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I just wanted to thank you for allowing Mark Alan Stamaty a forum for his hilarious--and often insightful--cartoon about a (slightly) warped world.
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The main characters are all played by live-action actors.
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contradiction
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The kids will be gone in no time.
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The children are going to come back later
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neutral
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How do we know when the president had done a good job?
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We know for a fact if the president did their job well
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contradiction
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By a process of elimination, he and his buddy Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) end up at the remote stone house of Ned Devine--whom they find dead in his armchair with the ticket between his fingers, the shock of his windfall having felled him.
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Ned is found dead in his chair.
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entailment
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Let's pause for a moment to map the nuances of that pitch.
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This particular pitch was a curveball.
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neutral
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Overpaid athletes, teams that abandon their cities, and absurd ticket prices (average NHL $40.
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NHL tickets will cost you around 40 bucks.
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entailment
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Thompson is no longer Hunter S. He performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine.
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Thompson is now Hunter S.
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And yet it ended up foundering as a result of the inherent uncertainty of the free-market system.
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The free market system is one of the multiple reasons it foundered.
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neutral
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The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.
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Teen-age fertility rate has been decreasing while teen-age out of wedlock birth rate increases.
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Hillary's rage that night was surely one of the most authentic sights ever shown on television, prompting the thought that, unlike the absurd Linda Tripp, both Clintons really are us, in our various phases--and incidentally that Hillary may be the only first lady in my lifetime (which goes back a bit) that one can even imagine being friends with.
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The author views Hillary's rage on television as part of the reason why they could imagine being friends with her.
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entailment
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Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances.
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Joseph Jefferson was well known in his time.
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The herbal extract shows success in treating mild dementia and preventing Alzheimer's memory loss.
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Mild dementia patients who take the extract show signs of improvement.
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entailment
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2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.
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The Mafia also controlled a few employees in the FBI
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By the way, an old corporate pro once told me never to discuss anything of importance in a bathroom or an elevator.
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I was once told elevators were great locations to have important conversations.
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contradiction
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But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99.
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The 99 say there is an election after Blankley.
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This means a housing strategy that shifts more decisively in the direction it has been inching under Clinton.
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Housing was a top priority under Clinton, they now have began to fail.
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contradiction
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Twenty-five years ago, Pennsylvania pinball machines displayed this for entertainment purposes only.
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The display, innovative as a practical tool, was a useful marker to visually separate the lanes.
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contradiction
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The Falcons, who have stunk perennially, are football's best Cinderella story in years.
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The Falcons have always been good.
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contradiction
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Now they admit they were wrong.
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Someone said that they had not been correct.
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entailment
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The problem was the constant struggle for supplies.
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We can get rid of all the basic items without consequences
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contradiction
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Or, instead, should we fight tooth and nail to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor?
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The author battles for stimuli that will benefit upper class workers.
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contradiction
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For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering
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You can volunteer at church.
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entailment
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Being loyal Republicans, Lamar's contributors talk about such happenings only obliquely.
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The donors dependably support the GOP.
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entailment
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What will I impugn, if not motives?
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Motives can be impugned.
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entailment
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Conservatives, after all, have spent the last year crediting Clinton's polls to He has lucked into the best economy in history.
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Clinton was in office during the worst economy in history
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contradiction
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I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another.
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Group thinking is always critic towards other groups
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contradiction
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We would have relevant professionals--scientists, accountants, engineers, forensic specialists--decide all criminal cases.
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Professionals would get to participate in cases where their expertise was relevant to the case.
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entailment
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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 known as an eccentric man.
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neutral
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The paper declared, A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches.
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The paper suggested a frown is grounds for anger.
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neutral
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Unlike commodity futures or even currency futures that allow farmers or companies to do a better job of projecting their future business, stock options contribute nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets.
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Farmers and companies prefer stock options over commodity and currency futures.
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contradiction
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But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.
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An optimist that practices self-control will save their money in order to pass it along to their future self.
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entailment
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By making a tax dispute the putative reason for invading a planet, Lucas merely transposed historical events that Americans ought to be familiar with.
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Lucas found no correlation between American history and a tax dispute.
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contradiction
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Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.
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McCain focuses scrutiny on McConnell's tobacco crusades.
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contradiction
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By time-shifting this feel-good scene forward, Man on the Moon relieves the true story of Kaufman's depressing decline.
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Jim Carrey starred in Man of the Moon, providing a performance almost universally appreciated
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entailment
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The brand that we now think of as irresistible seemed tired and used up, and this now seamlessly efficient company lacked even a formal business model before 1983.
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Many who know of its eventful past would agree that the company has excelled immensely from subpar to brilliant.
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entailment
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It sketches out a pattern of Clinton aides attempting to convince multiple Clinton alleged paramours (Dolly Kyle Browning, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey) to keep silent.
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Clinton aides had to deal with his paramours
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entailment
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Unlike the Europeanists, the Liberal Humanitarians have turned hawk for moral reasons.
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Europeanists turned hawk for moral reasons.
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contradiction
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Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older.
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Changes in personal values come with growing older.
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entailment
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As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him.
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Grove looked up to Noyce and Moore as role models.
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neutral
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I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.
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The proportion of poor students is very high.
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neutral
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The author's claim that she backed down from that number in later interviews (not cited) is thus groundless.
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The number hasn't been stated correctly initially
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entailment
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Does Conyers have any evidence that could provide cause for investigation, wonders Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Well, no, that's actually what Reno is supposed to investigate.
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Brit Hume insisted that evidence existed to demand an investigation
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contradiction
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And when it stumbles onto a good subject for a series, like Ken Burns' history of baseball, it turns the show into a seminar on racism and labor relations, not the hit-and-run and the spitball.
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Ordinary subjects can be turned into racism when history is discussed.
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entailment
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Pols spend their dotage as think tank scholars or consultants or part-time lobbyists ( Bob Dole) and are trotted out periodically for sage commentary.
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Pols are treated with disrespect in their roles as commentators.
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neutral
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For one thing, it's relentless--80,000 houses.
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The 80000 houses are harmless.
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contradiction
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Scientists have learned how bacteria can build up in gaps in the gum, cause infection, weaken the jawbone, and eventually murder teeth.
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Flossing is the most recommended strategy to end infection.
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neutral
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Suppose, for example, that an estate of $400 is to be divided among creditors who claim $100, $200, and $300.
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Creditors who only claim $100 may receive a majority of the $400 estate.
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neutral
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So when you hear all this business about cuts, let me caution you that that is not what is going on.
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The company stated that they're laying everyone off.
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contradiction
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Human nature puts Clinton at a disadvantage in this debate.
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The man overcomes the natural struggles during the talk.
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neutral
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Glimpses into his character do not add up to a full motivation for Bunt's aimlessness (Thomas Keneally, the New York Times Book Review ).
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Bunt's haphazard actions are due to some trauma he had during his childhood
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neutral
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Thanks again for enduring what must have been a trying cartoon to publish.
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The cartoon was very difficult to make available to others.
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entailment
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In Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic sanctioned the removal in 1987 of the body of Serbian hero Czar Lazar, killed 600 years before by Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, so it could be paraded around Slovenia and Croatia in a display of Serb power.
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Milosevic wanted to show off Serb power by masquerading around a dead guy, and no one thought this was a good idea.
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neutral
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It's easy to imagine an election where Clinton is initially ahead of Dole, but a third party entry by, say, Jesse Jackson, pushes Dole ahead of Clinton.
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Clinton lost to Dole in the election.
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contradiction
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With the global economy showing signs of coming apart at the seams, it is truly disappointing that the leaders of the two countries who ought to be co-operating to prevent a worldwide crisis are having to struggle for their own political lives, it said.
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The leaders were disappointed to be struggling for their political lives, instead.
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neutral
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Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers.
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Reich speaking to the National Association of Manufacturers would be surprising
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entailment
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Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile.
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Hippocrates was unconvinced that the four bodily fluids had anything to do with it.
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contradiction
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Scientists say they have found the source of HIV . They traced HIV-1, the virus that has caused most of the AIDS epidemic, to a related virus carried by an African chimpanzee subspecies.
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Scientists have yet to find the source of HIV, as their findings have been inconclusive in finding a credible cause for the disease.
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contradiction
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The strength of the spot is that the fabric of its images converts the actuarial into the nearly spiritual, and raises numbers--money--to the level of moral values.
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The images lower moral values as a result of losing money.
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contradiction
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It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.
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The effect will not be felt by most people, mainly men.
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neutral
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They say things like This is the coolest generation ever.
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The 1970's is the coolest generation ever.
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neutral
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Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book a fascinating cautionary tale of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects.
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Amy Cortese is unable to read but still managed to get a job at Business week.
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contradiction
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Tripp protests that she made the tapes to protect herself because Lewinsky was pressuring her to lie in the Paula Jones case.
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Lewinsky wanted Tripp to lie.
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entailment
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The computer, now much faster and smarter, may triumph, but humans shouldn't fret.
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Humans are becoming afraid of computers.
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neutral
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On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)
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The company charged money for the workshops for its employees.
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neutral
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George Custer's left pinkie has, over the years, been traded for a horse and sold for its weight in gold.
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George Custer's right thumb was lost when someone sliced it off with a sword.
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neutral
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Still, for barbed wisdom, surprises, and technique, there's no one like Spark.
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Spark was a magician.
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neutral
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The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.
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The unveiling marks the beginning of a long season of architectural investment.
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contradiction
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Bloomie's says I've got $40 due,
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The author owes 40 dollars to Bloomie's and probably won't pay it.
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neutral
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In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.
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I won't be shocked if his foolish assumption leads to an overheated engine.
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neutral
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It gets better when they stop to chat.
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They brighten up the day if they chat about animals.
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neutral
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I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him.
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I did not like Blumenthal.
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entailment
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After all, they don't offer employees car insurance.
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All employees receive full auto coverage.
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contradiction
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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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The Bush campaign enjoyed meeting with Pepper and Blanco.
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neutral
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If Chernomyrdin succeeds in convincing Milosevic to accept enough of NATO's demands to guarantee some sort of deal, he will go down in domestic political history as the man who sold out Serbia.
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Chernomyrdin can carry out his plans without Milosevic.
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contradiction
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Nudity on stage can be powerful, and is still protested, but not as powerful as the frightening glimpse I had as a child of Ethel Merman in Gypsy . Now, if you could get the ghost of Ethel Merman and the undead Mickey Rooney to strip to the waist for 10 rounds of bare-knuckle action, that would be truly frightening stage violence.
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Nudity in theatre is a cheap gimmick that lasts longer on the stage than it does in our minds.
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contradiction
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DeParle also notes that her husband, Donald, recently found a job, as a hotel maintenance man.
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DeParle and Donald were divorced
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contradiction
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Afterward, the doctors compare the results of the placebo surgeries with those of real operations.
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The doctors figured that the operations did not require a placebo to compare results.
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contradiction
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Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets.
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Slaughterhouse is a poor demonstration of what a mandated ethnic cleansing, that's been carried out by men in blue helmets looks like.
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contradiction
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It is also a comfort if the message comes from a total stranger, as long as the message is for you specifically and personally and not for a name on a mailing list.
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There are hundreds of names on the mailing list.
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neutral
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They won't be satisfied--and won't relax--until they've identified his flaws.
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That guy is flawless, and they ain't going to stop praising him about that..
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contradiction
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The oral-sex tape starts with well-known sex therapist Diana Wiley, in her poofy hair and broad-shouldered blue power suit, looking like she was about to explain how the sales force could increase its third-quarter productivity.
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It was appalling to see the sex tape.
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neutral
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I have a friend who was excluded from a jury because he answered yes to the question, Do you think a man who's been arrested is more likely to be guilty than a man who hasn't been arrested?
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The jury unfairly killed a man.
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entailment
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It doesn't say much of anything on the subject.
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Regarding the topic, it said very little about it.
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entailment
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Scholes and Merton reportedly are applauded when they appear on the floor of the options exchange, which shows that options traders are at least appreciative, if not deserving, of the rare charities that they receive.
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Scholes and Merton are well liked.
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entailment
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The photos were released by Bill Ballance, 80, a former radio talk show host who says he and Schlessinger were once lovers, who, in his memorable phrase, used to thrash around like a couple of crazed weasels.
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Bill Ballance claimed he was lovers with Schlessinger.
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entailment
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Well, it appears that Robert Ferrigno (see Kiss My Tan Line) has done well at touting the Californian presence here in Seattle.
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Robert Ferrigno is enjoying the presence of Californians in Seattle.
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entailment
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The worst one was, I don't think you really want a divorce, or you would have gotten one by now.
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I was married for many years and now I want a divorce.
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neutral
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There is no good way to measure the gap between women's earnings and their productivity, but it is reasonable to say that their earnings have risen pretty much in line with their productivity.
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Women's pay has gone up quite a bit and reflects their productivity levels at work.
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entailment
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Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.
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Reagan was probably right when he said the War Powers Act did not apply.
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neutral
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And there is yet another valid that the widespread transmission of racial stereotypes might indeed be helpful to hate groups.
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The transmission of racial stereotypes promotes love.
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contradiction
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(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.)
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The upcoming column will have all of the answers.
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neutral
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Of course the governors and the president managed to turn deficits into surpluses.
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The governors and President always operate under sound fiscal policy.
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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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The tax code includes a subsidy that regulates up to a few thousand dollars.
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contradiction
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As American multinationals ship their production overseas, the likelihood of getting business to support an import tariff (which would now tax their own imports) becomes equally small.
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There is a high chance of a large import tariff when American multinationals ship production overseas.
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contradiction
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A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.
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The Independent Gay Forum will some times consider either the left or right wing policies or both.
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neutral
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And the editor heard Jacob's plea.
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Jacob had an urgent request
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entailment
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There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash.
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They call it "Pass the Trash."
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entailment
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The Dow Jones industrial average fell 630 points in a week.
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The Dow Jones had record highs this week.
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contradiction
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This Johnny was just a wig and a smear of lipstick on a clenched fist, but he made Seeor Wences that rarest of performers, a genuinely funny ventriloquist.
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Seeor Wences held Johnny with an open hand.
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contradiction
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President Attends World Cup Final, Enjoys Two Scoreless Hours.
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The president didn't show up to the world cup finals.
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contradiction
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