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She and her colleagues could trust him to win peace without appeasement.	He never betrayed the trust of her and her colleagues.	neutral
Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other.	Slate can be used in Rwanda.	entailment
Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.	Boris went to the hospital.	neutral
From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful.	Your brother's wife had another man on the side when they got married.	neutral
Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.	The influence of Korean can still be seen in Japanese of today.	neutral
As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies.	Hall was not the first British director to move to America in search of better support.	neutral
Oh, it often gets the least important things right, the facts, the small t truth.	Facts are among the most important things.	contradiction
If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.	In depends on the Senate if he'll continue in that acting job during all of Clinton's presidency.	entailment
But there's a larger explanation.	More information is available.	neutral
Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee.	Gore holds a position below President.	entailment
At one point he imagines this middle-class By dismissing our fears about declining morality out of hand, you fail to recognize that middle-class morality is not necessarily opposed to the values of inclusion and equality that you currently profess.	His observation about the middle class was well in line with how they view matters concerning inclusion and equality,	contradiction
They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea.	Several convicted felons will be allowed to interact closely with the unguarded president and special interest groups.	contradiction
She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ...	She sent most of her time in Eastern India.	contradiction
But I'm going to have a specific agenda that addresses what I think are the big concerns as we go into the 21 st century.	We are entering the 19th century.	contradiction
Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money.	The process of turning in someone who is committing fraud to receive disaster money from FEMA is outlined in the Frequently Asked Questions on the website.	entailment
A piece reports on a new treat for yogurt in a tube.	A piece reports about tube yogurt.	entailment
Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?	Martial law could be classified as self-important delight.	entailment
Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty.	Some domestic manufacturers think the treaty will do more harm than good.	neutral
She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other.	She likes me.	neutral
Nor can we simply ascribe their market dominance to advertising.	Advertising is not the only thing to say what makes one dominate in the market.	entailment
It's almost barbaric in a certain way.	The act is seen as being quite barbaric in nature.	entailment
It was immediately clear that Lott should not have said this.	Lott said a bad thing.	neutral
After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.	I gave up a twelve year habit in 1985 after a pack a day of Camels and weekly cigars.	neutral
Confidential to You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a World Exclusive interview in which you're quoted disclosing titillating details about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities.	You would have gotten more money if you revealed more of your ex's private life to Globe.	contradiction
Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver.	Kids with unmotivated parents often have hard time in public schools as well as charter schools.	neutral
Richard Lamm, who attempted to wrest leadership of the party away from Perot, is a classic Greater New England progressive, as is former Connecticut Gov.	Perot was the leader of the party that Richard Lamb attempted to become leader of.	entailment
(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.)	This site is related to movies	entailment
who turns out to have had sex with a dog, like maybe a golden retriever (unless things turn around and I get to do it at Fox in which case the dog will be a chimp, but that makes sense dramatically) who can't keep a secret (see, it's a talking dog), but it takes this big check from some tabloid where they JUST MAKE THINGS UP(!)	The Wall street Journal seeks information about humans and animals having sex to write sensational articles, paying big cash.	contradiction
Natural dark-haired beauty--despised or exoticized for eons by Europeans, Britons, and Americans--has at last been universally recognized and welcomed.	Europeans, Britons, and Americans fail to appreciate dark hair beauties	contradiction
Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts.	Sheltered heavily since childhood, she can find joy in situations that would drown others in cynicism.	neutral
If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom.	Spock participated in may political protests.	neutral
It works out to about 5 cents per lie.	Five cents is the price for an individual lie.	entailment
He's calling all hands on deck.	He's in charge of others.	entailment
Time 's feature argues that settling is trickier than it Can Clinton acknowledge Jones' claim and not admit to any wrongdoing?	It would require great tact for Clinton to acknowledge Jones' claim and come out unscathed.	entailment
In the meantime, Ventura is pursuing the Bulworth option.	Ventura is following the Bulworth strategy.	entailment
And I'll say If all the nations of the world got along as well as do the bagel and mango on my breakfast table every morning, that would be an impressive amount of along-getting.	I had a glass of milk with my breakfast.	neutral
Richard Holbrooke was confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations.	Richard Holdbrooke hates the United Nations.	contradiction
And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ...	You are meeting a bunch of Indians.	contradiction
Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system.	The health care system would give care to liberal reformers.	entailment
First is the pseudomoderate's If both sides are mad at us, we must be doing something right.	They both think they are doing something right if both sides are mad at them.	entailment
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.	The ones who voted for Nixon clearly made the right choice.	neutral
A quick recap.	The recap will take at least an hour to tell.	contradiction
You don't need to play Mike Wallace and demolish Leuchter on camera.	To be honest Leuchter deserved to be demolished on camera	neutral
The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.	The Times chose to only rely of the input of a select few employees.	contradiction
Little boys face a problem very similar to that of high-tech executives.	High-tech executives can be compared to small boys when it comes to their issues.	entailment
In the early stages of her career, Evita was fleshier and raunchier and blended better with Madonna's present persona.	Both women were perceived to be fleshy and raunchy.	entailment
Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business	Stevenson is violent.	neutral
Clinton has the ability to sustain that perception despite the test ban's defeat.	Clinton has the inability to sustain that perception despite the test ban's success.	contradiction
Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids.	Madison Avenue was successful in producing the ad.	neutral
But since he appears to be talking about lawyers functioning in the United States generally, and he appears to be talking about 1997 and 1998, he's not even close.	The lawyers taken in exam are the ones working between 1997 and 1998	entailment
Best of category is a tough one here.	It is hard to decide which is the best category.	entailment
Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?	I do not want to be rude.	neutral
Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation.	Roth observed that people were often talking about politics and other societal problems in 1997.	neutral
Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000.	Ron Brown died because people discovered he sold favors to the Vietnamese government.	neutral
Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa	Owens had a rocky relationship with a number of people in his family.	neutral
They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.	Instead I joined the liberal press.	neutral
That one, I suspect, is harder to refute.	I suspect someone else could refute that one easily.	neutral
The personal destruction spin is a big winner.	The spin for personal destruction is a failure.	contradiction
Idon't generally complain about oppressive patriarchal social structures, but Ferberism is a good example of one.	I find Ferberism to be the best choice for patriarchal social structures.	contradiction
But filters aren't just for concerned parents.	Concerned parents will usually use filters.	entailment
The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.	Reagan has rhetoric against big government.	entailment
But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G.	Dowd always uses Nexis when making a report.	neutral
Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.	Rothschild had never been married.	contradiction
But there's more about Colorado you might not know.	Everything is known about Colorado to all.	contradiction
Thanks again for enduring what must have been a trying cartoon to publish.	The cartoon was very easy to publish.	contradiction
Alas, no new episodes of Murder, She Wrote have been made for several years.	Murder She Wrote hasn't had new episodes for several years.	entailment
My high-speed modem is mine, so your intellectual property must be mine too.	By law, I can have access to all of your physical property as long as I own my modem.	contradiction
An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).	Lots of people found the essay to be quite humorous in nature.	neutral
But Press didn't call anyone a racist.	Press called a man a racist.	contradiction
For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas.	You might buy nice things for your family, including a trip to an exotic place.	entailment
Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last.	Read the 1995 diaries immediately.	contradiction
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.	Reeves and Shanahan used to be friends.	neutral
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 fear their children enjoying drugs.	entailment
As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.	We are old and tired and ignored in this field.	contradiction
No More Teachers, No More Books ...	There should be plenty of books and professors.	contradiction
But there have been cases where the candidate gave us relevant numbers--and with success.	Giving the relevant numbers helps with being successful.	neutral
A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.	There was never a treaty about global warming.	contradiction
Cholesterol isn't necessarily unhealthy, and margarine is as bad as butter.	Margarine is lighter than butter, and therefore better	contradiction
Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, cozied up to Hermann Goering, and branded Jews as un-American agitators who used their alleged power to attain their parochial ends.	Lindbergh hated Hitler, and pushed aside Hermann Goering, and branded Jews as American allies.	contradiction
The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.	The unveiling is also the climax of the season.	neutral
( Post defectors include Celestine Bohlen, Gwen Ifill, Julia Preston, Michael Specter, Patrick Tyler, Patti Cohen, and David Richards--who defected back.	Celestine Bohlen and Gwen Ifill were both post defectors.	entailment
Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.	The purview of parents has eliminated the job of the television and mall.	contradiction
And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, so maybe I should take him to a good stylist who would no doubt be, as so many of them are, gay.	Jacob is a hairy man.	contradiction
In particular, he has spoken of Salon 's dedication to a mission of exposing important facts.	He talks of the releasing of prominent statements.	entailment
Beck's first contribution will appear Monday evening.	Beck's contribution shall come across great.	neutral
I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.	The majority of Americans continue to keep their door open	neutral
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.	Natural selection isn't helped by allergies at all.	neutral
That in the process she had learned what makes the locals tick--as well as a language known to few, if any, CIA officials--was of no Her chances of being hired would have been much better if she had remained celibate in Salt Lake City.	Utah can be a tough place to live for the sexually adventurous.	neutral
At its worst, it's become a new refuge for the untalented musician, a fact that Ryan Adams from the band Whiskeytown owns up to in the song Faithless Street: I had started this damn country band/ 'cause punk rock was too hard to sing.	It's more difficult to perform in a punk rock band, than it is a country band.	entailment
The rules we've always had is that politics stop at the shore, one senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.	It's always better to be reserved in sensitive matters, and never include any third parties	neutral
The Globe runs what it says is Martin's open letter to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to open [her] heart and do what's right by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him.	In a correspondence to Shepherd, Martin implores her to return money she allegedly owes him.	entailment
either Lee or Chang or Wong.	Asians are being considered.	entailment
But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated.	The main draw of Japanese manufacturing has been underrated.	entailment
Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.	Without the Serb conquest for more territory the Dayton Accords would have never saw the light of day.	neutral
Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship.	Gopnik is correct in the dismissal.	neutral
Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.	People often fail to point out the intelligence of dolphins.	contradiction
I assume that the whole thing was being broadcast, although I came in at the beginning of the last act.	I made it the beginning of the first act.	contradiction
The brawny Neeson is a calamity as Wilde, says New York's John Simon.	John Simon thinks Liam Neeson was a terrible casting choice.	entailment
It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.	This is a a fantastic gangster film.	entailment
The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear.	One tension between efficiency and equity is currently happening in politics.	contradiction

She and her colleagues could trust him to win peace without appeasement.

He never betrayed the trust of her and her colleagues.

neutral

Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other.

Slate can be used in Rwanda.

entailment

Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.

Boris went to the hospital.

neutral

From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful.

Your brother's wife had another man on the side when they got married.

neutral

Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.

The influence of Korean can still be seen in Japanese of today.

neutral

As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies.

Hall was not the first British director to move to America in search of better support.

neutral

Oh, it often gets the least important things right, the facts, the small t truth.

Facts are among the most important things.

contradiction

If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.

In depends on the Senate if he'll continue in that acting job during all of Clinton's presidency.

entailment

But there's a larger explanation.

More information is available.

neutral

Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee.

Gore holds a position below President.

entailment

At one point he imagines this middle-class By dismissing our fears about declining morality out of hand, you fail to recognize that middle-class morality is not necessarily opposed to the values of inclusion and equality that you currently profess.

His observation about the middle class was well in line with how they view matters concerning inclusion and equality,

contradiction

They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea.

Several convicted felons will be allowed to interact closely with the unguarded president and special interest groups.

contradiction

She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ...

She sent most of her time in Eastern India.

contradiction

But I'm going to have a specific agenda that addresses what I think are the big concerns as we go into the 21 st century.

We are entering the 19th century.

contradiction

Among the Frequently Asked Questions FEMA posts on its Web site is the I think that some people in my neighborhood are trying to cheat the federal government out of disaster money.

The process of turning in someone who is committing fraud to receive disaster money from FEMA is outlined in the Frequently Asked Questions on the website.

entailment

A piece reports on a new treat for yogurt in a tube.

A piece reports about tube yogurt.

entailment

Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?

Martial law could be classified as self-important delight.

entailment

Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty.

Some domestic manufacturers think the treaty will do more harm than good.

neutral

She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other.

She likes me.

neutral

Nor can we simply ascribe their market dominance to advertising.

Advertising is not the only thing to say what makes one dominate in the market.

entailment

It's almost barbaric in a certain way.

The act is seen as being quite barbaric in nature.

entailment

It was immediately clear that Lott should not have said this.

Lott said a bad thing.

neutral

After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.

I gave up a twelve year habit in 1985 after a pack a day of Camels and weekly cigars.

neutral

Confidential to You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a World Exclusive interview in which you're quoted disclosing titillating details about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities.

You would have gotten more money if you revealed more of your ex's private life to Globe.

contradiction

Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver.

Kids with unmotivated parents often have hard time in public schools as well as charter schools.

neutral

Richard Lamm, who attempted to wrest leadership of the party away from Perot, is a classic Greater New England progressive, as is former Connecticut Gov.

Perot was the leader of the party that Richard Lamb attempted to become leader of.

entailment

(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.)

This site is related to movies

entailment

who turns out to have had sex with a dog, like maybe a golden retriever (unless things turn around and I get to do it at Fox in which case the dog will be a chimp, but that makes sense dramatically) who can't keep a secret (see, it's a talking dog), but it takes this big check from some tabloid where they JUST MAKE THINGS UP(!)

The Wall street Journal seeks information about humans and animals having sex to write sensational articles, paying big cash.

contradiction

Natural dark-haired beauty--despised or exoticized for eons by Europeans, Britons, and Americans--has at last been universally recognized and welcomed.

Europeans, Britons, and Americans fail to appreciate dark hair beauties

contradiction

Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts.

Sheltered heavily since childhood, she can find joy in situations that would drown others in cynicism.

neutral

If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom.

Spock participated in may political protests.

neutral

It works out to about 5 cents per lie.

Five cents is the price for an individual lie.

entailment

He's calling all hands on deck.

He's in charge of others.

entailment

Time 's feature argues that settling is trickier than it Can Clinton acknowledge Jones' claim and not admit to any wrongdoing?

It would require great tact for Clinton to acknowledge Jones' claim and come out unscathed.

entailment

In the meantime, Ventura is pursuing the Bulworth option.

Ventura is following the Bulworth strategy.

entailment

And I'll say If all the nations of the world got along as well as do the bagel and mango on my breakfast table every morning, that would be an impressive amount of along-getting.

I had a glass of milk with my breakfast.

neutral

Richard Holbrooke was confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations.

Richard Holdbrooke hates the United Nations.

contradiction

And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ...

You are meeting a bunch of Indians.

contradiction

Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system.

The health care system would give care to liberal reformers.

entailment

First is the pseudomoderate's If both sides are mad at us, we must be doing something right.

They both think they are doing something right if both sides are mad at them.

entailment

By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.

The ones who voted for Nixon clearly made the right choice.

neutral

A quick recap.

The recap will take at least an hour to tell.

contradiction

You don't need to play Mike Wallace and demolish Leuchter on camera.

To be honest Leuchter deserved to be demolished on camera

neutral

The Times chooses its lead story with exacting care and great pride, seeking input from every department.

The Times chose to only rely of the input of a select few employees.

contradiction

Little boys face a problem very similar to that of high-tech executives.

High-tech executives can be compared to small boys when it comes to their issues.

entailment

In the early stages of her career, Evita was fleshier and raunchier and blended better with Madonna's present persona.

Both women were perceived to be fleshy and raunchy.

entailment

Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business

Stevenson is violent.

neutral

Clinton has the ability to sustain that perception despite the test ban's defeat.

Clinton has the inability to sustain that perception despite the test ban's success.

contradiction

Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids.

Madison Avenue was successful in producing the ad.

neutral

But since he appears to be talking about lawyers functioning in the United States generally, and he appears to be talking about 1997 and 1998, he's not even close.

The lawyers taken in exam are the ones working between 1997 and 1998

entailment

Best of category is a tough one here.

It is hard to decide which is the best category.

entailment

Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?

I do not want to be rude.

neutral

Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation.

Roth observed that people were often talking about politics and other societal problems in 1997.

neutral

Take the case of the late Ron Brown, who was accused of selling favors to the Vietnamese government for a price of $700,000.

Ron Brown died because people discovered he sold favors to the Vietnamese government.

neutral

Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa

Owens had a rocky relationship with a number of people in his family.

neutral

They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.

Instead I joined the liberal press.

neutral

That one, I suspect, is harder to refute.

I suspect someone else could refute that one easily.

neutral

The personal destruction spin is a big winner.

The spin for personal destruction is a failure.

contradiction

Idon't generally complain about oppressive patriarchal social structures, but Ferberism is a good example of one.

I find Ferberism to be the best choice for patriarchal social structures.

contradiction

But filters aren't just for concerned parents.

Concerned parents will usually use filters.

entailment

The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.

Reagan has rhetoric against big government.

entailment

But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G.

Dowd always uses Nexis when making a report.

neutral

Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.

Rothschild had never been married.

contradiction

But there's more about Colorado you might not know.

Everything is known about Colorado to all.

contradiction

Thanks again for enduring what must have been a trying cartoon to publish.

The cartoon was very easy to publish.

contradiction

Alas, no new episodes of Murder, She Wrote have been made for several years.

Murder She Wrote hasn't had new episodes for several years.

entailment

My high-speed modem is mine, so your intellectual property must be mine too.

By law, I can have access to all of your physical property as long as I own my modem.

contradiction

An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).

Lots of people found the essay to be quite humorous in nature.

neutral

But Press didn't call anyone a racist.

Press called a man a racist.

contradiction

For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas.

You might buy nice things for your family, including a trip to an exotic place.

entailment

Save The Diaries of Dawn Powell (1995) for last.

Read the 1995 diaries immediately.

contradiction

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.

Reeves and Shanahan used to be friends.

neutral

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 fear their children enjoying drugs.

entailment

As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.

We are old and tired and ignored in this field.

contradiction

No More Teachers, No More Books ...

There should be plenty of books and professors.

contradiction

But there have been cases where the candidate gave us relevant numbers--and with success.

Giving the relevant numbers helps with being successful.

neutral

A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.

There was never a treaty about global warming.

contradiction

Cholesterol isn't necessarily unhealthy, and margarine is as bad as butter.

Margarine is lighter than butter, and therefore better

contradiction

Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, cozied up to Hermann Goering, and branded Jews as un-American agitators who used their alleged power to attain their parochial ends.

Lindbergh hated Hitler, and pushed aside Hermann Goering, and branded Jews as American allies.

contradiction

The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.

The unveiling is also the climax of the season.

neutral

( Post defectors include Celestine Bohlen, Gwen Ifill, Julia Preston, Michael Specter, Patrick Tyler, Patti Cohen, and David Richards--who defected back.

Celestine Bohlen and Gwen Ifill were both post defectors.

entailment

Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.

The purview of parents has eliminated the job of the television and mall.

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And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, so maybe I should take him to a good stylist who would no doubt be, as so many of them are, gay.

Jacob is a hairy man.

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In particular, he has spoken of Salon 's dedication to a mission of exposing important facts.

He talks of the releasing of prominent statements.

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Beck's first contribution will appear Monday evening.

Beck's contribution shall come across great.

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I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.

The majority of Americans continue to keep their door open

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And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.

Natural selection isn't helped by allergies at all.

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That in the process she had learned what makes the locals tick--as well as a language known to few, if any, CIA officials--was of no Her chances of being hired would have been much better if she had remained celibate in Salt Lake City.

Utah can be a tough place to live for the sexually adventurous.

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At its worst, it's become a new refuge for the untalented musician, a fact that Ryan Adams from the band Whiskeytown owns up to in the song Faithless Street: I had started this damn country band/ 'cause punk rock was too hard to sing.

It's more difficult to perform in a punk rock band, than it is a country band.

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The rules we've always had is that politics stop at the shore, one senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

It's always better to be reserved in sensitive matters, and never include any third parties

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The Globe runs what it says is Martin's open letter to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to open [her] heart and do what's right by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him.

In a correspondence to Shepherd, Martin implores her to return money she allegedly owes him.

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either Lee or Chang or Wong.

Asians are being considered.

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But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated.

The main draw of Japanese manufacturing has been underrated.

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Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.

Without the Serb conquest for more territory the Dayton Accords would have never saw the light of day.

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Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship.

Gopnik is correct in the dismissal.

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Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.

People often fail to point out the intelligence of dolphins.

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I assume that the whole thing was being broadcast, although I came in at the beginning of the last act.

I made it the beginning of the first act.

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The brawny Neeson is a calamity as Wilde, says New York's John Simon.

John Simon thinks Liam Neeson was a terrible casting choice.

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It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.

This is a a fantastic gangster film.

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The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear.

One tension between efficiency and equity is currently happening in politics.

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