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Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires.
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Part of Bettelheim's authority was rooted in his physically dominating presence.
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Alfred Kazin jowled that Oprah's club represents the carpet bombing of the American mind, but even a stuffed shirt like Kazin can't complain when 15 million TV watchers are urged to read Toni Morrison and do.)
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Alfred Kazin believes Oprah's club has helped every American.
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contradiction
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The errors range from the trivial (misspelling the name of former Gov.
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Trivial mistakes were made.
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entailment
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Eastwood did more to make killing casual than anyone in mainstream cinema.
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Eastwood is an actor starring in western/action films.
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entailment
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You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)
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These features have been long overdue from the developer.
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neutral
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Well, his proof does leave one loophole.
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His proof is fairly solid.
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neutral
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6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy.
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The pact will only further promote economic responsibility.
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contradiction
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Democrats have done themselves a lot of harm by refusing to discriminate between those programs that are vital and those that are not.
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Democrats do not discriminate between vital and non-essential programs.
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entailment
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The world is aging, frets the cover story . Life expectancy is climbing, fertility is sliding, and the cost of supporting the elderly could cause a global recession.
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People are dying at younger ages these days.
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contradiction
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He had a decade of writing his novel behind him and almost three more ahead of him.
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The author is intending to only live about ten more years.
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contradiction
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A whole Lincoln bedroom full of cliches, says Newsday 's John Anderson.
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There is a bedroom that shares the name of a president and is possibly even directly named after him.
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entailment
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Everyone wonders what Starr will do.
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No one can predict Starr's actions.
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entailment
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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.
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Legal efforts have been made to get parents more involved when their children get into trouble.
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entailment
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Finally, a sister is getting to go to the ball, says Newsweek 's Veronica Chambers.
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There is no sister going to the ball.
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contradiction
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Morris' small-bore ideas, as he calls them, made the presidency look somewhat ridiculous in 1995 and 1996.
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Morris' ideas bolstered the presidency in 1995 and 1996.
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contradiction
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In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll.
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Multiple .dll type files are associated with Internet Explorer.
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entailment
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Recognizing that the Internet effectively wipes out national borders, and fearing that the development of new technologies may be impeded by inconsistent tax policies, the federal government has been studying the issue of international tariffs on Internet transactions.
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International tariffs on Internet transactions will total a considerable amount.
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neutral
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When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all.
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Free speech leads to a decline in profanity.
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entailment
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The motivation of adventurers everywhere is to achieve something no one else has achieved and to derive the pleasure that arises from that--and, not incidentally, to get famous by writing books about it.
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No one considers book-writing as a benefit of making new advancements.
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contradiction
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Will her job description be done by then?
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her job description may need more time.
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entailment
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How do we know when the president had done a good job?
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It's always certain the president did a good job.
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contradiction
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(OK, that was in the Times the next day, not actually a part of the series, and I may oversimplify.)
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Someone is possibly oversimplifying a subject.
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entailment
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Click Start , then Find , then Files or Folders , type *.dll , then hit Find Now . (Make sure your hard drive is selected in the drop-down list in Look in .) On my computer I found 1,230 .dll files.
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The advisor's example returned less than 1,000 .dll files.
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contradiction
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Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue.
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Feminists are no longer concerned about fat.
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neutral
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He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington.
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Clinton hosts PBS's NewsHour.
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contradiction
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We want to see it again.
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One time is enough for it to be seen.
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contradiction
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But it was Schultz who drew the outrage of the Old Seattle types, who sued him.
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Schultz was innocent in drawing the ire of old Seattle types.
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contradiction
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When Pixar went public, the money raised from that very first sale of its shares was what it used to run its business in the future.
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Pixar is a private company, it does not allow the public to invest in it.
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contradiction
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On the same day, another Albanian paper, iKoha Jonei , published some impressive statistics about corruption in the Albanian government.
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This was not the first report on government corruption in Albania.
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neutral
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As Lost in the Funhouse notes, Kaufman actually joined Lawler on the professional circuit and traveled across the country in a kind of touring carnival.
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The most interesting fact from Lost in the Funhouse is that Lawler and Kaufman never knew each other.
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contradiction
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First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change.
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There is an overarching rule that governs Conventional Wisdom.
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entailment
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Is it the right-wing commissar Norquist, who defied subpoenas from the Thompson Committee about his role laundering campaign contributions for the Republican National Committee (he is contemptuous of the law)?
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Norquist fully complied with the subpoenas provided by the Thompson Committee.
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contradiction
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But 49ers fans will always love Joe Montana more.
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49ers fans will always hate Joe Montana.
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contradiction
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But, except on election night, these were a relatively small part of their Web sites, let alone their overall news.
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On election night the statistics were only a portion of the website of their overall news.
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entailment
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Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually.
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Misinformation will continue and will see market growth continue.
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neutral
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Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor's waiting to receive their leader.
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There are no barbarians arriving today.
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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 was known for fostering favorable relationships with journalists.
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entailment
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As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.
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There is no reason to deviate from the truth.
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contradiction
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When you press down on top of the pump, two separate substances emerge from two separate and concealed tanks.
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You are capable of compressing the top of the pump for a result.
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entailment
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In some communities (though not the rich Long Island ones where judges live), a prison term has become almost a rite of passage, something that young men do.
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It is common in some communities for young men to be found guilty of committing crimes.
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entailment
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For one thing, it's relentless--80,000 houses.
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The number of houses exceeds 50,000.
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entailment
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The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed it is forbidden to forbid had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory.
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The students had thought that helping the oppressed was their moral obligation.
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neutral
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But here is the critical point about He never grabbed the ring.
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He might have obtained the ring later.
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neutral
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Another answer is to promote civic virtue.
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Civic virtue strengthens society and attachment to that society.
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neutral
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The Republican champion is Philip Morris, which gave $2,131,955.
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Other companies gave more money to the Republicans than Philip Morris.
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contradiction
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Death of a Salesman , his greatest play, is about the devastating effects of professional failure.
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Death of a Salesman is not about professional failure
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contradiction
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They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government.
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The boys knew the risks.
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neutral
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9. Don't define yourself merely by your enemy.
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You shouldn't let who your enemies are determine who you are as a person.
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entailment
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When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help.
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The King Center is a very successful non-profit.
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neutral
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And for two-income couples, getting married nearly always results in a higher tax bill.
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dual-income couples that marry tend to divorce at a much larger rate.
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neutral
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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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You can tell if you're with the right partner after 90 days.
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contradiction
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So read Slate . A lot.
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Slate is illiterate.
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contradiction
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Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.
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Culturebox is always able to give its readers definitive answers.
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contradiction
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Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.
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Quayle wasn't a worthy candidate.
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contradiction
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A piece describes how women in their 20s donate eggs to infertile couples for thousands of dollars.
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Women in their 20's are able to produce eggs.
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entailment
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You don't have to teach Rik Smits how to make post moves.
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It's not necessary to show Rik Smits post moves.
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entailment
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He's obviously spending too much time online.
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He does not spend too much time online.
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contradiction
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In this light the meaning of his call to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics seems separate but equal.
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His call regarding the character of global politics has elicited argument from some of his peers.
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neutral
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To refrain from purchasing one would insult the working class and dishonor the labor of our fathers' fathers!
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It is important to avoid dishonoring the labor of our forefathers.
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entailment
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
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That is a popular misconception.
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neutral
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That was Joyce's age when J.D. summoned her to his hilltop aerie in Cornish, N.H.
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JD asked Joyce to come to his house in New Hampshire.
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entailment
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Is it proper for attendants to wear black at a wedding?
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Weddings are private affairs where only the bride, groom and officiant are allowed to be present.
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contradiction
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Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.
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Israelis in Russia desire close ties with the country.
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entailment
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denunciations of American imperialism.
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Everyone loves American imperialism.
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contradiction
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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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China has never made any oil deals with Iraq.
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contradiction
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The other significant story of Clinton's continuing sexual adventuring was Michael Isikoff's account last August of a murky encounter between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and the president.
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Isikoff provided no comment on the President's activities.
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contradiction
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Intimations of his own mortality turned out to be premature.
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He'll die next year.
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neutral
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Nor can we simply ascribe their market dominance to advertising.
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They did not have market dominance at all.
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contradiction
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But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture.
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A changing European culture is very important to society.
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neutral
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and that the Shopping Avenger would hear about this treatment and seek vengeance.
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The Shopping Avenger gave up trying to get their vengeance.
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contradiction
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That means, in turn, that it's hard to figure out whether a company will be profitable next year, let alone whether its stock price is going to double.
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It is 100% known that the company will more than double in stock price.
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contradiction
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His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
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The author stated that Lewinsky should have done a Penthouse photo spread to improve her image.
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contradiction
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The private quarters, a k a the residence, occupy the second and third floors of the White House.
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The private quarters take up more space than the public spaces of the White House.
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neutral
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The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket.
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There is little additional information about this take over.
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neutral
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Now they admit they were wrong.
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They were right all along.
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contradiction
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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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There is a way to reduce the chance of these calamities.
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neutral
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What a fascinating and generous letter.
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The letter is long.
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neutral
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It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that.
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Beatty has expressed his eagerness to assist.
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contradiction
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His Bose 901 loudspeakers, the company's premium line for 30 years, have nine speaker cones, positioned all over the cabinet, so that the sound bounces around your room just like in a concert hall.
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the elite speakers make any song sound like a live performance.
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entailment
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How can you make the capital gains tax a litmus test issue but say that the slaughter of millions of innocent children is something about which you have only a mild preference and don't care much if people disagree?
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Capital gains are more of an issue than the slaughter of innocent children.
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contradiction
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Unfortunately for the GOP, the sophistication and delicacy of the ads is already being overwhelmed by the Democrats' simplification of them.
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The political ads are taking over social media.
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neutral
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Oreskes declined to tell him, of course, who the Times ' sources were.
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Oreskes gossiped about who was feeding the Times information.
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contradiction
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But then she found that he was making unseemly demands upon her, including the demand to lie on his behalf.
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She considered the demands being made by the guy to be unreasonable.
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entailment
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In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee.
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller won the coveted prize, in the case of Microsoft.
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contradiction
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Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College.
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Spike Lee attended Morehouse.
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entailment
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Newt Gingrich messed with Medicare and went down in flames.
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Newt Gingrich lost all of his supporters when he changed Medicare.
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neutral
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The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division.
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The overseas marketing plan was a success.
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neutral
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That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black.
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It is uncertain whether 12 of the top 100 candidates will be black.
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entailment
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By the end, just before his death from rectal cancer (a grimly appropriate fate for the author of The Search for Fecality, in which he Is god a being?
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The author died from a disease below the waist.
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entailment
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Lee's bodyguard and cook (and, one presumes, slave).
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Lee has someone who protects him and cooks for him.
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entailment
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So long as China continues to develop, Hong Kong will get a substantial chunk of that growth.
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If China develops then Hong Kong will expect to see growth.
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entailment
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Ned Devine is this year's stab at The Full Monty (1997), which made more than $100 million and even snagged an Oscar nomination.
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The producers of The Full Monty were upset that their movie wasn't nominated for any Academy Awards.
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contradiction
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And on tour with the president in Africa, Jesse Jackson gives Maureen Dowd his theology of the Lewinsky There are nine more Commandments.
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Jesse Jackson has only been in North America.
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contradiction
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Avis' profits jumped 35 percent in the first six months of employee ownership, and the company remained profitable for the next decade.
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Avis did better before they were an employee owned company.
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contradiction
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Last year, Clinton signed legislation prohibiting federal recognition of gay marriages, then bragged about it in campaign ads.
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Clinton was against heterosexual marriage.
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contradiction
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Some even think that while Internet competition may drive prices down initially, prices will rise as sellers are matched with buyers and the market clears.
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A similar pricing effect occurred when people began shopping by telephone.
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neutral
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Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ).
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Critics have not always been kind in their evaluation of Pfitzner's work.
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entailment
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The anti-poker campaign has galvanized the state like no issue ever has.
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The state does not like poker.
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neutral
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They may claim this, but their very appearance in these scarves cancels that interpretation.
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The scarves depict a particular color and pattern.
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neutral
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Instead, the cost of computer gear is falling precipitously, and affordable bandwidth--the measure of data transmission--is growing at an exponential rate.
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Recent technological innovations are responsible for lowered costs.
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neutral
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