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For the remaining puzzle is why the world provided LTCM with so much money to lose.
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LTCM was in control of significant monetary assets at one point in time.
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entailment
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In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.
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The endowments spent their money with no oversight.
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contradiction
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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.
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The children are between the ages of 5-8.
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neutral
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Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go!
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Go Speed Racer, go! is a catchy to a lot of people.
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neutral
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And that's why there's nothing at all wrong with this picture.
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The picture has focus problems.
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contradiction
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The art historian Linda Nochlin has traced what she calls Degas' perfectly ordinary anti-Semitism to status anxiety.
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Degas was Jewish.
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contradiction
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Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
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Denby felt the scenes were vapid and boring.
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contradiction
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Nebraska, of course, gets a '5.
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The highest a state can receive is a 5 out of 5.
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neutral
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Deducing that the whole of the Old Testament was the work of aliens is, therefore, perfectly logical.
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reasoning that the old testament was the work of aliens is absolutely insane.
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contradiction
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So now we are living in the world everyone has long claimed to where we judge politicians based only on the issues and their public records of governance.
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Politicians are judged based on their public records.
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entailment
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There are people who are not members of the Libertarian Party but who are open-minded about it and willing to listen, even though you may not be able to convert them.
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the Libertarian candidate who ran in 2016 got the most votes ever for the party.
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neutral
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With the global economy showing signs of coming apart at the seams, it is truly disappointing that the leaders of the two countries who ought to be co-operating to prevent a worldwide crisis are having to struggle for their own political lives, it said.
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The economy may be coming apart globally.
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entailment
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He gropes female guests, watches porn, drinks monstrously, smokes more, and uses drugs.
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he has habits that others would describe as immoral, such as excessive drug and alcohol use.
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entailment
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For those who look into the future and are concerned, there are some fundamental What can be done?
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nobody ever seems to look ahead with apprehension.
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contradiction
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The team now faces China, which crushed defending champion Norway 5-0.
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China fell to Norway, 5-0.
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contradiction
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In the case of drug testing, however, the proposed warrantless blanket invasions of privacy serve only a symbolic value.
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To some, invasions of privacy can be characterized as warrantless.
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entailment
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Need a good book store with a series of author appearances, maybe starting with Susan Faludi?
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Susan Faludi will be making author appearances.
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neutral
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You get to a hotel room in your travel-stained sweater, shirt, and pants, and drop all these down a chute.
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They left their clothes on the floor of the room.
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contradiction
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Conde Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists, writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines.
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The mandarin journalists range from ages 23-61.
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neutral
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It is simple, dog-like gratitude for a reason to declare the presidential race more interesting.
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There is a desperation to make the presidential race more interesting.
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entailment
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I gave my stock In the first place, we don't know the truth; in the second place, the presidency is not a person but a team.
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The presidency is more than one person.
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entailment
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The site is actually no longer at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited (a common problem with search engines).
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the place is still active at the address Direct Hit found to be least visited.
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contradiction
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He likes to cite Kerouac's I am not anti-anything (except racists and certain big corporations).
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He brings up Kerouac's reasoning.
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entailment
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None associated the pig with its traditional attributes, dirty or foul smelling.
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Traditionally pigs are thought to be dirty or foul smelling.
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entailment
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Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time.
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Christopher is unlikely to reveal intelligence if threatened with a prison sentence.
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contradiction
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While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.
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They endorse the ideal of integration because it would look really, really bad if they didn't.
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neutral
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I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.
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Michael Kinsey was a financial reporter and government watchdog.
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neutral
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If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.
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Without a Senate confirmation hearing, the acting job simply has to expire and not be replaced.
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entailment
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Time 's cover story argues that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact could not have been worse for Microsoft and could be used against Microsoft by competitors in private antitrust actions.
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Microsoft is preparing a legal team for the upcoming lawsuits.
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neutral
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Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms that would make Floyd look like a spring shower.
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Supercanes, hypercanes and megastorms are nothing to be worried about.
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contradiction
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Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.
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Technological change can have effects on less fortunate people.
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entailment
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The Episcopalians are all going to hell.
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None of the Episcopalians are going to heaven.
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entailment
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So who wins Round Two?
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The event has only gone one round.
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contradiction
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Even the detective hired by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to intimidate bimbos was a People's Detective!
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The detective was never given an assignment.
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contradiction
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The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.
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The sitcoms include Chris Rock and DL Hughley.
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neutral
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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.
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There is a planned party where at least one politician is expected to show up.
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entailment
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Pecker is a breezy, agreeable picture--a charmer, thumbs-up, three stars--but there's something disappointing about a John Waters film that's so evenhanded and all-embracing, even if its sunniness is ironic.
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Pecker received praise and criticism.
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entailment
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Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people.
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Barry has worked with law enforcement for decades.
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neutral
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For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew.
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I am not ashamed of being Jewish.
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entailment
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(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.)
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There has been three previous Indiana Jones movie.
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entailment
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His book is crammed full of stray data he has disinterred about Dala's Catalan ancestors, his sexual obsessions, and infighting within the Surrealist movement, which Dala was eventually drummed out of for his pro-fascist sentiments.
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The book focuses on other Surrealists as well.
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neutral
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Lind means to debunk minimal realism, the argument that the United States should do only those things in the world that it really has to do, because the great evils it must avoid are overextension and overcommitment.
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Lind has the goal of debunking minimal realism.
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entailment
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The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage, the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor.
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Raquel Welch played the part of a medical team member in a movie.
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entailment
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Richard Lamm, who attempted to wrest leadership of the party away from Perot, is a classic Greater New England progressive, as is former Connecticut Gov.
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Lamm and Perot held animosity for each other.
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neutral
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(Surprisingly, outdoor air pollution is not to It's better for kids to play outside than inside.)
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There is no air pollution outside.
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contradiction
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Wes Cooley, R-Ore., lost his seat last fall after falsely claiming a Korean War combat tour--as a member of the Special Forces, no less.
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Wes Cooley falsely claimed a Korean War combat tour.
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entailment
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But it is easy to guess.
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Everyone would have a tough time figuring it out.
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contradiction
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Blum masterfully explains why the effects of hormones are more complicated than pop science would have us think.
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Pop science oversimplifies the effects of hormones.
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entailment
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Nearly 30 homosexuals are featured in prime time, but few shows are sophisticated enough to script love lives for their homocharacters.
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There are people who feel homosexual romances are still lacking in media.
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neutral
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And if he gets this balancing act wrong, he must pander even more furiously to make it up.
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It is important that he get the balancing act right.
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entailment
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5 percent of the GDP in calendar year 1994.
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GDP was larger in 1994 than 1993.
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neutral
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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.
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The water within the vents on the ocean floor, is colder than that within the geysers at Yellowstone.
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contradiction
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I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it.
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Writing for the New Republic will not reach as wide of an audience as other publications.
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entailment
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Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow.
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CNN executives almost never crash.
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contradiction
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Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it.
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The malls have been using the Internet to profit for over a decade.
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neutral
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Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding!
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Al Gore's campaign might be revived.
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entailment
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The Washington Post reported more evidence of the alleged Chinese plot to influence U.S. elections.
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The evidence would convince most people, if found to be true.
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neutral
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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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Helms drew public attention to raise funds for LGBT charities.
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contradiction
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About what you did to that nice Galileo?
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Someone hurt Galileo.
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neutral
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On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts.
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Kansas' board is of lay people that decline to take the advice of experts.
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entailment
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Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art).
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There are no artworks at the Museum of American Folk Art.
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contradiction
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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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Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass were close friends.
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neutral
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And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.
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Morris had no impact on Clinton.
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contradiction
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Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile.
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Hippocrates believed that there were only three bodily fluids.
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contradiction
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Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince.
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Jackson only has daughters in his family.
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contradiction
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They cut taxes, they helped balance the budget, and they're putting people on welfare back to work.
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They are getting healthier.
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neutral
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The problem isn't so much that men are designed by natural selection to fight as what they're designed to fight women .
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Natural selection has conditioned human males to fight.
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entailment
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And, as for the type of respect we Machiavelli's advice--that it is better to be feared than loved--will make much less sense in the 21 st century than it did in the 16 th . Goodwill toward America is becoming a national-security asset worth cultivating.
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Motivation through fear makes very little sense in today's America.
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entailment
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Sad organ music is suddenly replaced by an upbeat, jazzy The owner opens the drawer and takes the package.
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The music is being played by a live band.
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neutral
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It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.
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There was more than one Godfather movie.
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entailment
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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.
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During the war Monet delivered vegetables to troops from both sides.
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neutral
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The rules are very clear.
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The rules are very difficult to understand.
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contradiction
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Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vows to blow the whistle on candidates who tear down other Republicans.
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Nicholson has been a Republican his entire life.
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neutral
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Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding!
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A time-honored sitcom helper is a big campaign closer.
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neutral
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Your letter was so charming that Prudie almost forgot it was about a problem.
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Prudie is aware of at least one letter you have sent.
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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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Ferber is uncomfortable being portrayed as patriarchal.
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neutral
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There are many things that are permitted to adults--e.g.
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Adults are allowed to do lots of things.
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entailment
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In 1982, Ronald Reagan invoked this right to keep EPA documents about toxic-waste disposal from Congress.
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A close friend of Ronald Reagan had advised him to invoke this right.
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neutral
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Every week, Rodriguez must halt surgery because he can't get one or another material through the embargo.
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Rodriguez must halt surgery every week.
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entailment
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For sure, however, Microsoft has mainly been restrained by the knowledge that any crude use of its power would indeed land it in court.
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Microsoft has an enormous amount of power that could be used for nefarious purposes.
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entailment
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Acclaim for the pulp-fiction writer's 34 th novel.
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The recognition for the most recent novel is warranted.
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neutral
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It also creates a presumption that it will be treated.
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Nothing will be treated.
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contradiction
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The use of mind-altering drugs has probably increased as Huxley foresaw, although probably not to the extent that he foresaw.
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No one foresaw an increase in the use of mind-altering drugs.
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contradiction
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You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.
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You have thoughts that black studies have made achievements.
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entailment
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The vote was 295-136--better than a two-thirds majority--which means that opponents of the ban must once again depend on the Senate to sustain a presidential veto.
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The House of Representatives passed the ban, which is now being sent to the senate.
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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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Presidents often disobey the law.
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contradiction
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George W. is lying either when he professes his faith or when he denies its implications.
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George W. Bush has to not be telling the truth when he speaks about his faith.
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entailment
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She says, according to the Post , the secret is opening your mouth 'really wide' when eating.
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Her exact quote can be found in an article.
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neutral
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The MacDonalds of the world won't go away just because you think they're not worth responding to.
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The MacDonalds are persistent people that won't go away.
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neutral
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Such expressions might subtly shift market psychology and begin the gradual deflation.
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Expressions can cause markets to buy, sell, or hold depending on the words used.
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neutral
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When the nation's overall trade deficit increases, it means that Americans, on average, are spending more than they are earning.
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Americans do not have a tendency to spend more than they take home in income.
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contradiction
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The ossified state of European telecom monopolies would stun American Webheads.
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Telecom monopolies exist in Europe.
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entailment
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Jerry Falwell apologized for saying the Antichrist must be Jewish . At a prayer breakfast, he said, I apologize to my Jewish friends here and around the world and I apologize to the Christians here for having created any kind of rift.
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Jerry Falwell has shown no remorse about his anti-religious statements.
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contradiction
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Throughout the story, Ellison uses the symbol of horns, investing them with a number of meanings relating to sexual desire (the horny young boys), artistic creation (the instrument of jazz), and masculinity (the symbol of a bull).
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The instrument of jazz was played by BB King.
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neutral
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Does this mean that unpopular individual rights are in peril?
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The rights in peril include freedom of assembly and free speech.
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neutral
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And whether or not all the right jobs are filled with exactly the right people, the United States still manages to negotiate with China and the United Nations, the civil rights division still manages to file cases, and judges still manage to impose sentences.
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The negotiations between the United States and China benefit the American people.
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neutral
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(It is this same vision that Kaplan so admires.)
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Kaplan only admires his own exclusive visions.
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contradiction
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While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.
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They say they endorse the ideal of integration, and they mean it - they think policies like affirmative action and bussing do more good than harm.
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contradiction
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I remember seeing a piece by Michael Kinsley some years back on the absurdity of punditry.
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Kinsley is an expert on punditry.
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neutral
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Time 's culture-heavy lineup includes Tiger Woods, Rosie O'Donnell, Babyface Edmonds, Don Imus, Trent Reznor, and Dilbert (of the comic strip).
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Howard Stern will also be part of Time's lineup.
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neutral
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