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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.
Tripp didn't want to lie in the Paula Jones case.
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Mixed reviews for the Broadway debut of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Everybody who watched Horton Foote's play on Broadway in New York loved it.
contradiction
He then blames military leaders for overestimating the effectiveness of bombing.
The bombing success rate was not estimated correctly.
entailment
I don't suppose that everyone is like that.
A few people probably are like that.
neutral
Twenty-five days after that conversation, Johnson invited Kennedy to the Oval Office and told him face to face that he didn't want him as a running mate.
Upon finding out how Johnson felt, Kennedy was quite shocked by this development, and reluctantly departed form the Oval Office.
neutral
A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
43,519 ineligible students received loans between 1982 and 1992,
entailment
They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted.
He is likely to be caught and brough to trial.
contradiction
And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure.
Lewis believes that Said is motivated by his fondness of the West.
contradiction
So what's a randy president to do?
The president is randy.
neutral
The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue.
The Korbels lived on the German side of the border.
neutral
That is labor's real job, the very core purpose of a union.
Labor should be in favor of a union.
neutral
Microsoft's position is a reflection of an economic phenomenon often referred to as network externalities (a k a positive economic feedback or increasing returns to scale).
Microsoft holds a position that refers to an increase in economic returns to scale.
entailment
Maybe she would like the Pentagon.
It was suggested that she might like the Pentagon.
entailment
The Booker, and all the laurels, are about my past, not my future, says this ace of the apothegm.
The future was just as important as the past in terms of receiving The Booker.
contradiction
He's usually tiptop at fielding tough questions, agrees everyone.
Everyone thinks he can think on his feet.
entailment
Hives feature the mathematical genius of honeycombs and precise divisions of labor.
Without divisions of labor, honeycombs might not be as perfectly constructed.
neutral
And for two-income couples, getting married nearly always results in a higher tax bill.
Two-income couples can take advantage of deductions after having children.
neutral
But lately he has taken to cruising college campuses in his Miata, looking for recruits.
He found a potential recruit while driving one day, who fit the exact profile that he was looking for.
neutral
we, like you, secretly covet recliners, purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990.
For 300 dollars, you can buy a 1952 style Metro Finer recliner.
contradiction
But it is easy to guess.
The easy predictions usually have a high percentage of success
neutral
Why was a senator from Kansas so interested in bananas?
Business interests in the state of Kansas buy and sell tons of bananas.
neutral
One much-discussed cybertrend is especially relevant the scenario in which various data brokers offer a Daily Me, a batch of articles tailored to your tastes, cheaply gleaned from all over the Web.
Daily Me mostly gives you technology articles.
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 loyalists until the very end.
contradiction
Today, we neither have such a group nor the atmosphere for its emergence.
The atmosphere is oppressive and daunting.
neutral
Does this mean that you will be happier when the information comes out?
The information coming out will make you the opposite of happy.
contradiction
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.
Japanese of today has its roots in ancient Korean.
entailment
For example, suppose that the U.S. stock market was to crash, threatening to undermine consumer confidence.
A stock market crash would raise morale among shoppers.
contradiction
His dance around the canvas looks like its own hidden language.
His dance is tired and something everyone's seen before.
contradiction
When asked whether the United States should oppose loans to Russia because of the war, Berger replies, It's a premature question because the predicate question is whether they get the economic reforms in order, at which point we'll have to look at what's in our national interest.
Berger worked in the private sector his whole life
contradiction
And to show me the famous window of the Defenestration of Prague, the glorious day in May 1618 during the Thirty Years War when two royal Catholic officers had been hurled from the window by the Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet--and being in Prague, had landed on a haystack below.
The Defenestration of Prague depicts two Royal officers being hurled out of a window.
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USA Today described the models as struggling actresses, reported that they were unaware of the health risks of donating eggs, and quoted one as saying, I'd rather do this than do Playboy or Penthouse . Harris' sole verified bidder told the paper that selling eggs was better than prostitution.
USA Today is unaware of the risks of donating eggs.
contradiction
Yes, we're all suffering from scandal fatigue, but rape?
The is a limit to our weariness in terms of scandals, and that is rape.
entailment
The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.
The governor's wife was very parsimonious
contradiction
Click here to sign up for e-mail delivery.
Is it possible to get emails by signing up
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Bloom glides over her motives.
Bloom is combing over her motives.
entailment
But I'm single, [so] I'm allowed to do that, I guess.
Because I am not married I get to do anything.
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Not only did it promote freedom more than any statesman or soldier did by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics, influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.
The theory of relativity is culturally and morally irrelevant.
contradiction
Persistent welfare cases don't get jobs because of mental illness, substance abuse, transportation obstacles, child-care difficulties, and simple lack of interest.
People end up on welfare due solely to their laziness and lack of motivation.
contradiction
Makes you want to watch Sunday's game just to see how it turns out.
That makes you not want to watch Sunday's game, regardless of how it turns out.
contradiction
They may claim this, but their very appearance in these scarves cancels that interpretation.
They could be right
neutral
This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.
There is another possible explanation for why inflation is inactive.
neutral
Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental.
Some people think all this money is real.
contradiction
In the face of this opposition, Republicans played the molester card.
Putting forward the issue of molestation was a tactic employed by the Republicans
entailment
And U.K. giant British Telecom purchased MCI.
MCI was an expensive acquisition for British Telecom.
neutral
He was killed in a dispute over timber by a Pamunkey Indian from Virginia who would have been considered black in Virginia but escaped prosecution because he was considered white in Mississippi.
He was of a mixed race.
entailment
Or, better yet, Mr. Goldberg, you could watch!
Mr. Goldberg is a man.
entailment
Now the conservative mantras are perjury is perjury and no man is above the law--and K finds himself tempted by the idea that it isn't the end of the world if a perjurer gets away with it.
K thinks that there are more important things in the world than paying for your crimes.
neutral
The majority of those responding felt that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, and the APA accordingly removed it from the DSM 's next published edition.
Homosexuality was removed from the DSM 's next edition
entailment
But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.
Candidates respond to chatters in this Q and A.
entailment
If drugs do extend the lives of infected people for, say, decades--and I hope they do and that Sullivan is wrong about his own fate--I, too, would use the word cure.
Sullivan believes he will live forever.
contradiction
Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors.
The World Cup soccer players contained no female predecessors.
entailment
You never know for sure what you're getting, which, unfortunately, is an argument for ponying up.
Uncertainty in what you're expecting justifies paying.
entailment
Bill Gates realized it would be more efficient if all computers, regardless of manufacturer, ran the same system (which is why he's the richest man in America today).
Bill Gates donates a lot of money to charity.
neutral
Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.
There were more nations that participated in 1896 then there were in 1996.
contradiction
The rules are very clear.
There is no misleading ambiguity present in the rules.
entailment
So I knew Browder as a somewhat gloomy but kind old gent who took a daily constitutional up the block to Nassau street, where he would buy me and Julie a package of Hostess cupcakes--the orange-flavored ones, with icing squiggles on top.
Browder was a mean old mean who threw garbage at him and Julie.
contradiction
You mean you want to slip into something that might attract the attention and admiration of a fellow mammal?
Other mammals ignored you.
contradiction
This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.
Barnes and Noble created hot links Between it's online store and Times internet best seller list which some think wasn't in good taste.
contradiction
They don't see a need for Washington.
Washington is of no use to them.
entailment
My wife went to Florida with her mother once.
My wife went to Florida last year with my mother-in-law, thank God for that short lived peace of mind.
neutral
The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal?
One book is called After All She's Done for You.
entailment
Their issuing of short-term buy or short-term hold recommendations obviously intensifies pressure on companies to meet and beat earnings expectations at all costs.
Companies are expected to beat earnings expectations.
entailment
The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment.
Rich people consider art to be their favorite pursuit.
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(Surprisingly, outdoor air pollution is not to It's better for kids to play outside than inside.)
The children went outside and enjoyed the nice clean air and played until sunset.
neutral
The new law also makes it easier for broadcasters to renew their licenses, and requires TV manufacturers to install parent-friendly V-chips.
The law makes it harder to renew broadcast licenses.
contradiction
What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
Is it possible for the characters of an artist to be uncooperative
entailment
Gigot thinks the tax fraud proceedings against Hubbell are legitimate and ordinary, while everyone else regards the indictments as trumped-up mini-crimes meant to squeeze Hubbell into giving Starr what he wants--cooperation.
Gigot is correct in his belief.
neutral
He's plunging us, the viewers, into it, too.
The viewers really like to be a part of it.
neutral
George Mitchell has volunteered to act as a liaison between the Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed in the dispute over British and American intelligence about the crash .
Intelligence in Britain and America are not in agreement about the crash that is being moderated by George Mitchell.
entailment
It was a pleasure working with you.
We worked together on a school project.
neutral
OK, fine--simply provide me with quarterly reports on the yield of the fund and the value of my share in it.
The reports are easy to access.
neutral
In a way, it's Bradley's fault.
Other people are also to blame.
neutral
According to the actress, they couldn't.
They could is what the actress stated.
entailment
I wrote no such thing, and Arthur has never, to my knowledge, claimed any such thing.
There is no conflict between the people concerned.
contradiction
Time 's education cover package says parents should get their kids reading at an early age, be involved in their schools, not castigate them for mistakes, let them find their own learning styles, and praise hard work and persistence--not just outcomes.
Time's education lists several steps parents may take so their child may read at an early age.
entailment
But they showed what true love is when Bo took over John's medical care and for seven weeks forced him to drink gallons of water to flush out stubborn kidney stones.
John took care of Bo while he battled diabetes.
contradiction
Quality-of-life drugs offer not just the pleasing possibility that you can do something about impotence, baldness, blackened toenails.
Quality-of-life drugs are available in stores.
neutral
Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm.
The Bill Clinton character is played by John Travolta.
entailment
The populist, by contrast, panders to his audience, figuring out what it likes and then delivering it in heaps.
The populist gathers scant information on the audience.
contradiction
This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke
Justice Lewis Powell could not explain permissible affirmative action.
contradiction
You dropped the ball big time in your response to Doubting, about the able-bodied using stalls for the disabled.
The author doesn't like Doubting.
neutral
Bush himself couldn't utter these words with a straight face.
Bush was happy to utter the words with a smile on his face.
contradiction
Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.
Inflation will continually decrease the annual purchasing power every year.
neutral
During the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises, Rubin constructed bailout deals that benefited outside creditors above all.
During the different crises, the outside creditors benefited the most from bailout deals.
entailment
Take the long U.S. policy wobbles because it is always responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of dissidents, etc.
The short U.S. policy wobbles because it is less often responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of conformists, etc.
contradiction
When I say, I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night, there's a big dose of Ethel Merman but also some of me.
The words I have said come from me and only me.
contradiction
Second, we said that government does have a limited role in addressing the problem.
We said that the government has a limited role.
entailment
He speaks very, very slowly.
His lightning-like verbal acrobatics reminds his listeners of a skilled auctioneer
contradiction
I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.
I was a little interested in reading the Committee of Advice for Dole.
entailment
Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.
everyones is said to have strong feelings about Egoyan's work.
entailment
Even though Washington Week 's treatment of Flytrap is inordinately polite, it is worth watching--but only if you don't watch the rest of the show first.
The treatment of Flytrap by Washington week was polite.
entailment
He would take notes on his yellow pad and sum up the sense of our meetings in an orderly manner, as he had always done.
His notes consisted of disorderly scribbles on a white sheet of paper.
contradiction
Monica Lewinsky (Exhibit A, Lewinsky diary, Page 45).
Monika Lewinski refused to write a diary.
contradiction
MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.
Intelligence can be measured by seven unique sections.
entailment
The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral.
Dalmatian farming had been banned in some states.
neutral
You say that it's not important who asked the question.
Someone think's it is not important who ask the question, as long as it's a good question.
neutral
Am I supposed to look at the ceiling the entire meeting, steal the occasional glance, or just assume it's a '90s thing?
They were uncertain about how to act at the meeting.
entailment
Whites who never practiced discrimination are nonetheless beneficiaries of it.
Most Caucasians do a good job checking their privilege.
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What Isikoff couldn't pin down was whether the advance was welcome or not.
Isikoff was certain that the advance was welcome.
contradiction
Was Toobin's own judgment distorted by his presumably large Random House advance?
The distortion of Toobin's judgment is in question.
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