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That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was.	The author is fond of the chief beneficiary.	contradiction
The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.	The healthcare plan was mostly written by Bill Clinton.	neutral
A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.	Newsweek speaks of India's independence positively.	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.	Richard Lamm as Governor of Connecticut pass a bill on tax reform.	neutral
These days, over the instrumental break, she's prone to toss in a homily about world peace and how, whether we're in America, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Middle East; are young, old, black, white, gay, straight, or transsexual, we're all still people, people who need people.	Racism and homophobia saturate her songs of late, even dripping through to her emotionally charged instrumental breaks.	contradiction
And by following up his serious accusation (i.e.	The number of serious accusations is definitely bigger than the number of the trivial ones	neutral
He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments.	The old assignments are withheld from tardy colleagues.	contradiction
We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup.	Jack Ludwig indicated that the idea would not be considered.	contradiction
Microsoft's position is that Jackson did not actually remove Internet Explorer from his computer because the add/remove procedure leaves components of Internet Explorer on the machine.	Internet Explorer cannot be fully uninstalled from a machine through the add/remove procedure alone	entailment
In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.	Vince foster was murdered by a Jailbird.	entailment
They need more openness, not less.	Being closed off is harmful to them.	neutral
People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look.	In our society is important the appearance of one person	entailment
It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up.	The author has interest in seeing Nerve keep it up.	entailment
This makes it one of the few possible end runs around the meritocratic-credentialing complex, whereby standardized test scores determine future opportunities.	Standardized test scores are used in order to determine the opportunities that one will receive in the future.	entailment
Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.	They are thinking about deep-voiced singers from the Red Army Chorus and how they are crazy people that like to get drunk.	entailment
Instead, you're still leading with Jacob Weisberg on Clinton's African apology (Sorry Excuse) and Cullen Murphy's discourse on lying (The Lie of the Land).	Attention is directed to an apology issued by an American president.	entailment
Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.	Those who are most apprehensive towards technological change are the ones in the bottom half.	entailment
And the editor heard Jacob's plea.	Jacob didn't ask anything to anyone	contradiction
We have some very tough laws against gun violence in Texas, and federal law with its mandatory sentences is tough as well.	In Texas there are plenty or regulations regarding the gun violence	entailment
Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl.	Phil Knight, chief of Nike, thinks that giving the chance to work to children in underdeveloped countries should be considered a good deed	neutral
The more Brown is attacked, the better she does.	Brown is affected positively by criticism	entailment
Critics are as frantic about saving their novel these days as they were about killing it 40 years ago.	Critics who are calm want to kill the novel today.	contradiction
It's a ballot box, he says.	The ballot box was made of wood.	neutral
The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime.	The label warned of severe side effects if more than the suggested dose was taken.	neutral
Weegee's Life, Death, and the Human Drama (International Center of Photography Midtown, New York City).	Weegee has died.	entailment
It was a pleasure working with you.	I enjoyed having you as part of the team.	entailment
Starr is batting 10 for 10 against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's not a rogue prosecutor (Susan Page, Late Edition ). The judge was downright scornful of the White House, adds Barnes.	The presiding court appointee was glad that the Commander in Chief was represented by this professional lawyer.	contradiction
My concern here isn't so much for Leuchter or even the Holocaust revisionists, who'll just think he was sandbagged.	Holocaust revisionists will think Leuchter was sandbagged.	entailment
Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies.	They accepted the brilliant technical fix from Al Gore.	contradiction
The other piece on the recording, the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op.	There was only one piece on the recording.	contradiction
News remains wary, doubting the chances for a continuing, multidecade boom.	Economists on TV are pessimistic about the economic outlook	entailment
Oddly, this part of the 20/20 segment isn't quite as damaging to Ellis as the raw interview transcript was.	The interview transcript was more harmful than the TV spot.	entailment
The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.	James Hewitt's mistress stole his love letters from Diana and tried to sell them.	entailment
Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception.	Maslin wants to quit their job as a critic.	neutral
In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one.	M&A has never made two companies before.	neutral
Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.	With the rise in jobs and wages, unemployment is falling fast.	neutral
Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces.	Participation in war depends on public opinion.	neutral
Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people.	Quibbling is a pathetic evasion reminiscent of a bumper sticker.	entailment
Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.	Hanson and Fuller collaborated on the 1982 White Dog film.	neutral
Second, Finkelstein echoes conventional historical thinking when he says Nazism's main appeal lay in Hitler's promises to restore order in post-Weimar Germany, end unemployment, and make the country an international power.	Hitler followed through with his promise to restore order.	neutral
(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.)	Bosnian Croats have a deep felt attachment to their country.	entailment
Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.	Segal and Forbes voted in the Iowa straw poll.	contradiction
Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments.	Dr. Dean Ornish doesn't think exercise is beneficial for curing heart issues.	neutral
Of course the governors and the president managed to turn deficits into surpluses.	The state and federal executive branch was unable to do anything about the enormous deficit.	contradiction
Unfortunately, most of today's credibility mongers invoke credibility precisely to avoid such a moral commitment.	Most of today's credibility mongers are not actually credible.	entailment
The results were depressingly consistent.	The results weren't generating happiness	entailment
Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue.	Gloria Steinem made it known that fat can affect men as well.	entailment
In a 1962 retreat for university students in Krakow, the future pope, espousing what sounds like the Gospel According to Carol Gilligan, told female participants that women are more feeling and intuitive people and become involved in things in a more sensitive and complete manner.	The future pope spoke at a retreat for college students in Poland.	entailment
Thus, the number of passive vs. active investors will always fluctuate around an equilibrium.	There is a balance between passive and active investors.	neutral
I've been hit with a restraining order prohibiting me from finishing the sentence.	I can finish this sentence.	contradiction
I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.	I take issue with the latest article by Michael Kinsley.	entailment
in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye.	Quentin Compson's story suggests that the reality of the white Southern culture is not what it may appear.	neutral
But the links may also be genetic or, at the very least, the result of ancient ancestral contact.	The links are definitely from present times.	contradiction
Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.	You have joined the military.	entailment
We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.	The remembrance of the Marshall Plan was viewed in several different facets by various individuals, given all of the historical events that took place around it.	neutral
A horse sitter mistakenly thought Mr. Ed was having a seizure and gave him a tranquilizer.	Mr. Ed was given a tranquilizer by mistake.	entailment
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)	Mark Stevens holds the artist in the highest regard and considers him to be one of the greatest.	contradiction
That was back when the Bushes were still trying to woo me over from the Dark Side.	There Bushes are often thought of as being on the right side.	neutral
Even if Martin had failed to deny Maxwell a conquest that evening, and thus failed to slow the epidemic, he could at least have made someone happy.	Maxwell got dominated by Martin that evening	contradiction
Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.	Inflation doesn't have an effect in purchasing power.	contradiction
According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform.	Both Steve Forbes and George W. Bush criticized Al Gore for accepting Russian pledges.	entailment
There is lots of truth to that view.	That view holds many aspects of truth.	entailment
, people who don't exist) are suitable candidates for Jedi knighthood (perhaps Yoda will enlarge his definition of fear in subsequent episodes).	Yoda is going to hide from some candidates for Jedi knighthood	neutral
A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision.	The ones who reported the vision made it up.	neutral
No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.	Kundera would be wise to ponder newer ideologies.	neutral
John maintains his innocence from death row.	Death Row wasn't a place John had to go.	entailment
In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.	Secular females in Istanbul love to wear Hermes-like silk scarves	contradiction
Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history.	The passing of time affects how the history is perceived	entailment
Encryption is OK because its authority is created in my very own machine.	Since my machine determines its power, encryption is acceptable.	entailment
The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share.	Funding was secured via grants from local non-profits.	contradiction
He and Els were on the 17 th green, tied at 4 under.	He and Els were tied at 4 under after the 17th green.	neutral
The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear.	Politics has moved on from one tension between competition and compassion.	entailment
But still Wendy Wasserstein eludes us.	Windy Wasserstein confounds us.	entailment
The New Yorker began offering . Brown did her producing buzz to fuel circulation.	Brown's efforts increased the New Yorker's circulation numbers.	neutral
The New York Times list is the industry standard.	The Big Apple's premier paper creates a list that sets the business' best.	entailment
But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.	The friends of deregulation have been given many gifts in past anniversaries.	neutral
But this is not the way to debate free-market pricing of technology.	Coming up with alternatives to free-market price is a walk in the park.	contradiction
World Report , Time , Newsweek , Slate , and The New Yorker , said he wouldn't mind the criticism a bit.	He eventually minded the criticism.	neutral
And eventually people are no longer eager to live on garbage dumps.	People hate living on garbage dumps.	contradiction
What if they just don't have feelings?	The people always have feelings.	contradiction
They also see it as easing their way toward economic integration with Western Europe.	They are moving away from Western Europe economically.	contradiction
All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.	Such sayings are often striking remarks, as if taken from a newspaper that is very conservative.	entailment
Moral indignation over the incident was almost overshadowed by disbelief that nobody had noticed her condition.	Nobody noticed her situation.	entailment
Monica Lewinsky (Exhibit A, Lewinsky diary, Page 45).	Monika Lewinsky had a diary.	entailment
On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley.	Gore voters are very stubborn.	neutral
(And we have reached a degree of liberation that permits me to think of these potholes as Mayor Barry's potholes without feeling guilty of racism.)	The Mayor had potholes as well.	entailment
For most hyphenated Americans, a trip to the ancestral lands is enough to reinforce the point--assuming, that is, that there are ancestral lands to speak of.	Visiting their ancestral lands is often beneficial for hyphenated Americans.	entailment
The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.	The Clintons failed to make a health care plan.	contradiction
We all know people who are essentially hotblooded, or melancholy (which literally means black bile), or phlegmatic, or who view the world with a jaundiced eye.	Every one knows misguided souls who are hotblooded and see the world through jaundiced eyes.	entailment
The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway.	The HMO is seen to be around for many years to come.	contradiction
Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business	Stevenson gets sick when he sees or hears about violence.	contradiction
With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general.	I couldn't believe that someone would actual report that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in a car crash than females of similar age.	entailment
But the Sports Network posts Vegas odds, from the Stardust and Mirage casinos, no less.	The Vegas odds from Sports Networks are posted from the Stardust and Mirage casinos in Las Vegas.	entailment
H ome Every baby superstore features a section that could be called the Wall of Death.	The Wall of Death is featured at every baby superstore.	entailment
And even then, James added, it's all humbug.	At the end, James thought it was all truthful.	contradiction
As Jodie T. Allen in Slate in 1997, a primary function of any disaster is to funnel pork to important states.	Whenever a disaster occurs pork is moved to those states deemed to be key.	entailment
Sam Johnson, R-Texas, has suggested that Clinton be court-martialed for his treatment of Paula Jones.	Sam Johnson called for a severe judgement for Clinton	entailment
You might end up with such a brave battalion of heroes that when a grenade lands in their midst, there is a competition to see who gets to jump on it to save the others.	The men on the battlefield are very cowardly.	contradiction
The pessimistic This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford.	The fledgling league only just came to be a month ago.	neutral
Against all this, Morris shows footage of Leuchter chiseling at Auschwitz and even adds some of his own, along with slow-motion shots of hammers bashing rocks, walls, floors, etc.	This footage was filmed within the past ten years.	neutral

That's some chutzpah, considering who the chief beneficiary was.

The author is fond of the chief beneficiary.

contradiction

The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.

The healthcare plan was mostly written by Bill Clinton.

neutral

A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.

Newsweek speaks of India's independence positively.

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.

Richard Lamm as Governor of Connecticut pass a bill on tax reform.

neutral

These days, over the instrumental break, she's prone to toss in a homily about world peace and how, whether we're in America, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Middle East; are young, old, black, white, gay, straight, or transsexual, we're all still people, people who need people.

Racism and homophobia saturate her songs of late, even dripping through to her emotionally charged instrumental breaks.

contradiction

And by following up his serious accusation (i.e.

The number of serious accusations is definitely bigger than the number of the trivial ones

neutral

He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments.

The old assignments are withheld from tardy colleagues.

contradiction

We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup.

Jack Ludwig indicated that the idea would not be considered.

contradiction

Microsoft's position is that Jackson did not actually remove Internet Explorer from his computer because the add/remove procedure leaves components of Internet Explorer on the machine.

Internet Explorer cannot be fully uninstalled from a machine through the add/remove procedure alone

entailment

In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.

Vince foster was murdered by a Jailbird.

entailment

They need more openness, not less.

Being closed off is harmful to them.

neutral

People are judged and, in turn, judge others by how they look.

In our society is important the appearance of one person

entailment

It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up.

The author has interest in seeing Nerve keep it up.

entailment

This makes it one of the few possible end runs around the meritocratic-credentialing complex, whereby standardized test scores determine future opportunities.

Standardized test scores are used in order to determine the opportunities that one will receive in the future.

entailment

Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.

They are thinking about deep-voiced singers from the Red Army Chorus and how they are crazy people that like to get drunk.

entailment

Instead, you're still leading with Jacob Weisberg on Clinton's African apology (Sorry Excuse) and Cullen Murphy's discourse on lying (The Lie of the Land).

Attention is directed to an apology issued by an American president.

entailment

Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.

Those who are most apprehensive towards technological change are the ones in the bottom half.

entailment

And the editor heard Jacob's plea.

Jacob didn't ask anything to anyone

contradiction

We have some very tough laws against gun violence in Texas, and federal law with its mandatory sentences is tough as well.

In Texas there are plenty or regulations regarding the gun violence

entailment

Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl.

Phil Knight, chief of Nike, thinks that giving the chance to work to children in underdeveloped countries should be considered a good deed

neutral

The more Brown is attacked, the better she does.

Brown is affected positively by criticism

entailment

Critics are as frantic about saving their novel these days as they were about killing it 40 years ago.

Critics who are calm want to kill the novel today.

contradiction

It's a ballot box, he says.

The ballot box was made of wood.

neutral

The bottle suggested one 3-milligram tablet before bedtime.

The label warned of severe side effects if more than the suggested dose was taken.

neutral

Weegee's Life, Death, and the Human Drama (International Center of Photography Midtown, New York City).

Weegee has died.

entailment

It was a pleasure working with you.

I enjoyed having you as part of the team.

entailment

Starr is batting 10 for 10 against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's not a rogue prosecutor (Susan Page, Late Edition ). The judge was downright scornful of the White House, adds Barnes.

The presiding court appointee was glad that the Commander in Chief was represented by this professional lawyer.

contradiction

My concern here isn't so much for Leuchter or even the Holocaust revisionists, who'll just think he was sandbagged.

Holocaust revisionists will think Leuchter was sandbagged.

entailment

Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies.

They accepted the brilliant technical fix from Al Gore.

contradiction

The other piece on the recording, the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op.

There was only one piece on the recording.

contradiction

News remains wary, doubting the chances for a continuing, multidecade boom.

Economists on TV are pessimistic about the economic outlook

entailment

Oddly, this part of the 20/20 segment isn't quite as damaging to Ellis as the raw interview transcript was.

The interview transcript was more harmful than the TV spot.

entailment

The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.

James Hewitt's mistress stole his love letters from Diana and tried to sell them.

entailment

Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception.

Maslin wants to quit their job as a critic.

neutral

In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one.

M&A has never made two companies before.

neutral

Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.

With the rise in jobs and wages, unemployment is falling fast.

neutral

Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces.

Participation in war depends on public opinion.

neutral

Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people.

Quibbling is a pathetic evasion reminiscent of a bumper sticker.

entailment

Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.

Hanson and Fuller collaborated on the 1982 White Dog film.

neutral

Second, Finkelstein echoes conventional historical thinking when he says Nazism's main appeal lay in Hitler's promises to restore order in post-Weimar Germany, end unemployment, and make the country an international power.

Hitler followed through with his promise to restore order.

neutral

(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.)

Bosnian Croats have a deep felt attachment to their country.

entailment

Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.

Segal and Forbes voted in the Iowa straw poll.

contradiction

Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments.

Dr. Dean Ornish doesn't think exercise is beneficial for curing heart issues.

neutral

Of course the governors and the president managed to turn deficits into surpluses.

The state and federal executive branch was unable to do anything about the enormous deficit.

contradiction

Unfortunately, most of today's credibility mongers invoke credibility precisely to avoid such a moral commitment.

Most of today's credibility mongers are not actually credible.

entailment

The results were depressingly consistent.

The results weren't generating happiness

entailment

Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue.

Gloria Steinem made it known that fat can affect men as well.

entailment

In a 1962 retreat for university students in Krakow, the future pope, espousing what sounds like the Gospel According to Carol Gilligan, told female participants that women are more feeling and intuitive people and become involved in things in a more sensitive and complete manner.

The future pope spoke at a retreat for college students in Poland.

entailment

Thus, the number of passive vs. active investors will always fluctuate around an equilibrium.

There is a balance between passive and active investors.

neutral

I've been hit with a restraining order prohibiting me from finishing the sentence.

I can finish this sentence.

contradiction

I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.

I take issue with the latest article by Michael Kinsley.

entailment

in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye.

Quentin Compson's story suggests that the reality of the white Southern culture is not what it may appear.

neutral

But the links may also be genetic or, at the very least, the result of ancient ancestral contact.

The links are definitely from present times.

contradiction

Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.

You have joined the military.

entailment

We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.

The remembrance of the Marshall Plan was viewed in several different facets by various individuals, given all of the historical events that took place around it.

neutral

A horse sitter mistakenly thought Mr. Ed was having a seizure and gave him a tranquilizer.

Mr. Ed was given a tranquilizer by mistake.

entailment

Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)

Mark Stevens holds the artist in the highest regard and considers him to be one of the greatest.

contradiction

That was back when the Bushes were still trying to woo me over from the Dark Side.

There Bushes are often thought of as being on the right side.

neutral

Even if Martin had failed to deny Maxwell a conquest that evening, and thus failed to slow the epidemic, he could at least have made someone happy.

Maxwell got dominated by Martin that evening

contradiction

Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.

Inflation doesn't have an effect in purchasing power.

contradiction

According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform.

Both Steve Forbes and George W. Bush criticized Al Gore for accepting Russian pledges.

entailment

There is lots of truth to that view.

That view holds many aspects of truth.

entailment

, people who don't exist) are suitable candidates for Jedi knighthood (perhaps Yoda will enlarge his definition of fear in subsequent episodes).

Yoda is going to hide from some candidates for Jedi knighthood

neutral

A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision.

The ones who reported the vision made it up.

neutral

No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.

Kundera would be wise to ponder newer ideologies.

neutral

John maintains his innocence from death row.

Death Row wasn't a place John had to go.

entailment

In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.

Secular females in Istanbul love to wear Hermes-like silk scarves

contradiction

Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history.

The passing of time affects how the history is perceived

entailment

Encryption is OK because its authority is created in my very own machine.

Since my machine determines its power, encryption is acceptable.

entailment

The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share.

Funding was secured via grants from local non-profits.

contradiction

He and Els were on the 17 th green, tied at 4 under.

He and Els were tied at 4 under after the 17th green.

neutral

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

Politics has moved on from one tension between competition and compassion.

entailment

But still Wendy Wasserstein eludes us.

Windy Wasserstein confounds us.

entailment

The New Yorker began offering . Brown did her producing buzz to fuel circulation.

Brown's efforts increased the New Yorker's circulation numbers.

neutral

The New York Times list is the industry standard.

The Big Apple's premier paper creates a list that sets the business' best.

entailment

But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.

The friends of deregulation have been given many gifts in past anniversaries.

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But this is not the way to debate free-market pricing of technology.

Coming up with alternatives to free-market price is a walk in the park.

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World Report , Time , Newsweek , Slate , and The New Yorker , said he wouldn't mind the criticism a bit.

He eventually minded the criticism.

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And eventually people are no longer eager to live on garbage dumps.

People hate living on garbage dumps.

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What if they just don't have feelings?

The people always have feelings.

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They also see it as easing their way toward economic integration with Western Europe.

They are moving away from Western Europe economically.

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All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.

Such sayings are often striking remarks, as if taken from a newspaper that is very conservative.

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Moral indignation over the incident was almost overshadowed by disbelief that nobody had noticed her condition.

Nobody noticed her situation.

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Monica Lewinsky (Exhibit A, Lewinsky diary, Page 45).

Monika Lewinsky had a diary.

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On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley.

Gore voters are very stubborn.

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(And we have reached a degree of liberation that permits me to think of these potholes as Mayor Barry's potholes without feeling guilty of racism.)

The Mayor had potholes as well.

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For most hyphenated Americans, a trip to the ancestral lands is enough to reinforce the point--assuming, that is, that there are ancestral lands to speak of.

Visiting their ancestral lands is often beneficial for hyphenated Americans.

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The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.

The Clintons failed to make a health care plan.

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We all know people who are essentially hotblooded, or melancholy (which literally means black bile), or phlegmatic, or who view the world with a jaundiced eye.

Every one knows misguided souls who are hotblooded and see the world through jaundiced eyes.

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The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway.

The HMO is seen to be around for many years to come.

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Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business

Stevenson gets sick when he sees or hears about violence.

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With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general.

I couldn't believe that someone would actual report that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in a car crash than females of similar age.

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But the Sports Network posts Vegas odds, from the Stardust and Mirage casinos, no less.

The Vegas odds from Sports Networks are posted from the Stardust and Mirage casinos in Las Vegas.

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H ome Every baby superstore features a section that could be called the Wall of Death.

The Wall of Death is featured at every baby superstore.

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And even then, James added, it's all humbug.

At the end, James thought it was all truthful.

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As Jodie T. Allen in Slate in 1997, a primary function of any disaster is to funnel pork to important states.

Whenever a disaster occurs pork is moved to those states deemed to be key.

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Sam Johnson, R-Texas, has suggested that Clinton be court-martialed for his treatment of Paula Jones.

Sam Johnson called for a severe judgement for Clinton

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You might end up with such a brave battalion of heroes that when a grenade lands in their midst, there is a competition to see who gets to jump on it to save the others.

The men on the battlefield are very cowardly.

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The pessimistic This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford.

The fledgling league only just came to be a month ago.

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Against all this, Morris shows footage of Leuchter chiseling at Auschwitz and even adds some of his own, along with slow-motion shots of hammers bashing rocks, walls, floors, etc.

This footage was filmed within the past ten years.

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