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Changing identities is the goal of Monica Lewinsky, according to this week's Star . Though the publication doesn't report any plastic surgery in her future, when her legal troubles are over she wants to make a fresh start and plans to do so with a name change. | Monica Lewinsky has suffered from legal trouble and the spotlight of fame. | entailment |
' That is said scornfully or dismissively, says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center. | Ambrose was director of a facility at the University of Syracuse. | contradiction |
He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened. | He only exaggerated and lied to benefit society as a whole. | neutral |
(I'll buy a fax machine only when enough other people have them to make it worthwhile.) | A fax machine is too expensive to consider buying when they aren't used very much by others. | entailment |
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 is about somebody's relationship with their girlfriend. | entailment |
At the Pentagon, real-world combat requirements come first--except when they don't. | Real-world combat requirements come first at the Pentagon. | entailment |
Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors. | Hockey is a professional sport and is not part of the Olympics, which are only for amateurs. | contradiction |
Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver. | Charter schools are the best option. | contradiction |
Three kinds of theories of history have been prominent in recent discussion--ending theories, wave theories, and cycle theories. | Five theories of history are most prominent at the moment. | contradiction |
Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month. | 3,000 responses is enough responses to come to reasonable conclusions in regards to their research. | neutral |
But if they just gave the magazine away, advertisers would lose interest. | They had seen this happen before. | neutral |
The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet in effect charged construction authorities with , and international papers roundly condemned their shoddy building standards. | the construction company was grossly under paying their employees. | neutral |
It was about astrologer Linda Ashland's warning that the president needed to postpone his noon swearing in because of adverse astral influences at that hour. | Linda Ashland is an astrologer. | entailment |
The rest of the night was no better. | The night improved. | contradiction |
The important question is not whether these stories are true | All the stories are true. | neutral |
Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them. | Tripp, nor her lawyer, had any knowledge in regard to those tapes. | entailment |
Hopeful parents often seek out donors who are athletic, Ivy League-educated, animal-loving, or acne-free. | One attribute that hopeful parents look for in donors is a hard work ethic. | neutral |
Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. | The Berlin Wall fell 10 years ago. | entailment |
Although it hasn't dominated Seattle's skyline since the '80s, when the economic boom sprouted a host of taller buildings, it remains the city's symbol of progress. | Depressions have led to smaller buildings dominating the Seattle skyline. | contradiction |
So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present. | It would be a positive thing to avoid World War II. | neutral |
(Surprisingly, outdoor air pollution is not to It's better for kids to play outside than inside.) | Kids can play inside or outside. | entailment |
In last week's episode, Apu, the Indian convenience store owner, goes down to the docks to donate porno magazines to sailors. | Apu made a donation to the sailors. | entailment |
It's OK, Leo Strauss Was a Devoted Someone should slip Kenneth Starr a tape of this week's This Week , where Kristol admits to being eliminated from the office NCAA pool. | Kenneth Starr is interested in Kristol. | neutral |
Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies. | Al Gore and his cronies made every effort to try to fix it. | neutral |
The man who gave the Iron Curtain its name is the true democratic hero of our age. | The man was shunned after naming the Iron Curtain. | contradiction |
They were men without color, literally wearing gray and beige and brown. | The only men were men with color. | contradiction |
He must know that no one can be shocked when everyone's in on the joke, but he doesn't seem to want (or to be able) to step outside the camp aesthetic and play anything straight. | If you want to shock someone with a joke, it's important that they're not in on it to begin with. | entailment |
The Week/The Spin is updated throughout the week, the Diary has a new entry daily, and contributions to Dispatches & Dialogues are posted as they arrive. | The three digests have different publication timetables. | entailment |
He gropes female guests, watches porn, drinks monstrously, smokes more, and uses drugs. | he only drinks vast amounts of cheap beer. | neutral |
God knows he's prepared for it. | No one thinks he's ready for it. | contradiction |
We've also revamped our e-mail auto-deliveries to give you more choices. | It cost a lot to revamp the email system. | neutral |
Well, if we extend the co-op's story a little bit, it is not hard to generate something that looks a lot like Japan's problems--and to see the outline of a solution. | Japan is an important component to this story. | entailment |
In a state lottery, your odds of winning depend only on how many tickets you hold compared with everyone else. | A person's odds of winning the state lottery go down when they buy more tickets. | contradiction |
The Heartbeats, a decent R&B cover band in cowboy hats. | The cowboy hats are more performative than they are hats the band authentically likes. | neutral |
The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good. | The West's financial advantage was the only reason they emerged victorious. | neutral |
My opinion is that not every perjury is a high crime, as grounds for removing a president from office. | All perjuries classify as a high crime. | contradiction |
My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright would undoubtedly emphasize that our concern over status exists for good evolutionary reasons. | Robert Wright doesn't just write for the Slate. | neutral |
If not, stadium seating will always be accessible to the average fan. | Stadium seating may not always be accessible to the average fan. | entailment |
But just two weeks later, Charlton shared the distressing news that the couple's love life is being ruined by his penchant for antiques hunting on the He's apparently so caught up in his Net surfing that he forgets Jennifer's keeping his bed warm. | Charlton spends too much time surfing the net. | neutral |
K has no trouble deciding which it is now that he needs a few second-order considerations to refine his argument. | K has no problem figuring out that he needs to refine his argument. | entailment |
Lipinski's camp quickly unveiled her Web site and booked her on television talk shows. | Her team wanted to capitalize on the attention she had received for winning the gold medal. | neutral |
Not only do people appreciate my respect for their preferences, but I also don't have to choose to whom to cater in mixed situations. | Respecting preferences offers its own benefits. | entailment |
Here, again, was a world they could understand. | This world was a mystery. | contradiction |
A couple of serious Before removing any components, you must save copies onto a floppy disk. | Copies are able to be saved to floppy disk. | 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? | There were no survivors of the Russian Gulag. | contradiction |
You mean you want to slip into something that might attract the attention and admiration of a fellow mammal? | By attracting such attention, they could hone their skills as a performer. | neutral |
What's more pernicious about the coverage is that it confuses the qualities of a crusader with those of a president. | The coverage is not completely clear and correct. | entailment |
That was Joyce's age when J.D. summoned her to his hilltop aerie in Cornish, N.H. | NH is a flat state with no hills. | contradiction |
It will be because they hope it may mean a happier, more secure week for their kid and a less anxious one for themselves. | The child will be moving to a safer school. | neutral |
However, most college-bound Colorado students take a different college entrance exam, making the SAT an unreliable measure of school quality. | People in Colorado never go to college. | contradiction |
5) The real outrage is that the fight was boring. | The fight was exciting. | contradiction |
Also, a stunning overhead photo depicts droves of worshipers at Mecca. | Only three people are allowed into Mecca at one time. | contradiction |
A reporter from a major publication cornered me recently, and Nathan, I only have a couple of minutes. | The publication operates out of New York state. | neutral |
When pollsters talk about a representative sample they mean a sampling that accurately reflects the population at large. | The representative sample is not accurate. | neutral |
There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable. | Some people think Asian Economies have been of the rails for awhile. | entailment |
promises one month of free e-mail support. | They are offering a free month of e-mail support. | entailment |
Le Monde 's editorial Sunday said the action might be terribly counterproductive because it won't change the minds of Serbs who believe Milosevic's propaganda, but it will appear pointlessly destructive of human lives to those who don't. | Le Monde provided an opinion regarding the resulting impact of the action. | entailment |
Political analysts pretend to explain the past and predict the future with the same certainty as natural scientists. | In their work, Political analysts attempt to achieve the same level of conviction as natural scientists. | entailment |
His writing is full of sentences that begin something like, As John Cage once asked me ... | His writing contains a lot of sentences that are written a certain way. | entailment |
Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a vir... | No casinos have moved to incorporate online gambling. | contradiction |
I thought of ending the book with his quote, but then some other stuff happened in his life (you'll have to buy the book--$24. | He actually ended up getting married, which is why I could not end the book just yet. | neutral |
When I say, I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night, there's a big dose of Ethel Merman but also some of me. | The big dose of Ethel Merman regards to a shot of tequila. | neutral |
Whether these habits will change on their own, with the maturation of a more tolerant generation, or whether full social acceptance of black Americans will require a concerted governmental effort, is unknowable. | The government can not have an effect on the treatment of black Americans. | contradiction |
Bob Barr, R-Ga., have given speeches to a white citizens' group whose members attended Duke's latest fund raiser. | Bob Barr, R-Ga, have given many speeches at Duke fund raisers. | neutral |
The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras. | The Republican leaders don't want to deal with impeaching Clinton. | entailment |
There will be no Revenge of the Nebbishes , no nebbish liberation. | The Nebbishes are poor people. | neutral |
Right now, I'd settle for a creative genius who could teach us how to think about the population problem. | The author doesn't think they need help thinking about the population problem. | contradiction |
That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all th... | for everything a teacher is armed against, and with everything they give for our children, their pay should be significantly higher. | entailment |
This, he contends, is a symbol of the decline of community spirit and the rise of atomistic individualism. | There is a belief that collective actions are losing to selfish choices. | entailment |
She upset 16-year-old champion Michelle Kwan, who fell down twice during her routine. | Michelle Kwan was very upset with her result. | neutral |
First, why would allowing the interplay of free-market forces imply that stadiums, movie houses, and other mass entertainment centers would become dominated by wealthy people? | A free-market society doesn't just benefit the wealthy. | entailment |
To get your favorite parts of Slate | Readers have favorite sections in Slate. | entailment |
The production of services also roughly doubled--but there was little productivity improvement, and employment grew by 90 percent. | Employment dropped by over 50 percent. | contradiction |
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. | Many people agreed with Clintons direction to deport asylum seekers. | neutral |
And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart. | Parents can donate their heart to their child. | contradiction |
D'Amato's latest strategy--to tar Schumer as a lazy, part-time congressman who skips votes--seems to be backfiring as well. | D'Amato was not afraid to be critical of Schumer. | entailment |
Prudie is so busy sputtering she hopes she can type! | Prudie is having a hard day. | neutral |
Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes. | Philip and Dexter have accelerated licensing of the KKK. You can now buy Mississippi Wind Chime checks. | contradiction |
There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol. | It has been proven that alcohol causes more problems than it solves. | neutral |
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep. | The House Majority leader is a Republican. | entailment |
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. | Many feel nostalgic for the music of the past. | neutral |
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. | Rodgers did not reveal the reason for his hatred of Amelio to Lewis. | contradiction |
You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section. | The concluding section is the opponent's weakest section. | neutral |
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 offers only unbiased information and constantly challenges its readers with opinions that contradict their beliefs. | contradiction |
( Slate 's Explainer examines the bill of attainder at greater length here.) | There is little information available on the bill of attainder. | contradiction |
But if so, this was self-delusion on a really impressive scale. | The delusion brought on was very impressive. | entailment |
Unlike commodity futures or even currency futures that allow farmers or companies to do a better job of projecting their future business, stock options contribute nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets. | stock options greatly promote the functioning of capital markets. | contradiction |
While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote. | Clinton would have benefited as a result of delaying the impeachment vote. | neutral |
And they look so cool. | To onlookers, they appear to be visibly cool. | entailment |
Finkelstein is not breaking new ground here. | Finkelstein was broaching an unknown subject in this particular circumstance. | contradiction |
Last week we purged our delivery lists of people who hadn't subscribed. | They don't keep track of their subscribers. | contradiction |
They can score, but they can't play D. | The team is extremely good at preventing the other team from scoring. | contradiction |
That would, in effect, penalize companies for efficiency and productivity. | Companies will be penalized for being efficient and productive. | entailment |
You may not believe that such intervention will work in practice, but that's a judgment about the rules of politics, not economics. | Claims about if the intervention is capable of providing change is best suited for the rules of economics, not politics. | contradiction |
Reducing very high tax rates can, at the very least, encourage less tax evasion and avoidance. | Everyone things the tax rates should be lowered. | neutral |
Beijing's opposition seems to be driven more by apprehension that Washington might provide theater missile defenses to Taiwan, which China views as a renegade province. | Theater missile defenses are enough of a deterrent against the Chinese. | neutral |
All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt. | There is no penalty for scoring on a bunt. | contradiction |
One week, you're the only one he can turn to when Newt shuts down the government; the next, you're bucking him up for Saddam. | Newt chose to shut down the U.S. government. | entailment |
One is The old neighborhoods are breaking up, and it's the old neighborhoods that produced the mob farm teams. | Mob farm teams come from the old neighborhoods. | entailment |
And now pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert has jumped in with Hall's Zinc Defense, a lozenge backed by a national TV-ad campaign. | Warner-Lambert is a big pharmaceutical company. | entailment |
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