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News this week isn't in the Owner Mort Zuckerman has fired Editor James Fallows.
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According to Mort Zuckerman, James Fallows was an outstanding editor.
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contradiction
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A great many of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment.
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We prefer a faith of grace not judgment.
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neutral
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They don't understand that they've lost that fight and that Bush is willing to repudiate the fight and everyone in it--including them--in order to ruin Gore's strategy and beat him.
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Bush will repudiate the fight to beat Gore for the Presidency.
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entailment
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But Ved Mehta was always the butt of the worst abuse.
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Ved Mehta was highly respected and revered by everyone
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contradiction
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He suffered the strange fate of many artists who aim for the sublime, then find their work enlisted in other all-too-human narratives.
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He probably did not like what happened to his work.
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neutral
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This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny.
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The practices are thought by all to be the best for the situation.
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contradiction
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Consequently, the Army can eliminate its weakest candidates--about one-half of blacks and one-third of whites--and still have a large number of blacks--about one-third of the Army.
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As a result, the Army can remove it's weakest candidates and still have a large number of blacks.
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entailment
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Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.
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Moyers and 60 Minutes have the exact same type of journalism style.
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contradiction
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That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.
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That had to do with sex and intoxication.
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entailment
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I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference?
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It didn't make any difference at all.
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contradiction
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Such coverage is good Your Live at Five NewsTeam covers Election '96!
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The Live at Five News Team covers Election '99!
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contradiction
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Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.
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Some people can afford to spend their money on materialistic things.
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neutral
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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.
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Brantley that the play was quite poorly done.
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entailment
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After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.
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After smoking like a haystack after a dozen years I decided to stop trying to bite the bullet.
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contradiction
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So while the colors may fade less, your detergent is also cleaning less.
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If a color fades it means the clothes are completely clean and spotless
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contradiction
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In this group, it's common for moms to march into school at the beginning of the year and obtain several months' worth of assignments in advance so their children can get a head start.
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This group of moms commonly follow their children's progress in school.
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entailment
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Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty, is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is to write of the light's bounty on familiar things.
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Walcott detaches himself so far from his work The Bounty that what is left after the conclusion of the story is an indecipherable mess.
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contradiction
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But what will Daimler get?
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Someone is not sure what Daimler will get.
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entailment
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Scientists are now convinced that a vast internal ocean is, or was recently, roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.
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Scientists are convinced about an internal ocean providing life nutrients.
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entailment
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He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head.
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The author doesn't want to compromise
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entailment
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There was evidence that life was present just as soon as the planet cooled and solidified.
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When the planet cooled, it was to cold for life to form.
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contradiction
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Is it Simhat Torah again already?
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Simhat Torah occurs at the same time every where.
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neutral
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To get your favorite parts of Slate
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Slate is made of different parts more or less enjoyable
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entailment
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Responding to Bauer's assertion that he had never violated his wedding vows, another reporter cracked, President Clinton said that too.
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Bauer, unlike Clinton, was honest in his statement.
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neutral
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In other words, yes.
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Strictly speaking, yes.
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entailment
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Good This Week 's round table signs off by predicting the outcome of Sunday's World Cup final.
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The guess as to who shall win the tournament is correct.
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neutral
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Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993.
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Rumors could have been circulating about Albright before 1993.
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neutral
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Only a handful of the 200,000 Serbs have come back to the Krajina.
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The majority of Serbs came back to the Krajina
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contradiction
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Explainer thanks many Slate readers for suggesting this topic.
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This topic was chosen by the many readers.
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entailment
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Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theory killed all these people.
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Heaven's Gate had an influence on Biskind's book.
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entailment
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Could it be that the claims of Christ make him uncomfortable?
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He has no opinion on the claims of Christ.
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neutral
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Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
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Farmers overuse fertilizers.
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neutral
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Furthermore she wrote, scathingly, about class, and Americans have never liked to hear about class.
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She spoke so nice when she was speaking of class.
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contradiction
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Much of the liberal Catholic case against the pope deals with sexuality.
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There is a case against the pope that deals with sexuality.
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entailment
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Deciding he'd like to make an eccentric regional comedy with universal themes, he journeyed to a village in Ireland, set himself up in the pub, and took notes on what he saw and heard.
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The comedy portrayed parts of Ireland culture in it.
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entailment
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The wrestlers also enact crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.
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The wrestlers play professional football.
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contradiction
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1 is the easy-to-forget point that money shouldn't be able to buy influence with a democratic government.
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Money can be used to get your way with governments.
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entailment
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Her protagonist (Natasha Lyonne) spends her teen-age years being shuttled with her two brothers from one cheap dive to another in the 90210 ZIP code, all because her egregiously unsuccessful father (Alan Arkin) wants them to be educated in the best schools.
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The three siblings develop complex hatred for their father.
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neutral
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On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome.
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Educated people dislike the Marie Antoinette syndrome.
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neutral
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(The magazine's own take is more There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.)
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The magazine's outlook is that things will be the best that they have ever been in society.
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contradiction
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But then I don't know whether you mean that the attraction is physical or that the consummated relationship is physical and sexual.
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It's unclear if the attraction led to sex.
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entailment
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This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today.
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Many mainstream feminists are thought to be stuck in a resentful viewpoint about things.
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entailment
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Jerry Falwell apologized for saying the Antichrist must be Jewish . At a prayer breakfast, he said, I apologize to my Jewish friends here and around the world and I apologize to the Christians here for having created any kind of rift.
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At a prayer breakfast, Jerry Falwell apologized for saying the Antichrist must be Jewish.
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entailment
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It seems no one can stand this, and whenever we encounter friends or relatives, they invariably ask personal questions to try to get each of us to speak ill of the other.
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My family wants everyone to get along, they resolve conflict whenever possible.
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contradiction
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He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.
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Barnes is claiming that the man is being deceitful.
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neutral
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Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.
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The taxi driver in Udayan's movie was from Italy.
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contradiction
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As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.
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Zercher and McGrath are close buddies who enjoy inventing new stories.
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neutral
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The differences among the three publications are probably best illustrated by their varying explanations for the mysterious cast that recently appeared on JFK Jr.'s arm.
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JFK Jr. told all three publications a different story.
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neutral
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But unlike the Manhattan Project--in fact, like no other Big Science project in history--the Genome Project has equipped itself with a research division to explore the social and ethical ramifications of genetics.
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The Manhattan Project is just like the Genome Project.
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contradiction
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You love it up here, don't you?
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You probably love it up here.
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entailment
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It's one of the great British foods like roast beef and pork crackling, he explained.
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British cuisine is often derided for its meager offerings, such as roast beef.
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contradiction
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George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.
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There were many more politicians that would attend.
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neutral
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The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.
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A tip mentioned teakettles were the next big thing in houseware manufacturing.
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entailment
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To get your favorite parts of Slate
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Slate is composed by just one part
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contradiction
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Not until that supremely attractive female butt crossed my radar in Nordstrom did I start to feel better.
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The mood enhancing view before me was but a butt.
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entailment
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Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.
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Americans are skeptical.
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entailment
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How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice?
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Reports of sacrifices to Sun Ra have been translated in many languages
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neutral
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He gropes female guests, watches porn, drinks monstrously, smokes more, and uses drugs.
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He lives extremely piously.
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contradiction
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Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.
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The fan base Dole can provide the GOP is due to her being a woman.
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neutral
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McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.
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By being frank in their public opinions, the pair had nothing to lose.
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contradiction
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But it's uncontroversial that many Congress members are dim.
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Most people agree that many Congress members aren't intelligent.
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entailment
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What makes a late abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now--like a fully formed child.
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Late abortions shouldn't be allowed for any reason
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neutral
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The magazine predicts softer GOP stances on gun control and abortion.
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The magazine feigns ignorance regarding the projected actions of the GOP.
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contradiction
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Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate.
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The grudge is set to explode soon.
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neutral
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But instead of finding his behavior humiliating, as she now tells the Star was the case, the friend says she laughed it off.
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She thought his behavior was funny.
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neutral
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And the editor heard Jacob's plea.
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Jacob's request was very important
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neutral
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Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its cliched depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending.
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The novel is was poorly received by some reviewers.
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entailment
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As Van Buren knew, parties are inherently democratic, the most effective way of organizing otherwise powerless individuals.
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Van Buren was aware that the parties were democratic, which was a great way of bringing together powerless men and women.
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entailment
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the tester meows as he drops the vermin on the developer's doorstep.
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The tester brought the vermin to the developer as a gift
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neutral
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It is a society in which every want is fulfilled.
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Every want is fulfilled in the society.
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entailment
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Her appearance is a needless affront to the president and the presidency, say Carlson and Jack Germond ( Inside Washington ). Tony Blankley (CNN's Late Edition ) sat next to her at dinner and reports she carried herself like a lady, in contrast to certain vulgar attendees who booed her and made classist snipes about her appearance.
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A few people found her presence at dinner offensive.
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entailment
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The admonition, You become what you behold, has yielded to You become what you belittle.
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You become what you behold is the best.
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contradiction
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www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/, where you click No-Frames , which sends you to ...
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You should click on the image on the webpage to get where you want to go.
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contradiction
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Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it.
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Degas was not impressed with the society of France.
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entailment
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Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vows to blow the whistle on candidates who tear down other Republicans.
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Candidates became more cautious about tearing down Republicans after Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson, declared what he would do to those that did so.
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neutral
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Krugman would also have found out that the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is not representative of the way things Bonds are important, and what businessmen are doing is important.
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The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is a rotten apple in a field of well-intentioned businesses.
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neutral
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Pepper and Blanco have conferred with Bush campaign officials in Austin twice since mid-August to discuss their ideas, according to sources on the campaign.
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Pepper and Blanco were in Austin multiple times since mid-August.
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entailment
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The Indonesian movement was a rather spontaneous resistance led by ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes.
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The resistance followed an increase in taxes on the lower and middle classes.
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neutral
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Bush, or the Al Gore who is.
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It is either Bush or Al Gore.
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entailment
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Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation.
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The post office could have developed the United States into a country.
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entailment
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When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all.
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It would be better to "clean" and allow the use of some swear words that are already part of every day's vocabulary
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neutral
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In our conversation, he spoke very forcefully against the special prosecutor (now independent counsel) statute.
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Often times an Independent Counsel will investigate a case and become bias.
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neutral
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And I said, 'Where does Jesse Helms get off saying all these mean things about me?
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There were bad things Jesse Helms said about me.
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entailment
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Eastwood did more to make killing casual than anyone in mainstream cinema.
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Because of the impact of Eastwood in films that featured him putting others to rest, more and more movies would go on to feature this as a main aspect within their films as well.
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neutral
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The shotgun-marriage rate itself declined only gradually, but that is not surprising.
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Other types of marriage are continuing to rise.
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neutral
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Much of this vulnerability may eventually be neutralized by encryption and other tricks.
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A few companies have specific departments related to encryption.
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neutral
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(It's not housebroken, and it's full-grown.)
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It is fill-grown.
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entailment
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Adequately warned, why do people persist in sucking cancer-causing tars into their lungs?
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The author hates the idea of cigarettes in general.
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entailment
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It seems suitable in Saudi Arabia, for example, where women can't vote, since it squashes public expression along with hair.
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Women in Saudi Arabia have fewer rights than women have in USA
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entailment
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How can you be sure your programs are safe?
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I believe, without a doubt that your programs are safe.
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contradiction
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Can you suggest a metaphor for rationalizing my past?
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Please give me some analogy to understand my past.
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entailment
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However, many mental-health professionals argue that a dimensional model makes more sense and would more closely mirror the real world.
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The current model in use has a number of inconsistencies.
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neutral
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In January 1996, Qaddafi promised the nation a $1-billion gift, which has not been received because of U.S. sanctions against Libya.
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Qaddafi would have honored the promise made to his nation if the US didn't intermiddle
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neutral
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The Post wonders if they were watching last month when TCM featured Escape from Alcatraz, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Great Escape.
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TMC played Shawshank redemption instead of the features they were going to play.
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contradiction
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Democrats think they're immune to this attack because they've got both ends of the spectrum On the removal question, the polls are on Clinton's side, and on the moral question, on which the polls are against Clinton, Democrats have acknowledged and condemned his misconduct.
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Democrats are assumed to believe that they are immune to an attack.
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entailment
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The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right.
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The Republican candidate ran against Pat Buchanan in 2000.
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contradiction
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Acclaim for the pulp-fiction writer's 34 th novel.
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Criticism was generated for the 34th novel written by the pulp-fiction author.
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contradiction
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There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner.
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The time to know when you have found the right partner is unknown, but when it arises, it will be clear to you, and you shall proceed from that point, having realized that it is upon you.
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neutral
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Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.
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Buchanan enjoys using unique words in his speech.
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neutral
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Hardly the act of a speculator in a casino.
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The deed is not consistent with that of a calculated gambler.
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entailment
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