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( explains what Greenspan really said.)	Greenspan's statement needed restatement.	entailment
The media's class bias protected Clinton from women like Jones and Gennifer Flowers--surely he couldn't be attracted to a woman who wasn't a Yale Law School graduate!	Often Clinton had affairs that weren't unreported by the bias media.	neutral
If you don't like reading on a computer screen, for example, there's a special version of SLATE that you can print out in its entirety, reformatted like a traditional print magazine.	Slate can be read only in digital version	contradiction
But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage.	Clinton and Birch both believe that legal coupling of same sex individuals is immoral.	neutral
Nor does Big Blue exercise the kind of financial or cultural power that Morgan once did.	Blue Blue has managed to far exceed the financial and cultural status of Morgan.	contradiction
Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract.	Touch of Evil is Welles' masterpiece.	neutral
We don't see him surprise the nation in 1964 with strong showings in the Maryland and Wisconsin Democratic primaries--states outside the Deep South where he wasn't expected to fare well.	He performed well outside the Deep South.	contradiction
Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts.	Levi is the most stylish brand	contradiction
Consilience is, in any case, an excellent book.	Consilience is a wonderful book.	entailment
He carried on affairs with several men and a mistress, who bore him a son he refused to lift a finger to support.	The guy was a virgin, but somehow had a kid with the power of his mind, or he slipped and fell in, opps.	contradiction
As previously mentioned, the e-rate discount won't cover any portion of the hardware bill either, leaving the local community responsible for PCs, modems, and training for teachers and supervisors.	The local community will buy less PC's, modems, and training for teachers because the cost isn't covered by the e-rate discount.	neutral
So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim.	Selling in the interim would be a poor choice for the 1950s owners.	neutral
For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera.	Optical data can be sent to a circuit board in the brain that shows grainy images to the blind.	entailment
How do Mary Matalin and James Carville do it?	Seeing how Mary and James do it is clear as day.	contradiction
An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.	It is likely that you would be a king if you were alive in 1000.	contradiction
Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.	Farm fertilizer runoff damages sea life in the Gulf of Mexico.	entailment
When you press down on top of the pump, two separate substances emerge from two separate and concealed tanks.	Two different substances were in the tanks.	entailment
After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.	If the Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino hadn't raised a ruckus, Harvard might not have admitted their wrong doing.	neutral
Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.	Communications between the president and his top advisers protect the issue.	neutral
It is not overarching moral or political meaning that Didion has suddenly discovered.	Didion was enlightened by something other than morality.	neutral
While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?)	Aerosmith enjoyed the requirement of having to publish every two weeks.	neutral
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.	Crimes committed by police officers are on a steep rise throughout recent years.	neutral
The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts.	Gordon hates the art of manipulation.	contradiction
According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975.	Food prices went up 8 percent between 1990 and 1996, which was actually 113 percent lower since 1975, according to an index of food prices in Bailey's book.	entailment
This is all pure high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses.	The snobbism results from upper-class people.	neutral
One must be a little skeptical of Sperling's personal experience with the game.	Sperling might be lying about his experience with the game.	neutral
(The New York Post 's Page Six gossip column ran a lead item on the Enquirer story on Christmas Day.)	Page Six ran an article in the Enquirer.	entailment
However, most college-bound Colorado students take a different college entrance exam, making the SAT an unreliable measure of school quality.	Colorado students are also given the option to take the SAT.	neutral
His Bose 901 loudspeakers, the company's premium line for 30 years, have nine speaker cones, positioned all over the cabinet, so that the sound bounces around your room just like in a concert hall.	The Bose speakers have incredible sound.	entailment
Sunday's NYT was more than a little fascinated with the topic of whether or not companies with 20th Century in their names would change with the times.	There was a NYT that was about if companies would change their names.	entailment
Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.	Many people believe it possible for Microsoft to recreate Washington's culture.	contradiction
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.	There are points that the pictures appear to be clear.	neutral
Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.	The media is aware of the issue.	entailment
Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes.	They do not sell Martin Luther King, Jr.. statuettes.	contradiction
If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.	It is not in the Senate's best interest to hold a confirmation hearing.	neutral
Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was terminated by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine.	Mehta's memoir sold millions of copies and was a best seller.	neutral
Have the threats to our security doubled since then?	The threats have vanished.	contradiction
Initiatives like community policing and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit appeal to all parties in the debate.	They all thought community policing was a horrible idea doomed for failure.	contradiction
How do you know if your daughter is on steroids?	People on steroids tend to be hyperactive.	neutral
Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.	Gramm is an advocate of the GOP.	entailment
It sketches out a pattern of Clinton aides attempting to convince multiple Clinton alleged paramours (Dolly Kyle Browning, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey) to keep silent.	Clinton had regular improper sexual relationship while being in the office	neutral
Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.	The public will overcome their outrage, and allow the doctors to practice on fallen soldiers.	neutral
But in the long run, it's unavoidable.	The future seems certain to the author.	neutral
There's more free stuff available online to fill up the time when the boss isn't around than the proxy-censor will ever let us read.	The proxy-censor will not let us read the free stuff online.	entailment
Personally, I think the Bush camp is acting like brats that didn't get everything they wanted at Christmas.	Those in the side partial to Bush are behaving like immature children.	entailment
Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.	The War Powers Act didn't apply according to Reagan when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982.	entailment
What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife.	Your spouse will cry if she reads the sweet correspondence you wrote about the cat.	neutral
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.	Israelis are despised by the Palestinians.	entailment
our casual voodoo the pleasure to give pain that gives pleasure of pain, unmerited, cruel, free creation	Casual voodoo is something that the author condemns.	contradiction
In the age of the divine entrepreneur, no one cares how badly you treat your kid.	In this self starter culture, child mistreatment is overlooked.	entailment
Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein.	Saddam Hussein was well liked by the people.	contradiction
Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.	There was little celebration in Germany, as citizens looked upon the 10th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, negatively.	contradiction
Telegraph reported exclusively that billionaire philanthropist John Paul Getty II, 65, had sealed his love affair with Britain by taking out UK citizenship after 25 years' residence in this country.	He had a hatred for Britian.	contradiction
Majority Whip Tom DeLay, another Texan, is Armey's opposite--the Republican Jim Wright.	Republicans and Libertarian Republicans believe in big government.	contradiction
The theory that only a monopolist can price discriminate is standard textbook fare, and it's borne out by a lot of observations.	Price discrimination belongs to the past and it has been completely stopped nowadays	contradiction
It did work for Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, a self-professed sex addict who rehabilitated himself politically after a drug conviction by declaring his powerlessness over drugs and sex, repenting, and entering a program.	Mayor Marion Barry was a Republican who served one term.	contradiction
My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer.	I am confident in declaring my one and true identity.	contradiction
He is relocating to his home state of Georgia.	He is going back to where he was born.	entailment
Instead of engendering hope and optimism, they breed mistrust and cynicism.	They cant be trusted.	entailment
Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...	Reviewers were excited about the set until they saw it.	neutral
If you would like more information, you should go to the site that is actually handling this www.rtmark.com.	These are the only details that we have.	contradiction
It's also hard to find anyone who knows Brinkley and doesn't worry about his obsession with fame.	This obsession has led to fame itself.	neutral
In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.	Mayakovsky used to harm himself physically	neutral
Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up.	Increasing consumer demand from the bottom, increases global growth.	entailment
Croatia analysts surmise that HDZ is keeping Tudjman alive as a campaign strategy.	Tudjman is alive and well.	entailment
4) Who cares whether the judges are honest?	Honesty is not very valued in some courtrooms.	neutral
Even if he remains uncorrupted, the president will be immersed in the concerns only of the wealthy and will lose all feeling for the lives of everyone else.	If you're poor, the president isn't concerned with your problems.	neutral
In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter.	The majority of their claims is baseless	neutral
While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag?	Information on gulags is hard to find and survivors are now dead.	contradiction
While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.	The inspector completely lacked humanity	neutral
At the hang gliding site, click Links ...	At the hang gliding site there is no need to click on anything else.	contradiction
The clearest proof of the new left's poverty is what Clinton and Blair have to say about the middle class.	Clinton and Blair didn't offer a positive view of the ordinary people	neutral
Spun and spun and spun the president's denial for months without bothering to check if it was true.	The president was in denial.	entailment
Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.	Interest in the book shall come back next month.	neutral
Luckily, he is highly placed, but I mean, how does one gracefully NOT contribute?	He holds a lowly position.	contradiction
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.	The online courses being created by the colleges are being done completely in-house	contradiction
In some communities (though not the rich Long Island ones where judges live), a prison term has become almost a rite of passage, something that young men do.	The rich Long Island communities, have very low incarceration rates amongst it's inhabitants.	neutral
But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.	He is straightforward and direct in every aspect of his life.	contradiction
He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2.	He was surprised at how profitable Basic Instinct turned out to be.	neutral
And those are just the towns along Lake Como.	The towns are next to Lake Como.	entailment
USA Today 's modular layout and bold type anticipated the typical multidimensional Web page, almost inviting the finger to point and click, to follow Christine Royal through the process of her cosmetic surgery, to jump to the daily profiles of Olympic athletes, to explore the depths of the Bosnia power struggle.	USA Today showcased humans from several different walks of life.	entailment
Pour coffee into Christopher Hitchens until he's sober enough to finish his cover story, 'Friendship.	Christopher Hitchens loves the taste of coffee.	neutral
A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.	I know a lady with a new boyfriend.	entailment
Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush.	Bush's competitors tried to negate his stance.	neutral
Even if the water tastes pure and delicious, you cannot enjoy it as much as you should.	You should avoid the water because it is polluted.	contradiction
In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.	Military action can only be authorized by Congress according to Democrats.	entailment
In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.	The blind following of policies by doctors is terrible.	entailment
I asked Czech president Vaclav Havel about this when he came to Washington a few years ago, and he agreed wholeheartedly with my analysis.	Vaclav Havel agreed with the journalist.	neutral
Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art).	Henry was featured in The Museum of American Folk Art.	entailment
On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts.	An evolutionist professor mocked Kansas education board for declining expert advice.	entailment
No wonder so many find this market-tested spiritualism so cool.	I can see why market-tested spiritualism is not stupid.	entailment
But, as in Washington, on snowy days like this, you take what you can get.	The weather today was warm and sunny.	contradiction
A famous example is the Klein bottle, a kind of higher-dimensional Moebius strip whose inside is somehow the same as its outside.	A Klein bottle is a kind of crazy illusion that the outside and inside look the same except to color blind people.	neutral
It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that.	Beatty is raring to get it done.	contradiction
Kaaterskill Falls ,by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press).	Allegra Goodman is a writer	entailment
The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault.	A famine might hit us in the next 10 years	neutral
Meanwhile, merger mania has seized the telecom industry.	The telecom industry finds itself not merging often.	contradiction
As far as Pundit Central knows, this is the first instance of talking heads elevating their own comments to the status of newsworthy chat fodder.	Talking heads takes the time to comment on things.	entailment
Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony.	Clinton very often tried to hide his favors to political friends from the media.	neutral
(Violence among theatrical people, on the other hand, can be entertainingly savage, cf, All About Eve .) In all the hullabaloo about violence in popular entertainment, movies and television were often chastised, the stage never.	As usual in the theatrical world, All About Eve received much flak over its bloody content.	contradiction

( explains what Greenspan really said.)

Greenspan's statement needed restatement.

entailment

The media's class bias protected Clinton from women like Jones and Gennifer Flowers--surely he couldn't be attracted to a woman who wasn't a Yale Law School graduate!

Often Clinton had affairs that weren't unreported by the bias media.

neutral

If you don't like reading on a computer screen, for example, there's a special version of SLATE that you can print out in its entirety, reformatted like a traditional print magazine.

Slate can be read only in digital version

contradiction

But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage.

Clinton and Birch both believe that legal coupling of same sex individuals is immoral.

neutral

Nor does Big Blue exercise the kind of financial or cultural power that Morgan once did.

Blue Blue has managed to far exceed the financial and cultural status of Morgan.

contradiction

Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract.

Touch of Evil is Welles' masterpiece.

neutral

We don't see him surprise the nation in 1964 with strong showings in the Maryland and Wisconsin Democratic primaries--states outside the Deep South where he wasn't expected to fare well.

He performed well outside the Deep South.

contradiction

Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts.

Levi is the most stylish brand

contradiction

Consilience is, in any case, an excellent book.

Consilience is a wonderful book.

entailment

He carried on affairs with several men and a mistress, who bore him a son he refused to lift a finger to support.

The guy was a virgin, but somehow had a kid with the power of his mind, or he slipped and fell in, opps.

contradiction

As previously mentioned, the e-rate discount won't cover any portion of the hardware bill either, leaving the local community responsible for PCs, modems, and training for teachers and supervisors.

The local community will buy less PC's, modems, and training for teachers because the cost isn't covered by the e-rate discount.

neutral

So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim.

Selling in the interim would be a poor choice for the 1950s owners.

neutral

For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera.

Optical data can be sent to a circuit board in the brain that shows grainy images to the blind.

entailment

How do Mary Matalin and James Carville do it?

Seeing how Mary and James do it is clear as day.

contradiction

An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.

It is likely that you would be a king if you were alive in 1000.

contradiction

Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.

Farm fertilizer runoff damages sea life in the Gulf of Mexico.

entailment

When you press down on top of the pump, two separate substances emerge from two separate and concealed tanks.

Two different substances were in the tanks.

entailment

After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.

If the Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino hadn't raised a ruckus, Harvard might not have admitted their wrong doing.

neutral

Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.

Communications between the president and his top advisers protect the issue.

neutral

It is not overarching moral or political meaning that Didion has suddenly discovered.

Didion was enlightened by something other than morality.

neutral

While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?)

Aerosmith enjoyed the requirement of having to publish every two weeks.

neutral

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.

Crimes committed by police officers are on a steep rise throughout recent years.

neutral

The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts.

Gordon hates the art of manipulation.

contradiction

According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975.

Food prices went up 8 percent between 1990 and 1996, which was actually 113 percent lower since 1975, according to an index of food prices in Bailey's book.

entailment

This is all pure high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses.

The snobbism results from upper-class people.

neutral

One must be a little skeptical of Sperling's personal experience with the game.

Sperling might be lying about his experience with the game.

neutral

(The New York Post 's Page Six gossip column ran a lead item on the Enquirer story on Christmas Day.)

Page Six ran an article in the Enquirer.

entailment

However, most college-bound Colorado students take a different college entrance exam, making the SAT an unreliable measure of school quality.

Colorado students are also given the option to take the SAT.

neutral

His Bose 901 loudspeakers, the company's premium line for 30 years, have nine speaker cones, positioned all over the cabinet, so that the sound bounces around your room just like in a concert hall.

The Bose speakers have incredible sound.

entailment

Sunday's NYT was more than a little fascinated with the topic of whether or not companies with 20th Century in their names would change with the times.

There was a NYT that was about if companies would change their names.

entailment

Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.

Many people believe it possible for Microsoft to recreate Washington's culture.

contradiction

But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.

There are points that the pictures appear to be clear.

neutral

Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.

The media is aware of the issue.

entailment

Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes.

They do not sell Martin Luther King, Jr.. statuettes.

contradiction

If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.

It is not in the Senate's best interest to hold a confirmation hearing.

neutral

Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was terminated by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine.

Mehta's memoir sold millions of copies and was a best seller.

neutral

Have the threats to our security doubled since then?

The threats have vanished.

contradiction

Initiatives like community policing and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit appeal to all parties in the debate.

They all thought community policing was a horrible idea doomed for failure.

contradiction

How do you know if your daughter is on steroids?

People on steroids tend to be hyperactive.

neutral

Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.

Gramm is an advocate of the GOP.

entailment

It sketches out a pattern of Clinton aides attempting to convince multiple Clinton alleged paramours (Dolly Kyle Browning, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey) to keep silent.

Clinton had regular improper sexual relationship while being in the office

neutral

Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.

The public will overcome their outrage, and allow the doctors to practice on fallen soldiers.

neutral

But in the long run, it's unavoidable.

The future seems certain to the author.

neutral

There's more free stuff available online to fill up the time when the boss isn't around than the proxy-censor will ever let us read.

The proxy-censor will not let us read the free stuff online.

entailment

Personally, I think the Bush camp is acting like brats that didn't get everything they wanted at Christmas.

Those in the side partial to Bush are behaving like immature children.

entailment

Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.

The War Powers Act didn't apply according to Reagan when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982.

entailment

What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife.

Your spouse will cry if she reads the sweet correspondence you wrote about the cat.

neutral

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.

Israelis are despised by the Palestinians.

entailment

our casual voodoo the pleasure to give pain that gives pleasure of pain, unmerited, cruel, free creation

Casual voodoo is something that the author condemns.

contradiction

In the age of the divine entrepreneur, no one cares how badly you treat your kid.

In this self starter culture, child mistreatment is overlooked.

entailment

Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein was well liked by the people.

contradiction

Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

There was little celebration in Germany, as citizens looked upon the 10th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, negatively.

contradiction

Telegraph reported exclusively that billionaire philanthropist John Paul Getty II, 65, had sealed his love affair with Britain by taking out UK citizenship after 25 years' residence in this country.

He had a hatred for Britian.

contradiction

Majority Whip Tom DeLay, another Texan, is Armey's opposite--the Republican Jim Wright.

Republicans and Libertarian Republicans believe in big government.

contradiction

The theory that only a monopolist can price discriminate is standard textbook fare, and it's borne out by a lot of observations.

Price discrimination belongs to the past and it has been completely stopped nowadays

contradiction

It did work for Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, a self-professed sex addict who rehabilitated himself politically after a drug conviction by declaring his powerlessness over drugs and sex, repenting, and entering a program.

Mayor Marion Barry was a Republican who served one term.

contradiction

My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer.

I am confident in declaring my one and true identity.

contradiction

He is relocating to his home state of Georgia.

He is going back to where he was born.

entailment

Instead of engendering hope and optimism, they breed mistrust and cynicism.

They cant be trusted.

entailment

Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...

Reviewers were excited about the set until they saw it.

neutral

If you would like more information, you should go to the site that is actually handling this www.rtmark.com.

These are the only details that we have.

contradiction

It's also hard to find anyone who knows Brinkley and doesn't worry about his obsession with fame.

This obsession has led to fame itself.

neutral

In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.

Mayakovsky used to harm himself physically

neutral

Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up.

Increasing consumer demand from the bottom, increases global growth.

entailment

Croatia analysts surmise that HDZ is keeping Tudjman alive as a campaign strategy.

Tudjman is alive and well.

entailment

4) Who cares whether the judges are honest?

Honesty is not very valued in some courtrooms.

neutral

Even if he remains uncorrupted, the president will be immersed in the concerns only of the wealthy and will lose all feeling for the lives of everyone else.

If you're poor, the president isn't concerned with your problems.

neutral

In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter.

The majority of their claims is baseless

neutral

While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag?

Information on gulags is hard to find and survivors are now dead.

contradiction

While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.

The inspector completely lacked humanity

neutral

At the hang gliding site, click Links ...

At the hang gliding site there is no need to click on anything else.

contradiction

The clearest proof of the new left's poverty is what Clinton and Blair have to say about the middle class.

Clinton and Blair didn't offer a positive view of the ordinary people

neutral

Spun and spun and spun the president's denial for months without bothering to check if it was true.

The president was in denial.

entailment

Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.

Interest in the book shall come back next month.

neutral

Luckily, he is highly placed, but I mean, how does one gracefully NOT contribute?

He holds a lowly position.

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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.

The online courses being created by the colleges are being done completely in-house

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In some communities (though not the rich Long Island ones where judges live), a prison term has become almost a rite of passage, something that young men do.

The rich Long Island communities, have very low incarceration rates amongst it's inhabitants.

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But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.

He is straightforward and direct in every aspect of his life.

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He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2.

He was surprised at how profitable Basic Instinct turned out to be.

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And those are just the towns along Lake Como.

The towns are next to Lake Como.

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USA Today 's modular layout and bold type anticipated the typical multidimensional Web page, almost inviting the finger to point and click, to follow Christine Royal through the process of her cosmetic surgery, to jump to the daily profiles of Olympic athletes, to explore the depths of the Bosnia power struggle.

USA Today showcased humans from several different walks of life.

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Pour coffee into Christopher Hitchens until he's sober enough to finish his cover story, 'Friendship.

Christopher Hitchens loves the taste of coffee.

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A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.

I know a lady with a new boyfriend.

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Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush.

Bush's competitors tried to negate his stance.

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Even if the water tastes pure and delicious, you cannot enjoy it as much as you should.

You should avoid the water because it is polluted.

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In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.

Military action can only be authorized by Congress according to Democrats.

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In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.

The blind following of policies by doctors is terrible.

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I asked Czech president Vaclav Havel about this when he came to Washington a few years ago, and he agreed wholeheartedly with my analysis.

Vaclav Havel agreed with the journalist.

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Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art).

Henry was featured in The Museum of American Folk Art.

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On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts.

An evolutionist professor mocked Kansas education board for declining expert advice.

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No wonder so many find this market-tested spiritualism so cool.

I can see why market-tested spiritualism is not stupid.

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But, as in Washington, on snowy days like this, you take what you can get.

The weather today was warm and sunny.

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A famous example is the Klein bottle, a kind of higher-dimensional Moebius strip whose inside is somehow the same as its outside.

A Klein bottle is a kind of crazy illusion that the outside and inside look the same except to color blind people.

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It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that.

Beatty is raring to get it done.

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Kaaterskill Falls ,by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press).

Allegra Goodman is a writer

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The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault.

A famine might hit us in the next 10 years

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Meanwhile, merger mania has seized the telecom industry.

The telecom industry finds itself not merging often.

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As far as Pundit Central knows, this is the first instance of talking heads elevating their own comments to the status of newsworthy chat fodder.

Talking heads takes the time to comment on things.

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Gerth means to suggest that Clinton was attempting to hide an out-and-out favor to a political crony.

Clinton very often tried to hide his favors to political friends from the media.

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(Violence among theatrical people, on the other hand, can be entertainingly savage, cf, All About Eve .) In all the hullabaloo about violence in popular entertainment, movies and television were often chastised, the stage never.

As usual in the theatrical world, All About Eve received much flak over its bloody content.

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