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John Conyers, D-Mich., have used the Hale case to call for Starr's resignation.	The Hale Case was a pivotal case in calling for the resignation.	neutral
One is The old neighborhoods are breaking up, and it's the old neighborhoods that produced the mob farm teams.	The people in the old neighborhoods are away from the mob farm teams.	contradiction
Perhaps he put soma into our drinking water.	It's a possibility tha the drinking water has been compromised	entailment
But even then, the Thernstroms equivocate.	The Thernstroms used language that was clear and easy to follow, showing that they had nothing to hide.	contradiction
Judging from their undergraduate careers alone, you might well argue that the examples of Bill Bradley and George W. Bush illustrate a subtler point about affirmative action than mere thumbs-up or thumbs-down.	Bill Bradly and George Bush had undergraduate careers.	entailment
As he went from floor to floor removing the signs, did he realize what was going to happen after he'd taken down the final one?	He removed the final sign knowing what wuld happen.	neutral
Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment.	Hill had pleasant experiences with Thomas.	contradiction
Starr's failures stemmed not from evil but from errant good.	Wayward goodness is to blame for Starr's failures.	entailment
The long Relax, dynasties haven't killed the men's game.	The men's game still goes on even with dynasties.	entailment
The rest of the night was no better.	They had a good evening.	contradiction
The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.	The new sitcoms have critics raving about their poignant social and political commentaries.	contradiction
Some of my friends in the financial industry think that hedge funds were not just a , but the source of instability in the late crisis.	The hedge funds actually created the instability.	neutral
Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.	While writing the article one had to use the linespace carriage return lever.	contradiction
Let's take video games as an example.	We looked at video games as an example for this exercise, and then gained greater insight about the matter.	neutral
A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed exhibition guide that replaces the usual wall panels.	Society has not come a long way in its treatment of women.	neutral
2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.	The Justice Department caught on to the fact that control of several unions was in the hands of Mafia.	entailment
You don't even know where the welfare office is.	The welfare office is you know where.	neutral
Ajami's book is an indispensable guide to why anyone in the Arab world still listens to it.	The valuable information found in Ajami's book is the only reason why the Arab world listens.	neutral
And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure.	Said wants to act on his hate for the West.	neutral
Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation.	New York's Administration for Children's Services was next notified.	entailment
He looked at her and said, Monday morning.	He said Monday morning.	entailment
But if his campaign really prospers and he has to explain what he believes, he'll have a hard time holding that coalition together.	Hos coalition will stay strong and they will unite around his true beliefs.	contradiction
Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity.	We need to have compassion in our competitions.	entailment
I know you find that hard to accept, but really, it's true.	The author denies the outcome.	contradiction
Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy.	The actor who portrayed an elder beauty receives high marks.	entailment
And even then, James added, it's all humbug.	James thinks it's all a lie.	neutral
This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.	Bernhard Riemann came up with complex-valued infinite series in 1859.	entailment
to my aunt's cleaning woman in upstate Pennsylvania and learned to adore the small town with its rows of stores and trees on the sidewalk and only a short walk into the country, in this case up a steep hill,	People usually get good vibes from this neighborhood.	neutral
Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.	She felt relieved that you were fighting and seemed to focus harder on her work last night.	contradiction
The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri.	The 1990 World Book says that Missouri supports it self.	contradiction
In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e.	The liberal program helps the poor and not the rest.	entailment
I maintained throughout the Reagan years that appearances was a dodge for accusers and malefactors alike.	accusers and malefactors both used similar excuses	entailment
Inflation is at a 23-year low of 7 percent.	7 percent has not been this low for the past 23 years.	entailment
How can you gain the moral high ground, that lofty crag from which to hurl down scorn, when your native city--what's the word?	You should have a hard time gaining the moral high ground.	entailment
Finally, on July 30, the committee passed a third, slightly weaker, article 21-17, which charged the president with having willfully disobeyed subpoenas.	The leader of the country was removed from office after willfully disobeying the subpoenas.	neutral
Oh, come on, my date insisted.	The person's date wanted them to do something.	entailment
So why persist in newspaper reading?	Newspaper reading is easy.	neutral
Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.	Kauai has worked for Witness Sunday for many years	neutral
AOL countered that Microsoft had already tried and failed to launch a proprietary online service.	AOL is a service that wants to get out of the internet business.	neutral
Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!	Sometimes my wife feels like she is going to faint when I get criticize in public on the internet	neutral
Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history.	The history keeps being vivid and always actual despite the passing of time	contradiction
Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations.	I have looked at Anderson's response to my letter.	entailment
In this group, it's common for moms to march into school at the beginning of the year and obtain several months' worth of assignments in advance so their children can get a head start.	School is unimportant to this group of moms.	contradiction
This is so great because I haven't been getting any of this lately.	They received information in written form to explain the situation.	neutral
We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern.	We know exactly where life started.	contradiction
He and Els were on the 17 th green, tied at 4 under.	He and Els were on the 4th green.	contradiction
T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system.	Temple Tuttle was employed by Cleveland State University as an ethnomusicologist.	entailment
News accounts agree that Arafat has finally shed his image as a terrorist and is now being honored by the White House not only as a virtual head of state but as the indispensable player in the peace process.	The Palestinian leader was unable to ever get his violent tendencies out of his system.	contradiction
He thought that the use of these drugs would make the population indifferent and willing to accept control by political leaders.	He didn't think the population would be willing to accept control of the drugs by political leaders.	entailment
Frankly, I think the Jamaican Tourist Board should go back to that old 'Come Back to Jamaica' slogan.	The board has gone through a number of slogans since they used 'Come Back to Jamaica'.	neutral
Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.	Critics say employees put too many eggs in one basket.	entailment
Nothing in Siegel's work could explain this perception.	Some people could understand the perception in Siegel's work.	neutral
Wes Cooley, R-Ore., lost his seat last fall after falsely claiming a Korean War combat tour--as a member of the Special Forces, no less.	The politician lost his seat for pretending to serve in the military.	entailment
China is the most eager customer, buying surplus material through U.S.-based scrap-metal dealers.	China' reliance on U.S.-based scrap-metal dealers with cause them to depend on them for several years to come.	neutral
Disk compression and networking into Windows.	Disk compression and networking into Windows has been taught to lots of students over the years..	neutral
Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?	The wine id French.	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!	Clinton had the best marriage in the world.	contradiction
99 percent chance that a Republican Congress will pursue any case Starr can deliver.	There is only a 1 percent chance that the Republican Congress will not pursue the case Starr delivers.	entailment
Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.	I enjoy watching the News Quiz participants.	entailment
Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom.	The economy is exploding due to laxed fiscal policy.	entailment
There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.	Where people drink alcohol there are usually problems.	entailment
I am a nonsmoker and allergic to cigarette smoke.	I smoke cigarettes every day.	contradiction
Our compassion must defend the disabled.	The crippled and maimed deserve to fend for themselves.	contradiction
But the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy ( The Full Monty ), has a thing about bringing macho men down to earth with a thud.	Simon Beaufoy's feelings towards macho men are due to have been bullied in youth	neutral
The Red Hat manual offered clearer directions, and the new version automatically partitioned my hard drive.	It was very easy to partition the hard drive.	entailment
When you couple that reality with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value, you end up with a corporate world that must privilege the next quarter over the next decade.	The overly narrow definition of shareholder value will lead to an immaterial world.	contradiction
But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.	Gerth didn't make a big deal out of the problems in the story.	entailment
The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.	Company Men are most likely still the status quo in the corporate world today.	contradiction
Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.	France, Russia and China are planning to attack Saddam.	contradiction
To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value.	When you realize your days are few, you appreciate them more.	entailment
Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me.	I'm the one you bow to.	entailment
If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy.	Synergy has nothing to do with real myths.	entailment
But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.	His opponents faltered before the closing days.	neutral
3) The study is flawed because it assumes the participants correctly recalled their dietary habits.	The study was inaccurate due to the fact we assumed the participants could remember their dietary habits.	entailment
This brief period may have been the most fertile of his career.	This brief period of time may just be the most productive of his career.	entailment
Nobody ever wanted to emulate this effect	There are plenty of people willing to emulate this effect	contradiction
A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.	The stage work was panned by reviewers as being terrible.	entailment
As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar).	The all time classic matches only some of the local lore.	neutral
But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.	Rips has the best way to address the challenge.	neutral
And, as SurfWatch's promotional literature is happy to point out, filters can help protect management from liability for permitting sexually explicit material in the workplace.	Workplaces are free from liability due to porn problems	contradiction
As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.	Tragedies caused by humans must have an explicit villan.	entailment
Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.	Moyers has been a journalist for over 10 years.	neutral
And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.	Clinton refused to listen to any ideas of Morris's.	contradiction
Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.	Buchanan used the word "Bakelite" in his speech.	contradiction
The pose and the prose of journalists have changed since Ben Hecht's The Front Page . Indeed, Hecht's reporters would have balked at being called journalists.	The way of doing journalisms changes over time	entailment
In his Feb. 3 from the Clinton trial, he writes, History and the American people have already rendered their verdict.	He is writing about the trial for different publications.	neutral
There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.	Eszterhas' self-image and his work aren't really connected	entailment
Clinton claims to have known nothing about the Chinese plans.	Clinton claims to know nothing of the plans.	entailment
The conservatives have managed to cast themselves as the scourge of pedophiles, insinuate that the president is soft on pedophilia, and link Clinton to a sub rosa campaign to lower the age of consent--and all this is based on a report that no one noticed until the Christian right uncovered it, that no one in the White House seems to have read, and that no one remotely linked to the Democratic Party or the White House has ever endorsed.	The Democrats tried to link the campaign back to the republicans in kind.	neutral
recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep.	The president lied under oath about his relations with that woman.	neutral
who turns out to have had sex with a dog, like maybe a golden retriever (unless things turn around and I get to do it at Fox in which case the dog will be a chimp, but that makes sense dramatically) who can't keep a secret (see, it's a talking dog), but it takes this big check from some tabloid where they JUST MAKE THINGS UP(!)	Tabloids pay big money for things like people having sex with animals.	entailment
Were they in there?	The author wants to know how old they are.	contradiction
(Next week : The mysterious motives of Hitler's would-be assassin.)	An assassin tried to kill the nazi leader Hitler multiple times.	neutral
They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.	Men had a lower tolerance for weight gain and would do something after a mere 10 pound gain.	contradiction
Seconds after tipoff, Jordan launched a turnaround jumper, his new signature shot, hitting nothing but net.	Jordan's signature shot could always hit nothing but net.	neutral
And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up.	According to Kazin, the LGBQT Association held their local chapter meetings in the dead part of New York once a month.	neutral
I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.	The sequence that took place in Biggs' bedroom was staged.	entailment
Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit.	Christmas spirit can be blamed for good manners.	entailment
1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story.	The script includes Winchell.	entailment
In Congress, where people think of themselves as underpaid, there's hostility toward Bill Gates based on the fact that he's got a lot of dough and doesn't share it with people like them.	The leaders of the legislature received a raise after they voiced their hostility towards the rich business owner.	neutral

John Conyers, D-Mich., have used the Hale case to call for Starr's resignation.

The Hale Case was a pivotal case in calling for the resignation.

neutral

One is The old neighborhoods are breaking up, and it's the old neighborhoods that produced the mob farm teams.

The people in the old neighborhoods are away from the mob farm teams.

contradiction

Perhaps he put soma into our drinking water.

It's a possibility tha the drinking water has been compromised

entailment

But even then, the Thernstroms equivocate.

The Thernstroms used language that was clear and easy to follow, showing that they had nothing to hide.

contradiction

Judging from their undergraduate careers alone, you might well argue that the examples of Bill Bradley and George W. Bush illustrate a subtler point about affirmative action than mere thumbs-up or thumbs-down.

Bill Bradly and George Bush had undergraduate careers.

entailment

As he went from floor to floor removing the signs, did he realize what was going to happen after he'd taken down the final one?

He removed the final sign knowing what wuld happen.

neutral

Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment.

Hill had pleasant experiences with Thomas.

contradiction

Starr's failures stemmed not from evil but from errant good.

Wayward goodness is to blame for Starr's failures.

entailment

The long Relax, dynasties haven't killed the men's game.

The men's game still goes on even with dynasties.

entailment

The rest of the night was no better.

They had a good evening.

contradiction

The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.

The new sitcoms have critics raving about their poignant social and political commentaries.

contradiction

Some of my friends in the financial industry think that hedge funds were not just a , but the source of instability in the late crisis.

The hedge funds actually created the instability.

neutral

Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.

While writing the article one had to use the linespace carriage return lever.

contradiction

Let's take video games as an example.

We looked at video games as an example for this exercise, and then gained greater insight about the matter.

neutral

A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed exhibition guide that replaces the usual wall panels.

Society has not come a long way in its treatment of women.

neutral

2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.

The Justice Department caught on to the fact that control of several unions was in the hands of Mafia.

entailment

You don't even know where the welfare office is.

The welfare office is you know where.

neutral

Ajami's book is an indispensable guide to why anyone in the Arab world still listens to it.

The valuable information found in Ajami's book is the only reason why the Arab world listens.

neutral

And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure.

Said wants to act on his hate for the West.

neutral

Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation.

New York's Administration for Children's Services was next notified.

entailment

He looked at her and said, Monday morning.

He said Monday morning.

entailment

But if his campaign really prospers and he has to explain what he believes, he'll have a hard time holding that coalition together.

Hos coalition will stay strong and they will unite around his true beliefs.

contradiction

Simply by saying, again and again, We must have competition with compassion, efficiency with equity.

We need to have compassion in our competitions.

entailment

I know you find that hard to accept, but really, it's true.

The author denies the outcome.

contradiction

Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy.

The actor who portrayed an elder beauty receives high marks.

entailment

And even then, James added, it's all humbug.

James thinks it's all a lie.

neutral

This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.

Bernhard Riemann came up with complex-valued infinite series in 1859.

entailment

to my aunt's cleaning woman in upstate Pennsylvania and learned to adore the small town with its rows of stores and trees on the sidewalk and only a short walk into the country, in this case up a steep hill,

People usually get good vibes from this neighborhood.

neutral

Johnny, she's been a-pinin' fer you ever sence you enlisted, an' last night durin' the fight she mighty nigh went distracted.

She felt relieved that you were fighting and seemed to focus harder on her work last night.

contradiction

The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri.

The 1990 World Book says that Missouri supports it self.

contradiction

In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e.

The liberal program helps the poor and not the rest.

entailment

I maintained throughout the Reagan years that appearances was a dodge for accusers and malefactors alike.

accusers and malefactors both used similar excuses

entailment

Inflation is at a 23-year low of 7 percent.

7 percent has not been this low for the past 23 years.

entailment

How can you gain the moral high ground, that lofty crag from which to hurl down scorn, when your native city--what's the word?

You should have a hard time gaining the moral high ground.

entailment

Finally, on July 30, the committee passed a third, slightly weaker, article 21-17, which charged the president with having willfully disobeyed subpoenas.

The leader of the country was removed from office after willfully disobeying the subpoenas.

neutral

Oh, come on, my date insisted.

The person's date wanted them to do something.

entailment

So why persist in newspaper reading?

Newspaper reading is easy.

neutral

Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.

Kauai has worked for Witness Sunday for many years

neutral

AOL countered that Microsoft had already tried and failed to launch a proprietary online service.

AOL is a service that wants to get out of the internet business.

neutral

Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!

Sometimes my wife feels like she is going to faint when I get criticize in public on the internet

neutral

Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history.

The history keeps being vivid and always actual despite the passing of time

contradiction

Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations.

I have looked at Anderson's response to my letter.

entailment

In this group, it's common for moms to march into school at the beginning of the year and obtain several months' worth of assignments in advance so their children can get a head start.

School is unimportant to this group of moms.

contradiction

This is so great because I haven't been getting any of this lately.

They received information in written form to explain the situation.

neutral

We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern.

We know exactly where life started.

contradiction

He and Els were on the 17 th green, tied at 4 under.

He and Els were on the 4th green.

contradiction

T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system.

Temple Tuttle was employed by Cleveland State University as an ethnomusicologist.

entailment

News accounts agree that Arafat has finally shed his image as a terrorist and is now being honored by the White House not only as a virtual head of state but as the indispensable player in the peace process.

The Palestinian leader was unable to ever get his violent tendencies out of his system.

contradiction

He thought that the use of these drugs would make the population indifferent and willing to accept control by political leaders.

He didn't think the population would be willing to accept control of the drugs by political leaders.

entailment

Frankly, I think the Jamaican Tourist Board should go back to that old 'Come Back to Jamaica' slogan.

The board has gone through a number of slogans since they used 'Come Back to Jamaica'.

neutral

Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.

Critics say employees put too many eggs in one basket.

entailment

Nothing in Siegel's work could explain this perception.

Some people could understand the perception in Siegel's work.

neutral

Wes Cooley, R-Ore., lost his seat last fall after falsely claiming a Korean War combat tour--as a member of the Special Forces, no less.

The politician lost his seat for pretending to serve in the military.

entailment

China is the most eager customer, buying surplus material through U.S.-based scrap-metal dealers.

China' reliance on U.S.-based scrap-metal dealers with cause them to depend on them for several years to come.

neutral

Disk compression and networking into Windows.

Disk compression and networking into Windows has been taught to lots of students over the years..

neutral

Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?

The wine id French.

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!

Clinton had the best marriage in the world.

contradiction

99 percent chance that a Republican Congress will pursue any case Starr can deliver.

There is only a 1 percent chance that the Republican Congress will not pursue the case Starr delivers.

entailment

Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.

I enjoy watching the News Quiz participants.

entailment

Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom.

The economy is exploding due to laxed fiscal policy.

entailment

There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.

Where people drink alcohol there are usually problems.

entailment

I am a nonsmoker and allergic to cigarette smoke.

I smoke cigarettes every day.

contradiction

Our compassion must defend the disabled.

The crippled and maimed deserve to fend for themselves.

contradiction

But the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy ( The Full Monty ), has a thing about bringing macho men down to earth with a thud.

Simon Beaufoy's feelings towards macho men are due to have been bullied in youth

neutral

The Red Hat manual offered clearer directions, and the new version automatically partitioned my hard drive.

It was very easy to partition the hard drive.

entailment

When you couple that reality with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value, you end up with a corporate world that must privilege the next quarter over the next decade.

The overly narrow definition of shareholder value will lead to an immaterial world.

contradiction

But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out.

Gerth didn't make a big deal out of the problems in the story.

entailment

The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.

Company Men are most likely still the status quo in the corporate world today.

contradiction

Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.

France, Russia and China are planning to attack Saddam.

contradiction

To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value.

When you realize your days are few, you appreciate them more.

entailment

Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me.

I'm the one you bow to.

entailment

If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy.

Synergy has nothing to do with real myths.

entailment

But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.

His opponents faltered before the closing days.

neutral

3) The study is flawed because it assumes the participants correctly recalled their dietary habits.

The study was inaccurate due to the fact we assumed the participants could remember their dietary habits.

entailment

This brief period may have been the most fertile of his career.

This brief period of time may just be the most productive of his career.

entailment

Nobody ever wanted to emulate this effect

There are plenty of people willing to emulate this effect

contradiction

A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.

The stage work was panned by reviewers as being terrible.

entailment

As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar).

The all time classic matches only some of the local lore.

neutral

But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.

Rips has the best way to address the challenge.

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And, as SurfWatch's promotional literature is happy to point out, filters can help protect management from liability for permitting sexually explicit material in the workplace.

Workplaces are free from liability due to porn problems

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As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.

Tragedies caused by humans must have an explicit villan.

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Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.

Moyers has been a journalist for over 10 years.

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And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.

Clinton refused to listen to any ideas of Morris's.

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Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.

Buchanan used the word "Bakelite" in his speech.

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The pose and the prose of journalists have changed since Ben Hecht's The Front Page . Indeed, Hecht's reporters would have balked at being called journalists.

The way of doing journalisms changes over time

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In his Feb. 3 from the Clinton trial, he writes, History and the American people have already rendered their verdict.

He is writing about the trial for different publications.

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There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.

Eszterhas' self-image and his work aren't really connected

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Clinton claims to have known nothing about the Chinese plans.

Clinton claims to know nothing of the plans.

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The conservatives have managed to cast themselves as the scourge of pedophiles, insinuate that the president is soft on pedophilia, and link Clinton to a sub rosa campaign to lower the age of consent--and all this is based on a report that no one noticed until the Christian right uncovered it, that no one in the White House seems to have read, and that no one remotely linked to the Democratic Party or the White House has ever endorsed.

The Democrats tried to link the campaign back to the republicans in kind.

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recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep.

The president lied under oath about his relations with that woman.

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who turns out to have had sex with a dog, like maybe a golden retriever (unless things turn around and I get to do it at Fox in which case the dog will be a chimp, but that makes sense dramatically) who can't keep a secret (see, it's a talking dog), but it takes this big check from some tabloid where they JUST MAKE THINGS UP(!)

Tabloids pay big money for things like people having sex with animals.

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Were they in there?

The author wants to know how old they are.

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(Next week : The mysterious motives of Hitler's would-be assassin.)

An assassin tried to kill the nazi leader Hitler multiple times.

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They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.

Men had a lower tolerance for weight gain and would do something after a mere 10 pound gain.

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Seconds after tipoff, Jordan launched a turnaround jumper, his new signature shot, hitting nothing but net.

Jordan's signature shot could always hit nothing but net.

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And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up.

According to Kazin, the LGBQT Association held their local chapter meetings in the dead part of New York once a month.

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I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.

The sequence that took place in Biggs' bedroom was staged.

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Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit.

Christmas spirit can be blamed for good manners.

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1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story.

The script includes Winchell.

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In Congress, where people think of themselves as underpaid, there's hostility toward Bill Gates based on the fact that he's got a lot of dough and doesn't share it with people like them.

The leaders of the legislature received a raise after they voiced their hostility towards the rich business owner.

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