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On the other hand, the President's Box at Ford's Theatre contains the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when Booth shot him, and no one would argue that Ford's is anything but a replica.	The chair was sold to a museum for millions of dollars/	neutral
Et In an interview on Late Edition , Ken Starr says that if he could do it over again, he would have used the independent counsel's office as a bully pulpit, appearing on television to counter the White House's spin doctors.	Ken Starr and the White House were in complete agreement.	contradiction
It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.	AOL sold the instant-messenger software to the competing company.	neutral
But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news.	These types of stories do work from time to time.	neutral
He looked at her and said, Monday morning.	He said Tuesday night.	contradiction
Paleontologist Ivan Turk, who discovered the bone, recently told Scientific American that the four holes are really well rounded and just about the right separation for humans to put their finger on.	The bone was discovered by a researcher of prehistoric life, Ivan Turk.	entailment
The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.	Self-righteousness is avoided by the Street Lawyer.	entailment
Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally.	Adultery is allowed in all nations.	contradiction
Sunday's contests determined that the Tennessee Titans will face the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.	The super bowl was lost by the Raiders.	contradiction
But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web.	Cole had certainly stated that the files are separate from Windows95 and unincluded with Internet explorer.	contradiction
officials have played a key role in concocting the treaty and stewarding it to its conclusion.	Officials were very inovled in the treaty.	entailment
I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home past dark, tires wailing,I howled with every song on the radio,screamed some teen-age stranger's stupid words,shrieked somebody else's rage, somebody's lovetill I could bear my own voice, and its silence.	Listening to radio while driving is more common while being alone than with someone else	neutral
In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario, for instance, a deficit-neutral solution would increase their taxes by $2,000 or so (compared with now) if they remain single and cut their taxes by about $550 if they get married.	Depending on extraneous factors, it could be better for them to stay single.	neutral
The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.	The mafia is still active in Brooklyn.	neutral
The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and This Week experiencing pronounced ratings increases.	The scandal was made up so the media could make a profit.	neutral
We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.	Not all of the bills could be authorized.	neutral
To some extent, Miller's fate is that of the Broadway stage.	Miller has a fate.	entailment
Finally, we can try to remove temptation, by avoiding policy initiatives that make it easy for politicians to play favorites.	Preventing certain policy initiatives will remove the temptation to play favorites.	entailment
( Slate published a piece co-authored by Glass last year.	Slate needed Glass to get his piece published.	neutral
As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all.	The woman didn't have any preference for her clothes.	entailment
The movie made me remember why I like Holly Hunter.	I enjoy the actress in this film.	entailment
But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.	There is contraversy over Kennewick Man.	entailment
(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs.	The juxtaposition is discontinued in the next test.	contradiction
Thanks a bunch.	A person is being sarcastic.	neutral
Given how many lawyers must have vetted this thing, it's probably an achievement that Mann got as much as he did on the screen.	This thing required legal attention	entailment
Contribution limits don't stop you from associating publicly or privately with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, or even signifying your association by donating money.	Contribution limits don't stop you from associating with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, or donating money.	entailment
Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.	An incomplete, yet epic work can have more charm to it than a complete work.	entailment
The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.	The bloodthirst towards Clinton would be bad publicity for the Republican party.	entailment
Friday, we publish the weekend edition at about 11 a.m.	The weekend edition comes out on a weekday.	entailment
It's Sunday, what channel is this?	They are wondering, on a Monday, what channel it is.	contradiction
The man who gave the Iron Curtain its name is the true democratic hero of our age.	Iron Curtain is about a democratic person.	neutral
Both are Democrats who converted to conservative Republicanism.	Republicans sought to convert them.	neutral
The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers.	Readers of Slate will ultimately determine the winner.	entailment
The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway.	Health-care plans that were put in place in the 90's are starting to phase out.	entailment
This, surely, is where the Clinton sex policy and the Clinton social policy combine.	This is where the politician's two policies come together.	entailment
An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.	Self-assured by years of experience, Blitzer is overflowing with confidence.	neutral
They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps.	They were unlike other straps.	contradiction
Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.	The US failed drug policy is considered unjust by most Americans.	neutral
He is unpopular in the Senate.	The Senate of the United States considered him one of their favorite.	contradiction
This is the amount on the check the new owner writes.	The owner leaves the check blank.	contradiction
Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theory killed all these people.	Heaven's Gate had the most influence on Biskind's book.	neutral
It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.	No female office staff has ever been forced to serve tea.	contradiction
I bought two large tubes after your super review.	Your review of the tubes caused me to think twice about purchasing them.	contradiction
They have mainstream acceptance and no shock value, and are worn by young career women and old grandmothers alike.	Young women make a better use of these things than grandmothers	neutral
Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.	Researchers are cutting patients open.	entailment
I mastered the words portiere (goalkeeper), colpo di testa (header), and quattro minuti di ricupero (four minutes of injury time).	They were proficient at foreign words and sayings.	entailment
A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.	Education is seen as something that can be bought and sold.	entailment
You couldn't possibly have published a better parody of what passes for scholarship in the postmodern world.	A better satire does not exist for the event in the postmodern world.	entailment
Don't be surprised when it flops.	You should have high hopes that all will go well.	contradiction
(She'll need the dough to cover her legal expenses--see The Nation , below.)	She is rolling in money.	contradiction
Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me a cheap shot--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse.	They were not mentioned due to caring.	entailment
As she has become more self-sufficient, she has become more interesting.	She was a very dependent person and was very boring.	contradiction
Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko.	The 'allover' painting invented by Storr.	contradiction
I admit a good deal of my concern is self-motivated.	They want to get more information about the problem.	neutral
What is reputed to be Gen.	To be Gen. is confirmed.	contradiction
The talking animals and discombobulated cityscapes are so exquisite that I started to snivel about 10 minutes in and more or less kept it up for the next hour and a half.	The animals in the movie could only make animal sounds.	contradiction
But there is a more fruitful way to look at He is the first high-profile newspaper man in a long time who actually believes in newspapers.	It is mostly significant because of his high-profile.	neutral
America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not.	America's class system was different in the 50's compared to the 90's.	entailment
The flip side is that parolees who want to go straight often can make it if they are literate, civil, and can stay off drugs, remain sober, and get a job.	Getting a job can help parolees to be successful.	entailment
As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies.	A well known British theater director was extremely critical of the Prime Minister for not supporting the arts.	entailment
By sidestepping obvious cliches (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort to make a sensitive and tasteful show about a trashy subject, says Newsday 's Linda Winer, the production achieves only banality.	The production achieves only banality says Newsday's Linda Winer, by sidestepping obvious cliches (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort to make a trashy show subject more sensitive and tasteful.	entailment
Imagine a law school class with 100 places.	Envision a dystopia in which learning has become unnecessary.	contradiction
It invests heavily in research and development.	The company puts a lot of money into research.	entailment
It depends on how you score it.	You are unable to score.	contradiction
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.	It is thought by many that IE and Windows could be easily separated.	entailment
Didion, in other words, has written a fast-paced story, not just her usual series of fractured stories.	Didion's fractured stories are popular with the younsters.	neutral
The wise course for Republicans might be to accept a plea bargain under which neither Clinton's behavior nor Starr's will be further investigated with regard to the Lewinsky matter.	It would be prudent for Republicans to accept the plea bargain.	entailment
Luckily, he is highly placed, but I mean, how does one gracefully NOT contribute?	I want to be graceful about it.	neutral
What if they just don't have feelings?	What if they don't really have any feelings?	entailment
In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.	The Jailbird claims innocents of any crimes.	contradiction
But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway?	It is challenging to play solitaire. Where did the rules come from?	entailment
Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.	Compatibly with your goal, it makes sense to prefer WebRecord to PrintSmart	entailment
On the sex front, nonpresidential illicit encounters are all the tabs can muster this month.	This month has nonpresidential illicit encounters.	entailment
Moreover, the obits also recorded lots of violent and accidental deaths.	The snippets were published on a Sunday.	neutral
When you buy something online or fill out a warranty card, there's often a little box at the Check here if you wish to receive announcements about our new products and services that may delight and amuse you.	The box is only present online or on warranty cards.	neutral
But when he became impotent, it took his identity away.	Someone stole his identity.	contradiction
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.	The pictures appear to be fuzzy.	entailment
Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a virtual gambling emporium.	The laws and rules of internet gambling are clearly defined.	contradiction
Lee's bodyguard and cook (and, one presumes, slave).	The bodyguard attended a culinary school	neutral
He recently purchased 387 acres on one of the San Juan Islands that is the site of Camp Nor'Wester, a venerated children's summer retreat.	The location of Camp Nor'Wester was near a popular summer's retreat for kids.	entailment
While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.	Affirmative action and busing do not help the process of integration.	entailment
Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein.	Saddam Hussein was a human.	entailment
The general staff, for instance, has essentially forbidden Russia from talking to NATO.	Russia could need NATO as an alliance partner.	neutral
Her delivery isn't moist--it's prickly and blunt, and she can jabber convincingly, so that the jabbering takes on a life of its own and leaves her (sometimes horrified) in the dust.	She spoke with such bluntness, that it lead us to leave and venture on to a different path.	neutral
That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious.	He could not bomb Iraq in November, although he was tempted to do so.	entailment
Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.	Convictions without the death penalty prevent murders.	neutral
Let's pause for a moment to map the nuances of that pitch.	The pitch had a number of subtleties.	entailment
The New Republic 's Jed Perl bashes the newly opened J. Paul Getty Museum, designed by Richard Meier, whose architecture, says Perl, only works in coffee-table books.	Jed Perl adored the J. Paul Getty Museum and praised it.	contradiction
The problem, for Slate and other Internet sites, comes from having to charge for usage, when what they're selling is intellectual property with a flat production cost.	People are happy to pay for intellectual properties	contradiction
The cover story , rehashing last week's discovery that smart mice can be genetically engineered, predicts that the bioengineering of human intelligence will soon be possible.	There will be a way to effect how smart people are eventually.	entailment
Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail.	Bill Bradley is religious.	entailment
So, by a process known to psychologists as transference, she transferred her feelings, both positive and negative, to you, the second-most-important Bill in the country.	She gave away her emotions to you.	entailment
There is plenty of evidence that the first gap has been declining--fairly rapidly by historical standards.	It's clear the first gap has been rapidly increasing.	contradiction
And then, of course, there was the New York Times , that old mainstay of psychotic delusion--Nash thought aliens were sending him encrypted messages through its pages (come to think of it, that could explain the Times ' odd prose).	Nash would be seen as a lunatic and crazy person once his story got out to the public.	neutral
No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998.	No ballots were confirmed after May 6, 1998.	entailment
While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.	The forth quality is way better than the first three by a long shot.	contradiction
The headline over the NYT 's online version doesn't mention the homosexual angle, while the WP 's headline--FRANCE LEGALIZES GAY UNIONS--doesn't mention the heterosexual angle.	Both newspapers released their respective versions at the same time.	neutral
Don't take my word for it.	take my word for it.	contradiction
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 in California and Arizona.	neutral
The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex.	The study revealed that over half the college students within the sample, don't see oral sex as being the same thing as having sex.	entailment

On the other hand, the President's Box at Ford's Theatre contains the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when Booth shot him, and no one would argue that Ford's is anything but a replica.

The chair was sold to a museum for millions of dollars/

neutral

Et In an interview on Late Edition , Ken Starr says that if he could do it over again, he would have used the independent counsel's office as a bully pulpit, appearing on television to counter the White House's spin doctors.

Ken Starr and the White House were in complete agreement.

contradiction

It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.

AOL sold the instant-messenger software to the competing company.

neutral

But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news.

These types of stories do work from time to time.

neutral

He looked at her and said, Monday morning.

He said Tuesday night.

contradiction

Paleontologist Ivan Turk, who discovered the bone, recently told Scientific American that the four holes are really well rounded and just about the right separation for humans to put their finger on.

The bone was discovered by a researcher of prehistoric life, Ivan Turk.

entailment

The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.

Self-righteousness is avoided by the Street Lawyer.

entailment

Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally.

Adultery is allowed in all nations.

contradiction

Sunday's contests determined that the Tennessee Titans will face the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.

The super bowl was lost by the Raiders.

contradiction

But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web.

Cole had certainly stated that the files are separate from Windows95 and unincluded with Internet explorer.

contradiction

officials have played a key role in concocting the treaty and stewarding it to its conclusion.

Officials were very inovled in the treaty.

entailment

I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home past dark, tires wailing,I howled with every song on the radio,screamed some teen-age stranger's stupid words,shrieked somebody else's rage, somebody's lovetill I could bear my own voice, and its silence.

Listening to radio while driving is more common while being alone than with someone else

neutral

In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario, for instance, a deficit-neutral solution would increase their taxes by $2,000 or so (compared with now) if they remain single and cut their taxes by about $550 if they get married.

Depending on extraneous factors, it could be better for them to stay single.

neutral

The mafia is over as we know it, or think we know it.

The mafia is still active in Brooklyn.

neutral

The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and This Week experiencing pronounced ratings increases.

The scandal was made up so the media could make a profit.

neutral

We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.

Not all of the bills could be authorized.

neutral

To some extent, Miller's fate is that of the Broadway stage.

Miller has a fate.

entailment

Finally, we can try to remove temptation, by avoiding policy initiatives that make it easy for politicians to play favorites.

Preventing certain policy initiatives will remove the temptation to play favorites.

entailment

( Slate published a piece co-authored by Glass last year.

Slate needed Glass to get his piece published.

neutral

As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all.

The woman didn't have any preference for her clothes.

entailment

The movie made me remember why I like Holly Hunter.

I enjoy the actress in this film.

entailment

But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.

There is contraversy over Kennewick Man.

entailment

(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs.

The juxtaposition is discontinued in the next test.

contradiction

Thanks a bunch.

A person is being sarcastic.

neutral

Given how many lawyers must have vetted this thing, it's probably an achievement that Mann got as much as he did on the screen.

This thing required legal attention

entailment

Contribution limits don't stop you from associating publicly or privately with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, or even signifying your association by donating money.

Contribution limits don't stop you from associating with a candidate or cause, working for the campaign, or donating money.

entailment

Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.

An incomplete, yet epic work can have more charm to it than a complete work.

entailment

The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras.

The bloodthirst towards Clinton would be bad publicity for the Republican party.

entailment

Friday, we publish the weekend edition at about 11 a.m.

The weekend edition comes out on a weekday.

entailment

It's Sunday, what channel is this?

They are wondering, on a Monday, what channel it is.

contradiction

The man who gave the Iron Curtain its name is the true democratic hero of our age.

Iron Curtain is about a democratic person.

neutral

Both are Democrats who converted to conservative Republicanism.

Republicans sought to convert them.

neutral

The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers.

Readers of Slate will ultimately determine the winner.

entailment

The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway.

Health-care plans that were put in place in the 90's are starting to phase out.

entailment

This, surely, is where the Clinton sex policy and the Clinton social policy combine.

This is where the politician's two policies come together.

entailment

An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.

Self-assured by years of experience, Blitzer is overflowing with confidence.

neutral

They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps.

They were unlike other straps.

contradiction

Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.

The US failed drug policy is considered unjust by most Americans.

neutral

He is unpopular in the Senate.

The Senate of the United States considered him one of their favorite.

contradiction

This is the amount on the check the new owner writes.

The owner leaves the check blank.

contradiction

Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theory killed all these people.

Heaven's Gate had the most influence on Biskind's book.

neutral

It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.

No female office staff has ever been forced to serve tea.

contradiction

I bought two large tubes after your super review.

Your review of the tubes caused me to think twice about purchasing them.

contradiction

They have mainstream acceptance and no shock value, and are worn by young career women and old grandmothers alike.

Young women make a better use of these things than grandmothers

neutral

Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.

Researchers are cutting patients open.

entailment

I mastered the words portiere (goalkeeper), colpo di testa (header), and quattro minuti di ricupero (four minutes of injury time).

They were proficient at foreign words and sayings.

entailment

A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.

Education is seen as something that can be bought and sold.

entailment

You couldn't possibly have published a better parody of what passes for scholarship in the postmodern world.

A better satire does not exist for the event in the postmodern world.

entailment

Don't be surprised when it flops.

You should have high hopes that all will go well.

contradiction

(She'll need the dough to cover her legal expenses--see The Nation , below.)

She is rolling in money.

contradiction

Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me a cheap shot--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse.

They were not mentioned due to caring.

entailment

As she has become more self-sufficient, she has become more interesting.

She was a very dependent person and was very boring.

contradiction

Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko.

The 'allover' painting invented by Storr.

contradiction

I admit a good deal of my concern is self-motivated.

They want to get more information about the problem.

neutral

What is reputed to be Gen.

To be Gen. is confirmed.

contradiction

The talking animals and discombobulated cityscapes are so exquisite that I started to snivel about 10 minutes in and more or less kept it up for the next hour and a half.

The animals in the movie could only make animal sounds.

contradiction

But there is a more fruitful way to look at He is the first high-profile newspaper man in a long time who actually believes in newspapers.

It is mostly significant because of his high-profile.

neutral

America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not.

America's class system was different in the 50's compared to the 90's.

entailment

The flip side is that parolees who want to go straight often can make it if they are literate, civil, and can stay off drugs, remain sober, and get a job.

Getting a job can help parolees to be successful.

entailment

As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies.

A well known British theater director was extremely critical of the Prime Minister for not supporting the arts.

entailment

By sidestepping obvious cliches (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort to make a sensitive and tasteful show about a trashy subject, says Newsday 's Linda Winer, the production achieves only banality.

The production achieves only banality says Newsday's Linda Winer, by sidestepping obvious cliches (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort to make a trashy show subject more sensitive and tasteful.

entailment

Imagine a law school class with 100 places.

Envision a dystopia in which learning has become unnecessary.

contradiction

It invests heavily in research and development.

The company puts a lot of money into research.

entailment

It depends on how you score it.

You are unable to score.

contradiction

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.

It is thought by many that IE and Windows could be easily separated.

entailment

Didion, in other words, has written a fast-paced story, not just her usual series of fractured stories.

Didion's fractured stories are popular with the younsters.

neutral

The wise course for Republicans might be to accept a plea bargain under which neither Clinton's behavior nor Starr's will be further investigated with regard to the Lewinsky matter.

It would be prudent for Republicans to accept the plea bargain.

entailment

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

I want to be graceful about it.

neutral

What if they just don't have feelings?

What if they don't really have any feelings?

entailment

In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.

The Jailbird claims innocents of any crimes.

contradiction

But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway?

It is challenging to play solitaire. Where did the rules come from?

entailment

Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.

Compatibly with your goal, it makes sense to prefer WebRecord to PrintSmart

entailment

On the sex front, nonpresidential illicit encounters are all the tabs can muster this month.

This month has nonpresidential illicit encounters.

entailment

Moreover, the obits also recorded lots of violent and accidental deaths.

The snippets were published on a Sunday.

neutral

When you buy something online or fill out a warranty card, there's often a little box at the Check here if you wish to receive announcements about our new products and services that may delight and amuse you.

The box is only present online or on warranty cards.

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But when he became impotent, it took his identity away.

Someone stole his identity.

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

The pictures appear to be fuzzy.

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Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a virtual gambling emporium.

The laws and rules of internet gambling are clearly defined.

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Lee's bodyguard and cook (and, one presumes, slave).

The bodyguard attended a culinary school

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He recently purchased 387 acres on one of the San Juan Islands that is the site of Camp Nor'Wester, a venerated children's summer retreat.

The location of Camp Nor'Wester was near a popular summer's retreat for kids.

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While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.

Affirmative action and busing do not help the process of integration.

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

Saddam Hussein was a human.

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The general staff, for instance, has essentially forbidden Russia from talking to NATO.

Russia could need NATO as an alliance partner.

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Her delivery isn't moist--it's prickly and blunt, and she can jabber convincingly, so that the jabbering takes on a life of its own and leaves her (sometimes horrified) in the dust.

She spoke with such bluntness, that it lead us to leave and venture on to a different path.

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That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious.

He could not bomb Iraq in November, although he was tempted to do so.

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Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.

Convictions without the death penalty prevent murders.

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Let's pause for a moment to map the nuances of that pitch.

The pitch had a number of subtleties.

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The New Republic 's Jed Perl bashes the newly opened J. Paul Getty Museum, designed by Richard Meier, whose architecture, says Perl, only works in coffee-table books.

Jed Perl adored the J. Paul Getty Museum and praised it.

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The problem, for Slate and other Internet sites, comes from having to charge for usage, when what they're selling is intellectual property with a flat production cost.

People are happy to pay for intellectual properties

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The cover story , rehashing last week's discovery that smart mice can be genetically engineered, predicts that the bioengineering of human intelligence will soon be possible.

There will be a way to effect how smart people are eventually.

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Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail.

Bill Bradley is religious.

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So, by a process known to psychologists as transference, she transferred her feelings, both positive and negative, to you, the second-most-important Bill in the country.

She gave away her emotions to you.

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There is plenty of evidence that the first gap has been declining--fairly rapidly by historical standards.

It's clear the first gap has been rapidly increasing.

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And then, of course, there was the New York Times , that old mainstay of psychotic delusion--Nash thought aliens were sending him encrypted messages through its pages (come to think of it, that could explain the Times ' odd prose).

Nash would be seen as a lunatic and crazy person once his story got out to the public.

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No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998.

No ballots were confirmed after May 6, 1998.

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While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.

The forth quality is way better than the first three by a long shot.

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The headline over the NYT 's online version doesn't mention the homosexual angle, while the WP 's headline--FRANCE LEGALIZES GAY UNIONS--doesn't mention the heterosexual angle.

Both newspapers released their respective versions at the same time.

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Don't take my word for it.

take my word for it.

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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 in California and Arizona.

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The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex.

The study revealed that over half the college students within the sample, don't see oral sex as being the same thing as having sex.

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