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On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips. | The pots were hand-crafted. | neutral |
The former POV might be thought of as Democratic, the latter Republican. | the prior POV was a Republican. | contradiction |
He did so with surety, using the elbow of his bad arm to steady himself at the threshold, then raising both fists in a stretch. | The man used his hands in order to lift himself up through a stretch. | entailment |
Giuliani is clearly wrong in trying to stop the exhibit, but how many people defending the museum right now would be trying to shut it down if the art was offensive in other, even less acceptable, ways? | The ways in which art is offensive is relevant to whether or not people should be protesting that specific style of art. | neutral |
Most Falwell-style Christians would probably say yes, since the Antichrist is a false Messiah, he'll have to be Jewish, like Christ himself. | The namesake of Christianity was Jewish. | entailment |
The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy. | The press praised Clinton's administration and their handling of Kosovo. | contradiction |
The court upheld a trial judge's decision to 1) reduce Woodward's conviction from murder to manslaughter in the death of an 8-month-old baby and 2) reduce her prison sentence from 15 years to the 279 days she had already served. | The first decision was upheld. | entailment |
(For the neutral-interrogator approach, try France.) | If you want a biased interrogator, ask France, they're as biased as they get. | contradiction |
While King vacillated, Malcolm X seized the nation's attention with his calls for retribution, tempting blacks weary of King's nonviolence and sending whites into a panic. | Blacks and whites universally agreed on the best ways to approach the civil rights movement. | contradiction |
The book's plot (about a man's anonymous love letters to his girlfriend) is said to be trite, and the ending is called a cop out. | The book details a homosexual relationship. | contradiction |
The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed. | Bush's drug history was a hot topic at the time. | entailment |
John maintains his innocence from death row. | John was convicted of a crime. | entailment |
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. | Celluloid has only been around a few years. | contradiction |
Capital Legislator Want More Facts on Daylight Savings Time from Mexico's News . A close second is Why Farm Sheep at All? | The Capital Legislator does not care about daylight savings time. | contradiction |
Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight. | Her emotions come and go at random, as well as her level of sanity. | entailment |
You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together. | The artist is the age 25. | neutral |
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems. | Juan Antonio Samaranch has absolute power. | contradiction |
He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years. | For 20 years, he has had creative and original ideas. | contradiction |
DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors. | The Neanderthal DNA was collected in Scandanavia. | neutral |
Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth. | Wolfe's portrait was unflattering to the president. | neutral |
The Other Side of the Rainbow | The rainbow had another side. | entailment |
(So, while she was dragged into the scandal against her will, it was her own loquaciousness that made the dragging possible.) | She wore a red dress to the scandal. | neutral |
Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a | The hypochodirack was a simple invention. | neutral |
The Post notes the deep disappointment in Malaysia over the no-show by President Clinton, who stayed home to cope with the Iraqi crisis and sent Vice President Al Gore instead. | Clinton was disappointed as well because he was unable to visit Malaysia. | neutral |
This may be justified or not--we like him well enough around here! | We enjoy his company in this space. | entailment |
The strength of the spot is that the fabric of its images converts the actuarial into the nearly spiritual, and raises numbers--money--to the level of moral values. | The spot does not touch on the topics of numbers or money in any way. | contradiction |
Play is activity engaged in for the enjoyment of it without regard to the financial remuneration. | play is an engaging activity for the sole purpose of enjoyment. | entailment |
The general principle is that these questions, unfortunately, are going to be asked. | Difficult questions might be asked. | neutral |
The high-end beers cost roughly three times as much as the cheapest ones, and twice as much as the middle range. | High-end beer costs multiple times more than cheaper varieties. | entailment |
You get to a hotel room in your travel-stained sweater, shirt, and pants, and drop all these down a chute. | Their clothes were dirty because they had fallen in the mud when entering the hotel. | neutral |
During World War I, as he conveyed vegetables to the troops quartered nearby and refused to leave Giverny as the German line advanced, Monet's panels took on some of the dark mood of war. | Monet's art was especially cheerful during the war. | contradiction |
What we mean--and should mean--by character needs to be disentangled. | There's no need to clarify the meaning of character. | contradiction |
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 world and its system are never governed through the use of meritocracy. | contradiction |
In 1958, 4 percent of white Americans approved of interracial marriages. | Around seventeen percent of white Americans at the time said they were unsure about the issue. | neutral |
From home, I call my office three or four times a day. | I am at the office everyday. | contradiction |
Either way, Mother Teresa is a shoo-in. | Mother Teresa is not a shoo-in. | 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 is a Paleontologist that recently discovered a bone. | entailment |
The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in eli... | 20 years ago professors were taught to assume that the average male weighed 200 kilograms. | contradiction |
The cover essay reflects on hate, describing it as a personal psychological reaction to idiosyncratic experience. | The essay was very well written. | neutral |
But there would not be, nor could there have been, an overall increase in prices. | An overall increase in prices would require an increase in manufacturing costs, which have remained the same. | neutral |
Bradley, who has belittled Gore's microproposals (sprawl, traffic, etc.), will see his own self-proclaimed questioned. | Bradley was a Republican Senator who ran on lowering taxes. | neutral |
As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar). | This town legend is not as interesting as the Headless Body Found in Topless Bar story. | entailment |
I see a method to his madness. | I understand his reasoning. | entailment |
People who gorged themselves survived winter famines and reproduced more than others. | The ability to gorge oneself on food is an evolutionary advantage that leads to greater reproductive success. | neutral |
A weaker version of Chinook had previously lost to the legendary Marion Tinsley, a retired university math teacher considered the greatest checkers player of all time, who had to withdraw from a 1994 rematch because of the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him. | Marion Tinsley would have won the 1994 checkers rematch if he had been able to play. | neutral |
Finkelstein is not breaking new ground here. | Finkelstein was eager to develop consensus on the matter. | neutral |
However, it came bundled with the obscure psych book (which still hadn't arrived from the conventional stores as of New Year's Day). | The psych book is expensive. | neutral |
The cover story says pro sports are in trouble. | The story on the cover of the periodical is in regards to professional sports. | entailment |
In other words, the careless only stay lucky for so long. | Hard work will get you further than luck. | entailment |
Maybe, just maybe, if he were sued again ... | He has never been involved in a lawsuit. | contradiction |
If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom. | Spock's naivety in political activism was the reason that he was so good at child-rearing. | neutral |
If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles. | should there be one God, he must be the God of the entire universe. | entailment |
Internet telephony, one of the coolest new online applications, illustrates packet switching's drawbacks. | Packet switching accounts for 50% of the issues with internet telephony | neutral |
My favorite detail is the TV commercial where they pour out of the giant Bible. | There was nothing in the bible when it was shown in the commercial. | contradiction |
Rubin himself probably does not care about such back scratching, but it is a lesson that heir-apparent Summers, an eager press hound, has surely absorbed. | Rubin definitely cares about the back scratching. | contradiction |
They are well armed and wear bulletproof vests. | They have no protection at all. | contradiction |
If you don't like reading on a computer screen, for example, there's a special version of SLATE that you can print out in its entirety, reformatted like a traditional print magazine. | SLATE can be printed out like a traditiional magazine. | entailment |
I e-mailed all three galleries, asking them to explain the disparity in their prices. | I didn't email any of the galleries. | contradiction |
So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him. | Brown does not have any money. | contradiction |
Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theor... | Mardik Martin and Scorsese were acquainted. | entailment |
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores. | Behind the Legend has not hit the bookstores yet. | entailment |
Bang on drums and try to get the talking stick away from a weepy Tom DeLay. | Someone encourages raising a ruccus in politics. | neutral |
If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary. | Censorship is prohibited. | contradiction |
Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged. | Some children who suffer severe deprivation are not permanantly damaged. | neutral |
As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes. | The author explains how he personally believes everybody should keep the memories of the holocaust alive. | contradiction |
It's not that hard to imagine a similar message being sent home by someone investigating what happened to Tsingtao. | Something happened to Tsingtao. | entailment |
Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? | There is a great sense of loss when you feel something is missing as a person. | neutral |
The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended. | There is no current conflict. | contradiction |
Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview. | The only reason the mayor is in office is due to gerrymandering. | neutral |
He is a tedious corporate drone, as innocuous as the lackluster buildings erected by Donald Trump. | Many think the Trump buildings are lacking in appeal. | neutral |
Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory. | The pitcher was getting tired of him fouling off pitches. | neutral |
denunciations of American imperialism. | Some people denounce American imperialism. | neutral |
She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me. | The work being done on the project is being done effectively. | neutral |
The market for general-interest weekly magazines has long since dried Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead. | General-interest weekly magazines have gained record popularity. | contradiction |
And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige. | The agency did nothing wrong during the Cold War. | contradiction |
Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest. | Ginsburg's client was pleased with Ginsburg's representation of her. | neutral |
Critics are surprisingly positive about the singer/songwriter/best-selling poet/soon-to-be film actress' second album after the 8 million copy selling Pieces of You . Musically she has matured, and her trademark folksy-bluesy-pop songs are dubbed sweet, soulful (Veronica Chambers, Newsweek ). The lyrics, however are sa... | critics are actually enjoying the second album from her. | entailment |
Microsoft did not demand that Netscape be removed, only that IE be there as well. | Microsoft demanded that IE be present as well. | entailment |
The editor published the study to help Clinton. | The editor received a lot of pressure to try to help Clinton. | neutral |
But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press. | AOL is getting Time Warner for free. | contradiction |
Ultimately, what I say in my defense is completely meaningless. | My statement was very important to my defense. | contradiction |
He's plunging us, the viewers, into it, too. | The viewers don't know that they're being involved. | neutral |
We don't have rational drug policies in the streets or public schools because we don't have rational discussions about drug use. | Public schools have stellar drug policies. | contradiction |
Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, wh... | Marion Kaplan is a technological historian. | contradiction |
I can confirm he does, for I have tried to convey the same Ionian Enchantment in my recent book How the Mind Works. | The book contains various enchantments. | neutral |
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 Irish could have sustained themselves if there was a crop failure. | neutral |
The conceit is that Benigni tries to keep the 5-year-old from realizing what's going on by pretending that the whole thing is a game and that if the boy gets through it without crying or complaining he wins a tank. | The young child must behave in order to win a tank. | entailment |
The cover profile makes Jerry Seinfeld seem quite charming, if a tad immature. | Seinfeld is on the cover. | entailment |
As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers. | Insurers refused to change their positions or be pressured by outside companies. | contradiction |
For example, we asked Jeeves, Where can I find information about Bill Bradley and Medicaid? | Jeeves usually had all of the information. | neutral |
As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him. | Intel has had one leader. | contradiction |
Little Herring ? What the hell kind of moniker is that? | No one had ever been called Little Herring. | contradiction |
Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages. | He was happy to sign the document. | contradiction |
Please send your nominations to 100TopHeds@slate.com. | The nominations are for the top heads of businesses. | neutral |
7 million in the Los Angeles Times and over $3 million by the other major papers. | the Spokesman-Review was included in the list of other major papers. | neutral |
Spot enforcement, well-publicized with blue flashing lights, is what maintains speed limits on the highway. | Cars can drive as fast as they want on the highway. | contradiction |
Journalists, after all, expose these practices--we do not commit them. | Journalists are committed to their jobs. | neutral |
They won't be satisfied--and won't relax--until they've identified his flaws. | The man's flaws cause harm to others. | neutral |
A tightly wrapped head, with encapsulated eyes, nose, and mouth, doubtless suited the publicly shrouded female of antiquity, whose intelligence flowered wholly unseen. | The shrouded female had encapsulated eyes, nose, and mouth, and had an air of intelligence. | entailment |
Many responses were built on the assumption that Southern Baptists are bad in bed. | Southern Baptists are considered to be incredibly skilled when it comes to sex. | contradiction |
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