependency on the nanny state.
The original Ten Commandments are not said to have been written on stone tablets.
contradiction
, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.
It doesn't matter what they want in the end.
neutral
Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces.
Clinton needs to effectively win the conflict with little casualties to keep public favor.
neutral
American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China.
China also benefits from launches in the United States.
neutral
You'd have to invoke your own gods for the requisite charm.
The requisite charm only comes from your own gods.
neutral
By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal.
The quality-of-life drugs work well.
entailment
PointCast responded with a piece of software for companies' central computers designed to minimize its own impact.
PointCast was hogging computer memory resources.
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