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It may be a long-shot strategy, but Dole is far behind.
Dole is a leader in its industry.
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As a jazz composer, Sun Ra never fulfilled the bright promise of his early recordings like Jazz in Silhouette . But by founding a cult, he earned a lasting place in the larger culture, which otherwise might have eluded him.
Sun Ra was a famous hip hop artist.
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Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.
Benigni has the power to celebrate his own martyrdom.
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They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea.
The party will only be attended by elected officials.
contradiction
But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.
Kennewick Man is a valuable piece for studying and researching new discoveries.
entailment
He's not just a man in the He generates his own light.
He is not a man as he is a coward.
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Anyone who knows, please feel free to leak it to me.
I do not want any input about this issue from anybody under any circumstances.
contradiction
Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities.
The story describes many successes in schools.
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Starr was putting his own guys to sleep.
Starr's words did not interest the people who worked for him.
entailment
An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.
The location of the UN was in Mad magazine.
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For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew.
I don't want to talk about the fact that I'm Jewish, it's embarassing.
contradiction
Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.
The Taliban forces have been dwindling.
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I don't see any reason to postpone the vote.
The writer thinks the vote should proceed as scheduled.
entailment
If you eat a whole lot of lobster, people will call you a pig.
Lobster is a food you are capable of eating.
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But it was Schultz who drew the outrage of the Old Seattle types, who sued him.
Lawsuits were brought about by old Seattle types.
entailment
Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.
Some incentives matter more than others
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What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
There are instances in which an artist's characters do not cooperate.
entailment
Even with television and the Web, the Times ' news judgment is still the final word for many outlets.
Regardless, online content may one day result in the Times closing its doors.
neutral
I should also say that while I love the idea that the universe is nothing but a mathematical model of itself, I've never met anyone else who found the idea of software without hardware even remotely plausible.
The universe is a mathematical model created by aliens.
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: The preceding images are not from Michelangelo and His Drawings from Windsor Castle (online reproduction of art in the National Gallery exhibition is forbidden).
There are restrictions on what can be shown online from artwork held in the National Gallery.
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This one-way connection will offer speeds up to 150,000 bits per second.
The connect speed could be as high as 150 kilobits per second.
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Not all the way--he has not yet succeeded in building a durable majority on the court.
He has succeeded in his quest to get a majority on the court.
contradiction
Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.
Fluctuating currencies are a risk for businesses.
entailment
Tripp protests that she made the tapes to protect herself because Lewinsky was pressuring her to lie in the Paula Jones case.
Tripp did not make any tapes, as she was never coerced by Lewinsky or others.
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The only reason to release it now is political, and national security officials shouldn't play politics.
The national security officials dont belong in politics.
entailment
Until two years ago, it was ritual among Supreme Court-watchers to speculate that this term would be Rehnquist's last.
Until two years ago, people interested in the Supreme Court always speculated about when Rehnquist would retire or pass away.
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There are many things that are permitted to adults--e.g.
The things adults are permitted to do here would be dangerous for children.
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It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
Kinsey doesn't care at all about human sexuality.
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Messages about alcohol don't come out the way you say them when they're broadcast, he replied.
Talking about alcohol on broadcast is banned.
contradiction
Whatever the fortunes of religion itself, a dwindling cultural acquaintance with the Bible's English is surely inevitable.
Religion has fortunes.
entailment
Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists.
Capital Gang panelists were often amusing.
neutral
In the New York Review of Books , Louis Menand declares that [t]here is nothing unconventional about this story.
Louis Menand says that the story breaks with tradition in a way that has never been attempted before and is extremely experimental.
contradiction
Western analysts now fear that the generals are using Chechnya to reassert control over national security and foreign policy.
Analysts have no concerns about the events in Chechnya.
contradiction
During World War I, as he conveyed vegetables to the troops quartered nearby and refused to leave Giverny as the German line advanced, Monet's panels took on some of the dark mood of war.
During World War I, Monet stayed in Giverny.
entailment
Hours before, Netanyahu had given a speech insisting that Israel would not halt the rapid construction of a controversial housing project in East Jerusalem or make further concessions to halt terrorism.
In order to stop construction, Netanyahu gave several concessions to terrorists.
contradiction
Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race.
He knew his victory was certain.
contradiction
Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it.
He realized he hated selling real estate.
neutral
During last month's State of the Union address, every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic, rose repeatedly to give Clinton standing ovations.
Clinton is a popular president amongst both Republicans and Democrats.
neutral
Critics have demanded that UFC install ropes instead.
The UFC will install ropes.
neutral
In those circumstances, Dr. Astrov in Uncle Vanya might have written it.
Dr. Astrov had reason to write the text.
neutral
(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over.
All of Wall Street persists in their belief that the ongoing Asia crisis will never end.
contradiction
Rosenthal, and other conservatives for their flirtations with Farrakhan.
Conservatives - including Rosenthal - ignored Farrakhan.
contradiction
However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.
There was no representation for popular music.
entailment
A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton.
Hamilton was knowledgeable about Salinger.
entailment
I did not plagiarize.
I have not stolen the work of another, nor claimed it as my own.
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Forty thousand of us die that way each year.
That way of dying is painful for those who experience it.
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The Republicans on the Hill--Issue 2--draw fire from all sides.
More than one faction was unhappy with the article.
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By the 1820s and '30s, most states were allowing all white men to vote (before that, they had to own land), and President Andrew Jackson was leading his famous war on the national bank.
President Jackson was winning the war.
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I obeyed, but nothing I was still sleepless.
I obeyed by watching the DVD.
neutral
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues.
Despite the Hare, the play's flaws are too numerous to be forgiven.
contradiction
When you wanted to shop, you went to the mall and confined your search to the stores you found there.
when you decided to shop, you went to Walmart and only Walmart.
contradiction
Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
The farmers will switch to a biodegradable fertilizer.
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Clinton has faced an escalating series of serious accusations--serious in the sense that they were all plausible and some were true.
Some of the accusations against Clinton are true.
entailment
The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers.
You can vote if you are a Slate reader.
entailment
His decision to resign and run for the ambassadorship few expect him to win should be treated like these other nutty episodes.
His father also ran for the ambassadorship.
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I am puzzled about what to say on the subject of my religion.
I'm not sure how to tell you about my religion.
entailment
Consider just the Pell Grants for students who have already defaulted on past That one mistake cost $210 million.
Two other mistakes were also made that cost millions more.
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So far, we'd spent about 10 minutes decoding just five words, but I felt on top of them and was ready to move on.
We spent 600 minutes decoding just five words.
contradiction
Late in his prize-winning series, Gerth wrote some harsh things about Hughes, and Hughes' lobbying of Clinton, but he scarcely mentioned Hughes' Republican connections.
Gerth also mentioned how Hughes had lobbied on behalf of Clinton.
entailment
In a way, truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all.
The majority of shadow pages are full of lies.
neutral
An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.
The article thinks that most people who lived in the Year 1000 lived long, wonderful lives.
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Instead, Bradley repudiates the word.
Bradley is informed on the accuracy of the word.
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Hanson co-wrote the underrated White Dog (1982) with Sam Fuller, and there's a touch of Fuller in this film's lugubrious trashiness.
Both Hanson and Sam had an easy time writing the script of the movie.
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They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.
They had nothing to do with the aircraft hijackings.
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The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.
Radio advertising has already seen significant losses due to the Internet.
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A spate of explicit parental responsibility laws passed by states and communities over the last couple of years give judges the power to make parents pay for juvenile detention or undergo counseling with their kids.
The laws have led to an improvement of recidivism rates among teenagers.
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By the way, an old corporate pro once told me never to discuss anything of importance in a bathroom or an elevator.
I know a top tier negotiator who closed a deal in a bathroom.
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Time reports on a peculiar development in medical fake operations.
There are many medical fake operations to be talked about.
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The Constitution requires only that a senator when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Senators are required to live in the state they are elected in.
entailment
In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.
Prusiner made an important discovery that impacted humanity.
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Besides the CBS suit, it won $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today after the newspaper reprinted the I Have a Dream speech without permission.
USA Today printed the I Have a Dream speech on the front page of their newspaper.s
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There's no scientific or psychological basis for believing that children are affected in their sexual development or eventual sexual orientation by exposure to homosexuality--on television or in real life.
There is no evidence a child witnessing a homosexual will harm their own sexual development.
entailment
They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.
Higher income women need to gain 30 pounds before they want to lose weight.
contradiction
A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit.
The omission of the rabbit from the correction was intentional.
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As a college student familiar with all the latest urban lingo, I believe the proper term to be used in these contexts is boink.
as a college student who's accustomed to all of this recent terminology, I'm sure the correct term here is copulate.
entailment
Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse.
Traditionalists in baseball do not want changes that might dilute the World Series experience.
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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.
He liked to take notes with a black pen.
neutral
Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.
The world has become a safer place since the cease-fire.
neutral
Malcolm Gladwell's exegesis, however, suggests that we are to vote for the most impressive display of empty virtuosity.
Malcolm Gladwell has no explanation.
contradiction
On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love).
These musicians put on an awesome live show.
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Everybody says--every politician--[that] it's to your disadvantage not to answer it.
Politicians unanimously agree that it is you are at a disadvantage if you answer any questions, and you should stay as quiet as possible.
contradiction
But in the presence of competition among dealers, there is no difference between setting a standard of service and setting a retail For a given service standard, competition will lower the price until it's commensurate with the service standard, and for a given price, competition will raise the service standard until it's commensurate with the price.
Several customers care more about pricing, than they do about other features such as convenience.
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Cook might just as well be gambling on what color tie President Clinton will wear tomorrow.
Cook had a gambling problem.
neutral
I believe that your hearts will go on.
I have faith in the survival of your hearts.
entailment
Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.
The United States' drug policy is a success.
contradiction
I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference?
A play by Shakespeare is being performed.
neutral
Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea.
It is not until the end that he shares the flaw.
contradiction
As was the case with Reebok, Hilfiger's pursuit of the minority market has exposed him to a backlash (it's probably no accident that Lauren, whose turf he invaded, was cast as the good guy in the Klensch Style story).
Hilfiger never pursued the minority market.
contradiction
Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.
no amendment had been proposed.
contradiction
The world is not now in depression, nor is a full-scale replay of the 1930s likely.
The world is experiencing a wide-spread depression.
contradiction
For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence.
no new clothing are made with virgin materials anymore, everything is recyled.
neutral
The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral.
Dalmatian farming is harmless.
contradiction
That is what rat choice teaches, and nobody has yet proved it wrong--even in theory.
Everybody has proven the ideas taught by the rat choice as incorrect.
contradiction
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 630 points in a week.
Investors were happy with the Dow Jones performance this week.
contradiction
Other no story line, cheap puns, and heavy-handed sexual innuendo.
the story was plagued by a low budget.
neutral
I blame the ambiguous use of ellipses.
The author thinks that parentheses are even more confusing than ellipses.
neutral
(In last week's win against Minnesota, the Jets committed only one.)
The Jets have competed against Minnesota.
entailment
As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4.
The neighbor was unwilling to set a price below $5 under any circumstances.
contradiction
Consider the sex lives of older Americans.
Older Americans have sexual intercourse.
entailment
To protect your privacy, ask your bank to restrict access to your records and beg your member of Congress for legislative protections.
The author is not privacy conscious.
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