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Similarly, Bush boasts that he's a uniter, not a divider, while the RLC complains that Forbes, by criticizing Dole in 1996, caused fighting within the Republican Party that was divisive and not inclusive.
Bush boasts that he's a divider, and that he caused the Republican party to split.
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If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.
It's a very positive sign that 20% of new mutual fund money is going into indexed funds.
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And at the end, when Baryshnikov throws himself into the arms of his father, who wraps him in his prayer shawl, one gets a powerful sense of the goodness of man and God.
If not for the prayer shawl, people wouldn't think of God.
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So if we really want to pull every possible moral out of our story, we should think about the other people whose interests are at stake when you decide to buy a house.
The author doesn't want to go through with pulling every moral out of a story.
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That ought to impress Ellen Barkin.
Ellen Barkin will consider it unimpressive.
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aside for the kids' education and--BOP--I have so much trouble with that the
They don't have any trouble with anything.
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The more Brown is attacked, the better she does.
Brown tends to panic when facing criticism
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know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure,
This sadness is for leaving yourself that wishes to stay.
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More importantly, it reminds us that racial identity is utterly malleable--and that racial essence is utterly artificial.
Racial identity is easy to change.
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At night we sometimes had sex outside on the deck--and even in a swing hanging from a tree in her front yard.
We had sex on the chimney
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Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market.
Microsoft's first Internet Browser was not very popular among others at first.
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From an erratic performance on the David Letterman show to a violent confrontation with a boyfriend to the latest, her odd behavior at the Cannes Film Festival.
She was heavily involved with drugs at the time.
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We may have lumped several different diseases together in describing the syndrome.
Using the various diseases as reference helped to shed light on how the syndrome functions.
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I'm afraid to step out of the car.
People are relieved to step out of a car.
contradiction
This was the 10 th study since 1975--and all studies showed similar problems.
Each study since 1975 showed a problems unique from one another.
contradiction
So while the colors may fade less, your detergent is also cleaning less.
There are some detergents able to clean deeply without ruining the colors
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In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole.
News Corp. is planning to challenge ESPN for the crown of top sports network.
entailment
After sampling more than 35 different toothpastes, my researchers and I came to some conclusions about taste.
Effectiveness of the toothpaste was also compared.
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If that is the administration's strategy, it is foolhardy.
This administration's strategy is reckless.
entailment
In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment.
The mob didn't exist in the '60s or '70s.
contradiction
Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.
The magnates have the wealth to own major media outlets.
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Heston has all the physical equipment--brain, voice, good looks--but not the hunger.
Heston has hunger and physical equipment excedding all others.
contradiction
The protective aura that once insulated the family has vanished.
Long since, many a decade have past and the aura has yet to return.
neutral
There was evidence that life was present just as soon as the planet cooled and solidified.
When life showed up everything was nice and solid with a cooler climate.
entailment
Had Apple allowed Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, perhaps even IBM to build hardware running the Mac OS, it might very well have seen its software become the industry standard.
Instead of becoming the industry standard, it was quickly surpassed by Windows.
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Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them.
The pro-choice advocates have added clarity to the debate over late -term abortions.
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Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.
It is right to overlook a strike.
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To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success.
Discrimination has increased in our country over the past few years.
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When I checked a couple of years ago, the shelter population had indeed increased, but only by a handful of families.
There were very few families at the shelter a few years ago.
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In other words, on a day when George Bush was supposedly distancing himself from conservative Republicans, he was actually caving to their foolish dogma on the issue at the center of campaign--over the objection of his two top advisors on the subject.
George Bush's top two advisors did not agree with conservative republicans on the issues of the campaign.
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Despite all the completely compelling arguments offered in the preceding paragraphs, it would be silly and dishonest to insist that
The arguments were written by a college professor.
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As far as Pundit Central knows, this is the first instance of talking heads elevating their own comments to the status of newsworthy chat fodder.
Talking heads does not want anybody reading about them.
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At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none.
Ken Starr did not lose any of his legal battles.
entailment
The answer to the question How does the device work?
The question is probably how does this device work.
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Columnist Robert Novak , supply-side evangelist Jude Wanniski , and Jack Kemp have all praised Farrakhan's self-help program, noting the similarities to their own conservative urban policy.
Jude Wanniski did not like Farrakhans self help program.
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
Lewis was promoted by Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite, as he had been seen in a most favorable way by them all.
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Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the double dividend debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it.
There is disagreement regarding pollution taxes.
contradiction
Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex
Leonardo was uninterested in any other type of water.
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It's very simple, really--$5 million isn't worth five times as much as $1 million.
It could not be so simple to individuals on the worth of five million.
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Obviously, it's easy for me to complain about players who aren't big on self-effacement or deference to authority.
The author likes to complain about players that don't respect the law.
entailment
GS's Saturday Evening Post articles eerily suggest words we were to hear 50 or 60 years later.
GS's Saturday Evening Post writings use unusual words
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My wish is to make this marriage work because I love my wife, but I am feeling like second fiddle to a gang of girls.
The man wants a divorce.
contradiction
As for the victory in Chechnya, it's a mirage.
It is not a real fact that Chechnya won.
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It's an odd maxim for a man whose work is dedicated to the idea that the way to amass wealth is to take it, not create it.
The man had an enormous sum of money embezzled from his company.
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According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.
The Jews used the word nebbich, which was from their neighbors in Slavic countries during the eleventh century.
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Bill, our program manager (chief tech guy) answers questions about problems and possibilities in reading SLATE.
Bill works alone in the department.
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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.
The Checkout-Line Factor deters the buying of groceries.
neutral
There is an increased sense of desperation in China about Taiwan.
In China with regards to Taiwan there is an increased sense of desperation.
entailment
Natural dark-haired beauty--despised or exoticized for eons by Europeans, Britons, and Americans--has at last been universally recognized and welcomed.
Europeans, Britons, and Americans used to despise dark hair beauties
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But it's a heckuva lot more arduous to conduct, in effect, a nationally televised cross-examination than to spend night after night droning, So Ms.
The droning night after night is televised.
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To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.
The Rolling Stones are on tour with other bands.
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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.
During the economic boom, there were only a few buildings with many stories built.
contradiction
And the occasional drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance--for both sexes--is probably key to enduring marriages.
Taking time far from your partner helps marriages
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Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so.
He has all the necessary tools to adequately complete his mission.
contradiction
As Buchanan put it, the boys in the War Room had won a little victory today over this little girl who is going to be denied justice.
The little girl is not being treated fairly.
entailment
Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview.
All majority Black cities elect Black mayors.
contradiction
While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.
The forth quality is worse than the first three.
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And you have to keep experimenting with alterations and examining the results as external conditions change over time.
Even if you think the change in results is small you should keep experimenting
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And bicycles, once the vigorous instruments of suburban freedom, are rarely spotted in the playground; parents fear for their kids in heavy suburban traffic.
Parents don't want to let their kids ride bikes anymore due to fear of accidents.
entailment
President Clinton, comparing the negotiations to those over the 1996 welfare bill, signaled that he will accept a compromise plan.
The 1996 warfare bill was highly contested.
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His shows are more 700 Club than Crossfire . His guests almost always share Moyers' belief about the topic at hand.
Moyers' does not like when people disagree with him.
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A spate of explicit parental responsibility laws passed by states and communities over the last couple of years give judges the power to make parents pay for juvenile detention or undergo counseling with their kids.
Parents currently have to pay for their kids' counseling.
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In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.
Sontag approved of communism back in the day.
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There is an increased sense of desperation in China about Taiwan.
The Chinese Feel threatened by Taiwan's autonomy.
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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 died of cancer.
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And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, infrequent communications with family and the outside world.
Trains would suffer from crowding and a lack of privacy if more executives rode the subway.
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I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it.
I have never been published in the New Republic.
contradiction
Most Americans will have a tough time living up to its standards.
Every American found it very easy to live up to the standards.
contradiction
Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg.
Chatterbox purchased several books edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg.
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People will argue about where to draw the line.
The line is agreed upon by all people.
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When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.
Compared to the 3rd US President, Stewart is more charming but less savvy.
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Upon him All ultimatelyrests.
He enjoys his position.
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So far, Campbell and Frank have enlisted only 34 co-signers, and the administration shows no signs of paying attention.
Campbell and Frank are breaking records for the amount of co-signers they have enlisted.
contradiction
What's wrong with informing certain segments of the electorate that your opponent is using the feel-good rhetoric of solutions to pull a fast one at their expense?
The other candidate embellishes the truth to satisfy the entire voting population.
contradiction
They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages.
William Ginsburg was upset about leaving.
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The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art just hired its new head away from Disney.
The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art hired a new leader.
entailment
It just means they're really, really serious about you.
Someone is really really serious about someone else.
entailment
The Post reminds readers of what else she said (Hillary's words are in italics):
The Post, embarrassed by Hillary's statements, wishes everyone forgot about the whole ordeal.
contradiction
That's not an irrefutable disproof that discrimination exists, but it's at least a calculation that needs to be taken seriously.
It's something that should not be disregarded and that should not be taken lightly.
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Sunday's NYT was more than a little fascinated with the topic of whether or not companies with 20th Century in their names would change with the times.
There has never been a company with 20th Century in their name.
contradiction
Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.
The lesbian/bisexual female does not have much context of work place discrimination.
contradiction
We don't have rational drug policies in the streets or public schools because we don't have rational discussions about drug use.
Drug use is a wide spread problem in both our community and our education system.
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Democrats complain that given the amount of time they spend with Geraldo, diGenova and Toensing can't possibly be doing their government job.
diGenova and Toensing aren't performing their job duties because they spend too much time with Gerardo.
entailment
Chief among Will China preserve the rule of law and free speech, which are essential for business prosperity?
China's rules impact business.
entailment
A year ago, the wife of the Oxford don noticed that the pattern on Kleenex quilted tissue uncannily resembled the Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings pattern, which Sir Roger had invented--and copyrighted--in 1974.
Sir Roger invented the Kleenex.
contradiction
Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental.
We may not knoe until then is this is real money or funny money.
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So much for the cruel stereotype of the pea-brained dinosaur.
Dinosaurs may be more intelligent than believed.
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Critics argued workers can quit a union if they don't like its political activities and that any debate about regulating union money should be taken up separately.
Critics assert that employees of a union should willingly convert themselves to the union's political preferences.
contradiction
DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors.
Our ancestors were Neanderthals, as shown by DNA evidence.
contradiction
You could argue that Joe Avid is so hooked on Slate that we can afford to put him over a barrel at the micropayment rate, even though it means that he will pay a lot more.
Joe Avid has worked at Slate for the past decade.
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( Slate published a piece co-authored by Glass last year.
Slate's pieces was co-authored by King two years ago.
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If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?
Big government apparently triumphed.
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This is, admittedly, just a single line from a long-ago interview, but it suggests that the Clintons are locked into a denial.
The denial of the Clintons is suggested by the interview.
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Growing up to be Gwyneth Paltrow makes her more bewitching but no less blank.
The actress was born at age 57.
contradiction
The 1990s even saw a major overhaul, when Charlotte introduced magnet schools devoted to excellence in a single area, such as math, and open to students from all neighborhoods--to give whites extra incentive to travel long distances to school.
Charlotte became a leader in education after introducing magnet schools.
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After all, they don't offer employees car insurance.
Car insurance isn't something offered by this company.
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The Heartbeats, a decent R&B cover band in cowboy hats.
The Heartbeats play music written mainly by Afro-American singers or bands
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variety at the stand-ups, and pleasant trifles at the washstands.
Variety is better than pleasant trifles.
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But my point Who's going to hire him?
The author isn't sure who wants to hire the guy.
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Wearing a suit and working at a computer in an office tower are, believe it or not, preferable to backbreaking work in a rice paddy.
Agricultural tasks are done on the top floors of office towers.
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