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All American reporters care about is Monica Lewinsky, and we're trying to get away from that, one U.S. official told me.
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American reporters wanted the scoop on the dealings with Monika Lewinsky.
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entailment
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If you'd like to know more about Kwanzaa, you can read The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley; A Kwanzaa Celebrating the Holiday With New Traditions and Feasts , by Jessica B. Harris; or Merry Christmas, A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury , edited by Felix H. Liddell and Paula L. Woods.
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The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest is only about Kwanzaa.
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neutral
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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.
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I had a bagel and mango for breakfast this morning.
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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.
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People who are hotblooded and melancholy are hard to find in this world.
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contradiction
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Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless.
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A baby with a disease will possibly have effects in childhood.
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entailment
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Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to Pundit Central 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies.
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Upon seeing the models in the early morning, Pundit Central did not suspect any issue with drug addiction.
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entailment
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Finally, on July 30, the committee passed a third, slightly weaker, article 21-17, which charged the president with having willfully disobeyed subpoenas.
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The leader of the country complied with the committee's requests.
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contradiction
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The more she's covered, the less people care about her, and the more reporters hyperbolize.
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Our society is focused more on the essence than on the appearance of people
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contradiction
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Now on a Tripod home page, the site itself claims to have been hit only 1,110 times since December 1998.
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The site didn't see very much activity during the following months, as it was not considered very popular.
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neutral
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About what you did to that nice Galileo?
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Remember when you destroyed that Galileo you were working on?
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contradiction
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Alan Greenspan's still funny.
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Greenspan is still funny to the author.
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entailment
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You could be truthful and say your own version of I was overcome by curiosity about this much talked about doc, and now I know his work is as good as yours.
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The health professional's work is as good as yours.
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entailment
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Readers are of course invited to submit their candidates to the Rock Pomposity Sweepstakes at [email protected].
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Readers are allowed to submit as many candidates as they like.
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neutral
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You can view him as the classic case of the doomed artist, his genius and self-destruction bound up together.
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His personality is the definition of a designer destined for failure.
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entailment
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So, the argument that we would simply have to find new buyers for government bonds is beside the point in the short run--and irrelevant in the long run, when Social Security will stop running surpluses.
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Social Security will one day run out.
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neutral
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In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States.
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Der Spiegel, which was a German Magazine, was printed one a year.
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contradiction
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Many Protestants have no doubt that Jesus is really present in the Communion distributed at Catholic Masses.
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Many Protestants deny that Jesus is in the Communion.
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contradiction
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Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day.
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The person had a hangover.
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neutral
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When I interviewed Klein for my piece about the Microsoft case, he singled out Brian Arthur as the economist who has most influenced his thinking about the way in which high-technology markets operate.
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Klein greatly admires Arthur.and his work.
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neutral
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The Majic Bus brought Brinkley minor fame.
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The Majic Bus was Brinkley's most famous excursion.
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neutral
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He can tell her of something bad that has happened without fearing that she will think he is complaining.
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She gets annoyed when he complains.
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contradiction
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Between 1989 and 1993, 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously; and 101,000 students, ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans, received them anyway.
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The US government did a poor job of ensuring Pell Grants were properly paid out.
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entailment
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In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references.
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There are a lot of parents that welcome gay references in children's entertainment,
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neutral
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Critics revel in his caustic humor and vengeful gossip about new-media moguls (he describes one AOL exec as a fat man, an ugly man, sweating like crazy).
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Critics enjoy his scathing humor about new-media moguls because it makes great headlines.
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Asahi Shimbun also reported that the Japanese National Personnel Authority is drawing up regulations to try to stamp out sexual harassment based on a new report defining what kind of behavior is inappropriate.
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Harassment had become an increasing problem in recent years.
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neutral
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There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississippi to the slaves who rode with a band of Confederate irregulars.
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The story should be retold, and include the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, along with a host of other important facts.
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So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).
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President Bush often thought there was some sort of genocide was in the future.
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neutral
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What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.
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The TV station continues to enjoy relevancy today.
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contradiction
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A writer recounts his experience as a phone psychic.
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A writer recounts his experience as a phone operator.
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contradiction
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It's really cool to be postmodern and hip
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Plenty of men like to be hip
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entailment
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In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash.
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His grand principle amounts to vote for cash.
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contradiction
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Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them.
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They will go somewhere they can be alone.
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contradiction
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But we also may have missed a couple of more fundamental truths about the Web.
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Every internet truth was apparent to us, and we knew them entirely.
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contradiction
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They don't see a need for Washington.
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There was no doubt among them that they all depended and relied on Washington.
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contradiction
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Economist Robert Barro decided to stay at Harvard rather than take Columbia's offer of a $300,000 salary and lavish perks.
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Barro stayed in Harvard because of his friends.
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neutral
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Still, every now and then, a professor would have four genuine A students and only three A's to give out.
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The professor did not always grade fairly.
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entailment
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The group of student donors who collectively gave $200,000 to Clinton used different designations when contributing an additional $100,000 to him and others.
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Two bucks was given to Bill and Hillary and they were pissed about it.
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contradiction
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Both Germany and the United States classify the PKK as a terrorist organization .
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Germany thinks terrorists organized the PKK.
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entailment
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The results were depressingly consistent.
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The results might have changed with some external intervention
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neutral
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Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.
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This is a common practice.
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neutral
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Good This Week 's round table signs off by predicting the outcome of Sunday's World Cup final.
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The outcome of Sunday's World Cup final has been predicted.
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entailment
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Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.
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Who is greedy always have bad taste too
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contradiction
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News remains wary, doubting the chances for a continuing, multidecade boom.
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The experts were mistaken and the boom continued
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neutral
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I would encourage a reinterpretation of the exclusionary principle to keep criminals in jail where they belong, but only if the cops and prosecutors are severely punished for their crimes as well.
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I think it is only fair for law enforcers to be subjects of the law as well as traditional criminals.
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Also, most individuals do not screen their e-mail address books politically, meaning that a solicitation sent out to all a person's contacts may well end up in the hands of someone who doesn't want it--which could turn into a public relations problem.
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It's always a bad idea to mass-mail the contacts of someone
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neutral
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Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.
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The IRS's mantra is to not give in to political pressures as long as it is in charge of tax regulation.
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neutral
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Starr is much more likely to be interested in Steele herself and in why she changed her story.
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Starr is intrigued in why Steele switched the details of her story around.
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entailment
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The RPH does not much elaborate on how he would balance the budget after his cuts.
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The reason for the widespread support for the RPH is his dedication to leaving no question unanswered and no stone unturned.
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contradiction
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His son and heir, Bashar, is inexperienced (he's an ophthalmologist by training).
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Bashar sometimes likes to teach.
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neutral
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You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie.
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Prudie is nice every time.
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neutral
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At the beginning of the novel the heroine, Elizabeth Shulman, feels so at home in her Jewish skin that God and the scriptures, worship and ritual, are all simple, practical things for her.
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Elizabeth Shulman became a rabbi in the novel.
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We have close friends who have us to their home for dinner almost every week.
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They have great friends that have them to their house all the time for supper.
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entailment
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Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental.
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This money is not worth a continental.
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neutral
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All these guys just have to be worried.
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The guys are carefree.
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contradiction
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I'm not sure how with a pair of e-mail messages I managed to effectively double the price of Chuck Close lithographs.
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The Chuck Close lithographs were worth more than what the price was.
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neutral
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As for me, I wrote my book about Reagan because I'd like to see him get at least some of the recognition he deserves during his lifetime.
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I liked Reagan.
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neutral
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The company is upset not because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink to TicketMaster's site, but because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.
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We talked talked to sidewalk and they stated that Ticketmaster seemed to be happy about the hyperlink.
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contradiction
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And so when I picked up a copy of Bionomics , the first thing I did was check out the author's treatment of my heroes and of what I knew to have been the important . His record was Not one of the right people was mentioned, not one of the key developments discussed.
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The narrator wanted to check out the treatment of his villains.
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contradiction
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And you have to keep experimenting with alterations and examining the results as external conditions change over time.
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Once you decide on a method you should never change no matter what the result is or external conditions change.
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contradiction
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Bill Clinton is a master of buttering up journalists by quoting their books and articles back to them.
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Bill Clinton has a photographic memory.
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neutral
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She has yet to come to terms, artistically ...
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She views the artistic way as unacceptable.
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entailment
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You can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint.
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Regarding previous piety and recklessness, Clinton is realistically at fault.
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entailment
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Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged.
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With therapy, some children that had previously been severely deprived, can move past it.
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neutral
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As noted previously, the Shopping Avenger is but one superhero, and he issues abject apologies to all those who did not receive personal responses.
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The Shopping Avenger will ignore you if he does not get to a personal response.
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contradiction
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We think these defects aren't fatal.
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These defects won't kill you.
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neutral
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The eternal shortage of judges means that some cases are adjudicated peremptorily.
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More judges are needed.
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entailment
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Almost nothing is going to happen if a majority must already favor it before any political leader will speak out in its favor.
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Political leaders take actions that mirror the opinion of the majority.
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neutral
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Impossible, argued Albright and He will not stop until he is forced to do so.
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He will not stop until forced to stop.
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entailment
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For instance, as the mobility of capital reduces the power of unions, the chance for including labor rights in the world trade treaty known as GATT--the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs--grows remote.
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Unions find it easier to defend labor rights thanks to the mobility of capital.
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contradiction
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Navel-gazingly yours, Katharine
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Katharine doesn't care about who she's writing to.
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contradiction
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The rules have indeed changed.
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There wasn't ever any rules.
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contradiction
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The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease the new Black Death.
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Mad Cow disease killed more people than the Black Death.
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neutral
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Nor has the fun we all had sneering at England's squandering its North Sea oil windfall in the '70s and '80s kept the Republican Party from proposing to give away the budget surplus to their rich constituents.
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The Republicans sought to fund their rich supporters.
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entailment
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If I had not been born, both my sisters would have substantially bigger shares of the pie, and everybody else's share would be exactly what it is now.
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The author talks about the 'share of the pie' that they would have more of if the sisters stopped existing.
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contradiction
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The test for Putin, says Berger, is the economy, stupid.
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Putin is going to be judged based on the economy
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entailment
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There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner.
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There is an exact time in which you will know that the perfect partner has been found.
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contradiction
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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House impeachment leader Rep.
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Trent Lot was a democrat representing Kentucky.
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contradiction
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A weaker version of Chinook had previously lost to the legendary Marion Tinsley, a retired university math teacher considered the greatest checkers player of all time, who had to withdraw from a 1994 rematch because of the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him.
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There was a rematch because Marion was sick the day of the match.
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neutral
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PointCast responded with a piece of software for companies' central computers designed to minimize its own impact.
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PointCast's response was intended for companies' central machines.
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entailment
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Little of Leonardo's weirdness is conveyed by the Codex Leicester exhibit--though Isabella Rosellini's blue-velveteen voice narrating the exhibit's eight-minute biographical video helps somewhat.
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Isabella Rossellini improved the enjoyment of the exposition
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entailment
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4) Court records indicate that a jewelry-fraud ring used illegal third-party campaign donations to get President Clinton to pose in photos with its principals.
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Clinton refused to pose in photos with it's principals.
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contradiction
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Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object.
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Everyone agrees with Tanenhaus that Chambers is a great American postwar intellectual and Alger Hiss is a Soviet spy.
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entailment
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Why no journalistic outrage about that ? Well, for starters, try looking at a grainy newsweekly-sized photo of Lou Gerstner and see if it makes you remember Pearl Harbor.
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Newsweek is famous for its use of low-resolution portraits.
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neutral
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Consider the sex lives of older Americans.
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Older Americans can have very active and spicy sex lives.
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neutral
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will probably experience a series of terrible events--wrenching calamities that are economic or social or environmental in nature seems well within the realm of plausibility.
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Nature seems terrible in social events.
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contradiction
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Slate BiasServer TM applies this concept to the magazine You'll register your views just once, and Slate will thereafter recognize your browser and serve up opinion and analysis that reconfirm your prejudices.
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Slate's BiasServer struggles to serve up opinion and analysis about your prejudices towards the views that you hold.
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contradiction
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At the Naval Academy, McCain was nicknamed Punk, and that's what he is.
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McCain got his nickname back in high school.
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contradiction
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The Washington Post reported that for $5,000, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is offering donors a chance to give Trent Lott and other senators advice at a forum next month.
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Several people took them up on the different approach.
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neutral
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The proposals include abstinence education, school vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and a $500 tax credit for anyone who does 10 hours of volunteer work for the poor during the year.
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10 hours of volunteer work will be rewarded.
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entailment
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If only there were creative writing schools in Heaven, or failing that, editors, we could hope that Jesus would learn how to improve on awful sentences like that.
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There are never awful written sentences.
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contradiction
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The hard truth, I would argue, is that this way of seeing the world is itself distressingly soft.
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I see the world as cold and hard.
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contradiction
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COKIE [ Nice try, slick ] : Handguns.
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The majority of guns sold in the US is operated with just one hand
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neutral
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The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable).
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Regression analysis is a tool of statistical social science.
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entailment
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I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.
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All students have access to personal computers at home.
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contradiction
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Yes, he's an asshole-junkie, but, in the capable hands of Michael Imperioli, he is not only He is a cursing, bitch-slapping metaphor for the entire decline of the mob.
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Michael Imperoli himself was once a part of the Mafia.
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neutral
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It's funny how hard it is to find anything to sing about.
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Singing can be hard.
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neutral
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Reed takes his place in 2002.
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Reed has kept his place for years.
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neutral
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Now, the pope himself attends Lutheran and Jewish services as a participant!
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The pope has stopped attending Lutheran and Jewish services at the moment.
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contradiction
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Slate 's take on the culture of impotence.)
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Slate comments on the culture of impotence.
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entailment
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When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.
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Joel Klein's claims are effect of political pressure from Washington
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