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The brand that we now think of as irresistible seemed tired and used up, and this now seamlessly efficient company lacked even a formal business model before 1983.
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The company's president has expressed that he had never expected his work to be so successful.
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neutral
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In last week's episode, Apu, the Indian convenience store owner, goes down to the docks to donate porno magazines to sailors.
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Apu views the sailors as people in need of porno magazines.
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entailment
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This program should be expanded, perhaps with incentives for police to live in the neighborhoods they patrol full time.
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Police should live in expanded and patrolled full-time neighborhoods.
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contradiction
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Tina and the Weinsteins all have highbrow pretensions but feel no shame in embracing pop culture.
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Tina and the Weinsteins like pop culture.
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entailment
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denunciations of American imperialism.
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There is a group of people who believe that America has imperialistic tendencies.
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entailment
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We have never been a moral majority, concedes one.
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Someone concedes about not being a moral majority.
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entailment
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(For more on the meeting, see .) (2/22/99)
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It's possible to get more info about the gathering
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entailment
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But, The Christians are at it again?
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It's probably the Christians who are doing it.
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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 predator is a drug dealer.
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neutral
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You now could argue both events were watershed moments for female athletes because Americans simply love a spectacle.
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Americans loved a spectacle before both events.
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neutral
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I'm afraid to step out of the car.
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A few individuals have a fear of falling when they step out of a car.
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neutral
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7 million in the Los Angeles Times and over $3 million by the other major papers.
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The LA times was over 9 million.
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contradiction
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Now, of course what is good for the individual is not always good if everyone else does it too.
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When an individual profits from a task, everyone tends to follow.
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neutral
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It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art.
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Tom DeLay has terrible taste in art.
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neutral
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Landsburg notes, What if he [the president] keeps us out of war through policies that make the world more dangerous for our children?
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The president doesn't care about our children.
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neutral
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Another scheme, reported by the Chronicle last May, was the case of a fast-talking ex-convict who convinced dozens of professors that he was the nephew of esteemed Berkeley race and sports sociologist Harry Edwards.
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An ex-convict convinced dozens of professors they were the nephew of Harry Edwards.
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entailment
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As the century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies the century, says Time .
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Time believes that his life is greatly representative of the century as a whole.
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entailment
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The USAT lead states that leaks indicate that in his deposition last Saturday, Clinton was asked detailed questions about his sexual history with at least four women, including one woman escorted by a state trooper to a rendezvous just days before he became president.
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Clinton's alleged promiscuity did not originate from his gain in power from becoming president.
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entailment
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In an interview, Gates reiterates the Microsoft line, We need to keep innovating to stay alive.
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Innovations could have some negative results in a few companies.
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neutral
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They do not clearly condemn as racist the actions, sometimes violent, that white ethnics in Chicago resorted to in the 1960s to keep blacks from moving into their neighborhoods.
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The actions of white ethnics in Chicago during the 60s were not explicitly condemned as racist.
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entailment
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She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water.
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A multitude of car manufacturers have indeed begun to build more cars with fuel-cell engines.
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neutral
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And now, judging by News Quiz responses, these wan titans are barely portrayed at all.
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All the insights given by News Quiz are truthful
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contradiction
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Had Flytrap never occurred, Gore surely would be running on the Clinton-Gore economic boom.
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Gore never ran on the Clinton-Gore economic boom.
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entailment
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There will be enough for everybody!
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There was more than enough for everyone.
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neutral
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How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems?
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It could be possible to ask people to leave without having family issues.
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neutral
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Here's what worries Given the subtlety of the real issues here, what is the chance that this stuff will be decided on its merits?
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There is no concern that people judge on merits.
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contradiction
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Microsoft isn't preventing anyone from using Netscape or charging Netscape for the right of access; it's providing Internet Explorer free, but then that would be normal practice in this kind of industry even if IE wasn't allegedly an integral part of Windows 95.
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Internet Explorer is a free browser made by Microsoft
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entailment
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The industry now plans to strengthen warnings that children should be kept, appropriately harnessed, in the back seat, where they will be neither helped nor harmed by air bags.
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The industry has relaxed the warnings for children.
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contradiction
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A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit.
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The correction was comprehensive.
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neutral
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But what about the other editors of the Daily Cal who couldn't say they'd been martyred at a campus once renowned for its leftism?
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The Daily Cal is a leftist publication.
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neutral
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You want a recipe for healing?
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Do you want to heal?
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entailment
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There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
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The United States pays less than South Korea for an equivalent job.
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contradiction
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If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean
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L.L. Bean is seen as a seasonal retailer.
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entailment
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They responded by pushing economic regulation from the state to the federal level.
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Economic rules were moved to the federal level from the state.
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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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Don Michael Randel has been selected to succeed Hugo Sonnenschein.
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entailment
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It rejects Albania's claims for independence but decries the crackdown.
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Albania will be their own country.
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neutral
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You might end up with such a brave battalion of heroes that when a grenade lands in their midst, there is a competition to see who gets to jump on it to save the others.
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The war has been raging for months.
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neutral
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I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.
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I think you should go take a walk to blow off steam.
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neutral
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Now it appears that he may have been simply assuring himself she really was dead, at least according to three of Wynette's daughters, who have filed a $50 million wrongful death suit against Richey and a doctor.
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Richey and the doctor denied having committed any wrongful acts against Wynette during the trial.
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neutral
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He has thought it through, spelled it out, and told you who's asking it and why.
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He is not a good communicator.
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neutral
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With a bit of elementary mathematics and a lot of keen insight, Arrow was forced to a sobering If a reasonable voting system is one that respects unanimity and precludes flip-flops, then there are no reasonable voting systems, with one exception--the system that picks one voter and makes him a dictator.
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There are a lot of reasonable voting systems that respect unanimity and precludes flip-flops.
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contradiction
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(The American convention is not quite what it American journalists are permitted to act on their prejudices--the news columns and air time devoted to Flytrap wouldn't make sense unless reporters and editors believed the accusations.
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Journalists will devote time to any subject regardless if they believe it.
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contradiction
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Careful what you wish for, Mayer cautions her fellow You'll miss his clownish antics when he's gone.
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Mayer kept their thoughts to themselves about him leaving.
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contradiction
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Of course, your mileage may vary depending on how many users are connected to your T1 line, how busy the Internet or
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Internet performance will remain the same regardless of the number of connected users.
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contradiction
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Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?
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The course to armaments is still alive and well nowadays
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entailment
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At his 1977 trial, Flynt was sentenced to seven to 25 years for obscenity and for engaging in organized crime.
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In the 1977, Flynt received a sentence of less than a year.
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contradiction
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First, two students were charged with killing their infant in a motel room and dumping it in the trash.
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A young child was murdered and thrown away.
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entailment
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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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A modern version of the McCarran-Walter Act could significantly improve American relations.
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neutral
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Technology to me has its good points and its bad points.
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Technology has it's advantages and disadvantages.
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entailment
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Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
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It is common at companies like Polaroid and GM for employees to search for advancements which will make their job more efficient.
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entailment
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In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee.
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The Microsoft case is so sought after because it's lucrative.
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neutral
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If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.
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The cost of stocks would have had to fall in order for gold to not rise in price.
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neutral
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To return to the discussion, my favorite response is I'm told I'm great!
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People usually exclude me from conversation.
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neutral
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A quick recap.
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Therecap isn't very long.
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entailment
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The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed.
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Some of the media thought that Bush's drug history should be revealed.
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entailment
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And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game.
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The name of the game is to be published and viewed.
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neutral
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Changing identities is the goal of Monica Lewinsky, according to this week's Star . Though the publication doesn't report any plastic surgery in her future, when her legal troubles are over she wants to make a fresh start and plans to do so with a name change.
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Monica Lewinsky is going to get plastic surgery after the legal troubles.
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neutral
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Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.
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Walter Goodman is a frequent contribute to Times.
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neutral
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
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Sawyer's office received multiple calls but only responded to one.
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neutral
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We will all sleep better at night knowing that our commander in chief's libido is compartmentalized, and that he's not bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical plants just to get his Iraqs off.
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The Commander in Chief enjoys sexual relations with various people.
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neutral
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People who gorged themselves survived winter famines and reproduced more than others.
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People were supposed to eat more than normal to survive the winter.
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entailment
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George W. Bush takes both covers.
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George W Bush acquired two covers.
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entailment
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In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven.
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No Depression in heaven records were given out to people who couldn't afford them.
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neutral
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He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them.
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He felt the flower's bloom goes away before they can annoy you.
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entailment
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In short, the place made Bosch look like a Methodist picnic.
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Some people enjoy the place.
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neutral
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Newt Gingrich messed with Medicare and went down in flames.
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Medicare would continue to be a tricky matter to deal with, as it would continue to be a stumbling block for future leaders, just as it was for Newt Gingrich.
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neutral
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I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name.
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I'm not sure how to pronounce his name.
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entailment
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One of the striking things about the Microsoft trial, so far, is the extent to which the Justice Department and its lawyer, David Boies, have built their case around personal vilification of Bill Gates.
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Microsoft was being sued for a monopoly in the computer market.
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neutral
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So out of 78 confirmed hypotheses, it seems that approximately zero are true.
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None of the hypotheses worked out how the people hoped.
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entailment
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Added tiers devoted to luxury seating at the new parks also push the upper deck away from the field.
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The upper decks had the best view of the action.
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contradiction
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The 15-year-old died with the band playing on his headphones.
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The 15-year-old died from Covid-19.
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neutral
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Perhaps he's next on the FTC's hit list.
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He is under the protection of the FTC.
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contradiction
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But few would discard laws against organ selling.
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Organ selling may one day become a norm.
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neutral
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Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill.
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Tolly, who worked in narcotics, gave the world an important medicine: the morphine pill.
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entailment
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You can't teach common bonds of history to teens while the school and the community stress athletics as the most honored achievement.
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Schools and the community have been successful in teaching teens about the relationships of history without pressuring them to think that athletics is a great accomplishment.
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contradiction
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Columnist Robert Novak , supply-side evangelist Jude Wanniski , and Jack Kemp have all praised Farrakhan's self-help program, noting the similarities to their own conservative urban policy.
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Robert Novak was a conservative.
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neutral
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(At least they said it was hers when Sophie R-C handed over a100,000 of Bill Gates' money.)
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Sophie R-C handled Bill Gates' money
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entailment
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Reviews of the latest one suggest the answer is yes.
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The answer appears to be yes, based on recent reviews.
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entailment
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Only a handful of the 200,000 Serbs have come back to the Krajina.
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Serbs didn't go back to Krajina because of political reasons
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neutral
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They were pitiful even by microbial standards.
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They were pitiful mainly among the highly educated.
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neutral
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The book that resulted, Bosnia and the Failure of the West , is an unrelenting indictment of the international community's inability--or unwillingness--to step in and stop the killing.
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Countries were unwilling to stop the massacres.
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neutral
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How did the team do last night?
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The team won last night.
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neutral
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8) Labor Secretary-nominee Alexis Herman, who was closer to the fund-raising mess, will now be confirmed easily because the Senate is satisfied with having killed Lake.
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The Senate will accept Herman with little difficulty after Lake's death.
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entailment
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Thanks to Gutman, Genovese, and their left-wing peers, we now know that the notion that Slaves Were Happy, as the New York Times headline put it, is not necessarily false.
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The Slaves Were Happy headline was considered controversial by many people.
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neutral
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Smith's decision this year to push a measure in the House that would spend as much birth-control money as the president asked might seem like progress.
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No one in the party disagrees with pushing the birth control measure.
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neutral
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How can you be sure your programs are safe?
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You haven't conducted any testing for the new programs.
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neutral
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It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.
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If a woman becomes pregnant, the man must marry her.
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contradiction
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But--and Levin is likely to find this praise more infuriating than any criticism--had he chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, he might have given us one of the greatest recordings of the piece ever put on disc.
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Levine welcomes all criticisms as it pertains to his work and is happy to hear them.
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contradiction
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He says this will make our system the best.
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The system was once the best but recently was topped by another.
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neutral
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Can you believe this?
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This is hard to believe.
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entailment
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Unless Wanamaker was willing to pay double for reaching the right half of the people, his total ad spending would go down and not up.
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Wanamaker decided that it was in their best interest to try and reach their target audience, which required an adjustment in their add spending.
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neutral
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The Week/The Spin is updated throughout the week, the Diary has a new entry daily, and contributions to Dispatches & Dialogues are posted as they arrive.
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The spin is never updated and there are never any new Diary entries.
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contradiction
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The effort to convert won into dollars and other foreign currencies depressed the value of the won, despite the Korean government's efforts to sustain it by using its reserves.
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The value of won depressed despite efforts by the Korean governments efforts.
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entailment
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The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom.
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The Times doubts if some of their reporters are trustworthy.
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neutral
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They called it the suicide package.
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The package gives life.
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contradiction
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He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context.
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He wanted to make sure everything was completely understood.
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contradiction
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The University of Chicago has just announced a deal with UNEXT.com, an online education company partly funded by Milken and headed by a Chicago trustee.
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The University of Chicago will lose out on this deal.
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neutral
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And a great marketing Buy my books, because they're good for your daughter.
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Some people do not agree that it is a good buy.
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neutral
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Not so the New York Times , which editorially called for legislation to overturn the ruling.
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The New York Times insisted that the ruling be overturned.
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entailment
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Entertain, for a moment, this If we at Slate captured your voicemail recording and played it on our site without your permission, some lawyers would say that we had violated your copyright.
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lawyers believe that voicemail should have copywrite protections.
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entailment
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