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Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the... | Libertarianism started trending in the 1970's. | neutral |
Thank you for William Saletan's brilliant analysis () of the war. | William Saletan has been a war historian most of his life. | neutral |
Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day. | I had more than enough energy. | contradiction |
Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets. | The ethnic cleansing in Slaughterhouse is often touched on by political commentators. | neutral |
His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority. | He plans on getting the majority in Congress in the next election. | entailment |
I'd say it was the second number. | I am certain. | neutral |
Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning. | Elbows released a negative TV ad. | neutral |
Newspaper reporters increasingly feel themselves irrelevant--marginalized by TV news and the Internet, ignored by a younger generation of nonreaders. | Some newspapers are having a hard time finding good reporters as many are leaving the field. | neutral |
On the rare occasions the service is queried, it invokes the Dead President. | The service is hard to understand. | neutral |
The most extreme version of this concept, called group selection, is Gaia, which suggests that all of life cooperates so as to ensure its continued survival. | Gaia is a concept that is known to regard the cooperation of life. | entailment |
I don't suppose that everyone is like that. | They did not feel everyone was the same. | entailment |
God, what do you think of me? | God gives only positive opinions. | neutral |
The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected. | The House made all kinds of abortion completely legal. | contradiction |
Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me. | Giuliani has been impressed by her tenacity and sees her as a formidable adversary. | contradiction |
Today, we neither have such a group nor the atmosphere for its emergence. | The current atmosphere prevents such a group from emerging. | entailment |
Laibson's imperfect altruists face a far subtler problem--they're not just weighing costs and benefits, they're engaged in games of strategy against their future selves. | After many challenges Laibson's imperfect altruists succeeded in their endeavors. | neutral |
And eventually people are no longer eager to live on garbage dumps. | They will move to free housing communities. | neutral |
The version of Linux that comes in Mastering Linux offers no technical assistance, but Red Hat's version 5.2, which costs $39. | Red Hat's version 5.2 is completely free. | contradiction |
Detractors say the film lacks any real sense of narrative continuity and feels like bits and pieces of half a dozen coming-of-age films (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). | Detractors say the film was lacking something. | entailment |
If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles. | there is no God. | contradiction |
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. | When it comes to your child, these principles suggest to communicate directly and not avoid it. | entailment |
Newsweek 's cover package, pegged to the release of Steven Spielberg's film Amistad , assesses the legacy of slavery. | Newsweek covered the new hires at the local McDonalds. | contradiction |
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 author believes Giuliani is in the wrong for his attempts to stifle the exhibit from being shown. | entailment |
In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity. | Tito refused to acknowledge his Croatian heritage. | neutral |
Dostoyevsky wrote a book called The Idiot about a guy who is unprepossessing and naturally holy. | Dostroyevsky was the author of a book with a character who is holy called The Idiot. | entailment |
If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it. | The man does not want to read anything produced by the woman. | contradiction |
should not guide our activities in cyberspace. | Our activities in cyberspace need a guide. | contradiction |
Slate BiasServer TM applies this concept to the magazine You'll register your views just once, and Slate will thereafter recognize your browser and serve up opinion and analysis that reconfirm your prejudices. | Slate used to provide more unbiased information but has changed in recent years. | neutral |
The next day's Los Angeles Times goes with the DLC Clinton's Centrist Big Draw Among Party Faithful. | The Los Angeles Times wrote about Clinton. | entailment |
1 is the easy-to-forget point that money shouldn't be able to buy influence with a democratic government. | Even the first point is easy to forget, even though it's about money not being able to influence government. | entailment |
You are right that there was no obvious winner in your wager--not you, your friend, or even, alas, the president. | The wager was meant in good fun but ended up being embarrassing to some people. | neutral |
Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street It's too bloody. | Moved by a sense of morality, Russian soldiers would not shell Grozny. | contradiction |
A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did. | Greenspan provided an opinion on the issue. | entailment |
Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers. | Advertisers are not interested in paying subscribers. | entailment |
Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed. | Yugoslavia is attempting to repair itself and it's economy. | neutral |
If a politician were to say today that he opposes abortion except when yadda yadda yadda , we would all know what he means, and we would know what was meant if, after an arrest, a police officer pulled out a card and just said yadda yadda | The police officer pulled out a yellow card. | neutral |
It doesn't say much of anything on the subject. | It does not help my understanding on the subject. | entailment |
The Old 97's take their name from The Wreck of the Old 97, a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924. | The song saw a second surge of popularity in the 1930s. | neutral |
Broder and Waas say they have spoken with two ex- Spectator employees who anonymously corroborate Mann and Rand's assertion that the Arkansas Project paid Hale. | Hale deserved payment for his work on the Arkansas project. | neutral |
Lied about it to everyone . | The lies hurt everyone. | neutral |
I keep losing at their damn casinos. | I've lost over $5,000 at casinos. | neutral |
That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change. | Theories are usually on a case-by-case base. | neutral |
So Edgar Jr. will fail in Hollywood, but when he does, it won't be the failure of a romantic. | Its looks like Hollywood did not treat Edgar Jr. well. | entailment |
If they want to support me in the objectives I have outlined, that's fine, but I don't take positions or make votes in response to offers of contributions. | My decisions are based off of how much money people pay me. | contradiction |
A recent article in Science claimed to rebut Noam Chomsky's theory that our capacity for language is hard-wired in a particular--and uniquely human--module of the brain. | The article in Science also touched on the use of language in non-human species. | neutral |
When Kurlak cuts his rating on Intel, what matters is not that he's right or wrong about Intel's prospects but that his cut in the rating will drop the stock regardless. | When Kurlak lowered the rating of Intel, it is likely that the value of the company's stock will fall. | entailment |
(The magazine's own take is more There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.) | There may very well be societal collapse, according to the magazine. | contradiction |
They never forgave Arafat for bowing to what Ajami calls the logic of brute, irreversible facts. | Ajami believed that the facts were subject to change if the circumstances changed. | contradiction |
Perhaps, then, corporate rebirth is a fitting tag line. | a corporate rebirth doesn't match the scenario at all. | contradiction |
Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover. | D'Amato is disagreeable and combative. | entailment |
Not only did it promote freedom more than any statesman or soldier did by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics, influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others. | The real failure of the theory of relativity is that it's had no influence on modern society. | contradiction |
The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable). | Regression analysis is the strongest means for determining the relationship between variables. | neutral |
The Army discharged a 20-year decorated veteran one week before he would have been eligible for retirement benefits, because investigators discovered evidence of his homosexuality after an arsonist torched his home. | The veteran is openly gay. | neutral |
Which has a curious--and perhaps salutary--effect. | It is thought to have health benefits. | entailment |
In January 1996, Qaddafi promised the nation a $1-billion gift, which has not been received because of U.S. sanctions against Libya. | The sanctions against Libya were in retaliation for supporting terrorist activities. | neutral |
The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts. | All of the lawsuits against Microsoft are fully founded in legal precedent. | contradiction |
sadistic (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). A few critics take the audience's boos as evidence of New York opera-goers' conservatism. | There are only cheers coming from the audience. | contradiction |
Until two years ago, it was ritual among Supreme Court-watchers to speculate that this term would be Rehnquist's last. | The ritual among Supreme Court-watchers started the moment Rehnquist became a SCOTUS justice. | neutral |
The New Yorker began offering . Brown did her producing buzz to fuel circulation. | Brown was not involved with The New Yorker. | contradiction |
She is hauled away, presumably to be killed. | She is taken away to be killed, most likely. | entailment |
The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region. | The United States has taken military action. | entailment |
What I love about this Jordan thing is that he has embraced an opportunity that could lead to his total failure on a basketball court. | Jordan had a hard time embracing the opportunity. | neutral |
We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions. | There is nothing on which we can agree, neither in whole nor in part. | contradiction |
George W. Bush takes both covers. | It is the first time he has been on a cover. | neutral |
If NBC wanted to clone its sitcoms, you think it could aim higher than Suddenly Susan and The Naked Truth , says USA Today 's Matt Roush. | The Naked Truth is a high quality TV show. | neutral |
Starr has been especially squirmy about this. | Starr was known for always being direct and never obfuscating, no matter the topic. | contradiction |
We were not servile to the Soviet Union, said Poland's last Communist Party prime minister, we were helpless before that huge force. | Poland resisted Russia. | contradiction |
Chatterbox will grant that some of this crude psychology may be at work. | Chatterbox has expressed some acknowledgment of the crude psychology. | entailment |
The world would have conceded the claims of both gays and women without the student occupation of a single lecture hall anywhere in the world. | The student occupation of lecture halls was unnecessary. | entailment |
Defense So could we. | There was a defense. | entailment |
With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general. | The report was about men in traffic accidents. | contradiction |
Such a state, with a constitution and identical rights for all citizens, could guarantee long-term security in a way that the current fake peace doesn't. | The fake peace is trying to help in their own way. | neutral |
But there is a more fruitful way to look at He is the first high-profile newspaper man in a long time who actually believes in newspapers. | No one believes in newspapers. | contradiction |
Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible. | Richard Nixon was trying to bring peace when he bombed Hanoi in 1972. | neutral |
They especially take him to task for blaming Plath's suicide on fate and astrology. | Everyone agrees Plath's suicide was caused by fate and astrology. | contradiction |
That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black. | The world may or may not have racial discrimination. | neutral |
It was not always this way. | Times change a lot. | entailment |
Same-sex marriage would have no direct effect on the rights and obligations of parenthood. | Parenthood would be unaffected by same-sex marriage. | entailment |
But Rodgers did tell Lewis that he despises Amelio because Amelio supported Clinton, so it is Rodgers' mistake, not our author's, that we are correcting. | Someone hates another for their political views. | entailment |
Faking appreciation is always, of course, er, appreciated. | Appreciation is often faked. | neutral |
It'd be nice to know more about that trend. | They require no more information about the trend. | contradiction |
Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge. | This "Mencken of the Clinton era" would thoroughly read Clinton's policies. | neutral |
PBS's Nova is offering lots of bang-'em-up footage in its two-part series , ESCAPE! | Nova often breaks down its shows into multi-part series. | neutral |
Which has a curious--and perhaps salutary--effect. | The effect comes from absorbing the liquid through the skin. | neutral |
It's not hard to see why they use it. | It is used often. | neutral |
The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft. | Microsoft is free from government watch. | contradiction |
First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change. | The Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom was first contemplated by Greek philosophers. | neutral |
Lose the dismal cover illustrations and return to having a lead review or cover essay. | The cover illustrations are dismal | entailment |
In the meantime, Ventura is pursuing the Bulworth option. | The Bulworth choice is being explored by Ventura. | entailment |
There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget. | There are no indications that the administration is admitting fault. | entailment |
Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky? | Someone wants to know if Granny feels lucky. | entailment |
The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something. | You are not required to pay to watch a performance at the cabaret. | contradiction |
Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000. | Ron Brown is currently serving out a sentence. | contradiction |
Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents. | The television and the mall have taken over some aspect once given to parents. | entailment |
Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12. | There is variation in the length of my songs. | entailment |
To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing ... | The newspapers encouraged these types of stories because they drew in more subscribers. | neutral |
We've collected all of Harry's O.J. Dispatches into one gargantuan Microsoft Word (and Adobe Acrobat) document that will you can dowload by clicking here. | Only portions of Harry's O.J. Dispatches are available. | contradiction |
The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others. | There is a debate over the value of various career choices. | entailment |
He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2. | A movei script was sold for $3 million. | entailment |
As Jodie T. Allen in Slate in 1997, a primary function of any disaster is to funnel pork to important states. | This money is usually targeted to rebuild damaged infrastructure. | neutral |
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