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In the face of this opposition, Republicans played the molester card.
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the Republicans had no conflicts.
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contradiction
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The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed it is forbidden to forbid had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory.
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The students were fervently advocating for the liberation of the oppressed.
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entailment
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No, as it happens, it doesn't.
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It probably doesn't.
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neutral
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He said, 'Was this an attempt to subvert the Constitution?
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He questioned whether it was trying to go against the constitution.
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entailment
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Administration officials confirmed that Clinton was deliberately 1) rolling out the carpet to enhance Arafat's prestige and 2) sending Israel a warning not to screw up the peace process by provoking further conflict.
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Clinton was good friends with Arafat.
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neutral
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It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.
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Male staff are being forced to have sex, serve tea, and clean the workplace.
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contradiction
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The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you.
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even the idea of breeding dogs for their fur sickens you.
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entailment
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And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.
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I will gather up soil samples.
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entailment
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But a small item in the WP 's TV column makes you wonder even about It seems that UPN has ordered up a full season of episodes for the virtually all-black Moesha, which as of last Sunday, the paper reports, ranked 124th among the 139 series on the air.
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Moesha ranked 124 out of 139 series during one of the years it ran.
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entailment
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Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate.
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Holder wanted to drop any possible investigation into Baitgate.
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contradiction
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Still, for barbed wisdom, surprises, and technique, there's no one like Spark.
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Spark is a conformist
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contradiction
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This threatens to become a modern version of the McCarran-Walter Act, which was used during the Cold War to exclude lefty writers and intellectuals.
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This could be used to exclude some factions.
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entailment
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Don Michael Randel, currently provost at Cornell University, has been selected to succeed Hugo Sonnenschein, who stepped down in June.
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Cornell University has never had a provost and instead is headed by a committee.
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contradiction
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Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree.
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Quayle and Bennett both agree on the matter.
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entailment
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Later in the piece, Brill writes that Schmidt and another reporter declined all comment on their sources.
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Schmidt was the only one who refused to divulge their sources according to the piece.
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contradiction
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In a sense, the advertising industry is reluctantly moving toward a business model much closer to the so-called free-agent economy than to the traditional idea of a corporation.
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There is hesitation on behalf of advertising industry professionals on their move to a free-agent economy.
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entailment
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Comments like these make you wonder not whether Bush and his friends ever used cocaine, but whether they ever stopped.
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There has been some speculation into Bush's use of cocaine.
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entailment
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Crucial information is delayed and denied, which brings us back to the motif of Juneteenth, the day when slaves found out they'd been free for two and a half years.
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Slaves were not told they were free immediately.
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entailment
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The Episcopalians are all going to hell.
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Heaven is full of Episcopalians.
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contradiction
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Lehman said afterward, I feel an incredible amount of pain.
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Lehman was in discomfort.
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entailment
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His shows are more 700 Club than Crossfire . His guests almost always share Moyers' belief about the topic at hand.
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Moyers does not often disagree with his guests.
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entailment
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It's agreeable to find him grounded in the here and now--the magic is there but below the surface.
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Being grounded helps to figure things out.
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entailment
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Talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford found out that a lump in her breast was benign.
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Kathee Lee Gifford hosted a talk show.
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entailment
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But his heart is clearly with the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
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Lao-tzu never knew how to use a computer.
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entailment
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The former does seem to explain the latter.
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no explanation was given.
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contradiction
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Perhaps Internet users are more depressed because they are better informed.
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There is a correlation between depression and internet usage.
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neutral
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The herbal extract shows success in treating mild dementia and preventing Alzheimer's memory loss.
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As of yet, nothing has been shown to help treat mild dementia.
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contradiction
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I don't understand how one would read this argument and not get that it is about the effect these changes will have on the commons.
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It is difficult to see how these changes will not have a great effect.
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entailment
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Other candidates may be sexier at this hour, but once we go through the battering of New Hampshire and Iowa it might be a different story, says Connors.
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There is something inherent about the physical location of New Hampshire and Iowa that makes political elections very exciting.
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neutral
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Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up.
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Some theorize that one way to improve the global economy is to boost consumer demand.
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entailment
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The Star covers George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park as if it's writing a review.
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George Michael was extremely drunk when he exposed himself.
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neutral
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After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.
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Harvard was be more up-front about what they do.
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neutral
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Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.
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Other people's chants are even more awe-inspiring and uplifting when chanted in translation.
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contradiction
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What has allowed Intel to dominate its many competitors, who are perennially nipping at its heels with computer chips that are supposedly faster or cheaper, is that Intel does a much better job of making chips reliably and efficiently.
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While other manufacturers make the claim that their chips are faster, Intel's chips are considered more reliable.
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entailment
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[speaking] : Well, wait a second--not all of them.
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Not all are chosen.
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entailment
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The bears are holding up what might be a dinner plate that says, United We Stand Divided We Ball, indicating a surprisingly open marriage or that the ink smeared.
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The bears aren't holding anything in the image.
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contradiction
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My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes!
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The software is written in Python.
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neutral
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But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage.
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Clinton spoke on other important issues.
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neutral
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(For the neutral-interrogator approach, try France.)
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If you want a neutral interrogator, look no further than France.
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entailment
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It would also help our thinking if we could avoid the sex and violence mantra.
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Sex and violence are attractive to audiences.
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neutral
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largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings.
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Women have never encounter gender discrimination in their endeavors.
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contradiction
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Congress cannot impose community service on the president without his permission--that would be an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
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Congress needs permission from the president to impose community service on them.
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entailment
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An article profiles middle-class black homesteaders who are regenerating ghettos.
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There are no middle-class black people.
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contradiction
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But laws pertaining to child-rearing are surprisingly marriage-neutral.
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Child-rearing laws are not strictly enforced.
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neutral
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In the spirit of the ongoing pile-on on journalists, I have to argue that journalists are to blame for rock pomposity.
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The journalists twist the facts in the stories.
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neutral
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Cook might just as well be gambling on what color tie President Clinton will wear tomorrow.
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President Clinton will wear a tie tomorrow.
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entailment
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They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps.
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They bore some similarity to other ones.
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entailment
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Murder episodes are almost always one hour in length.
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If you have over an hour of free time, you could finish watching a typical murder episode.
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entailment
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The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press.
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The Journal of Medicine wanted to get the story published.
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entailment
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Since communism closed shop in Russia, all the volunteers have disappeared.
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The volunteers had been a staple in the area for many years.
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neutral
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But even then, the Thernstroms equivocate.
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The Thernstorms are clear about everything.
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contradiction
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In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him.
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The debate happened on a Saturday night.
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neutral
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For example, suppose that the U.S. stock market was to crash, threatening to undermine consumer confidence.
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A stock market crash could undermine consumer confidence.
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entailment
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They are too easy a target.
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Someone is a target for propaganda campaigns.
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neutral
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I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.
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I have been troubled by this issue for many years.
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neutral
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Yet, we do cruel things to animals--smart animals, affectionate animals, cute animals--all the time.
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People are cruel to animals.
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entailment
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Junger is grimly precise about the mechanics of drowning, says Time 's John Skow.
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Junger is accurate about drowning mechanics, according to John Skow.
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entailment
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All that's missing is the steroids (out-of-control steroid use by the mob's young guns is what's killing the mafia as much as anything else).
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Steroid use can be deadly.
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entailment
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Progressives are more definitive than most other observations about patently obvious things in society.
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Progressives are decisive in their observations.
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entailment
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Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.
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It's possible to get very rich by profiting from the sale of natural resources.
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entailment
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Will her job description be done by then?
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the job description can be ready in an instant.
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contradiction
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They responded by pushing economic regulation from the state to the federal level.
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It was never confirmed if the economic regulation went to the federal level.
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contradiction
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The civil rights movement was great.
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The civil rights movement was terrible.
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contradiction
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His work can no more be dispatched into some rubric like outsider art than that of Blake or Helderlin.
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His work can be dispatched into rubric outsider art like Blake or Helderlin.
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contradiction
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Finally, as he prepares to launch his own daily TV show, we thought we'd highlight National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker's confident prediction that there'll never, ever be a post-Lewinsky photo showing Bill [Clinton] with a cigar.
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Mike Walker is not confident
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contradiction
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Slate 's take on the culture of impotence.)
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Slate discusses impotence.
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entailment
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Microsoft did not demand that Netscape be removed, only that IE be there as well.
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Microsoft insisted that only IE could be offered.
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contradiction
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If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.
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Your baby will have a sleep problem for years if you do not get it to sleep through the night by three months of age.
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neutral
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Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.
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This change happened over a period of many years.
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neutral
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Saturated fat is still evil.
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Saturated fat can give people heart disease.
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neutral
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The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. and Daryl Hannah are still good friends.
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neutral
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Most people would rather keep what they have than risk it for a hypothetical payoff.
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Hypothetical payoffs are not preferred.
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entailment
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For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high.
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These agents go on to say that the system is stacked against drug offenders.
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neutral
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In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks.
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Working Girl to Pretty Women is to applaud a heroine's rise.
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entailment
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The photos were released by Bill Ballance, 80, a former radio talk show host who says he and Schlessinger were once lovers, who, in his memorable phrase, used to thrash around like a couple of crazed weasels.
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Bill Ballance is 70 years old.
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contradiction
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Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theory killed all these people.
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Biskind's book contained no quotes.
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contradiction
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There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look.
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This resulted in leg warmers being slimmer and lighter overall.
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neutral
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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 actually believes in Satan.
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neutral
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That means, in turn, that it's hard to figure out whether a company will be profitable next year, let alone whether its stock price is going to double.
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It is impossible to know if the stock will rise much over the next year.
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entailment
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The backdoor sniping has become so pernicious and prevalent that even retired Gen.
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No one thinks the backdoor sniping is a problem.
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contradiction
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An article explicates curling (shuffleboard on ice with brooms), the one game in all the world wherein the human participants move faster than the object they put in play.
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Curling is a sport in every nation.
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neutral
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Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.
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The U.S. government provided most of the financial support that facilitated postal expansion.
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neutral
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It's possible that Besieged is meant to be vaguely The African is seduced by the crumbling decadence of Europe while the European falls for the childlike simplicity of Africa.
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The African wasn't attracted to Europe because of its simplicity.
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entailment
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This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.
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The author thought it was less and less relevant to leave in.
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neutral
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But if you do, may you be blessed with the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of a defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- It was nobody's fault.
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The defense secretary is accused of a crime.
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neutral
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Although critics find Cities of the Plain less inventive than All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing , they still celebrate McCarthy's Faulkneresque use of flowing, punctuationless sentences and arcane language.
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critics absolutely hate every shred of Cities of the Plain.
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contradiction
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After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession.
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I have read at least one book which I have mixed feelings about.
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entailment
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The Army discharged a 20-year decorated veteran one week before he would have been eligible for retirement benefits, because investigators discovered evidence of his homosexuality after an arsonist torched his home.
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There is a 20-year decorated veteran that is a homosexual.
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entailment
|
Also shown are a lot of stars--24 or 25, one of them could be a dust speck--symbolizing something to do with the sky or night time or celebrities or spaceships or celebrities in spaceships like in Star Wars . There are a helmet and some ferns or laurel, some kind of leaves, and a Latin motto, Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto, which, if I remember my Latin, means The Best People in This State Don't Have To Obey the Traffic Laws.
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If you are a person of high class, you should not have to obey certain laws.
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neutral
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Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, too, is working on behalf of the companies involved in the settlement, and he deserves as much scorn as his Democratic counterparts.
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Haley Barbour doesn't deserve criticism.
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contradiction
|
The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.
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Russia lost much of it's army when the U.S.S.R collapsed.
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entailment
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And you can't bring me back from the dead.
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It's easy to bring someone back from the dead.
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contradiction
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The rounded slinky movements of the dancelike kata looked specifically designed to develop grace, coordination, and balance.
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The dance is not helpful in developing grace, coordination, and balance.
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contradiction
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So why persist in newspaper reading?
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Without question, keep reading the newspaper.
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contradiction
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Helgeland has set the film in a metropolis of uncertain period (the '50s?
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The setting of the film is the countryside.
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contradiction
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He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications.
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The law had been broken.
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neutral
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Even if he remains uncorrupted, the president will be immersed in the concerns only of the wealthy and will lose all feeling for the lives of everyone else.
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The president will only be concerned for good of the rich.
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entailment
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They look to Washington to mitigate the new economy's negative consequences.
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The economy is not doing good.
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entailment
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The news that I am laying waste to an entire generation of men exceeds my greatest ambition in this regard.
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It has been my goal to cause harm to men.
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entailment
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I love the Native Americans.
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In the past I wasn't very sympathetic to Native Americans, but I have changed my mind.
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neutral
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