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Somewhere in the Maryland panhandle, E and I were for some reason discussing Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty , which makes the case for chastity, patience, courtship, etc.	I and E were conversing about Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty, which teaches self-restraint, tolerance, and romance.	entailment
I have never seen a trial before where you had factual disputes where you didn't have witnesses where you could watch their demeanor on the stand, listen to them, judge one witness vs. another witness (DeWine).	This was not the first trial that I had seen.	entailment
He then made a speech in September 1980 in which he laid out the quantities involved and the underlying assumptions.	His speech was made over a decade ago.	entailment
In the new mall, like the old one, there is no escape.	The latest mall does not have an escape.	entailment
Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution.	Tafero is currently living in Naples and works at a vineyard.	contradiction
The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as	There are several aspects of The Bell Curve that are problematic.	entailment
What's more, the latter reads more like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists.	Several stories have been written about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists recently.	neutral
Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.	Ferraro's Crossfire job was difficult to perform.	contradiction
But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.	More people in jail are innocent, compared to those who are guilty.	neutral
In BeauSeigneur's novels, the Antichrist is Jewish, for sure, but he's also a man who was produced in a lab by misguided scientists using cells taken from the Shroud of Turin.	BeauSeigneur's novels has a character who was produced in a lab.	entailment
Demonstrations on television never look right.	Demonstrations have been shown on television before.	entailment
Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life.	Government employees would have to do something really bad in order to get fired.	entailment
All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.	His statements have fooled a lot of people.	neutral
Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market.	Windows has 90 percent of the operating system market.	entailment
The rest is only half-glimpsed, fantasized, or saturated by memory--or is the present the memory?	The event is retained perfectly on video.	contradiction
Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair?	The president completed his term without any semblance of scandal.	contradiction
Ah, it's always the big but.	There was a caveat or catch to a statement.	entailment
(Read the transcripts of the better CNN chats here . Look for the Allpolitics section toward the bottom of the page.)	The Allpolitics sections is at the bottom of the page.	entailment
It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.	Other audiences enjoyed the movie whole-heartedly.	neutral
Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.	Bennett is illiterate and unemployed.	contradiction
But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results.	Witzum and Rips are politicians.	neutral
Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker.	Various interest groups had legitimate reasons for wanting poker defeated in their state.	neutral
Some journalists wrote scathingly of me, Mitchell, [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards [also McPherson's partner], because we had agreed to do that.	Some critics found faults with the author, and wrote so in their reviews.	entailment
But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.	The industry balances sales with helping smokers quit their product.	neutral
It's funny how hard it is to find anything to sing about.	It should be easy to find something to sing about.	entailment
4) If resemblance to Jesus were the only issue, why didn't Falwell say the Antichrist must be a carpenter?	Falwell said the resemblance to Jesus was an issue.	entailment
The 1990s even saw a major overhaul, when Charlotte introduced magnet schools devoted to excellence in a single area, such as math, and open to students from all neighborhoods--to give whites extra incentive to travel long distances to school.	The first magnet schools in Charlotte opened under a torrent of opposition from the parents of white children.	neutral
We should lead by example and suasion.	We should not try to convice them, or model the behavior.	contradiction
Unlike most strips, his was about adults, albeit adults depicted as children.	The comic strip was different from most.	entailment
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.	Nobody thinks that this kind of novel has anything to offer at all.	contradiction
For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering	Someone is in need of volunteering time.	neutral
Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview.	Despite the population being 60 percent black, Selma's mayor is white.	entailment
Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau.	Martha is not an employee of Omnimedia.	contradiction
Kinsley fails to address the main point of the privatization Social Security changes people's behavior.	Social Security has been a hot issue for Kinsley.	neutral
In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ...	The Limey is a high budget movie with an all-star cast involving The Rock & Kevin Hart.	contradiction
60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.	Antwerp is 40 miles away.	entailment
So there is no way yet to know for sure who wins and loses.	There is a very real possibility that no one wins and things end up in a tie.	neutral
The effort to convert won into dollars and other foreign currencies depressed the value of the won, despite the Korean government's efforts to sustain it by using its reserves.	The Korean government made a mistake in trying to sustain the won.	neutral
But the supply-siders are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game.	The supply-siders are mostly of Chinese descent.	neutral
Another time I had to go and look after my brother Kenny in Buffalo.	The author has a sibling in Buffalo.	entailment
The cover story says that megabillionaire and stock-picking legend Warren Buffett has quietly shifted his focus from buying individual stocks to purchasing companies.	Warren Buffett started purchasing companies instead of individual stocks and this went unnoticed.	entailment
Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.	All welcomes nations particpated in 1992.	neutral
The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and This Week experiencing pronounced ratings increases.	No one watches news on TV anymore because of the scandal.	contradiction
We Americans mocked the militarism of German youth in the '30s, and now we're embracing Louis Caldera's ballistic schemes.	Germans and Americans have always rejected and denounced the military.	contradiction
How can you be sure your programs are safe?	Whether the programs are safe or not doesn't matter.	contradiction
Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.	She would not condemn the media.	entailment
The bar on male behavior has been substantially lowered, and this is feminists' own fault.	Feminists are worried about male behavior.	neutral
We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.	the Marshall Plan is remembered even today.	entailment
There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.	This is just about having a nice night out and nothing more.	contradiction
It works by releasing hydrogen peroxide to break up or remove the color from organic materials but is gentle enough that it won't affect most fabric dyes.	How this product works is unknown.	contradiction
(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.)	Indiana Jones is a two part series.	contradiction
(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.)	I did respond.	neutral
If it hits, there's a big syndication upside.	The syndication deal will pay off if it hits.	entailment
But what does it mean?	No one has any understading about it.	entailment
But Aaron hardly figures here and, of course, psychology isn't the point.	Aaron had a small effect on the situation because the others didn't let psychology affect them much.	neutral
This is why managed care is a genuinely confusing Should voters believe the anecdotes, which are real and horrifying, or should they accept the evidence that people are mostly happy with their own insurance, happy to be paying less, and as healthy as they have ever been?	Managed care will result in better healthcare for poor people but worse healthcare for wealthy people.	neutral
The point of the rape charge is that it's different.	The author argues that the charge of rape is distinct and used specifically for its own purpose.	entailment
His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.	After The Ball is a complex musical piece.	neutral
Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year?	People think Warren Buffett wanted a 100% capital gains tax for investments held under a year.	entailment
That's why labor is making fewer endorsements.	Labor is not important.	contradiction
Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.	Rick Segal, an internet guru, attempted something with the Iowa straw poll.	entailment
This July, Sen.	Sen, whenever.	contradiction
The Czech expat's second novel written in French causes some reviewers to proclaim his decline.	Some reviewers think the Czech expat is in decline.	entailment
The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign.	The earliest campaign start in history belongs to Bush.	entailment
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.	Clinton gave his honest answers to all the questions.	neutral
But they admit that at least some consumers are being misled by the logo.	No consumers are led astray as a result of the logo.	contradiction
All of these measures together will not cause the ghettos to disappear.	Ghettos will continue to exist for a long time.	neutral
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.	Local governments have been tasked with studying the issue of international tariffs.	contradiction
They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.	Slaves never thought of returning to Africa.	contradiction
Michael Kelly's WP column about Ken Starr vs.	Michael Kelly is not a columnist.	contradiction
Unfortunately for the GOP, the sophistication and delicacy of the ads is already being overwhelmed by the Democrats' simplification of them.	Democrats and GOP take different approaches to ads.	entailment
Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.	The other connotations in three years are mostly negative effects.	neutral
Most shops closed at 6 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday were not open or were open only until noon.	Some shops were open on Saturdays.	entailment
Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw.	The rankings are flawed.	entailment
Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign?	Nike's Just Do It does not share a common sensibility to ABC's You can talk to your wife campaign.	contradiction
They don't see a need for Washington.	They don't think Washington is required in this situation.	entailment
(A great continental nation--I love that phrase, but what the hell does it mean?)	They love other phrases as well, but often misremember their meaning.	neutral
Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.	People feel the need to buy useless things that they have no money for.	entailment
I should also say that while I love the idea that the universe is nothing but a mathematical model of itself, I've never met anyone else who found the idea of software without hardware even remotely plausible.	I have never met anyone who believes software can exist without hardware.	entailment
On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love).	The band is heavily influenced by the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree.	entailment
In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.	Ken Starr has some interest in the murder of Vince Foster.	entailment
Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ...	Tim is currently having problems with the author.	entailment
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a Bush rival, Here is a fellow that went and flew airplanes and learned to be a pilot and was prepared to go, if he had to go.	Orrin Hatch loves the countryside when flying.	neutral
You fresh air/fresh ideas	It has been clinically proven that fresh air leads to the best ideas.	contradiction
Television, radio, and print outlets are donating less time and space to anti-drug advertising.	Print outlets are running less anti-drug advertising because it's been shown to be ineffective.	neutral
The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment.	There is an effort designed to help others appreciation the best aspects of artistic endeavors.	entailment
On Friday's NewsHour , Gigot asks, Is this a Republican Congress?	Gigot asked about Congress on Thursday's NewsHour.	contradiction
Now imagine being at my Web site, reading my promotional materials, and deciding you'd like to read the book.	my website has been up and running for 2 years, now.	neutral
Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!	The slow speaking tobacco dealer is easy to understand.	contradiction
Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.	The response was regarding an e-coli outbreak stemming from lettuce.	neutral
Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.	The U.S. economy set records in the 80s.	neutral
The Times claimed that the number boycotting never reached a critical mass that would have threatened the integrity of its list.	Everybody that was capable of boycotting, chose to boycott.	contradiction
But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.	I have considered all of the aspects of this carefully.	neutral
These decisions are made by middle management, who are free to indulge their prejudices, regardless of a calculation of what's best for the corporate bottom line.	Middle manager are allowed to make decisions based on their prejudices and wants.	entailment
Now it stands to monopolize it, thanks to its ad dollars and its friends in the media.	This is regarding facebook and it's ad revenue.	neutral
I passed out and had to be carried home.	They passed out due to drinking too much.	neutral
How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.	The Republican remedy to the problem is preferred.	entailment
In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references.	Nobody references anything homosexual within children's entertainment.	contradiction
A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice.	Time believes the electric-car movement has plenty of momentum.	contradiction
He paved the way for the Bronsons and Chuck Norrises and Seagals and Jean-Claude Van Dammes and all the other righteous slayers of post-midnight cable-movie-channel programming.	He set the stage for slayers of the night such as Chuck Norris, Seagal, and Jean-Claude Van Damme.	entailment

Somewhere in the Maryland panhandle, E and I were for some reason discussing Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty , which makes the case for chastity, patience, courtship, etc.

I and E were conversing about Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty, which teaches self-restraint, tolerance, and romance.

entailment

I have never seen a trial before where you had factual disputes where you didn't have witnesses where you could watch their demeanor on the stand, listen to them, judge one witness vs. another witness (DeWine).

This was not the first trial that I had seen.

entailment

He then made a speech in September 1980 in which he laid out the quantities involved and the underlying assumptions.

His speech was made over a decade ago.

entailment

In the new mall, like the old one, there is no escape.

The latest mall does not have an escape.

entailment

Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution.

Tafero is currently living in Naples and works at a vineyard.

contradiction

The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as

There are several aspects of The Bell Curve that are problematic.

entailment

What's more, the latter reads more like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists.

Several stories have been written about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists recently.

neutral

Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.

Ferraro's Crossfire job was difficult to perform.

contradiction

But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.

More people in jail are innocent, compared to those who are guilty.

neutral

In BeauSeigneur's novels, the Antichrist is Jewish, for sure, but he's also a man who was produced in a lab by misguided scientists using cells taken from the Shroud of Turin.

BeauSeigneur's novels has a character who was produced in a lab.

entailment

Demonstrations on television never look right.

Demonstrations have been shown on television before.

entailment

Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life.

Government employees would have to do something really bad in order to get fired.

entailment

All too often, however, such statements are zingers, as if whipped out from the comfort of his easy chair or dashed off for the op-ed page of a conservative newspaper.

His statements have fooled a lot of people.

neutral

Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market.

Windows has 90 percent of the operating system market.

entailment

The rest is only half-glimpsed, fantasized, or saturated by memory--or is the present the memory?

The event is retained perfectly on video.

contradiction

Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair?

The president completed his term without any semblance of scandal.

contradiction

Ah, it's always the big but.

There was a caveat or catch to a statement.

entailment

(Read the transcripts of the better CNN chats here . Look for the Allpolitics section toward the bottom of the page.)

The Allpolitics sections is at the bottom of the page.

entailment

It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.

Other audiences enjoyed the movie whole-heartedly.

neutral

Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.

Bennett is illiterate and unemployed.

contradiction

But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results.

Witzum and Rips are politicians.

neutral

Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker.

Various interest groups had legitimate reasons for wanting poker defeated in their state.

neutral

Some journalists wrote scathingly of me, Mitchell, [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards [also McPherson's partner], because we had agreed to do that.

Some critics found faults with the author, and wrote so in their reviews.

entailment

But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.

The industry balances sales with helping smokers quit their product.

neutral

It's funny how hard it is to find anything to sing about.

It should be easy to find something to sing about.

entailment

4) If resemblance to Jesus were the only issue, why didn't Falwell say the Antichrist must be a carpenter?

Falwell said the resemblance to Jesus was an issue.

entailment

The 1990s even saw a major overhaul, when Charlotte introduced magnet schools devoted to excellence in a single area, such as math, and open to students from all neighborhoods--to give whites extra incentive to travel long distances to school.

The first magnet schools in Charlotte opened under a torrent of opposition from the parents of white children.

neutral

We should lead by example and suasion.

We should not try to convice them, or model the behavior.

contradiction

Unlike most strips, his was about adults, albeit adults depicted as children.

The comic strip was different from most.

entailment

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.

Nobody thinks that this kind of novel has anything to offer at all.

contradiction

For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering

Someone is in need of volunteering time.

neutral

Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview.

Despite the population being 60 percent black, Selma's mayor is white.

entailment

Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau.

Martha is not an employee of Omnimedia.

contradiction

Kinsley fails to address the main point of the privatization Social Security changes people's behavior.

Social Security has been a hot issue for Kinsley.

neutral

In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ...

The Limey is a high budget movie with an all-star cast involving The Rock & Kevin Hart.

contradiction

60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly.

Antwerp is 40 miles away.

entailment

So there is no way yet to know for sure who wins and loses.

There is a very real possibility that no one wins and things end up in a tie.

neutral

The effort to convert won into dollars and other foreign currencies depressed the value of the won, despite the Korean government's efforts to sustain it by using its reserves.

The Korean government made a mistake in trying to sustain the won.

neutral

But the supply-siders are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game.

The supply-siders are mostly of Chinese descent.

neutral

Another time I had to go and look after my brother Kenny in Buffalo.

The author has a sibling in Buffalo.

entailment

The cover story says that megabillionaire and stock-picking legend Warren Buffett has quietly shifted his focus from buying individual stocks to purchasing companies.

Warren Buffett started purchasing companies instead of individual stocks and this went unnoticed.

entailment

Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.

All welcomes nations particpated in 1992.

neutral

The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and This Week experiencing pronounced ratings increases.

No one watches news on TV anymore because of the scandal.

contradiction

We Americans mocked the militarism of German youth in the '30s, and now we're embracing Louis Caldera's ballistic schemes.

Germans and Americans have always rejected and denounced the military.

contradiction

How can you be sure your programs are safe?

Whether the programs are safe or not doesn't matter.

contradiction

Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.

She would not condemn the media.

entailment

The bar on male behavior has been substantially lowered, and this is feminists' own fault.

Feminists are worried about male behavior.

neutral

We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.

the Marshall Plan is remembered even today.

entailment

There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment.

This is just about having a nice night out and nothing more.

contradiction

It works by releasing hydrogen peroxide to break up or remove the color from organic materials but is gentle enough that it won't affect most fabric dyes.

How this product works is unknown.

contradiction

(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.)

Indiana Jones is a two part series.

contradiction

(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.)

I did respond.

neutral

If it hits, there's a big syndication upside.

The syndication deal will pay off if it hits.

entailment

But what does it mean?

No one has any understading about it.

entailment

But Aaron hardly figures here and, of course, psychology isn't the point.

Aaron had a small effect on the situation because the others didn't let psychology affect them much.

neutral

This is why managed care is a genuinely confusing Should voters believe the anecdotes, which are real and horrifying, or should they accept the evidence that people are mostly happy with their own insurance, happy to be paying less, and as healthy as they have ever been?

Managed care will result in better healthcare for poor people but worse healthcare for wealthy people.

neutral

The point of the rape charge is that it's different.

The author argues that the charge of rape is distinct and used specifically for its own purpose.

entailment

His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.

After The Ball is a complex musical piece.

neutral

Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year?

People think Warren Buffett wanted a 100% capital gains tax for investments held under a year.

entailment

That's why labor is making fewer endorsements.

Labor is not important.

contradiction

Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.

Rick Segal, an internet guru, attempted something with the Iowa straw poll.

entailment

This July, Sen.

Sen, whenever.

contradiction

The Czech expat's second novel written in French causes some reviewers to proclaim his decline.

Some reviewers think the Czech expat is in decline.

entailment

The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign.

The earliest campaign start in history belongs to Bush.

entailment

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.

Clinton gave his honest answers to all the questions.

neutral

But they admit that at least some consumers are being misled by the logo.

No consumers are led astray as a result of the logo.

contradiction

All of these measures together will not cause the ghettos to disappear.

Ghettos will continue to exist for a long time.

neutral

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.

Local governments have been tasked with studying the issue of international tariffs.

contradiction

They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.

Slaves never thought of returning to Africa.

contradiction

Michael Kelly's WP column about Ken Starr vs.

Michael Kelly is not a columnist.

contradiction

Unfortunately for the GOP, the sophistication and delicacy of the ads is already being overwhelmed by the Democrats' simplification of them.

Democrats and GOP take different approaches to ads.

entailment

Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.

The other connotations in three years are mostly negative effects.

neutral

Most shops closed at 6 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday were not open or were open only until noon.

Some shops were open on Saturdays.

entailment

Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw.

The rankings are flawed.

entailment

Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign?

Nike's Just Do It does not share a common sensibility to ABC's You can talk to your wife campaign.

contradiction

They don't see a need for Washington.

They don't think Washington is required in this situation.

entailment

(A great continental nation--I love that phrase, but what the hell does it mean?)

They love other phrases as well, but often misremember their meaning.

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Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.

People feel the need to buy useless things that they have no money for.

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I should also say that while I love the idea that the universe is nothing but a mathematical model of itself, I've never met anyone else who found the idea of software without hardware even remotely plausible.

I have never met anyone who believes software can exist without hardware.

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On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love).

The band is heavily influenced by the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree.

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In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.

Ken Starr has some interest in the murder of Vince Foster.

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Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ...

Tim is currently having problems with the author.

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Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a Bush rival, Here is a fellow that went and flew airplanes and learned to be a pilot and was prepared to go, if he had to go.

Orrin Hatch loves the countryside when flying.

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You fresh air/fresh ideas

It has been clinically proven that fresh air leads to the best ideas.

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Television, radio, and print outlets are donating less time and space to anti-drug advertising.

Print outlets are running less anti-drug advertising because it's been shown to be ineffective.

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The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment.

There is an effort designed to help others appreciation the best aspects of artistic endeavors.

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On Friday's NewsHour , Gigot asks, Is this a Republican Congress?

Gigot asked about Congress on Thursday's NewsHour.

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Now imagine being at my Web site, reading my promotional materials, and deciding you'd like to read the book.

my website has been up and running for 2 years, now.

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Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!

The slow speaking tobacco dealer is easy to understand.

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Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.

The response was regarding an e-coli outbreak stemming from lettuce.

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Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.

The U.S. economy set records in the 80s.

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The Times claimed that the number boycotting never reached a critical mass that would have threatened the integrity of its list.

Everybody that was capable of boycotting, chose to boycott.

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But there is a little more noble cause in this for me.

I have considered all of the aspects of this carefully.

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These decisions are made by middle management, who are free to indulge their prejudices, regardless of a calculation of what's best for the corporate bottom line.

Middle manager are allowed to make decisions based on their prejudices and wants.

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Now it stands to monopolize it, thanks to its ad dollars and its friends in the media.

This is regarding facebook and it's ad revenue.

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I passed out and had to be carried home.

They passed out due to drinking too much.

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How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.

The Republican remedy to the problem is preferred.

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In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references.

Nobody references anything homosexual within children's entertainment.

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A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice.

Time believes the electric-car movement has plenty of momentum.

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He paved the way for the Bronsons and Chuck Norrises and Seagals and Jean-Claude Van Dammes and all the other righteous slayers of post-midnight cable-movie-channel programming.

He set the stage for slayers of the night such as Chuck Norris, Seagal, and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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