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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 has a stable way of running things.	contradiction
Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things.	Falling demand and prices have little in common.	contradiction
To her way of thinking no nonessential spending, no desire to possess things, can ever be innocent or morally neutral.	Spending in nonessential is morally neutral	contradiction
Coke refuses to concede, directing inordinate attention to even tiny neighborhoods.	Coke's strategy was the best possible	neutral
The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.	There are very few people left in the cities.	neutral
A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.	The war against fat was going to be a victory.	neutral
When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.	The claims of Joel Klein are unconving	entailment
Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.	Paul thinks the increase in national savings will help out the economy.	contradiction
And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it?	What's going on up in the balcony is illegal.	neutral
Yankees, Cubs vs.	The Yankees played against the Cubs.	entailment
And Pooh belongs to America for economic reasons as well as literary ones.	Pooh helped crash the stock market.	contradiction
Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me.	Ross believes that everyone but God knows the struggle he's gone through.	contradiction
Comedy attacks.	Not being able to control silliness.	entailment
This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.	Times may have had altimeter motivations when creating the hotlinks between the best-seller list and Barnes and Noble's online bookstore.	neutral
Hey, Mambo!Mambo Italiano ...Go, go, Joe!You mixed-up Siciliano	Joe is proud of his Siciliano heritage.	neutral
The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.	Compulsory voluntarism is corrupt every now and then.	entailment
The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.	Somebody did not spend enough time when working on the Chinese rockets.	neutral
From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate.	Reporters do not seem to care about accuracy in their reports.	neutral
Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.	William Shawn was loved as much as people love taxes	contradiction
The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.	They don't charge extra for the gold-tooled leather boxes that come with the jewels.	neutral
The cover story on Trent Lott doubts that he can control the Republican Senate.	The front page of the newspaper states there are doubts that Trent Lott can control the Republican Senate.	entailment
It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.	He tends to focus on things that aren't helpful.	entailment
Loral denies that its report to the Chinese divulged sensitive information about rocket guidance systems, as a Defense Department report claims.	The Defense Department claims Loral gave China sensitive information in its report last year.	neutral
A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice.	According to Time, the electric car movement is slowing, but will be back in action soon.	neutral
A few years ago I was helping a neighbor thread tracks back onto his bulldozer.	My neighbor returned the favor about helping him not to long ago.	neutral
(In Paragraph 19, Line 106, replace the words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' with the words 'seven hundred fifty million dollars.	Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction is used in a later part of the document.	neutral
Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.	Getting high to celebrate your license is disallowed.	contradiction
I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD.	The email received from the company was one line.	entailment
Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month.	This year they got a larger amount or responses than last.	neutral
Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people.	An NRA bumper sticker reads that governments kill people.	contradiction
She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being.	There may come a time when Culturebox will contain MacDonalds.	neutral
The Republican champion is Philip Morris, which gave $2,131,955.	Philip Morris supports Democrats rather than Republicans.	contradiction
Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology.	They don't use much technology in their daily lives.	neutral
And by planting what looks like a bold idea--that the purpose of campaigning is to engender optimism and renew our faith--he erases his obligation to tell us how he would govern.	The purpose of campaigning is to instill hopefulness.	entailment
Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions.	Paganism is linked to conservative Christianty.	contradiction
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.	All who attended the school grew up locally.	contradiction
New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.	John Simon thought the play should be seen by all who are a fan of the genre.	contradiction
When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?	People believe that fighters in the ultimate fighting sport die frequently.	entailment
A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.	Greenspan worried more than the Fed.	neutral
Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview.	Selma, Alabama's mayor has a strong Southern accent.	neutral
If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary.	Bill Reel thinks it is censorship but there are other opinions.Hon Robin's Baitz's wrote in the New York Times about this.	contradiction
The British company that recently won fame for cloning a sheep is reportedly on the verge of deriving human blood plasma from sheep and cows.	The British company uses additional animals besides the cows and sheep.	neutral
Now they admit they were wrong.	Someone said that they had been correct about everything they have ever said because they are a know it all.	contradiction
President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.	Washington served as the meeting place between Benjamin Netanyahu and Bill Clinton.	entailment
People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look.	Our society is focused more on the essence than on the appearance of people	contradiction
The cover story reports on Robert McNamara's visit with his old North Vietnamese counterparts.	Robert McNamra has an article written about him concerning his mortal enemies in North Vietnam.	contradiction
Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race.	Johnson wasn't the only person he admitted this to.	neutral
But society awaits a popular novelist who is a writer in full--one with Wolfe's eye and a heart to go with it.	The new novelist writes well	neutral
Hives feature the mathematical genius of honeycombs and precise divisions of labor.	Honeycombs are considered to be a marvel mathematically.	entailment
Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator?	Some discussions on the internet often include Big Business or Big Regulator.	neutral
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.	You created your genes.	contradiction
They're political.	Politics are meaningless for them.	contradiction
Well, not behind it per se.	'Per se,' is a Latin phrase.	entailment
Bill Clinton is a master of buttering up journalists by quoting their books and articles back to them.	Bill Clinton is good with author names and remembering what they wrote.	entailment
Maybe next week's Times business section's lead media article should be about whether newspapers have become more like magazines in their struggle to maintain and build readership in these trying digital times.	Newspapers are trying to gain readers because it's hard to survive in todays' digital society	entailment
But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.	Will's journalism was unknown and unread.	contradiction
I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work.	The author is unhappy about the initially high standards imposed on them.	neutral
'Cause, like, I want a Miata.	I desire a certain sports car.	entailment
Sante Kimes, about her odd child-rearing techniques.	The author talks about odd techniques of disciplining children.	entailment
That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt.	He never found his one true love.	neutral
Sticking ice axes in the sides of mountains is a pretty stupid way to get to 29,000 feet as well.	Ice axes are not helpful in all types of mountain terrain.	neutral
You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together.	The personality choices are an act to garner more notoriety.	neutral
The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).	It's possible to determine the sex of someone from their bones	entailment
The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.	If the little bird was unable to get someone to listen we may have missed the teakettle completely.	contradiction
Mind you, not just something wrong, but something that would separate you from God and send you to hell if death came before confession.	God shows no mercy for those who do not confess.	neutral
Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.	Loved ones sued the Globe for spreading gossip about their deceased family members.	neutral
After all, it's only a movie.	People take movies to heart.	neutral
Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin?	$25 million has been alloted for Wisconsin.	entailment
Best of category is a tough one here.	It is very easy to pick the best category.	contradiction
From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program.	Clinton isn't adopting the common viewpoint	entailment
Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers.	All web advertisers value the same things.	neutral
Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.	Culturebox knows everything about Fish.	contradiction
Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes.	Ellen DeGeneres has been already grilled for being homosexual	neutral
I think our country deserves a president who, when he makes a mistake, is willing to acknowledge it and willing to learn from it, because I believe that the presidency is not an academic exercise.	The nation needs a leader who admits to errors.	entailment
TUMORS AND IS A TERMINAL ILLNESS.	Tumors will lead to cancer.	neutral
By the end, just before his death from rectal cancer (a grimly appropriate fate for the author of The Search for Fecality, in which he Is god a being?	He didn't realize the irony of dying to rectal cancer and his authorship of a book about fecality.	neutral
Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.	Palestinian Authority police are not suspects in the murder.	contradiction
, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.	Explosives are safe and one can't be prosecuted for using them.	contradiction
That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone.	You might want to think twice before following these requests	neutral
In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.	He doesn't mind filling his bag with the bread of the restaurants	entailment
Taylor proposes that teen-agers on welfare be paid to use an implanted device to prevent pregnancy.	Taylor is of the belief that teenagers should have babies liberally.	contradiction
The vote on Proposition 227 is evidence of the public will, says Gigot--the people reject screwy ideas such as bilingual education.	Proposition 227 was embraced by all the public citizens.	contradiction
He calls his artists No Limit Soldiers.	No Limit Soldiers are artists.	entailment
The Supreme Court has never ruled on FISA, and it did not overturn a McCarthy-era statute which, like the removal court, was used to deport noncriminal aliens based on their political affiliations.	FISA has never been ruled upon by the Supreme Court.	entailment
The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.	The forces are causing disorder in orthography and semantics.	contradiction
A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ...	Preachers and leaders want to use the same phrases.	neutral
To get reporters to stop asking about Lewinsky, Clinton doesn't have to give them the truth, he just has to tire them out.	Clinton knows talking about Lewinsky would be bad.	neutral
Reply All, our experimental novel-by-e-mail written by three anonymous authors in three different cities, moves outside the subscription wall for a while, beginning today.	The three anonymous authors are all from the same city.	contradiction
A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.	India has been an independent country for half a century.	entailment
It's only the sincere consideration of a job doing something you truly believe in that can wreck your career in journalism.	Journalism is an unstable career.	neutral
After its early failure, Hubble now provides vital clues to the universe.	Hubble was not initially successful.	entailment
A considerably audible tsk, tsk I send you, Slate.	Slate, I am disappointed in you.	entailment
For the first time, the standard of living for the nation's poor (although not the very poor) is rising.	The poor are worse off than ever before.	contradiction
She is also enjoying the imprimatur of the law.	She believes that the law is in good standing.	entailment
In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.	The casino shows a lack of remorse for the health of their customers.	contradiction
Administration officials confirmed that Clinton was deliberately 1) rolling out the carpet to enhance Arafat's prestige and 2) sending Israel a warning not to screw up the peace process by provoking further conflict.	Clinton trusted Israel not to mess up the peace process.	contradiction
Obviously, it's easy for me to complain about players who aren't big on self-effacement or deference to authority.	The author is a part of the law enforcement agency that the players disrespect.	neutral
In the Times of London Monday, Clarke was quoted as saying, There is no truth whatsoever in the allegations that the Sunday Mirror are making against me, and they are very hurtful.	The Sunday Mirror stated that Clarke was a womanizer.	neutral
As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee, remarking on the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods.	The Kentucky postal system was a frequently studied topic by historians.	neutral
Like many NBA old-timers, Bird deplores the MTVification of the league.	Bird Loves the direction the NBA has gone.	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 has a stable way of running things.

contradiction

Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things.

Falling demand and prices have little in common.

contradiction

To her way of thinking no nonessential spending, no desire to possess things, can ever be innocent or morally neutral.

Spending in nonessential is morally neutral

contradiction

Coke refuses to concede, directing inordinate attention to even tiny neighborhoods.

Coke's strategy was the best possible

neutral

The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.

There are very few people left in the cities.

neutral

A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.

The war against fat was going to be a victory.

neutral

When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.

The claims of Joel Klein are unconving

entailment

Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.

Paul thinks the increase in national savings will help out the economy.

contradiction

And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it?

What's going on up in the balcony is illegal.

neutral

Yankees, Cubs vs.

The Yankees played against the Cubs.

entailment

And Pooh belongs to America for economic reasons as well as literary ones.

Pooh helped crash the stock market.

contradiction

Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me.

Ross believes that everyone but God knows the struggle he's gone through.

contradiction

Comedy attacks.

Not being able to control silliness.

entailment

This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.

Times may have had altimeter motivations when creating the hotlinks between the best-seller list and Barnes and Noble's online bookstore.

neutral

Hey, Mambo!Mambo Italiano ...Go, go, Joe!You mixed-up Siciliano

Joe is proud of his Siciliano heritage.

neutral

The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.

Compulsory voluntarism is corrupt every now and then.

entailment

The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.

Somebody did not spend enough time when working on the Chinese rockets.

neutral

From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate.

Reporters do not seem to care about accuracy in their reports.

neutral

Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.

William Shawn was loved as much as people love taxes

contradiction

The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.

They don't charge extra for the gold-tooled leather boxes that come with the jewels.

neutral

The cover story on Trent Lott doubts that he can control the Republican Senate.

The front page of the newspaper states there are doubts that Trent Lott can control the Republican Senate.

entailment

It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things.

He tends to focus on things that aren't helpful.

entailment

Loral denies that its report to the Chinese divulged sensitive information about rocket guidance systems, as a Defense Department report claims.

The Defense Department claims Loral gave China sensitive information in its report last year.

neutral

A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice.

According to Time, the electric car movement is slowing, but will be back in action soon.

neutral

A few years ago I was helping a neighbor thread tracks back onto his bulldozer.

My neighbor returned the favor about helping him not to long ago.

neutral

(In Paragraph 19, Line 106, replace the words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' with the words 'seven hundred fifty million dollars.

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction is used in a later part of the document.

neutral

Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.

Getting high to celebrate your license is disallowed.

contradiction

I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD.

The email received from the company was one line.

entailment

Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month.

This year they got a larger amount or responses than last.

neutral

Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people.

An NRA bumper sticker reads that governments kill people.

contradiction

She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being.

There may come a time when Culturebox will contain MacDonalds.

neutral

The Republican champion is Philip Morris, which gave $2,131,955.

Philip Morris supports Democrats rather than Republicans.

contradiction

Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology.

They don't use much technology in their daily lives.

neutral

And by planting what looks like a bold idea--that the purpose of campaigning is to engender optimism and renew our faith--he erases his obligation to tell us how he would govern.

The purpose of campaigning is to instill hopefulness.

entailment

Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions.

Paganism is linked to conservative Christianty.

contradiction

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.

All who attended the school grew up locally.

contradiction

New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.

John Simon thought the play should be seen by all who are a fan of the genre.

contradiction

When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?

People believe that fighters in the ultimate fighting sport die frequently.

entailment

A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.

Greenspan worried more than the Fed.

neutral

Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview.

Selma, Alabama's mayor has a strong Southern accent.

neutral

If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary.

Bill Reel thinks it is censorship but there are other opinions.Hon Robin's Baitz's wrote in the New York Times about this.

contradiction

The British company that recently won fame for cloning a sheep is reportedly on the verge of deriving human blood plasma from sheep and cows.

The British company uses additional animals besides the cows and sheep.

neutral

Now they admit they were wrong.

Someone said that they had been correct about everything they have ever said because they are a know it all.

contradiction

President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.

Washington served as the meeting place between Benjamin Netanyahu and Bill Clinton.

entailment

People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look.

Our society is focused more on the essence than on the appearance of people

contradiction

The cover story reports on Robert McNamara's visit with his old North Vietnamese counterparts.

Robert McNamra has an article written about him concerning his mortal enemies in North Vietnam.

contradiction

Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race.

Johnson wasn't the only person he admitted this to.

neutral

But society awaits a popular novelist who is a writer in full--one with Wolfe's eye and a heart to go with it.

The new novelist writes well

neutral

Hives feature the mathematical genius of honeycombs and precise divisions of labor.

Honeycombs are considered to be a marvel mathematically.

entailment

Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator?

Some discussions on the internet often include Big Business or Big Regulator.

neutral

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.

You created your genes.

contradiction

They're political.

Politics are meaningless for them.

contradiction

Well, not behind it per se.

'Per se,' is a Latin phrase.

entailment

Bill Clinton is a master of buttering up journalists by quoting their books and articles back to them.

Bill Clinton is good with author names and remembering what they wrote.

entailment

Maybe next week's Times business section's lead media article should be about whether newspapers have become more like magazines in their struggle to maintain and build readership in these trying digital times.

Newspapers are trying to gain readers because it's hard to survive in todays' digital society

entailment

But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.

Will's journalism was unknown and unread.

contradiction

I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work.

The author is unhappy about the initially high standards imposed on them.

neutral

'Cause, like, I want a Miata.

I desire a certain sports car.

entailment

Sante Kimes, about her odd child-rearing techniques.

The author talks about odd techniques of disciplining children.

entailment

That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt.

He never found his one true love.

neutral

Sticking ice axes in the sides of mountains is a pretty stupid way to get to 29,000 feet as well.

Ice axes are not helpful in all types of mountain terrain.

neutral

You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together.

The personality choices are an act to garner more notoriety.

neutral

The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).

It's possible to determine the sex of someone from their bones

entailment

The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.

If the little bird was unable to get someone to listen we may have missed the teakettle completely.

contradiction

Mind you, not just something wrong, but something that would separate you from God and send you to hell if death came before confession.

God shows no mercy for those who do not confess.

neutral

Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.

Loved ones sued the Globe for spreading gossip about their deceased family members.

neutral

After all, it's only a movie.

People take movies to heart.

neutral

Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin?

$25 million has been alloted for Wisconsin.

entailment

Best of category is a tough one here.

It is very easy to pick the best category.

contradiction

From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program.

Clinton isn't adopting the common viewpoint

entailment

Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers.

All web advertisers value the same things.

neutral

Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.

Culturebox knows everything about Fish.

contradiction

Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes.

Ellen DeGeneres has been already grilled for being homosexual

neutral

I think our country deserves a president who, when he makes a mistake, is willing to acknowledge it and willing to learn from it, because I believe that the presidency is not an academic exercise.

The nation needs a leader who admits to errors.

entailment

TUMORS AND IS A TERMINAL ILLNESS.

Tumors will lead to cancer.

neutral

By the end, just before his death from rectal cancer (a grimly appropriate fate for the author of The Search for Fecality, in which he Is god a being?

He didn't realize the irony of dying to rectal cancer and his authorship of a book about fecality.

neutral

Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.

Palestinian Authority police are not suspects in the murder.

contradiction

, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.

Explosives are safe and one can't be prosecuted for using them.

contradiction

That is why it implores you to reach out and touch someone.

You might want to think twice before following these requests

neutral

In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.

He doesn't mind filling his bag with the bread of the restaurants

entailment

Taylor proposes that teen-agers on welfare be paid to use an implanted device to prevent pregnancy.

Taylor is of the belief that teenagers should have babies liberally.

contradiction

The vote on Proposition 227 is evidence of the public will, says Gigot--the people reject screwy ideas such as bilingual education.

Proposition 227 was embraced by all the public citizens.

contradiction

He calls his artists No Limit Soldiers.

No Limit Soldiers are artists.

entailment

The Supreme Court has never ruled on FISA, and it did not overturn a McCarthy-era statute which, like the removal court, was used to deport noncriminal aliens based on their political affiliations.

FISA has never been ruled upon by the Supreme Court.

entailment

The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.

The forces are causing disorder in orthography and semantics.

contradiction

A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ...

Preachers and leaders want to use the same phrases.

neutral

To get reporters to stop asking about Lewinsky, Clinton doesn't have to give them the truth, he just has to tire them out.

Clinton knows talking about Lewinsky would be bad.

neutral

Reply All, our experimental novel-by-e-mail written by three anonymous authors in three different cities, moves outside the subscription wall for a while, beginning today.

The three anonymous authors are all from the same city.

contradiction

A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.

India has been an independent country for half a century.

entailment

It's only the sincere consideration of a job doing something you truly believe in that can wreck your career in journalism.

Journalism is an unstable career.

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After its early failure, Hubble now provides vital clues to the universe.

Hubble was not initially successful.

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A considerably audible tsk, tsk I send you, Slate.

Slate, I am disappointed in you.

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For the first time, the standard of living for the nation's poor (although not the very poor) is rising.

The poor are worse off than ever before.

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She is also enjoying the imprimatur of the law.

She believes that the law is in good standing.

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In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.

The casino shows a lack of remorse for the health of their customers.

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Administration officials confirmed that Clinton was deliberately 1) rolling out the carpet to enhance Arafat's prestige and 2) sending Israel a warning not to screw up the peace process by provoking further conflict.

Clinton trusted Israel not to mess up the peace process.

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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 is a part of the law enforcement agency that the players disrespect.

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In the Times of London Monday, Clarke was quoted as saying, There is no truth whatsoever in the allegations that the Sunday Mirror are making against me, and they are very hurtful.

The Sunday Mirror stated that Clarke was a womanizer.

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As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee, remarking on the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods.

The Kentucky postal system was a frequently studied topic by historians.

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Like many NBA old-timers, Bird deplores the MTVification of the league.

Bird Loves the direction the NBA has gone.

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