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Moreover, the obits also recorded lots of violent and accidental deaths.
The obits didn't record any accidental deaths.
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Yet there is no good reason not to go with the 0.08 standard.
There are several reasons to stick with the standard of 0.08.
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Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market.
Macintosh has 90 percent of the operating system market.
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Republican fund-raising hypocrisy 1) The Washington
Republicans have not always held themselves to the same standards as they hold Democrats when it comes to fundraising.
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But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.
I cannot imagine a scholar killing another scholar.
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Praise goes to Lee's argument, her sensitivity, and her writing.
Lee was praised for many things.
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But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely postpone it.
Children can respond positively and intelligently to transparency.
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says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.
Norm Dicks was from the United States.
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Questioned about China at his press conference, President Clinton admitted for the first time that his constructive-engagement policy hasn't improved China's behavior, but he maintained that it will in the future.
The constructive-engagement policy will not improve China's behavior
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But it turns out that to buy $1 of dividends costs you $72 (among Dow Jones industrial average stocks).
Buying $1 in dividends costs you $399.
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The cookie-cutter profiles note that Kennedy was a mediocre student but had a perfect 6-0 conviction record as a prosecutor.
Profiles record that Kennedy was listed as a poor student.
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But then she found that he was making unseemly demands upon her, including the demand to lie on his behalf.
If the woman did not lie for the man, the man was going to be in serious trouble.
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If only there were creative writing schools in Heaven, or failing that, editors, we could hope that Jesus would learn how to improve on awful sentences like that.
The sentence is not understood easily.
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Please note that, like a reheated stew, this dodge works even better after a military action has begun.
The dodge was effective at first, but has been less effective since the military action began.
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To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value.
In economy, scarcity decreases value.
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Broadly speaking, I agree with the points David Plotz makes in . Congress has the sole power to declare war, and a bipartisan Congress and the president have cheerfully ignored that clear constitutional fact.
A lot of people didn't know or forgot that only congress can declare war.
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Nemesis Hunt refutes the slack-jawed Novak, with the computation that 5 + 4 = 9 and therefore half of Starr's deputies are not current DOJ employees.
Nemesis Hunt contradicted Novak's claim about the number of people working at the DOJ.
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In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways).
Reality would not be important to capture according to Wood.
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Vocation began here--the story of two frogs,
Frogs are characters in the story.
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When you couple that reality with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value, you end up with a corporate world that must privilege the next quarter over the next decade.
Shareholder value makes the next quarter more important than later business longevity.
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That is the feeling that makes the children take out the broken tea pot and empty jam tin.
The children are ashamed after breaking the pot and eating the jam.
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What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about the new, there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.
i'm unimpressed that no one is talking about this.
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Election 97 uses a new Virtual Reality Modeling Language technology to provide 3-D maps that give British voters a better understanding of how constituencies are spread throughout the country and where the critical districts lie.
Critical districts were able to be targeted due to insights from Election 97.
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In his Feb. 3 from the Clinton trial, he writes, History and the American people have already rendered their verdict.
History and the public belived Clinton to be guilty.
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We must have unselfish, far-seeing leadership or we fail.
He thought that effective leadership was crucial to future success.
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On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)
The company has a habit of culling those who are not ready for the demands of their employment.
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If you missed the links within this review, click for the of how critics dismissed a whole genre of social novels written by women ...
The sources cited by the author claim that social novels written by female authors were wholly embraced.
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His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton.
Willey spoke out about Clinton without reservation.
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If I lose, then it's a reflection on the whole family.
Someone is guaranteed to win.
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Makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.
Someone had thought of it before and not told anyone.
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A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.
A Lexus is a very fancy car.
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I'm the co-author of one the leading treatises on legal ethics--and it's updated annually.
I also teach at a law school.
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So why persist in newspaper reading?
A reason is needed as to why one should keep reading this newspaper.
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The follow-up should have Why do you think of Christ as a political philosopher?
Christ has never involved himself in politics or philosophy.
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There's more good stuff in Briefing, including Explainer, The Week/The Spin, and Slate
The sources found in Briefing are sparse.
contradiction
An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).
The essay is making fun of McInerney and Ellis because they are releasing new books about models.
entailment
A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision.
Some people report spiritual visions.
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denunciations of American imperialism.
American imperialism gets denounced sometimes.
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A comprehensive international review of 54 studies concluded that the pill doesn't heighten a woman's long-term probability of getting breast cancer.
Only one study has been done on the pill and it was inconclusive.
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Nevertheless, they were trumpeted throughout the nation, because the media had little else to talk about.
The media moved almost completely on to another breaking story two days later.
neutral
Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of square and hip--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned.
The boxes are the color white.
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We've come a long way since ragtime and radio, hillbilly and race records, big bands and showtoons, 45s and triple concept albums, MTV and CDs and horror-core.
Music has not changed much over the decades.
contradiction
Has the government not tried hard enough?
The government could have tried harder.
neutral
Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a cineplex (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).
The building designed by Barton Myers was in an impressionism style.
contradiction
This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.
The news item presented by the author was not the most exciting thing to happen during that week.
contradiction
Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking legal mumbo jumbo to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.
Clinton's misconduct could not be proven.
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No doubt he will do better in his next book.
He will write many good books in the future.
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I already know I am an idiot, but am I to be a happy idiot or a miserable one?
They already know they are a genius, they must only decide what kind of genius they want to be.
contradiction
In the new mall, like the old one, there is no escape.
There is definitely an escape in the latest mall.
contradiction
Preventing developers from adding features is not as easy as it sounds.
Keeping developers from adding features is quite difficult.
entailment
Bond rejected this advice.
Bond believed himself infallible, hence his unwillingness to accept counsel.
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In the short term, readjustment hits EITC, Social Security, WIC, food stamps, and school lunches, says Dean Baker of the Economic Policy Institute, but in the long term, taxes will be 30 [percent] or 40 percent higher.
Taxes will increase as a result of the readjustment.
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Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts.
Johnson has never had plastic surgery.
contradiction
God, what do you think of me?
People ask God questions.
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And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.
Morris was able to influence Clinton.
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But in both cases, the feds can help.
The feds could never be helpful no matter the situation.
contradiction
My concern here isn't so much for Leuchter or even the Holocaust revisionists, who'll just think he was sandbagged.
Leuchter has an "oh woe is me" attitude.
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Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with o...
Leading economists during the 1980's were considered economic speculators.
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One deterrent to food-stamp use, remember, is the Checkout-Line Factor--people tend to look at you funny when you whip out your food-stamp card to buy your groceries.
Food-stamps are becoming more popular and widely available for everyone to use.
contradiction
During the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises, Rubin constructed bailout deals that benefited outside creditors above all.
Outside creditors benefited the most in Rubin's bailout deals.
entailment
If there is a cultural civil war going on, the Mediaphiles--led by Wall Street--have routed the 'phobes.
The cultural civil war has already been heeded by Wall Street and Mediaphiles.
entailment
As Van Buren knew, parties are inherently democratic, the most effective way of organizing otherwise powerless individuals.
Individuals are powerless without the construction of political parties.
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It is enough that tragedy once again punished the Kennedys, wrote Cohen.
Cohen never mentioned the Kennedy family in his writings.
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Finally, Pollitt and Sullivan are disappointed that Unauthorized
Their disappointment from this incident was compounded by long-running issues.
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France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.
At this time, currency speculation has virtually halted in France.
contradiction
Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.
The amount of radioactive food waste produced is too insignificant to cause any adverse effects.
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But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.
His opponents did not give him a very good run for his money.
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If we don't spend seven evenings a week together, if we don't talk on the phone each day during work, if I want to spend any time alone, my girlfriend pouts and gets angry, or cries.
She's not giving me personal space.
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Office of Special Investigations--continue the honorable policy of replacing lawless revenge with legitimate justice.
There's an on-going process to replace lawless revenge with legitimate justice.
entailment
I know that these are alleged bones, and emotional sentiments are whipped up by the prayers of the priests and the nuns.
Priests and nuns will refuse prayers to most people who have died.
contradiction
There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001.
Clinton can't commute Pollard.
contradiction
Some evidence from public records is suggestive.
The evidence from public records has been only recently discovered.
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However, they should not be punished without due process in the name of 'national security' or 'protection of citizens' lives.
Punishments should only be handed out after due process has been given.
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Comedy attacks.
Attacks come from comedy.
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A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.
Legal reassurances are included to ensure the direct mailers are not subject to lawsuits.
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Contribution limits don't stop you from associating publicly or privately with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, or even signifying your association by donating money.
Contribution limits doesn't seem to regulate actions beyond donating a certain amount of money.
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But Said's fame outside the American academy rests on Orientalism , his sweeping account of how Western art, literature, and scholarship have produced a deformed, biased picture of Arab and Muslim culture in the service of colonial domination.
Said is mainly known outside of the US for his account on Western cultures deforming Arab and Muslim culture.
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The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it.
Graham's Post has an editorial side, as well as an advertising side.
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Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in.
Kosovars did not want to go back in.
contradiction
Three kinds of theories of history have been prominent in recent discussion--ending theories, wave theories, and cycle theories.
Wave theory is one of the three theories in history currently being discussed.
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This is a political as well as military project.
This project is about political diplomacy and nothing else.
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China is the most eager customer, buying surplus material through U.S.-based scrap-metal dealers.
China is more eager to buy U.S. scrap metal than Germany is.
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Imagine a law school class with 100 places.
100 places is a lot for a law school class.
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Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too.
There are some exceptions that some things are good for everyone.
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An article argues that liberals should oppose the National Endowment for the Arts on the grounds that art does not need federal subsidies.
An article was published arguing against the National Endowment for the Arts and federal subsidies for art in general.
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And I said, 'Where does Jesse Helms get off saying all these mean things about me?
Jesse Helms insulted his political opponent.
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Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.
The Circle in the Round is loved by many people.
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It would do that other thing--succeed.
It has failed before.
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Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.
Presidential speech writers have been known to take inspiration from previous speeches.
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It's a real strain on our relationship to have her parents and grandparents letting her know that they think I am unworthy.
Her family have informed her that they do not think I am worth her time.
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The bleakest lesson of After the Madness is perhaps that prison has lost its capacity to shock.
After the Madness provides cold lessons.
entailment
Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures.
Humans often assign cute attributes to wild animals.
entailment
The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.
About 25 percent of adults in the United States smoke regularly according to polls.
entailment
Someone has to absorb the loss.
No one ever absorbs losses.
contradiction
A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.
The process of casting dentures was not known by previous generations of dentists.
contradiction
To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy.
The internet is a safe place to disclose personal finances.
contradiction
I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.
I am not fully at ease with this condition.
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Does he himself play, or has he merely observed others?
will he partake in playing, or does he only watch?
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Some of my friends in the financial industry think that hedge funds were not just a , but the source of instability in the late crisis.
All financial industry insiders are confident that hedge funds played no part in the financial crisis.
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And malignancy develops slowly.
Malignancy develops slowly.
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