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Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention
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Clinton is angry more often than not.
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neutral
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How can you gain the moral high ground, that lofty crag from which to hurl down scorn, when your native city--what's the word?
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The author speaks positively of the person he is referring to.
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contradiction
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Once you get your adolescent to endorse this idea (and to forget that Juliet was just 14), you've won.
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You win if your teen accepts the idea.
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entailment
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Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex
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Leonardo had an obsession with fire too.
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neutral
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'Cause, like, I want a Miata.
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Their ideal Miata is bright red with a black interior.
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neutral
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Is money money similarly presages Bob Dole on the 1996 campaign stump reminding people, It's your money!
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Bob Dole was given the idea for his campaign slogan by a close friend.
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neutral
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And bicycles, once the vigorous instruments of suburban freedom, are rarely spotted in the playground; parents fear for their kids in heavy suburban traffic.
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Parents want their kids to be safe because of heavy traffic.
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neutral
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Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark, says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet.
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It's hard to make the dogs 'human'
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entailment
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Gays should come up with a word for their own committed relationships.
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Gays should use the same terms for their relationships that straight people do for their own relationships.
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contradiction
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I realize now that the cameras and microphones were probably installed by [the Globe ] while I was out, she reports.
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She has made a report about the instillation of cameras and microphones.
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entailment
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He models No Limit on the mob, not the Fortune 500.
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He doesn't model the Fortune 500.
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entailment
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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.
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Hitler's promises were appealing.
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entailment
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It's a major omission, then, that we never see those schools or the kids' interaction with their stable, well-to-do Beverly Hills counterparts.
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It's a massive oversight about the kids.
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entailment
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(Countering a question about tackiness, Dexter says, You should see what we turned down--'I Have a Dream' ice cream, Martin Luther King pocketknives.
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Dexter is offered gifts.
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entailment
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What to do about that, I don't know.
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I'm not always sure about how to deal with every situation that arises.
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entailment
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Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no cuisine.
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Mintz gave a lecture previously.
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entailment
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But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either.
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The author argues that the person failed to act as a bad person.
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entailment
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And in the next chapter we're asked to take it as an established fact that all women, everywhere, since the beginning of time, have lived in fear of entering The Slut's Dominion.
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Women fear of entering The Slut's Dominion.
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entailment
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Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one.
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Tobey avoided the Pike Place Public Market because its' homeless population.
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contradiction
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The world would have conceded the claims of both gays and women without the student occupation of a single lecture hall anywhere in the world.
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No matter what the students did the world would never be ready to concede to the claims of gays and women.
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contradiction
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Jesse Helms could not have demonized homosexuality more effectively--which, of course, is why he was pleased to draw public attention to the pictures.
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Jesse Helms' motive was to disparage homosexuality.
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entailment
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The Globe runs what it says is Martin's open letter to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to open [her] heart and do what's right by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him.
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Shepherd owes Martin money.
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neutral
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The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.
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She told the governor that she spent more money than she actually did.
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contradiction
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The University of Chicago has just announced a deal with UNEXT.com, an online education company partly funded by Milken and headed by a Chicago trustee.
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There is a deal between the University of Chicago, and UNEXT.com.
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entailment
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If only Lamar had won 3,500 more votes in the 1996 New Hampshire primary, he would have edged Bob Dole for second, driven Dole out of the race, and cruised to the nomination.
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Lamar lost to Dole in the NH primary in 1996.
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entailment
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All we've done is checked that the first two creditors divided their collective share of $125 appropriately
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what we did was make sure the first 2 creditors split their share of $125 properly.
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entailment
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Safire suggests that Janet Reno should have asked to see the president alone, warned him unequivocally of the penetration, enlisted his aid in the investigation--or, if she thought it necessary, read him his rights.
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Safire had advice with how Janet Reno approached the president.
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entailment
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Idon't generally complain about oppressive patriarchal social structures, but Ferberism is a good example of one.
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The author makes the claim that he generally doesn't voice his displeasure regarding oppressive patriarchal social structures.
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entailment
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Clinton was 36 at the time of his alleged affair with the 21-year-old Ward.
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Clinton was 30 when he had his alleged affair with Ward.
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contradiction
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I think Wolfe is right about the potential of this kind of novel, one that takes us through unexplored precincts of our own society while spinning a good yarn.
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Wolfe has given an opinion about this sort of novel.
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entailment
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The USAT lead states that leaks indicate that in his deposition last Saturday, Clinton was asked detailed questions about his sexual history with at least four women, including one woman escorted by a state trooper to a rendezvous just days before he became president.
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No one has ever questioned Clinton about his sexual history.
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contradiction
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And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
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Allergies will never be removed from the gene pool by natural selection.
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neutral
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Moreover, to whatever extent you are superior, it is probably the result of genes and attitudes inherited from your parents and not something you created for yourself.
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your genes have helped you none, everything is due to your hard work and luck.
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contradiction
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These holes now mark a generation of which the parents cannot confidently say, They'll grow out of it.
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Parents want to help.
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neutral
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Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Neukom added, We've always competed fairly, and we will continue to do that.
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Bill Neukom is employed by Microsoft.
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entailment
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Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.
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Nations don't need to cut their debt at all to participate in the new currency.
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contradiction
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The judge agreed there were extenuating circumstances because both songwriters had been inspired by old blues music.
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The songwriters had a shared source of inspiration.
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entailment
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Is this simply the nature of status--the rich will always find a way to distinguish themselves from the poor?
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Moreso than the poor, the rich also always find ways to distinguish themselves from other wealthy people.
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neutral
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President Clinton welcomed Yasser Arafat to the White House and criticized Israel for expanding Jewish housing in East Jerusalem.
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Nixon welcomed Yasser Arafat to the White House.
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contradiction
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At bequest time, the strategic gift motive would evaporate, and the favored child would be favored no longer.
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The favored child would always be the favorite.
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contradiction
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And at the end, when Baryshnikov throws himself into the arms of his father, who wraps him in his prayer shawl, one gets a powerful sense of the goodness of man and God.
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Baryshnikov is wrapped in his father's prayer shaw.
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entailment
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Yeats wants to leave his traces/ On Munster grass and Connemara skies.
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Yeats does not desire to leave a lasting impression.
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contradiction
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But these actors also convey the sense of an internal furnace of pain and anxiety that gives fevered glow to such minutiae (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). However, the play itself is found wanting.
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The actors carried the production of the play and was the best part.
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neutral
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Bush has several decisive advantages on this question.
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In response to this question, Bush had a strong upper-hand.
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entailment
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Of course, this decision raises plenty of questions of its own.
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The circumstances surrounding the decision are clear.
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contradiction
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Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were.
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She was popular for the last 12 years.
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neutral
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We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.
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Perfect version is what matters.
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contradiction
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The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press.
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The New England Journal had no story to present.
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contradiction
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But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement.
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Many people believe there will be an improvement.
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entailment
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Equally important--and I admit this sounds kind of cornball--success required the civic spiritedness of pro- and anti-busing parents alike, who saw their way clear to hammering out compromises.
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These two ideas are equally important.
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entailment
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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.
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Maslin is a movie critic.
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neutral
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Renaissance Florence.
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Florence has reached a neutral position.
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neutral
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Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy.
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Farrow is hilarious and happy all the time.
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contradiction
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(David Plotz foretold Brown's departure in a recent Slate Assessment.
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David Plotz predicted Brown's departure.
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entailment
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Time 's cover story explains how popular serotonin-boosting drugs (such as diet pills Redux and fen-phen) work, and how they can be health risks (high serotonin levels damage heart valves).
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Serotonin-boosting drugs , how they work, and how they can be health risks is all explained in Time's cover story.
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entailment
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The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.
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A national test would reveal all the states have lied about their improvements.
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neutral
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I must, however, give you kudos for being the first writer I've ever seen limn Beck's Godley Creme influence.
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Someone praises a writer.
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entailment
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Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.
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Participation around the world has fallen over time.
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contradiction
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An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate.
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Tina and Barbara will split his estate equally.
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neutral
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But when Indonesians started running from their banks a few months ago, what they wanted was dollars--and neither the Indonesian government nor the IMF can give them enough of what they want.
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A string of heists caused several Indonesians to begin fearing their banks.
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neutral
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Smith's press secretary, Ken Wolfe, boasts that by offering that bill, We have called their bluff.
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Smith's press secretary had only Smith's side of the story regarding the bill.
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neutral
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He was evading a question about Universal's troubled Pig in the City . He's under oath.
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It was well known that the man had watched Pig in the City.
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neutral
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She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water.
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Future cars will run on engiens powered by hydrogen.
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neutral
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Both Germany and the United States classify the PKK as a terrorist organization .
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the PKK are comprised of US ans German soldiers.
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neutral
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Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told
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Hatfield wrote complimentary about Eufaula.
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neutral
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Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning.
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Elbows never promised that he would campaign positively.
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contradiction
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Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.
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Fibroblasts are the most common cell type found in fetuses.
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neutral
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Cynics' He's playing dead . Anti-Microsoft analysts spin the same theory the other Gates, having been pulled over by the cops for aggressive driving, is sliding into the passenger seat and giving the wheel to Ballmer, whose record is clean, so that the cops will go easy on the company.
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The cops might go easy on the company because Ballmer's record is clean.
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entailment
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The magazine profiles former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, who now heads the University of Cape She has won admirers (and enemies) by insisting that the university not adjust its standards to favor black students.
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The University of Cape is located on the moon.
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contradiction
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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).
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Lauren and Klensch are acquainted.
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neutral
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(He quotes himself in his books, the sure sign of a towering ego.)
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The author is believed to be an egomanic.
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entailment
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Also, there is no Fifth Amendment right against incriminating others.
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The Fifth Amendment has been challenged in a Supreme Court case.
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neutral
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If there is a cultural civil war going on, the Mediaphiles--led by Wall Street--have routed the 'phobes.
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Wall Street has not been involved in the routing of the culture war.
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contradiction
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Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College.
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Spike Lee graduated from Morehouse.
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neutral
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NBC had fired him a year and a half ago after he pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex.
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He used to work for NBC before being fired.
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entailment
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Or, more creatively yet, maybe one new senator could just stop talking for a while.
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The author is interested in having a senator stop talking.
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entailment
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In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.
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he thinks the speedometer is exaggerating his speed.
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contradiction
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Newt Gingrich messed with Medicare and went down in flames.
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Newt Gingrich changed Medicare.
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entailment
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Just two weeks ago, I watched him on Rivera Live spin the nation on the subject of the president and Monica Lewinsky's relationship.
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The President and Lewinsky's relationship was the topic of all the talk shows.
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neutral
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Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!
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They are asking for a map from the map maker.
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entailment
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Don't be surprised when it flops.
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you'll be amazed when it succeeds.
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contradiction
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Even readers who share Wilson's worldview will find much to provoke them.
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Wilson's worldview can provoke even his like-minded readers.
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entailment
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According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.
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The Jews did not appropriate any words from their Slavic neighbors.
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contradiction
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Somehow I am happy to be too formal for your society.
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I am far too formal for your society and it thrills me.
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entailment
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Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.
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Advanced life may exist on other planets.
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neutral
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Fortunately, perhaps, for those who favor tolerance and democracy, there is also no Khomeini--the leading Muslim organizations are deeply divided.
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The Muslim organizations are in agreement on every issue.
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contradiction
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Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky?
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Nobody asked Granny any questions.
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contradiction
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But they are a huge hassle and costly--nearly $1,000 a year.
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They cost roughly $1,000 annually.
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entailment
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Romantics will warm to further Enquirer disclosures.
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Romantics stay far away from the Enquirer.
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contradiction
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Who actually thinks that having teen-agers line up to pee after they've demonstrated their parallel parking skills is a reasonable way to demand responsible behavior by young people when it comes to drugs, as Clinton proclaimed?
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Nobody really thinks that having teenagers take drug tests with their driving tests is reasonable for young people.
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entailment
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The populist, by contrast, panders to his audience, figuring out what it likes and then delivering it in heaps.
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Populists never deliver to their crowds.
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contradiction
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Skeptical doctors assert that such NDEs are purely physiological (naval pilots exposed to extreme gravity also have visions of bright lights and a God figure).
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The naval pilots believed they saw God and it had nothing to do with extreme gravity.
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neutral
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(Saint Johnswort makes your skin sensitive to sunlight.)
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Vampires like Saint Johnswort because they avoid the sun anyway.
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neutral
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The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.
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There is diversity at Yale.
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entailment
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Civility is not one of the major virtues.
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Generosity is one of the major virtues.
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neutral
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Don't faint when it happens.
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The presidential election is about to take place.
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neutral
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I don't envy next year's teen-sex filmmaker the challenge of topping the pie scene or the cloudy glass of beer bit.
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All teen movies are PG.
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contradiction
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The only reason to release it now is political, and national security officials shouldn't play politics.
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There are many reasons to release it now.
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contradiction
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Winesburg, Ohio, like cyberspace, was a perfectly efficient information market.
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Winesburg, Ohio is weak on information.
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contradiction
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Web advertisers, meanwhile, don't seem to place any special value on reaching paying subscribers.
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Advertisers run only honest ads.
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contradiction
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