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I thank Joe Conason for pointing out my errors, and I apologize to the readers of S late for my carelessness.	The author's mistakes were egregious and harmful to others.	neutral
It sounds as if things are just fine as long as your correspondent doesn't have to visit her friend's house.	The correspondent would benefit the people they are corresponding with if they visited their friend's house.	contradiction
We have to try to do something about the real world in which children are growing up.	Children continue to grow up and are influenced by the world in which they find themselves.	entailment
Our compassion must defend the disabled.	Defending the disabled is the right thing to do according to the writer.	entailment
So long as China continues to develop, Hong Kong will get a substantial chunk of that growth.	Hong Kong want more growth than China can provide.	neutral
In the 1980s, Kodak opened a major research center in Tokyo, staffed with Japanese engineers, and started a joint venture in which Canon made copiers sold under the Kodak name.	There is a major research center in Tokyo opened by Kodak.	entailment
Now economists are pointing out the unfairness of subsidizing the reduction in the number of doctors while refusing to do the same for other professions, such as economists.	Economists support subsidizing the reduction in the number of doctors without reservation.	contradiction
In preparation for our trip, I spent months studying Italian soccer on television.	I've spent quite a long time watching and examining Italian soccer on TV prior to our trip.	entailment
That's why labor is making fewer endorsements.	Labor is life-long.	neutral
(Just ask New Kids on the Block.	New Kids on the Block will answer all questions.	neutral
As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same.	When tracking down an illegal distributor gets easier for the average Joe, the harder this makes it for the cops.	contradiction
There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position.	Rubin slipped up when he said our position.	entailment
Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.	Legers ideas on machinery are more fascinating to him.	neutral
As in his Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), the outcome of every scene is predictable, but how Zaillian gets from beat to beat is surprisingly fresh.	Bobby Fisher lost his chess match against Zaillian.	contradiction
Mostyes voters dismissed the predictions of doom as exaggeration, according to polls conducted on either side of Election Day.	The pollsters were very credible.	neutral
I don't want to belabor that point (though it is fun, as all the They should have seen it coming headlines on stories about Inphomation's bankruptcy suggest).	No one has mentioned about Inphomation's bankruptcy.	contradiction
That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.	You can't get spasm from sex.	contradiction
Nothing in Siegel's work could explain this perception.	Siegel had written at length about this perception.	contradiction
But there's a larger explanation.	The larger explanation is very complicated and difficult to understand.	neutral
4) Who cares whether the judges are honest?	The judges may not be honest.	entailment
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.	No one wanted stricter laws as a result.	contradiction
I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.	She was not wanted at the wedding.	contradiction
That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black.	It is certain that there is no racial discrimination.	contradiction
3 billion bill for the U.S.	The bill only has $1 billion in it.	contradiction
Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.	Ionesco and the madrigal recital have writings in regards to the pageant.	entailment
to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision,	There is something I need to ask.	entailment
Contrary to press reports, it's possible that someone entered the house from outside.	It's not possible that someone entered the house.	contradiction
Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual?	It is impossible to feel emptiness and lack of self.	contradiction
The inanity of the experts and the dubious casting make these films about as erotic as ...	The casting of this movie could have been better.	entailment
Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks, are by and large following the classic patterns of immigrant and ethnic assimilation.	New immigrants will assimilate to their new countries after a few generations.	neutral
Or, better yet, he should build houses for the poor under the supervision of Jimmy Carter.	Jimmy Carter is a great supervisor.	neutral
Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras) has a wild-man intensity--part Ezra Pound, part Jerry Garcia--accentuated by Close's one-time experimentation with a radiating circular grid.	Lucas II is a painting by Lucas Samaras.	entailment
In effect, Nixon's misdeeds () so dwarf Clinton's--even the most severe charges of suborning perjury--that Republicans could wind up bollixed.	Clinton was never accused of perjury.	contradiction
I do not know whether this theory is true.	The vast majority of people believe that the theory is accurate.	neutral
Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.	There's only a women's department inside the store.	contradiction
But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle.	Tarzan, Jane and her father did not believe the Englishmen were evil.	contradiction
Remember when he looked us in the eye?	He looked us in the eye.	entailment
The short-term question was how such a nut got drafted into the Israeli army	Nobody cares how this person got into the Israeli army.	contradiction
The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.	Bennett does not believe criminals are being properly imprisoned.	entailment
Mir's crew was docked pay for its incompetence.	Mir's crew are volunteers.	contradiction
(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.)	The Russian Government is transparent about war fatalities.	contradiction
Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a shred of evidence against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration a whitewash.	There's no proof that Lee did it.	entailment
He calls his artists No Limit Soldiers.	No Limit Soldiers refer to the sleepless nights the artists undergo to finish their work.	neutral
The spread of nuclear and biological weapons, the growth of international organized crime, and global environmental degradation are a few examples.	Organized crime is no longer a problem internationally.	contradiction
The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.	Richard LaGravenese has written many best sellers.	neutral
Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.	PACs are despised by Senate Republicans.	contradiction
Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.	The prospectus did not outline these plans.	entailment
NBC had fired him a year and a half ago after he pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex.	He is in jail.	neutral
His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton.	It was up to him to investigate the allegations made by Willey.	entailment
Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke.	Lehman recorded a bogey on the hole.	neutral
Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.	Soderbergh couldn't care any less about the film, nor any deeper meaning.	contradiction
I am still tempted to do that, but since I encountered that quotation, I have resisted.	The quotation made me stop.	entailment
Or Caltech on Top (Until We Fiddle With Rules Again).	Caltech came out on top, based on unchangeable metrics.	contradiction
Pre-McGrath, it was even forbidden to review a book published by one's own publishing company.	Book reviews are never biased.	contradiction
Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure.	Forks wants to do business with the Port Angeles' conference center.	entailment
By the way, an old corporate pro once told me never to discuss anything of importance in a bathroom or an elevator.	It's best to not have important discussions in an elevator or in a bathroom.	entailment
The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.	The justice was bitter even after being appointed to the Supreme Court.	entailment
The cover story protests the Fed's failure to hike interest rates despite early signs of inflation.	The Fed's unwillingness to budge on interest rates was praised by the cover story.	contradiction
The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.	It is believed that the mafia has ended.	entailment
They concluded it was caused by the driver's loss of control.	The driver had been drinking earlier that day, which explains his loss of control.	neutral
Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.	Coretta performed amazingly as an executive.	contradiction
The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.	They care enough about the institution to defend it.	entailment
You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)	There aren't any new features coming out in the future.	contradiction
Defense So could we.	A defense was needed.	neutral
The official Bush campaign, of course, kept its distance from such efforts, and claimed to use Horton only in race-neutral ways.	The Bush campaign was unconcerned with how people perceived their use of Horton.	contradiction
Reverse Triangulation: How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate.	Clinton's extreme views stem from his childhood.	neutral
I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.	I don't want any kind of help with this issue.	contradiction
Framed this way, the story is dying.	Nothing else would make the story die.	neutral
Close banks for one day to allow them to reorganize	After banks are given time to reorganize they will not need to close unexpectedly again for at least three years.	neutral
I went to high school with Fred Fournier, and believe me there's nothing to admire.	Fred Fournier is an incredible and admirable person.	contradiction
And I hate short sleeved shirts when they wear them with dark neckties, skinny swine knocking on closed doors; and I had a habit of counting bricks, a nice obsession compared with	I think wearing a T-shirt with a necktie is always a good choice.	contradiction
If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?	The popularity of pro big-government philosophy is tied to the rise in feminism.	neutral
Betsy's logical mind and wonderful laugh, among other gifts, made it all happen (well, most of the time).	The author believes that Betsy's mind is grounded in logic.	entailment
Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.	The film follows a Pakistani taxi driver because Prasad himself is of Pakistani descent.	neutral
Nevertheless, they were trumpeted throughout the nation, because the media had little else to talk about.	Nobody in the nation was given any chance to know about them.	contradiction
Newsweek 's cover package, pegged to the release of Steven Spielberg's film Amistad , assesses the legacy of slavery.	The film was being edited at Spielberg's home.	neutral
But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.	We believe that people are animals.	entailment
After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.	I was a smoker in 1984.	entailment
When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.	Lots of people read the publication, the British Vogue.	neutral
Blum masterfully explains why the effects of hormones are more complicated than pop science would have us think.	Blum's explanation of the effects of hormones is amateurish.	contradiction
But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...	Jews are becoming the new Asians in America.	contradiction
Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment.	Thomas sexually harassed Hill.	contradiction
An article chronicles the aborted return of offbeat television.	An article has been written about things that are on TV.	entailment
The New Yorker 's Alex Ross calls Palestrina --about the 16 th -century Italian church-music composer--a spectacle that is magnificent on the surface and haunting at the core.	The movie deals with the composer's personal life.	neutral
And it's not that they don't know any.	They might know all.	neutral
Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson writes that his movie was just a joke but compares Hillary Clinton's allegation of a right-wing conspiracy to the distraction ploys found in the film.	Barry Levinson has always maintained that his movie is completely serious and should be taken at face value.	contradiction
It's agreeable to find him grounded in the here and now--the magic is there but below the surface.	He is lost without magic.	contradiction
A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.	The brothers were inspired by the Wright brothers to develop the plane.	neutral
I see a method to his madness.	He has a bad reason for doing it.	neutral
The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.	The report was felt to be overly verbose in its assessment.	neutral
, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.	They want either the taxes to stay the same or lower.	entailment
Or, more creatively yet, maybe one new senator could just stop talking for a while.	Political discourse would benefit if a specific senator would stop talking.	neutral
In return, the vice president occasionally helps them.	The vice president will help them sometimes, but not all the time.	entailment
Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like the Unabomber, Katz is driven frothy by a world that won't conform to his expectations.	Katz is an author who has written mystery books.	entailment
As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!	Sperm whales primarily consist of gas.	entailment
There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood.	Piggly Wiggly was there the whole time.	contradiction
A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.	The stories in Newsweek about India were a collaboration between three contributors.	neutral
She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other.	She is of African descent.	neutral
The wise course for Republicans might be to accept a plea bargain under which neither Clinton's behavior nor Starr's will be further investigated with regard to the Lewinsky matter.	A plea bargain which relates to Clinton and Starr has been offered.	entailment
When you buy something online or fill out a warranty card, there's often a little box at the Check here if you wish to receive announcements about our new products and services that may delight and amuse you.	Clicking the checkbox will delight and amuse you.	neutral

I thank Joe Conason for pointing out my errors, and I apologize to the readers of S late for my carelessness.

The author's mistakes were egregious and harmful to others.

neutral

It sounds as if things are just fine as long as your correspondent doesn't have to visit her friend's house.

The correspondent would benefit the people they are corresponding with if they visited their friend's house.

contradiction

We have to try to do something about the real world in which children are growing up.

Children continue to grow up and are influenced by the world in which they find themselves.

entailment

Our compassion must defend the disabled.

Defending the disabled is the right thing to do according to the writer.

entailment

So long as China continues to develop, Hong Kong will get a substantial chunk of that growth.

Hong Kong want more growth than China can provide.

neutral

In the 1980s, Kodak opened a major research center in Tokyo, staffed with Japanese engineers, and started a joint venture in which Canon made copiers sold under the Kodak name.

There is a major research center in Tokyo opened by Kodak.

entailment

Now economists are pointing out the unfairness of subsidizing the reduction in the number of doctors while refusing to do the same for other professions, such as economists.

Economists support subsidizing the reduction in the number of doctors without reservation.

contradiction

In preparation for our trip, I spent months studying Italian soccer on television.

I've spent quite a long time watching and examining Italian soccer on TV prior to our trip.

entailment

That's why labor is making fewer endorsements.

Labor is life-long.

neutral

(Just ask New Kids on the Block.

New Kids on the Block will answer all questions.

neutral

As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same.

When tracking down an illegal distributor gets easier for the average Joe, the harder this makes it for the cops.

contradiction

There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position.

Rubin slipped up when he said our position.

entailment

Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.

Legers ideas on machinery are more fascinating to him.

neutral

As in his Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), the outcome of every scene is predictable, but how Zaillian gets from beat to beat is surprisingly fresh.

Bobby Fisher lost his chess match against Zaillian.

contradiction

Mostyes voters dismissed the predictions of doom as exaggeration, according to polls conducted on either side of Election Day.

The pollsters were very credible.

neutral

I don't want to belabor that point (though it is fun, as all the They should have seen it coming headlines on stories about Inphomation's bankruptcy suggest).

No one has mentioned about Inphomation's bankruptcy.

contradiction

That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.

You can't get spasm from sex.

contradiction

Nothing in Siegel's work could explain this perception.

Siegel had written at length about this perception.

contradiction

But there's a larger explanation.

The larger explanation is very complicated and difficult to understand.

neutral

4) Who cares whether the judges are honest?

The judges may not be honest.

entailment

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.

No one wanted stricter laws as a result.

contradiction

I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.

She was not wanted at the wedding.

contradiction

That doesn't necessarily mean that in a world with no racial discrimination, present or past, 12 of the top 100 candidates would be black.

It is certain that there is no racial discrimination.

contradiction

3 billion bill for the U.S.

The bill only has $1 billion in it.

contradiction

Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.

Ionesco and the madrigal recital have writings in regards to the pageant.

entailment

to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision,

There is something I need to ask.

entailment

Contrary to press reports, it's possible that someone entered the house from outside.

It's not possible that someone entered the house.

contradiction

Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual?

It is impossible to feel emptiness and lack of self.

contradiction

The inanity of the experts and the dubious casting make these films about as erotic as ...

The casting of this movie could have been better.

entailment

Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks, are by and large following the classic patterns of immigrant and ethnic assimilation.

New immigrants will assimilate to their new countries after a few generations.

neutral

Or, better yet, he should build houses for the poor under the supervision of Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter is a great supervisor.

neutral

Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras) has a wild-man intensity--part Ezra Pound, part Jerry Garcia--accentuated by Close's one-time experimentation with a radiating circular grid.

Lucas II is a painting by Lucas Samaras.

entailment

In effect, Nixon's misdeeds () so dwarf Clinton's--even the most severe charges of suborning perjury--that Republicans could wind up bollixed.

Clinton was never accused of perjury.

contradiction

I do not know whether this theory is true.

The vast majority of people believe that the theory is accurate.

neutral

Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.

There's only a women's department inside the store.

contradiction

But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle.

Tarzan, Jane and her father did not believe the Englishmen were evil.

contradiction

Remember when he looked us in the eye?

He looked us in the eye.

entailment

The short-term question was how such a nut got drafted into the Israeli army

Nobody cares how this person got into the Israeli army.

contradiction

The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.

Bennett does not believe criminals are being properly imprisoned.

entailment

Mir's crew was docked pay for its incompetence.

Mir's crew are volunteers.

contradiction

(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.)

The Russian Government is transparent about war fatalities.

contradiction

Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a shred of evidence against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration a whitewash.

There's no proof that Lee did it.

entailment

He calls his artists No Limit Soldiers.

No Limit Soldiers refer to the sleepless nights the artists undergo to finish their work.

neutral

The spread of nuclear and biological weapons, the growth of international organized crime, and global environmental degradation are a few examples.

Organized crime is no longer a problem internationally.

contradiction

The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.

Richard LaGravenese has written many best sellers.

neutral

Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.

PACs are despised by Senate Republicans.

contradiction

Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.

The prospectus did not outline these plans.

entailment

NBC had fired him a year and a half ago after he pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex.

He is in jail.

neutral

His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton.

It was up to him to investigate the allegations made by Willey.

entailment

Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke.

Lehman recorded a bogey on the hole.

neutral

Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.

Soderbergh couldn't care any less about the film, nor any deeper meaning.

contradiction

I am still tempted to do that, but since I encountered that quotation, I have resisted.

The quotation made me stop.

entailment

Or Caltech on Top (Until We Fiddle With Rules Again).

Caltech came out on top, based on unchangeable metrics.

contradiction

Pre-McGrath, it was even forbidden to review a book published by one's own publishing company.

Book reviews are never biased.

contradiction

Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure.

Forks wants to do business with the Port Angeles' conference center.

entailment

By the way, an old corporate pro once told me never to discuss anything of importance in a bathroom or an elevator.

It's best to not have important discussions in an elevator or in a bathroom.

entailment

The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.

The justice was bitter even after being appointed to the Supreme Court.

entailment

The cover story protests the Fed's failure to hike interest rates despite early signs of inflation.

The Fed's unwillingness to budge on interest rates was praised by the cover story.

contradiction

The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.

It is believed that the mafia has ended.

entailment

They concluded it was caused by the driver's loss of control.

The driver had been drinking earlier that day, which explains his loss of control.

neutral

Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.

Coretta performed amazingly as an executive.

contradiction

The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.

They care enough about the institution to defend it.

entailment

You'll also see a lot more cool features, such as HTML mail and Preview Pane, to name but two.)

There aren't any new features coming out in the future.

contradiction

Defense So could we.

A defense was needed.

neutral

The official Bush campaign, of course, kept its distance from such efforts, and claimed to use Horton only in race-neutral ways.

The Bush campaign was unconcerned with how people perceived their use of Horton.

contradiction

Reverse Triangulation: How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate.

Clinton's extreme views stem from his childhood.

neutral

I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.

I don't want any kind of help with this issue.

contradiction

Framed this way, the story is dying.

Nothing else would make the story die.

neutral

Close banks for one day to allow them to reorganize

After banks are given time to reorganize they will not need to close unexpectedly again for at least three years.

neutral

I went to high school with Fred Fournier, and believe me there's nothing to admire.

Fred Fournier is an incredible and admirable person.

contradiction

And I hate short sleeved shirts when they wear them with dark neckties, skinny swine knocking on closed doors; and I had a habit of counting bricks, a nice obsession compared with

I think wearing a T-shirt with a necktie is always a good choice.

contradiction

If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?

The popularity of pro big-government philosophy is tied to the rise in feminism.

neutral

Betsy's logical mind and wonderful laugh, among other gifts, made it all happen (well, most of the time).

The author believes that Betsy's mind is grounded in logic.

entailment

Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.

The film follows a Pakistani taxi driver because Prasad himself is of Pakistani descent.

neutral

Nevertheless, they were trumpeted throughout the nation, because the media had little else to talk about.

Nobody in the nation was given any chance to know about them.

contradiction

Newsweek 's cover package, pegged to the release of Steven Spielberg's film Amistad , assesses the legacy of slavery.

The film was being edited at Spielberg's home.

neutral

But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.

We believe that people are animals.

entailment

After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.

I was a smoker in 1984.

entailment

When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.

Lots of people read the publication, the British Vogue.

neutral

Blum masterfully explains why the effects of hormones are more complicated than pop science would have us think.

Blum's explanation of the effects of hormones is amateurish.

contradiction

But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...

Jews are becoming the new Asians in America.

contradiction

Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment.

Thomas sexually harassed Hill.

contradiction

An article chronicles the aborted return of offbeat television.

An article has been written about things that are on TV.

entailment

The New Yorker 's Alex Ross calls Palestrina --about the 16 th -century Italian church-music composer--a spectacle that is magnificent on the surface and haunting at the core.

The movie deals with the composer's personal life.

neutral

And it's not that they don't know any.

They might know all.

neutral

Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson writes that his movie was just a joke but compares Hillary Clinton's allegation of a right-wing conspiracy to the distraction ploys found in the film.

Barry Levinson has always maintained that his movie is completely serious and should be taken at face value.

contradiction

It's agreeable to find him grounded in the here and now--the magic is there but below the surface.

He is lost without magic.

contradiction

A pair of inventing brothers is building a Model-T for the air--a $179,400 plane with simplified controls and a giant parachute for safer crash landings.

The brothers were inspired by the Wright brothers to develop the plane.

neutral

I see a method to his madness.

He has a bad reason for doing it.

neutral

The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.

The report was felt to be overly verbose in its assessment.

neutral

, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.

They want either the taxes to stay the same or lower.

entailment

Or, more creatively yet, maybe one new senator could just stop talking for a while.

Political discourse would benefit if a specific senator would stop talking.

neutral

In return, the vice president occasionally helps them.

The vice president will help them sometimes, but not all the time.

entailment

Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like the Unabomber, Katz is driven frothy by a world that won't conform to his expectations.

Katz is an author who has written mystery books.

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As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!

Sperm whales primarily consist of gas.

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There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood.

Piggly Wiggly was there the whole time.

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A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence.

The stories in Newsweek about India were a collaboration between three contributors.

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She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other.

She is of African descent.

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The wise course for Republicans might be to accept a plea bargain under which neither Clinton's behavior nor Starr's will be further investigated with regard to the Lewinsky matter.

A plea bargain which relates to Clinton and Starr has been offered.

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When you buy something online or fill out a warranty card, there's often a little box at the Check here if you wish to receive announcements about our new products and services that may delight and amuse you.

Clicking the checkbox will delight and amuse you.

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