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In particular, he has spoken of Salon 's dedication to a mission of exposing important facts.
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He talks about how the prominent statements go against the news company.
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neutral
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In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ...
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The movie was a blockbuster in terms of both cast as well as budget.
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contradiction
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The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law.
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The Federal laws protecting children's privacy were enacted in 1922.
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neutral
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The Bush people say the results of their effort aren't in yet, but they're optimistic and expect to stick with Internet advertising.
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The Bush people believe internet advertising was the worse choice.
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contradiction
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Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.
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Editorialists want tougher laws dealing with frozen foods.
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neutral
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For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention.
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Almost all journalists inquired on Clinton disapprovingly.
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neutral
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And malignancy develops slowly.
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A tumor never grows fast.
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neutral
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Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis.
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The enemy of the Palestinians wants to stay away from him.
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neutral
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As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.
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It's better off if Flowers and the troopers stick to the same old true story.
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contradiction
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But it is not a transitional problem.
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The problem is not translational.
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entailment
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' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force.
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Tim disagrees with the stance provided.
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neutral
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Also, Newsweek tells the weird story of Jerry Stuchiner, a high-level Immigration and; Naturalization Service agent alleged to have sold passports to illegal Chinese immigrants.
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Jerry Stuchiner never worked for the Immigration and; Naturalization Service.
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contradiction
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Ryan just isn't the man she thought she married ...
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Ryan married her by mistake.
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contradiction
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We look around our own solar system, and what appears to be common are planets that have no life whatsoever.
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Our solar system is teaming with life across all planets.
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contradiction
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The decline in prices to their fundamental level may be gradual, and even a crash may not turn into a larger economic disaster.
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Prices will come back up after their gradual decline.
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neutral
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Chamber of Commerce spent $7 million on advertising in support of GOP candidates
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The institution would break the bank for the Republicans, but not so for the Democrats.
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neutral
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The team now faces China, which crushed defending champion Norway 5-0.
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Norway won the game with a score of five to zero.
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contradiction
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Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages.
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He felt that signing it would place him at odds with himself.
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neutral
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Prior to its alliance with the government, the PDFA merely hogged the drug debate.
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The drug debate got out of hand because of the PDFA.
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neutral
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Just as Starr's virtues turned vicious, Clinton's vices sometimes turn virtuous.
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Sometimes Clinton's vices can have some benefit.
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entailment
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Announcement of the terms sent Galoob's stock plummeting, so that Lucasfilm's options are now out of the money.
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Galoob's stock crashed.
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entailment
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None of the Jewish groups has reversed its support for Pollard's release.
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Individual members of the groups have second thoughts on Pollard.
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neutral
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For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.
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Rothko writes about uplifting and happy themes.
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contradiction
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Woodward's 1996 campaign finance pieces struck a chord that still rings, and I predict a similar impact for Barton Gellman's two-part series last week about how the United States and China nearly went to war in 1996 (click here and here).
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Woodward created a campaign over 20 years ago.
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entailment
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Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.
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Russian Israelis could be pro-Serb.
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neutral
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He said, 'Was this an attempt to subvert the Constitution?
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He thought it was an attempt to subvert the Constitution.
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entailment
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The military's officer corps, especially the Army's, has been successfully transformed from a clubby elite, where promotions depended on golfing partners, into a more integrated meritocracy.
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The Army's officer corps transformed from a clubby elite.
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entailment
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It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.
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This act is barely legal
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neutral
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And what, exactly, is the line between stalking and not stalking, anyway?
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They know clearly the barrier between what is and isn't stalking.
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contradiction
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Lamar Alexander's campaign never got off the ground because the American people can recognize a phony ().
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Those who liked Alexander mostly had financial interests.
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neutral
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It's a real strain on our relationship to have her parents and grandparents letting her know that they think I am unworthy.
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Perhaps her brother likes him.
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neutral
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(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.)
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This site disregards information about tickets
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contradiction
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They may prevent you from associating with the senator at an exclusive cocktail party for lobbyists and other large givers--but that's the whole idea.
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Certain people will be discouraged from interacting with the politician at the party.
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entailment
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I mastered the words portiere (goalkeeper), colpo di testa (header), and quattro minuti di ricupero (four minutes of injury time).
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They were very poor at learning new words.
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contradiction
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If such evidence is present, return Kennewick Man to his rightful tribal reservation.
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Where Kennewick Man belongs is conditional on existing evidence.
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entailment
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Bush has several decisive advantages on this question.
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Bush was at a serious disadvantage in the question.
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contradiction
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He was killed in a dispute over timber by a Pamunkey Indian from Virginia who would have been considered black in Virginia but escaped prosecution because he was considered white in Mississippi.
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He is still living today.
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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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A British company is making many advances in cloning.
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entailment
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The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share.
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The Telecommunications Act was widely supported by small and large telecoms alike.
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neutral
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They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government.
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LTCM was a small hedge fund.
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contradiction
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is for the peacekeeping mission to extend its mandate beyond the deadline by which U.S. forces are supposed to pull out.
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The U.S. refuses peacekeeping missions.
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contradiction
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Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose.
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Other issues didn't have the chance to arise because there wasn't any pearly whites left.
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entailment
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It may be a long-shot strategy, but Dole is far behind.
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Trying to reach 1st place might still be possible for Dole if he executes perfectly.
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neutral
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To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.
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I need to hinder enterprises that have been slandered in newsprint in the 1500s.
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contradiction
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And they don't need to--the 13 missiles they supposedly have aimed at the United States have always been judged capable of hitting U.S. cities by the Pentagon (though China's difficulty in commercial launches casts doubt on the Pentagon's assessment).
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They have about a dozen missiles pointed at USA.
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entailment
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Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions.
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Our modern day culture thinks everything we like is an addiction, and has a name for it.
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neutral
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You dropped the ball big time in your response to Doubting, about the able-bodied using stalls for the disabled.
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The response to Doubting wasn't adequate to the author.
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entailment
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I think neglecting to mention this shows that the Journal 's editorial page lacks intellectual integrity.
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The Journal is a repeat offender in neglecting to mention crucial details.
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neutral
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All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt.
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Everyone scored the same amount at the end of the round.
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contradiction
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Exploiting the newly dead sounds ghoulish, but the medical establishment rationalizes the practice--at least in private--by saying that it's better than letting interns fumble on live patients.
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The medical establishment has stopped the usage of recently deceased patients as cadavers by medical interns, citing ethical concerns.
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contradiction
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Even so, it is better to avoid the crash-causing exuberance than it is to try to keep a crash from triggering a depression.
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The crash from letting emotions run high can last for weeks if not months.
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neutral
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The most commonly stolen models are Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys.
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Many people steal Japanese-made cars.
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entailment
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In 1992, only 1,070 abortions were performed after the 25 th week.
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1,070 abortions took place after the 25th week, as recorded back in 1992.
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entailment
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The preceding images are not from Beyond Impressionism (online reproduction of art from the Degas exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is forbidden.
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The Art Institute of Chicago encourages people to copy their artwork.
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contradiction
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The proposed HearSLATE could then offer discriminating commuters and professional drivers some intellectual refuge from the endless tirade of mindless drivel currently broadcast by the common carriers.
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Common carriers could offer professional drivers the proposed intellectual refuge.
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contradiction
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Mount Marty administrators allegedly violated the due-process rights and academic freedom of an English professor, who had been trying to revive a local chapter of the AAUP, when they fired him a few months ago.
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The professor was wrongfully fired.
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neutral
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Fortunately, perhaps, for those who favor tolerance and democracy, there is also no Khomeini--the leading Muslim organizations are deeply divided.
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Most Muslims favor tolerance and democracy.
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neutral
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Today we cede our vision of '50s female fashion to the movie version, as if that were the real mirror of the decade--everything blatantly cleansed of error, willfully idealized into unreality, odorless, effortless, affectless.
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The fashion industry is constantly changing and it was bland and boring after the 50s.
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neutral
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a consuming addiction, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden.
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Stephen Holden thinks it is a consuming addiction.
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entailment
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He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves.
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The valve supplier he found could only source those from Japan.
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contradiction
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Newsweek notes that while the Dalai Lama promotes religious understanding and meditation, he opposes abortion, contraception, and homosexual acts.
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The magazine found that the Dalai Lama's views are disappointing.
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neutral
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Then every share of Daimler-Benz stock sold between 1950 and 1980 sells at a discount reflecting that expectation.
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All shares of Daimler-Benz stock was sold during the time period between 1950 and 1980, at a discount that reflected expectations.
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entailment
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There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.
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This description applies to invocations of the September 11 attacks rather than Jewish genocide.
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contradiction
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Thanks a bunch.
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A person didn't even say thank you.
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contradiction
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But on all these, the basic principle is the same.
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The basic principle changes in each one.
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contradiction
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The new regimens are themselves feasible (at costs from pennies to $60 per patient, they seem to be).
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Some patients will have the regimens covered by insurance.
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neutral
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But, The Christians are at it again?
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The Antichrist is at it again.
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contradiction
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Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month.
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Romley was unprepared and unintelligible in his performance at the hearing.
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contradiction
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Do you have a human resources department?
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The person knows everything about the organization.
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contradiction
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Indeed, many small and furry animals tend to be funny and, if you squint, resemble genitalia taken disturbingly out of context and scampering about the place.
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The author thinks people tend to be funny.
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contradiction
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Keyes' answer didn't precisely address the question, but which was more interesting and enlightening?
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A number of persons wants to hear Keyes' words
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entailment
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Let's take video games as an example.
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Video games would be a poor choice to use, as an example.
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contradiction
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One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.
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The two professions elevate one another.
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contradiction
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But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available.
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The oligarchs switched their dollars for rubles, as the dollar began to crash.
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contradiction
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Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged.
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Some children are so badly damaged it can not be undone.
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entailment
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(She'd better get cracking.)
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She has finished all she needs to do.
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contradiction
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Some House Republicans, including DeLay, have fired back at Bush, accusing him of betraying them, meddling in their business, and distorting their ideas.
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The group of House republicans was just a small minority.
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neutral
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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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The WP says Moesha is a top-ranked show.
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contradiction
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Markets get caught in self-perpetuating cycles of undue optimism and hysterical panic.
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The hysterical panic is better than the optimism stage of the market.
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neutral
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This triathlon kills Churchill, who wins the defeat-totalitarianism contest but flunks the liberation-and-justice contest.
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The defeat-totalitarianism contest was won by Churchill.
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entailment
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The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.
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Jay Gould was involved in the Sumitomo affair.
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contradiction
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In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss.
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Boris thought that Chernomydrin would just go with the flow.
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entailment
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'If prison is going to be my next home,' he did not quip, 'I'd better get used to this.
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He will be going to prison soon.
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entailment
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Still, Frisby did a better job than Woodward in offering meaning.
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Neither of them did a very good job.
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neutral
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They could learn something--not much, perhaps, but something--from the lively, nasty online discussions they're missing.
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There are bad discussions happening online.
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entailment
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But Said's fame outside the American academy rests on Orientalism , his sweeping account of how Western art, literature, and scholarship have produced a deformed, biased picture of Arab and Muslim culture in the service of colonial domination.
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Said will remain famous for a long time due to his views about western art, literature, and scholarships.
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neutral
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Another way to generate profits is to buy up hospitals cheap--though regulation and competition have made it harder to lowball purchase prices.
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Competition in buying hospitals limits profits.
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entailment
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And good afternoon to you, too, President Reagan.
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Hello to you too on this beautiful sunny day.
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neutral
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The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.
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With the unveiling, the season of architectural extravaganzas is complete.
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entailment
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Most important, with the first primaries still months away, the Gore campaign hasn't advertised much to bring newcomers to the site.
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Gore is doing well in the campaign compared to his rival.
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neutral
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Michael Kelly's WP column about Ken Starr vs.
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Ken Starr has a column in the WP.
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contradiction
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In an interview, Gates reiterates the Microsoft line, We need to keep innovating to stay alive.
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As stated by Gates, innovation is the worst possible thing we could due to stay alive.
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contradiction
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As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be.
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Big Trouble is still not has popular as Harry Potter.
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neutral
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She says, Have a nice day.
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She only says mean things.
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contradiction
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The MacDonalds of the world won't go away just because you think they're not worth responding to.
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Ignoring the MacDonalds of the world will completely make them go away.
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contradiction
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A related piece, based on polls, says that Americans back gay rights in theory but dislike public displays of gay affection.
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Gay Americans dislike public polls.
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contradiction
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A hint of hulk is apparently not unwelcome in the modern woman's image, and a slightly humped back, spinal curve, and forward-thrusting neck go well with that.
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Deformities of the female body are frowned upon heavily.
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contradiction
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I mastered the words portiere (goalkeeper), colpo di testa (header), and quattro minuti di ricupero (four minutes of injury time).
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The words portiere and colpo di testa are difficult to master.
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neutral
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A piece describes how women in their 20s donate eggs to infertile couples for thousands of dollars.
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Finances are the largest consideration for prospective egg donors.
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neutral
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This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.
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Dove was an amateur without a real artistic vein
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contradiction
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