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New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution. | The New Englanders played a role in starting the American Revolution | entailment |
It seems suitable in Saudi Arabia, for example, where women can't vote, since it squashes public expression along with hair. | There are women in Saudi Arabia. | entailment |
When you run for president, you've got to think of the whole country, not just your own state. | The president must think about all of the states. | entailment |
The eternal shortage of judges means that some cases are adjudicated peremptorily. | With time judges may not be needed. | neutral |
In the United States, where inflation and the budget deficit have receded for the time being, vulgar Keynesianism has recently staged an impressive comeback. | Inflation has decreased in the United States. | entailment |
George Mitchell has volunteered to act as a liaison between the Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed in the dispute over British and American intelligence about the crash . | There is a dispute between British and American intelligence. | entailment |
This program should be expanded, perhaps with incentives for police to live in the neighborhoods they patrol full time. | Policeman are more effective at their job if they live in the neighborhood that they patrol. | neutral |
Now I find I hate returning e-mails. | Returning e-mails is now not pleasant. | entailment |
They would simplify background investigations and financial disclosures. | Financial disclosures would be simplified. | entailment |
For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative. | Simova has lived with Albright for many years. | contradiction |
It has been tempting to see in Soutine's flayed forms a premonition of things to come. | Soutine has not created any work of art. | contradiction |
The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them. | The future of East Asia is dependant on Esports. | contradiction |
In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse. | Bread baskets are never cleaned in the restraurant. | contradiction |
When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS. | The who country was unwelcoming of Canadians. | neutral |
Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off. | The friendship was not broken off, they reaffirmed the strength of their relationship. | contradiction |
In January 1993, the Bush administration launched cruise missiles at Baghdad to force compliance. | The U.S. has always has positive relations with Iraq. | contradiction |
Furthermore she wrote, scathingly, about class, and Americans have never liked to hear about class. | The woman wrote negatively about class. | entailment |
Some weeks before, Nash had declined a University of Chicago offer of an endowed chair on the grounds that he was scheduled to become the emperor of Antarctica. | Without hesitation, Nash accepted the offer from the University of Chicago. | contradiction |
Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ). | It is helpful to criticize the computers. | contradiction |
Stephen King dumped his longtime publisher, Viking, and is seeking more than $17 million for his new book. | Stephen King does not work with the publisher Viking anymore and is searching for a new publisher. | entailment |
But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture. | European culture has been the same forever. | contradiction |
But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake. | Buying on margin is a mistake. | neutral |
Holly Brubach, who succeeded Fraser at The New Yorker , kept the standard high during her time there. | Fraser's legacy of high standards were kept in lock-step at The New Yorker by her predecessor, Holly Brubach. | entailment |
That, in turn, might cause a peaceful transition from communism. | Communism is no longer viable. | neutral |
It would be shorter once you got the hang of it. | It will take less time once you gain experience. | entailment |
Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation. | Henry Gonzalez was not only sane, he was a steadfast Republican. | contradiction |
Bloom glides over her motives. | Motives are incapable of being glided over. | contradiction |
He then blames military leaders for overestimating the effectiveness of bombing. | The military leaders, in his view, underestimate how effective bombing can be. | contradiction |
Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed. | Yugoslavia has become an outcast with a wrecked wealth system. | entailment |
The only people in Greenville who support the Southern Connector are the highway contractors who will benefit financially from the project. | The Southern Connector is a project no one wants built. | contradiction |
(David Plotz foretold Brown's departure in a recent Slate Assessment. | David Plotz can see into the future. | neutral |
Vouchers, they argue, are simply a guise for the edu-welfare system to cast its net over several million more families and children. | The edu-welfare system is working as it should. | neutral |
When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made. | When Pooh finally is on CD-ROM, he has made it mainstream. | neutral |
A few years ago I was helping a neighbor thread tracks back onto his bulldozer. | I assisted a person living close to me a couple years ago. | entailment |
I can't remember if it came from the tenure committee or the gentleman's club where I used to lap dance. | I remember where it came from. | contradiction |
Except that the executive who was assigned the difficult task of dealing with the Shopping Avenger, one Jennifer Nemeth, did a provisionally satisfactory job of making the Shopping Avenger happy. | Jennifer Nemeth took care of Shopping Avenger proficiently. | neutral |
I did not plagiarize. | I did in fact plagiarize. | contradiction |
The play is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind, says the New York Times ' Brantley. | The New York Times gave a poor review of the play. | entailment |
A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate. | Arendt is considered a foremost authority on Athenian political debate. | neutral |
Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules. | You will not automatically get a good table. | entailment |
But these targets still seem far out of reach. | The targets will be achieved. | neutral |
A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters. | The play lacked charm, as well as notable characters. | contradiction |
Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it. | Instead of nationalizing the payment scheme from NYC, they scrapped it. | contradiction |
They need more openness, not less. | They are already very open. | neutral |
One unanswered question is how much time Clinton will spend in his home state once his library is completed. | Clinton will spend a lot of time in his home state. | neutral |
Behavior in the Human Male , in its impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged. | Men crave acceptance and liberation. | entailment |
A sidebar speculates that Slobodan Milosevic is probably hoarding chemical weapons, including nerve gas, blister agents, choking compounds, and hallucinogens. | Slobodan Milosevic is a dangerous and threatening individual who might be hoarding chemical weapons. | entailment |
And there--in no small part as a result of that history--it has found itself with very little leverage. | The history is well known to the people. | neutral |
Science reporting in the United States is hampered by the deep-seated conviction that the press knows even better than the people that it's just a bunch of pinheads nattering about nothing. | The press has always felt this way about scientists. | neutral |
Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of father-son talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed. | Levy had a hard time making the father-son talks. | neutral |
The cover profile makes Jerry Seinfeld seem quite charming, if a tad immature. | The cover belongs to Newsweek. | neutral |
You fresh air/fresh ideas | Fresh air and fresh ideas are interchangeable. | entailment |
Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as casuistry in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior. | Casuistry was favorable to individual behaviour because many people that believed in using it were also individualists themselves. | neutral |
There are at least three public accusations against Clinton. | Clinton has multiple allegations tied to him. | entailment |
If there is a good reason, it has to do with our final question. | Our final question will be answered. | neutral |
An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives. | Modern men only need maternal bonds. | contradiction |
Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is indispensable in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles The pair repeat the prediction that even privatization-friendly Dems will cynically whack GOP candidates who dare to support privatizing Social Security. | Steve and Cokie Roberts have many political opponents. | neutral |
The first is that CBS's spiking of the interview turned Wigand into an even bigger story than he would have been otherwise. | CBS did not report the interview they had conducted with Wigand. | contradiction |
When a black wanted to buy a franchise to establish a numbers bank, he went to Bumpy. | Bumpy refused to help minorities. | contradiction |
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. | The Shopping Avenger is a website where people can leave reviews and complaints. | neutral |
But Royko also challenged white Chicago's prejudices, skewering bigots who tried to keep a white couple that had adopted a black baby out of their neighborhood or a funeral parlor that didn't want to bury a black soldier killed in Vietnam. | Royko is a civil rights activist for the black community. | neutral |
6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy. | Another finding indicates that Europe prospers financially because of its multiple trade partners. | neutral |
There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississippi to the slaves who rode with a band of Confederate irregulars. | Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass were acquainted. | entailment |
An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs. | Congress could possibly surpass the budget ceilings. | neutral |
No, because this is something that's private. | Everything is not public. | entailment |
A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew. | In the past dentures were cast by dentists. | entailment |
While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine. | Jail time of one year is the punishment for poisoning dogs. | contradiction |
You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status. | There have been no achievements made by black studies. | contradiction |
The admonition, You become what you behold, has yielded to You become what you belittle. | What you're holding, you will become. | entailment |
I was greatly encouraged to see Michael Goff's proposal of a Microsoft fashion-upgrade strategy, titled Dressing Up the Nerds. | Michael Goff's proposal is very good. | neutral |
The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral. | Dalmatian farming is an emotionally charged situation. | entailment |
Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN. | You shouldn't keep track of the news when there is a lot going on. | contradiction |
Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go. | Goodman was amused that the Crossfire job wasn't difficult. | entailment |
The commander in chief has made a commitment on behalf of the United States, and the United States must honor that commitment. | The commander in chief is representing the United States. | entailment |
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. | My girlfriend is mean to strangers. | neutral |
But from Aumann and Maschler's work, we know that if you've found one consistent solution, you've found them all. | We understand that a single consistent solution is related to other solutions as well. | entailment |
I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out. | There is nothing else she needed to do. | contradiction |
This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women. | He's upwardly mobile yet still young, and potentially attractive to the male executives' wives. | entailment |
Israelis sided with the Serbs against the Croats, who had been truly monstrous toward Jews during the war. | Israel came to the defense of the Serbs without notifying Serbia at all. | neutral |
Young people work in a corporate world by day but play in a moral and cultural universe shaped by the Sixties. | Young people work too hard. | neutral |
Back then, gold was $35 per ounce. | gold was very cheap back then according to most people | neutral |
The movie's lone masterful sequence is the one that features a batch of blank, leggy dolls, along with people whose faces are hidden behind expressive masks. | There are many dolls in the movie's great sequence. | entailment |
In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision. | Sawyer is a lawyer. | neutral |
Over the following week or so I tracked the 20 to 30 auctions for Unreal that were going on, and I eventually won a copy for $18. | The author made a purchase for one copy at a total of $18. | entailment |
The shotgun-marriage rate itself declined only gradually, but that is not surprising. | A shotgun marriage is a truly unethical event. | neutral |
There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget. | Just now, the administration publicly acknowledged their errors. | contradiction |
I think he perceives our friendship as being stronger than it is. | he believes we're closer than we actually are. | entailment |
But Disney Pooh reaches the world. | Disney Pooh is known around the world. | entailment |
An accompanying survey ranks the 100 biggest health Fallon Community comes out on top. | Fallon Community was ranked highest by the survey in terms of health. | entailment |
It's more scary than funny, especially to the brain tumor guy when he finds out that his chief surgeon is Raquel Welch. | Raquel Welch is a low level nurse. | contradiction |
Moreover, to whatever extent you are superior, it is probably the result of genes and attitudes inherited from your parents and not something you created for yourself. | your hereditary results are high quality, it isn't due to hard work. | entailment |
Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow. | due to the frequency that CNN executives crash, CNN allocates 24/7 coverage to stand-by. | entailment |
Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude. | They also take prescription drugs. | neutral |
Newsweek answers its own cover line with an optimistic yes. | Newsweek promised to give their opinion but didn't come through. | contradiction |
Scholes and Merton reportedly are applauded when they appear on the floor of the options exchange, which shows that options traders are at least appreciative, if not deserving, of the rare charities that they receive. | Options traders lent a moment of gratitude to Scholes and Merton when they showed up to the options exchange floor by a round of applause. | entailment |
This kid-gloves treatment reflects our ostensible reluctance to involve ourselves in costly overseas conflicts, and our ostensible respect for the national sovereignty of the foreign countries. | Diplomacy of this kind originates back to World War II. | neutral |
Upon rebooting you'll find that the Internet Explorer icon is gone from your desktop and Windows works fine. | After rebooting, you might also find some of your desktop icons rearranged. | neutral |
For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents. | Pooh was only a moderately successful book for the first 50 years after it was published. | entailment |
Founding editor = permanent voice in growth of Wired ! Move forward together! | The founding editor alone can be credited with the growth of Wired! | neutral |
There would still be an Ahab syndrome. | Ahab syndrome exists. | entailment |
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