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Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their authenticity and ends in bowdlerization.
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Regional cuisine has seen reductions in authenticity and environmental concern.
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neutral
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Pollard handed over information about how the United States tracked Soviet subs.
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The information had to be handed over in a very delicate exchange.
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neutral
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So does that of my fellow general editor, Nelly MacKay.
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There are many general editors.
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neutral
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Priest and director, St. Athanasius the Great International English School
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St. Athanasius the Great International English School has no director.
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contradiction
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The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times withhold the story from their first editions but include it on Page One of the home-delivery editions.
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They are the only two papers that ran the story.
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neutral
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Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau.
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Martha is getting the respect of her title despite her gender.
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neutral
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The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.
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The report highlighted failures in the Chinese rockets.
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entailment
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
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Nobody has talked about adding revenue collection on the bridge in the 21st century.
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entailment
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Eszterhas' posturing He became the celebrity he'd always hoped to be--brash, appealing, larger than life.
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Eszterhas has starred in many successful films.
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neutral
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That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxes in order to fatten the undeserving poor, eager to sell out America's military supremacy out of some guilt-ridden moralism.
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People have been known to have criticisms of politicians.
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entailment
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For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it.
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The US is the most important country in the UN.
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neutral
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I would encourage a reinterpretation of the exclusionary principle to keep criminals in jail where they belong, but only if the cops and prosecutors are severely punished for their crimes as well.
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Cops and prosecutors get away with their own crimes too frequently.
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neutral
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Any NEA chairperson who had the interests of the gay community at heart would have rushed to defund the exhibit.
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The NEA didn't defend the LGBTQ community and stop the exhibit.
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entailment
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Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.
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Color would have allowed the problem to appear to be less pervasive.
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neutral
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Senate race in New York, but not before he had had a conversation with Johnson in which he admitted his own insecurities about making the race.
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He did not win the New York senate election.
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neutral
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Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken.
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It takes longer to fry chicken than it does to grill it.
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neutral
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Part uplift for black kids, part thrilling feats of circus daring, it's family programming that can appeal to adults of all races.
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Shows that feature children and their parents are not on television.
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contradiction
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There is too much flexing of stylistic muscle, says the New Republic 's Robert Alter.
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There's a lot of stylistic muscle.
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neutral
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If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point.
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It doesn't matter what she calls him if they can deal with and improve their relationship.
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entailment
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At worst, he is amassing credentials, fame, and wealth on the basis of others' uncredited labor--once considered a scholarly sin.
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Riding coattails like this is truly a sin.
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neutral
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But if his campaign really prospers and he has to explain what he believes, he'll have a hard time holding that coalition together.
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His beliefs do not agree with what the with what the coalition stands for.
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neutral
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In biotechnology, as in telecommunications, intellectual-property law remains at an embryonic stage.
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Intellectual property law has a lot of room to grow.
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entailment
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Someone, maybe a family counselor, needs to deal with the alienation the youngster feels and the hostility harbored by your husband.
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The husband had always been naturally hostile, even as a child.
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neutral
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A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed exhibition guide that replaces the usual wall panels.
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Feminists universally approve of all naked depictions of other women.
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contradiction
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But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best.
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They got a good grade on the homework.
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neutral
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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.
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Orrin Hatch went to aviation school.
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entailment
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By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal.
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The drugs have not been proven to help.
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contradiction
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Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it.
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He took no breaks in his career.
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contradiction
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In theory, for-profits are equipped to do it through greater efficiency--economies of scale, easier closure of failing operations, and better access to capital.
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The author argues that for-profits are, by definition, more efficent.
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entailment
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Outside the world of pop psychology, it is likely to engender skepticism.
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Pop psychology is popular among people.
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neutral
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It is also, needless to say, free of any taint of bias or corruption.
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It is full of bias and corruption.
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contradiction
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Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street It's too bloody.
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Russian soldiers view street combat as bloody.
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entailment
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Spun and spun and spun the president's denial for months without bothering to check if it was true.
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It was years without them checking on the facts.
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contradiction
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In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.
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No one murmured over the statement that communism and fascism were equivalent morally.
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contradiction
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For instance, in a hot-selling series of novels co-authored by the well-known preacher Tim LaHaye, he's Romanian.
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British author Tim LaHaye lamented the fact his novel did not sell.
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contradiction
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Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.
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The Circle in the Round is 1 minute long.
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contradiction
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Alas, all he writes about, all he thinks about, all he wants to do, is give in to fat.
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The man's thoughts are obsessive.
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neutral
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But unlike the Manhattan Project--in fact, like no other Big Science project in history--the Genome Project has equipped itself with a research division to explore the social and ethical ramifications of genetics.
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The Manhattan Project has the same goal as the Genome Project.
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neutral
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But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press.
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AOL is paying a lot of money for Time Warner.
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entailment
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And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression.
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Over half of them report using at least one of these drugs.
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neutral
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For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas.
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You might buy something.
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entailment
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George W. Bush takes both covers.
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George W. Bush is on both covers.
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entailment
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Prior to its alliance with the government, the PDFA merely hogged the drug debate.
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The PDFA is popular with the people.
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neutral
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Best name for a male-marketed Testosterone.
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The testosterone named is only offered to women.
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contradiction
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Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.
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The employees ended up making lots of money off their stocks.
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neutral
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To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success.
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Discrimination is a road block for financial success.
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entailment
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Go-Gurt rang up $37 million in sales during its first year of limited distribution.
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The company made $37 million the first year it was in business.
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entailment
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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.
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In child care we have handled things in the most time-efficient manner possible.
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contradiction
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Kanter's price for 100 note-sized sheets and envelopes on Crane's paper is $166 ($1.
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The price for 2 sheets and envelopes is also $166.
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contradiction
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Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal.
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Henry disliked being around women.
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contradiction
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She upset 16-year-old champion Michelle Kwan, who fell down twice during her routine.
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Michelle Kwan had already won the competition before.
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entailment
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He is not an economics writer
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He has been an economics writer for several years now.
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contradiction
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Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient.
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The patient will come back to life with those exercise.
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contradiction
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Best of category is a tough one here.
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There is a category for the best of something.
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entailment
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AOL countered that Microsoft had already tried and failed to launch a proprietary online service.
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Microsoft tried launcing a new proprietary online service.
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neutral
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Hoiles is a big slab of a man, now 33, a veteran but not a star.
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Hoiles is a 43 year old that has never served in the military.
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contradiction
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They were all slaves, weren't they?
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every one of those slaves were freed, right?
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neutral
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Outside the world of pop psychology, it is likely to engender skepticism.
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There will be skeptics.
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contradiction
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As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the wreckage of a large part of economic theory.)
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Sir John Hicks was a famous farmer.
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contradiction
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The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.
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E.T. had 200 special effect people on set.
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neutral
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Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object.
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There were dissenters to the declaration of Hiss as a spy.
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contradiction
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The point of the rape charge is that it's different.
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The author sees a rape charge as an extremely severe charge.
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neutral
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The Americans' one-point victory over the European team was the biggest comeback in the tournament's history.
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The Americans lost to the Europeans in the tournament.
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contradiction
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Books and TV specials are on the way.
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There is no more information forthcoming.
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contradiction
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You don't understand how important this is.
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This is more important than anything else right now.
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neutral
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Who actually thinks that having teen-agers line up to pee after they've demonstrated their parallel parking skills is a reasonable way to demand responsible behavior by young people when it comes to drugs, as Clinton proclaimed?
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It's unanimously acceped that having eenagers take drug tests to get their license is the most effective way to get young people to behave.
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contradiction
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But from there, he goes wrong.
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He went wrong from that point onward.
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entailment
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The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.
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The street lawyer is compassionate.
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neutral
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According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.
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David Kendall is trying to protect Lewinsky's reputation.
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contradiction
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The British company that recently won fame for cloning a sheep is reportedly on the verge of deriving human blood plasma from sheep and cows.
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There has been humans cloned before any animals have been cloned.
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contradiction
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Fischel is also the author of The Conspiracy To Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution . Administrators protest that they are only keeping pace with their UNEXT has already signed on with Columbia, while Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell are considering commercial partners for their own online programs.
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Colleges are shifting to online programs primarily for financial gain.
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neutral
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There was a deeper The new ideas were immensely liberating, but at some point you can get too liberated.
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There is no such thing as being too liberated.
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contradiction
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Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
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Denby is a critic in the paper.
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neutral
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The 1) They've agreed to give peace a chance.
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They have agreed to sign a peace agreement
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entailment
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process one out of every four checks in the country.
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This ratio of checks processed is the standard for countries affiliated with the World Bank.
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neutral
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The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.
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The rebuttal is not devastating at all.
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contradiction
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I thought of ending the book with his quote, but then some other stuff happened in his life (you'll have to buy the book--$24.
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The book will cost $24.
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entailment
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If a fetus is a fully human life, then all abortion is murder and the debate over any particular procedure is beside the point.
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The author believes that life begins at conception.
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neutral
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If you're lying, shame on you.
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I'll be happy if you lie.
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contradiction
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They're more interested in spiritual self-flagellation and renewal.
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They are not spiritual at all.
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contradiction
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Time 's cover story celebrates Hip-Hop Nation and chronicles the genre's 20 year rise.
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the Time's cover story gives praise to the rise of Hip Hop.
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entailment
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People can be weak, and money is all too often the way to their heart.
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The author has never been influenced by money.
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neutral
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This has rekindled the concern and outrage sparked a few weeks ago by the similar death of a pledge at Louisiana State University.
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There is no concern or outage from the death that occurred a few weeks ago.
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contradiction
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Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing.
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Written by Kaufman and one other writer, Man on the Moon was a skit involving space travel.
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neutral
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The Blue Flower , by Penelope Fitzgerald (Houghton Mifflin).
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Penelope Fitzgerald has written seven books in total.
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neutral
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If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom.
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Spock is ignorant to things regarding child-rearing.
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contradiction
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But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G.
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Dowd is having a very difficult time making her word to Nexis.
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contradiction
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News this week isn't in the Owner Mort Zuckerman has fired Editor James Fallows.
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This was not the first time that Fallows had been fired from a job.
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neutral
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But a real predator I know is using, selling, and almost certainly doing other crimes.
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The author has knowledge of all the criminal's crimes.
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contradiction
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Some argue that Russia is still reeling from its misguided plan for privatization.
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Russia had plans for privatization.
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entailment
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As we know from the Oscars, it's the sanctimonious stuff that gets rewarded.
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The author is bitter that their movie never received an award.
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neutral
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Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.
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Barr does not like the spotlight.
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contradiction
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Kenny needs to come back home to Texas.
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Kenny enjoys being in Texas.
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neutral
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The English gutter press, which was just developing a wide audience, whipped up public hatred toward him over his sex crimes and made him a pariah.
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The English Gutter Press thought very kindly of him.
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contradiction
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(Read William Saletan's to see how the doctors cultivated their common touch.)
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There is no information about how the doctors cultivated their common touch.
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contradiction
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In a state lottery, your odds of winning depend only on how many tickets you hold compared with everyone else.
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The state lottery only pays out about half of the money that it takes in.
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neutral
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If you haven't filled it out yet, click here for the survey.
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Nobody is interested in the opinions of others.
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contradiction
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(Watch previews and join The Odyssey chat on NBC's site.)
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NBC isn't on the internet.
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contradiction
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To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average.
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The average plate costs less than a hundred bucks.
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entailment
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And for two-income couples, getting married nearly always results in a higher tax bill.
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for dual-income couples, marriages usually equals more taxes.
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entailment
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