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The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores.
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Amazon delivered the Turow earlier than the other stores
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contradiction
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And in a final act of disintermediation, Son of 695 retaliates against all these mayors and council members who thought they got the drop on It will roll back all taxes and fees increased since July 1999, when I-695 qualified for the ballot.
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All the mayors and council members didn't think I-695 would pass.
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neutral
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. The reason Jews have an injunction against portraying God is that Neanderthals cannot draw.
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There are no depictions of god the Jewish people will accept.
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neutral
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They have mainstream acceptance and no shock value, and are worn by young career women and old grandmothers alike.
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There are things widely accepted and equally used by young and old women
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entailment
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Starr is batting 10 for 10 against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's not a rogue prosecutor (Susan Page, Late Edition ). The judge was downright scornful of the White House, adds Barnes.
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The attorney has won all battles in court thus far, relating to the Commander in Chief, according to the journalist, showing the legitimacy of the prosecuting attorney. The court appointee presiding over the cases was contemptuous.
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entailment
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My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer.
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I have multiple personality disorder.
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neutral
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Until two years ago, it was ritual among Supreme Court-watchers to speculate that this term would be Rehnquist's last.
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People were always expecting Rehnquist's term on the Supreme Court to come to an end.
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entailment
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A 1990 study found that 28 percent of children diagnosed with the disorder didn't actually meet the definition.
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Doctors were under pressure to make quick diagnoses.
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neutral
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The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals.
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Each weeks this show is appealing to good-government liberals.
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entailment
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It's true that many, many Jews will be killed.
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Israelites must seek political refuge.
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neutral
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There are many things that are permitted to adults--e.g.
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Adults are allowed to do a lot of things.
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entailment
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Nearing the end of my trip, I realize that my observations have been largely about race.
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The author realizes they made superficial observations.
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entailment
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But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant.
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Yeltsin appointed many people that weren't a member of his party.
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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 also predicts a substantial rise in income tax.
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neutral
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Our technological improvements have dramatically slowed natural selection.
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Technological improvements are being created for the purpose of slowing natural selection.
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neutral
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Newsweek 's cover story hails the success of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been a huge achievement for science
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entailment
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But sadly, I haven't had sex in five years.
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I've been much too busy to have sex.
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neutral
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But in the world we live in--or at least in the neighborhood I live in--there are so many interchangeable dry cleaners that none of them should be able to get away with exploiting anyone.
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Dry cleaners are interchangeable.
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entailment
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And the name of that guy?
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It happens to forget the name of a girl
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entailment
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A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.
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A pair of inventing brothers are building a Model-T race car, which costs $179,400, and contains complicated controls.
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contradiction
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Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient.
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David Cook has been in medical school for two years already.
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neutral
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Instead, they looked the other way.
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They continued looking the same way.
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contradiction
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What's completely intolerable is to be accurately quoted and seen--even by yourself--to be no better than you actually are.
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You see yourself as perfect in all situations.
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contradiction
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These pronouncements on subjective issues annoy me no end.
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The announcements on issues that are up to interpretation one thinks are irritating.
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entailment
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He Moves in Mysterious Proving himself as adept with a parable as with a football, Rep.
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He is an open book.
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contradiction
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(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.)
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George W. Bush's 1979 Campaign for congress was against a member of the green party, the only other person running for that office that year.
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neutral
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Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.
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The occidental culture is going to be replaced by other cultures in a distant future
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neutral
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By June, Gerth was writing, with a tinge of desperation, that the Pentagon did not find grave damage but did conclude that the United States national security had been harmed.
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The Pentagon ignores damage to the United States.
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contradiction
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Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.
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The magazines are full of unmitigated praise.
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contradiction
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to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision,
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I ask again in detail.
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entailment
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But if they just gave the magazine away, advertisers would lose interest.
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Those who purchase adverts would not be fond of free publications being handed out.
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entailment
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In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter.
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They are biased
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entailment
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(Read the transcripts of the better CNN chats here . Look for the Allpolitics section toward the bottom of the page.)
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The page only contains sections about sports.
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contradiction
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We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests.
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We who have fun together share the same interests.
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entailment
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The 17-year-old Jess Gupta (male student), for example, is listed as a housewife in another filing.
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Jess Gupta may be gay.
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neutral
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The explanation is partly the frog-in-hot-water phenomenon (he'll jump out if you drop him in boiling water, but not if you put him in cold water and slowly heat it to boiling).
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Frogs do not notice the water is getting hot if heated slowly.
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entailment
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Internet telephony, one of the coolest new online applications, illustrates packet switching's drawbacks.
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Internet telephony will be around for years.
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neutral
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Time says Dolly the cloned sheep could be a fake.
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Dolly may be an elaborate hoax.
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entailment
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Simpson defense : law professor Barry Scheck and forensic expert Henry Lee.
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Simpson's defense includes a professor and forensics expert.
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entailment
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Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.
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Culture has continued to get more bizarre over the years.
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neutral
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Right now, I'd settle for a creative genius who could teach us how to think about the population problem.
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There is a genius alive right now who can help us with this.
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neutral
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In the meantime, Ventura is pursuing the Bulworth option.
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Ventura is following the Stalin method.
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contradiction
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I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship.
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Your friend lives in Happy Texas.
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neutral
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And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development.
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The only route for economic development is based on low manufactured exports.
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neutral
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He brought along this whole plane full of African-Americans, and some of our really fine citizens are African-Americans in government, in business, in athletics, in show business.
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One Hispanic-American was found in a luggage compartment after the plane landed.
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neutral
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However, from my own experience, a newborn becomes a 12-month-old and then an 18-month-old rather quickly.
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When you're a parent kids begin crawling then walking too quickly.
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neutral
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Please note that, like a reheated stew, this dodge works even better after a military action has begun.
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Military action has a negative effect on the dodge.
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contradiction
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The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet.
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Santeria began in New York and spread to the West Inies at a later time.
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contradiction
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Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me.
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Rudolph Giuliani has a rival in the senate trying to take the seat.
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neutral
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We have never been a moral majority, concedes one.
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Someone expresses regret for being a moral majority.
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contradiction
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He said, 'Was this an attempt to subvert the Constitution?
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He said, "subvert the Constitution."
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contradiction
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About what you did to that nice Galileo?
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You completed a nice Galileo.
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entailment
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The magazine profiles former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, who now heads the University of Cape She has won admirers (and enemies) by insisting that the university not adjust its standards to favor black students.
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There is an article in the magazine about Mamphela Ramphele.
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entailment
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(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)
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People are having a hard time accepting Clinton's popularity.
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neutral
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Except the Jews, who have to sit inside and watch Davey and Goliath over and over and over again.
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The show is on television.
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neutral
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Let's consider President Bush's nostalgic invocation of the Soviet military.
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President Bush looked back on the Soviet military with great nostalgia.
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entailment
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The reader is led to despise one character because of his bad taste in neckties, but not to hold racism and homophobia against another.
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The reader makes up their own mind on how they judge a character.
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neutral
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So why persist in newspaper reading?
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Newspapers all went out of business in the last century.
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contradiction
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No, it'll be a grudge match between Reeves and Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, whom Reeves fired as the Broncos' offensive coordinator years ago for insubordination.
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Reeves and Shanahan get along very well together.
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contradiction
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Modern legislation and regulation are technical and complex.
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Laws in the past were much easier to understand.
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neutral
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Some medical ethicists and constitutional scholars say that the Supreme Court was wrong to create the pre-viability/post-viability distinction in the first place.
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A medical ethicist is condemning the creation of the distinction by the Supreme Court.
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entailment
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Nigeria then sent troops to challenge the coup, evidently to restore the president and repair Nigeria's corrupt image abroad.
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The president was successfully restored.
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neutral
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A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1.
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A choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1 is equal to a risk-neutral gambler.
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entailment
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and that the Shopping Avenger would hear about this treatment and seek vengeance.
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The Shopping Avenger is the one who seeks vengeance.
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entailment
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It concerns itself with something that matters--a million bucks--yet Regis' presence makes it frivolous.
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It concerns itself with a thousand dollars.
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contradiction
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He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless.
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It took several minutes to identify the problems.
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neutral
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Even readers who share Wilson's worldview will find much to provoke them.
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There are readers with the same viewpoint as Wilson.
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entailment
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The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.
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LaGravenese's Living Out Loud is a slice-of-life piece that sheds the common notion of dreary naturalism.
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entailment
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You may not believe that such intervention will work in practice, but that's a judgment about the rules of politics, not economics.
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Interventions are always about only politics.
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contradiction
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Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms that would make Floyd look like a spring shower.
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The death toll from hurricanes is expected to increase in the future.
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neutral
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If you missed the link on why conservatives who want to eliminate the NEA don't make the point that there is a multibillion dollar arts subsidy embedded in the tax code, click .
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This hyperlink takes you to a different site.
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neutral
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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House impeachment leader Rep.
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Trent Lott when against the grain of his party frequently.
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neutral
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When Kurlak cuts his rating on Intel, what matters is not that he's right or wrong about Intel's prospects but that his cut in the rating will drop the stock regardless.
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Intel is going to lose earnings in the near future
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neutral
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Signs of a renaissance of the handwritten word are here and there discernible.
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The handwritten word is dying.
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contradiction
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Plimpton got lost in his list at one point, but despite referring to one of the contributors to the display's soundtrack as Cecille Dion, he brought to the event his patrician sonorities and his fabled familiarity with fireworks.
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Celine Dion had nothing to do with it.
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neutral
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But few would discard laws against organ selling.
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All will discard laws against organ selling.
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contradiction
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The first of five special issues about the 21 st century imagines health and environment in the future.
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Many facets of life in area of how we badly we have affected the 21st century environment is in the first issue.
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neutral
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Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier.
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Lots of customers like to take advantage of the different financial instruments that are offered by the bank each day.
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neutral
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I still get up when a woman enters the room, open a door for her, and offer my seat on a bus.
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Women offer me their seat on the bus.
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contradiction
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Then Bauer hit Bush for not adhering to conservative values, being clandestinely pro-abortion, and assorted other sins.
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Bauer has never been a huge fan of Bush and his politics.
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neutral
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That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxes in order to fatten the undeserving poor, eager to sell out America's military supremacy out of some guilt-ridden moralism.
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Politicians without work experience were eager to reduce taxes on the plain folks.
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contradiction
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But it is easy to guess.
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Making a prediction doesn't require too much effort
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entailment
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The site, of course, will still be available, including all current contents, The Compost, and The Fray.
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The site will still be in use.
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neutral
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So out of 78 confirmed hypotheses, it seems that approximately zero are true.
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The same person tested all 78 hypotheses.
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neutral
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We egg on Dennis Rodman, watching him parade like a peacock and break down in tears on national TV.
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Rodman has a very even-keeled persona on TV.
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contradiction
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To heed the better angels of your nature, you must know the devils first.
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Having some understanding of the evils internally make it easier to recognize the good.
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entailment
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is for the peacekeeping mission to extend its mandate beyond the deadline by which U.S. forces are supposed to pull out.
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Peacekeeping mission may cause conflicts.
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neutral
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This all happened in real life--although the Rockettes weren't the real Rockettes and neither was the choir.
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The Rockettes were actually played by a replacement dance group.
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entailment
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Charles Schulz need not fear death.
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Charles Schulz is mortal
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entailment
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If you missed the link about the really big marriage penalty--the one created by the earned-income tax credit, click .
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The earned-income tax credit created a really big marriage penalty.
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entailment
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Babies, especially preemies, are more relaxed, have better digestion, and are generally happier when they are massaged.
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Babies enjoy getting massages.
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neutral
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(The study centered on where you are likely to find women starting new careers after being publicly humiliated by their husbands.)
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Public humiliation in their marriages has led women to turn over a new leaf with a new occupation.
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neutral
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At most, the competition of new forms of social organization draw people away from older forms of association.
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Competition draws people away from old forms of association.
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entailment
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This July, Sen.
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I need it to occur this July, Sen.
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neutral
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She has yet to come to terms, artistically ...
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She may never come to terms, artistically.
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neutral
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These folks have opposed every American military operation from Grenada to the Gulf War.
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They fully support all American military operation efforts.
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contradiction
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And the name of that guy?
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That girl never introduced herself
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neutral
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Having done so, they finally agree to marry but with She has privacy, freedom to pursue her own life and friends, control over money, etc.
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They agreed to marry as long as she has privacy, freedom to pursue her own life and friends and control over money.
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entailment
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The game of payback never ends.
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Payback is a short lived game of revenge that ends quickly.
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contradiction
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Why should the pro-gamblers cooperate with a critical study?
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The pro-gamblers are uninterested in cooperation with the study.
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contradiction
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