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Pretty serious perjury time [looks at his watch].
He looks at a Rolex watch.
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This year, my wife is dragging me to the home of some friends of hers to celebrate the new year.
My wife's friends came to our house to celebrate New Years.
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But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.
The chats are livestreamed on YouTube.
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Besides, to indulge specific grievances once they've become terrorist causes is to encourage terrorism.
Supporting a terrorist cause hinders terrorism
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How wide a jail cell has to be before it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Jail cells are considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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Even this distinction, though, is changing with the development of off-line software that automatically goes to the Web to retrieve material, and stores it on your own computer.
Offline software automatically grabbing things from the internet creates a new set of problems.
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The New York Times offered moral indignation
The New York Times gives moral standpoints to its readers
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The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of your child was killed in a car crash (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.
Parents are encouraging their children to have sex and do drugs.
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Sometimes it's because there are nonmarket goods involved--the high value people place on personal safety, national security, a clean environment, or social welfare.
There are non tangible things people value more than gold.
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But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press.
AOL is not paying Time Warner money.
contradiction
God, what do you think of me?
Someone is asking for God's opinion.
entailment
Demonstrations on television never look right.
TV coverage of demonstrations looks wrong
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By contrast, many nerds can be handsome (Gore) or self-confident to the point of arrogance (Gates, Gingrich).
Gates, Gingrich lack confidence.
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The pessimistic one will lead to the other.
The negative belief will direct to the next.
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In Take This Simple Test, Steven E. Landsburg goes into quite some mathematical detail about the public's so-called irrationality.
Landsburg paints the public as being generally rational.
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So, they compensate with vocabulary, animating their play with exaggerated violence and tough talk, smashing, kicking, and zapping the imaginary bad guys.
There's something wrong with them, that's why they're over compensating.
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An even older source reminds me of an investment for old age at which Cicero only hints.
Cicero barely mentions investment for old age.
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That was Joyce's age when J.D. summoned her to his hilltop aerie in Cornish, N.H.
Joyce went to New Hampshire.
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Dole gave 12 hours of formal interviews and lots more time informally, in part because, as his press secretary Nelson Warfield told me last week, he likes Woodward personally.
Dole will give another formal interview in the near future about liking Woodward professionally.
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It's not our job to police the whole world , says the realist.
The Realist doesn't believe we should get involved in world affairs
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Sports pundits likened him to Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus.
Jordan and Nicklaus were among those compared to him by some sports pundits.
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Ambrose--in the very next sentence!
There is no next sentence.
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So who wins Round Two?
Multiple winners were declared for Round Two.
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I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.
She wanted to be in the wedding.
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The images in Touch of E v il have been boiled down so that all its ingredients are mashed together in the sludge.
Often people have watched Touch of Evil on Netflix but prefer a theater..
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The point of the rape charge is that it's different.
The rape charge is the same as any.
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Late in his prize-winning series, Gerth wrote some harsh things about Hughes, and Hughes' lobbying of Clinton, but he scarcely mentioned Hughes' Republican connections.
Hughes' Republican connection were central to Gerth's writings
contradiction
We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful.
Richard Nixon has been object of attacks from many journals who wanted to slander him
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I asked Czech president Vaclav Havel about this when he came to Washington a few years ago, and he agreed wholeheartedly with my analysis.
Vaclav Havel was president of Czechoslovakia.
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But don't expect them for a few decades.
People shall be working on them for several years.
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Investors can decide not only that Microsoft owes its success to the abuse of monopoly power, and not only that the courts will strip the company of this ability, but that Microsoft doesn't know any other way to survive.
Investors decided that Microsoft's success is owed to the abuse of monopoly power, and the courts will strip the company's ability, and Microsoft knows other ways to survive.
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.
Doing something wrong would bring you closer to God.
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Figgis' camera is probing and alive, so that even when his meanings are laughable, his images remain allusive and mysterious.
People respect Figgis' camera.
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We can only overcome hate by refusing to give haters the attention they crave.
It is still possible to help haters denounce their hateful ways.
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Presumably, a living, Clintonian Einstein would declare, I cannot believe that God plays Nintendo with the world.
God plays e-sports with ninja, Fresh and TypicalGamer
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A more honest summary might be We Finally Realize That Caltech Is Tops.
Caltech is possibly the best.
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It is the cuisine equivalent of the landlord banging at your door.
A landlord banging at your door doesn't give you good vibes
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Apparently it's easier to make a mouse talk than to come up with something interesting for him to say (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ).
This person doesn't say a lot of interesting things.
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An initiative on the November ballot asks voters to approve slot machines and video poker, proceeds of which will be used to build esteem among the native peoples.
The native peoples do not want this question on the ballot.
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While these varieties are generally incompatible with one another, all this code-writing has resulted in a far-flung community that understands the Unix beast.
Unix is a niche product, and it counts very few users
contradiction
Another online pollster, Harris Interactive, is using its Harris Poll Online to learn about the public's views on the 2000 election.
The Harris Poll Online was used to learn public views about the 2000 election.
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Keyes' answer didn't precisely address the question, but which was more interesting and enlightening?
Keyes' words can affect the life of some people
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Anything to keep from turning into one of those people.
Anything to prevent transforming into those people.
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Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.
WebRecord has been on the market longer than PrintSmart
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If he had lied under oath about parking illegally I wouldn't be so disgusted.
The person was upset about a lie.
entailment
Kinsley fails to address the main point of the privatization Social Security changes people's behavior.
The privatization Social Security makes people lazy.
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There's something about [Corgan's] whole grandiosity that is very four years ago.
Cargan's grandiosity is still in style.
contradiction
Part uplift for black kids, part thrilling feats of circus daring, it's family programming that can appeal to adults of all races.
The TV program doesn't appeal to children.
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A story says tourism is destroying the Chicago blues scene.
There is more than one sentence.
entailment
The conceit is that Benigni tries to keep the 5-year-old from realizing what's going on by pretending that the whole thing is a game and that if the boy gets through it without crying or complaining he wins a tank.
Benigni's 5yo son never cried during the recording of the movie
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Why didn't Ellison finish--or publish--the book?
Ellison was writing a book.
entailment
To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success.
Discrimination is good if you want to be rich.
contradiction
But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement.
The Barlows of the world predict little improvement.
contradiction
As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers.
The demands of workers and stockholders caused a pressure trickle down effect.
entailment
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.
The Republican candidate's campaign was successful in its fundraising efforts.
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Slate .) But distinguishing between the two markets undermines Microsoft's thesis that IE and Windows are integrated.
Microsoft's thesis that IE and Windows are integrated can be disputed.
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Denis Diderot has much to say about dress in the theater, and Honore de Balzac wrote an incisive treatise on neckties, among his many essays on elegance.
Denis Diderot had nothing to say about how one should dress when going to the theater.
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Keyes' answer didn't precisely address the question, but which was more interesting and enlightening?
Keyes' words were on spot with the question
contradiction
If Birdwhistell, in his travels, had been looking not for smiles but for smirks , Chatterbox strongly suspects he would have found lots of them on the smile-barren East Coast, especially in the vicinity of its prep schools and Ivy League universities . Here's a thought Summon up a mental image of Ali McGraw, the smirkiest performer in the history of the movies.
The author implores you to imagine Birdwhistell in place of Ali McGraw.
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Saturated fat is still evil.
Saturated fat is in food.
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Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining.
Francis Collins fully supports genetic redlining.
contradiction
The forgery story churned its way into the Washington Times on Oct. 26.
The story was published in October.
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The short-term question was how such a nut got drafted into the Israeli army
The Israeli army only accepted volunteers.
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The Globe reports that both singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have unacknowledged sons.
The sons of Hugh O'Brian and Tom Jones are in their thirties now.
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Starr has said that leaking grand jury testimony before it's actually delivered doesn't count.
Starr states that the leak testimony is admissible.
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He felt a bond with us as fellow writers.
As a fellow writer, he felt a close connection with the other writers.
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The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores.
Amazon delivered the Turow later than other stores
entailment
In its recent obituary of a legendary cold war spy, the NYT suggested that he was the conduit via which the U.S. arranged for Vietnamese generals to assassinate South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963.
The spy's obituary reads that he was killed in the failed assassination attempt of Ngo Dinh Diem.
contradiction
Chekhov was an ingenious phrase maker, with many of the phrases scattered in his letters.
Many of the phrases were scattered all over the letters Chekhov, the ingenious phrase maker.
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It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
This product of perversion, which exists in such a time of distress, as expressed through the sexual interests of Kinsey, will continue to move us towards a resolution of the matter surrounding AIDS..
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Oh, come on, my date insisted.
The date was offering positive encouragement.
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The resistance literature often comments on Hitler's amazing luck, or his uncanny ability to sense danger; but the failures of the resistance might be better ascribed to the calculated unluck of the resisters, their own ability to sense danger and step away from it, and their overall minuscule number.
Resistance literature thought of Hitler as one of the most unlucky people.
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Even with television and the Web, the Times ' news judgment is still the final word for many outlets.
Times' judgment is held in high consideration
entailment
Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?
Self-important delight in martial law is a good excuse for martial law.
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But anti-Semitism permeated Nazi ideology, and Finkelstein is deaf to its nuances.
The author does not believe Finkelstein has an understanding of the important relationship between Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism.
entailment
Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception.
The author downplays the influence of critics.
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Suppose all of SLATE's articles featured the authors reading their visionary musings into digital audio format.
Slate authors made a pack were very interested in a digital audio format.
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You just have to be interesting.
It is a must to be interesting.
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There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood.
Pigs were named and the author didn't notice
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If loans to ski resorts, fast-food chains, and the Bolivian government paid a slightly higher return than loans to a local small business or housing complex, then they had to be the more deserving use of capital.
The money provided was a gift.
contradiction
Until recently, their industry was illegal almost everywhere.
Their industry is now made illegal everywhere.
contradiction
Reporters rely on neighbors to flesh out the characters of killers, but what, really, do neighbors know?
Neighbors flesh out details for reporters.
entailment
I am puzzled about what to say on the subject of my religion.
I have mixed feelings about my religion and don't agree with all aspects.
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Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.
The movie was loved by women.
contradiction
And you have made other people happy, as well.
You have brought others joys.
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The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times withhold the story from their first editions but include it on Page One of the home-delivery editions.
The story was originally released in the first edition.
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While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag?
Many Russians seek reparations as Gulag survivors.
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Historians may also question whether the Steunenberg affair, on its own, touched off, in Lukas' words, a struggle for the soul of America.
Historians question if the Steunenberg affair, helped cause what is known as, the struggle for America's soul.
entailment
The other piece on the recording, the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op.
Fantasy for Pianoforte was the best piece.
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But, The Christians are at it again?
Again the Christians are at it.
entailment
No doubt there would be other occasions that clearly met the standard where intervention was unrealistic.
It was unclear whether there would be instances involving unrealistic intervention.
contradiction
There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives.
The scene in Los Angeles was pitiful which is the home of several respected labor-community initiatives.
entailment
Moreover, tough, mean men enjoy high social status, which attracts women and helps the men get genes into the next generation.
Friendly, weak men with no money are more likely to find a woman to carry their children.
contradiction
While it makes no sense to worry that you are living well at your grandchildren's expense, you might legitimately worry that someone else is living well at your grandchildren's expense.
Some worries are legitimate.
entailment
But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.
Auden proclaimed that literature makes the world go round.
contradiction
Patients could certainly get annoyed by having to take even a five-minute computer test every time they see a doctor.
Patients have suggested better methods of testing.
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In any event, Gore dropped out of the race shortly after the debate.
After the debate Gore's run was rejuvenated.
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Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose.
Her phone was bugged continuously for three weeks.
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Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical.
The controversy surrounding the pop artist is amplified upon his death.
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Today, we neither have such a group nor the atmosphere for its emergence.
There is the perfect atmosphere for the emergence.
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