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Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.	Rothschild was married.	entailment
To make matters even more confusing, there's a third version of the story involving an entirely different Murphy--not Capt.	There was only one Murphy in the story.	contradiction
Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign?	It's been debated whether a common thread exists between Nike's and ABC's ideas.	entailment
5 percent of the GDP in calendar year 1994.	The percent of the GDP being discussed in from 1994.	entailment
The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection.	This is the worst defection that ever hit the tobacco industry	neutral
To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.	George Gilder can write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows when he wants.	entailment
The Supreme Court began its new term.	The Supreme Court is not happy about starting the new term.	neutral
Many News Quiz responses were rejected by Slate 's e-mail server.	Responses from grroups othen News Quiz went through.	neutral
The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)	Times have changed and life is more complicated now than when the book was written.	neutral
Newsweek 's Michael Jordan cover story focuses on off-the-court Jordan.	The cover story was only made to get an insight into Jordan's life.	neutral
But these targets still seem far out of reach.	It will be hard to achieve these objectives	entailment
Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances.	Randall let the tabloid know that the baby was named after Joseph Jefferson.	entailment
Clinton has no such out.	There is no way out for Clinton.	entailment
But the 20mph speed limit is probably obsolete.	The 20mph speed limit is a very useful law.	contradiction
Because the $50,000 prize to be announced July 29 is for the artist's whole oeuvre and not the work submitted for the show, I would award it, if forced to choose, to South African William Kentridge, who is known for powerful , many with anti-apartheid themes.	Kentridge encountered frequent opposition from South African government in his rise to fame.	neutral
Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.	Disney always tries to make their movies child-friendly.	neutral
Unrestricted trade will help U.S. industries in the first category but will wipe out those in the second category.	Both categories will ultimately be eradicated.	neutral
How do you forbid the kids to practice what you, er, practice?	Kids sometimes want to practice what their parents practice.	entailment
The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.	The vast majority of money spent will be wasted as the advertisements will he ignored.	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 speaks with such sweet, eloquent words, that it leaves her audience begging for more.	contradiction
Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.	The chants do indeed sound silly.	neutral
James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times.	The End Times was written by James Beau Seugneur.	entailment
Critics mostly applaud this movie about a female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home.	The movie lampoons necrophiliacs.	neutral
How important are these essays compared to SAT scores as a college determines acceptances, and are the essays fair assessments of a students' abilities?	Essay's are definitively more effective at gauging a student's abilities than SAT scores	contradiction
The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket.	The Encyclopedia of New York would share a large number of insights into how Luciano and Lansky did things during their time in Harlem.	neutral
So far, we'd spent about 10 minutes decoding just five words, but I felt on top of them and was ready to move on.	It took around ten minutes to figure out five words.	entailment
There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position.	Rubin only made one mistake last week.	entailment
I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.	The school district has a population of low income students.	entailment
But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.	Will was a sports journalist.	neutral
For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence.	The words on your clothes cast your physical existence into doubt.	contradiction
Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea.	The majority of ideas are flawless	contradiction
It's silly that this is all such a guessing game.	There's probably a correct answer, but foolishly, we're making this a guessing game.	neutral
All that's missing is the steroids (out-of-control steroid use by the mob's young guns is what's killing the mafia as much as anything else).	The mafia's oldest members tend to abuse steroids the most.	contradiction
As Vecsey puts it, women eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men.	When pertaining to basketball, women occasionally will tolerate the aggressive fouls of men.	neutral
It's the kind where you look for everything, you vacuum up everything that's unfavorable, use all of it, whether it's rumor, fact, innuendo, hearsay, use all it, and don't let a kind word get in the whole thing.	We're slinging mud for a political campaign.	neutral
Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock	The reason for destroying the rock was valid.	neutral
Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other.	AT&T made people divorce when they worked for them.	contradiction
The Republican platform advocated that citizenship be denied to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.	Republicans demanded citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.	contradiction
Not Homo economicus is not a central pillar of my faith--he is merely a working assumption, albeit one that is extremely useful in many circumstances.	Homo economicus is useful in the authors pillar of faith, and used to be the central pillar of their faith.	neutral
Dentists can now make crowns that last forever, bridges that stay anchored, dentures that behave almost like real teeth.	Some false teeth act just like real teeth.	entailment
'If prison is going to be my next home,' he did not quip, 'I'd better get used to this.	He is doing something illegal.	neutral
Group is involved in joint ventures with Ford and Nynex.)	The collaboration between them has been successful	neutral
on Late Edition , citing the Serb surrender to the Dayton peace conference as an example.	The Serb surrender to Dayton was the crux of the Late Edition episode.	neutral
Part uplift for black kids, part thrilling feats of circus daring, it's family programming that can appeal to adults of all races.	There is something for everyone in this TV program.	entailment
Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.	This is the best way to save money.	neutral
Another time I had to go and look after my brother Kenny in Buffalo.	Kenny was my youngest brother.	neutral
Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.	There were actually more nations in 1992 that could have participated,	neutral
While it challenged Twin Peaks in obscure plot turns, it was ever entertaining, and the first spot I'd stop at on your site.	Twin Peaks contains cryptic plot twists.	entailment
At the expense of the middle class.	Other classes are also effected by it.	neutral
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.	The snapshots are crystal clear.	contradiction
At the hang gliding site, click Links ...	When you click Links it will take you to what you need.	neutral
I want to have a fairly simple wedding, but there are two people I can't imagine getting married without (not counting the groom).	The bride finds it okay if the groom is unavailable for the wedding.	contradiction
Ohio Democrats want Jerry Springer to run for Congress.	Jerry Springer ran for Congress.	neutral
But a small item in the WP 's TV column makes you wonder even about It seems that UPN has ordered up a full season of episodes for the virtually all-black Moesha, which as of last Sunday, the paper reports, ranked 124th among the 139 series on the air.	It seems the UPN ordered a full season of the 124th of 139th series.	entailment
An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.	Pesants really did not like to celebrate holidays in 1000.	neutral
It's Wallace's lack of interest in Wigand's story--the movie's most powerful--that damns him in the audience's eyes.	The audience sees Wallace as a bad person.	entailment
Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one.	Tobey avoids going to the downtown Pike Place Public Market.	contradiction
This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history.	In the Cinderella teams tournament history, this year's round of 16 is the highest.	entailment
There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash.	The name for this is "Throw Out the Garbage."	contradiction
The question is, said Alice, whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.	Alice wonders if you can make world mean a lot of different things	entailment
It works out to about 5 cents per lie.	Lies are sold in bundles of eight.	neutral
I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.	Betty Currie is unknown by the interns because of Monica Lewinsky's contacts with the president.	neutral
Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.	Food irradiators are expensive to maintain.	neutral
Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.	Many in the bottom half have much love and hope in globalization and technological change.	contradiction
That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.	Teacher make one of the best working salaries out of any profession.	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.	UPN stated in an interview that they felt pressure to debut before September.	neutral
Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the entrepreneur as hero, the brand of me, and ever-lowering barriers to the flow of capital from market to market).	Brand and Toffler really understood modern cultural trends.	entailment
Starr's failures stemmed not from evil but from errant good.	Having realized the cause of their failures has helped Starr to find the road to recovery and redemption.	neutral
The fights are riotous slapstick set In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals.	Slapstick is common in Chan's movies.	neutral
But he has never done what his characters would have.	His characters do things.	entailment
far off, unseen, but audible,repeats its syncopated intervals,a song that's not a cry	The song was faraway.	entailment
Reporters rely on neighbors to flesh out the characters of killers, but what, really, do neighbors know?	Killers reveal their characters to neighbors.	neutral
They are too easy a target.	There is a hard target.	contradiction
When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?	People suspect everyone survives the fights from the ultimate fighting sport.	contradiction
Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.	The IRS almost always collects all the money it is owed from taxes.	contradiction
But the Smithsonian calls Kennewick Man a national treasure, and anthropologists want to conduct DNA tests, which might offer clues to his origin.	Kennewick Man could be ancient.	neutral
Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!	Photos are rarely taken at the bris.	neutral
If Evans and Novak want to capture the real Farrakhan, Pundit Central suggests that they accompany him to one of his rallies.	Pundit Central gives advice to people to carry out their agenda.	neutral
Lied about it to everyone .	Everyone was lied to.	entailment
This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!	Bootstrapping is the best method to appear as you are breaking rules when you actually had followed them the entire time	contradiction
The territory's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 5 percent or 6 percent in 1997 and 1998, up from 4.7 percent in 1996.	The territory's GDP is expected to raise from 1996 to 1998.	entailment
Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.	The writer and Carey came up with the story together.	neutral
The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning?	Italy and Greece object to using ground troops.	entailment
We hate to sound like Girl Scouts, but you really must accept cookies if you're going to subscribe to	You must accept cookies from Girl Scouts to subscribe.	contradiction
The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent.	Christians were far more active in converting other cultures to their religion.	neutral
O'Connor's desire for a baseball-free Good Friday, on the other hand, is surely heartfelt.	O'Connor would like to see more baseball played on Good Friday.	contradiction
When agencies lose major accounts, they often fire nearly everyone involved with the account.	Agencies lose nearly every major account.	neutral
Ned Devine is this year's stab at The Full Monty (1997), which made more than $100 million and even snagged an Oscar nomination.	The Full Monty received many accolades and was a box office success.	entailment
The problem, Keynes wrote, was that people desire the moon--a perfectly safe place to store their wealth.	People want to go to the moon.	neutral
Entering Final Four weekend, I rank no higher than 12,277 th place in any of them.	I don't rank higher than 12,277th place.	entailment
Randy's Tough Love Wrap-Up	Randy is an expert on Tough Love.	neutral
Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.	Arabs are trying to find a solution from the past that will work for them today.	entailment
During last month's State of the Union address, every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic, rose repeatedly to give Clinton standing ovations.	Every Congress member gave Clinton a standing ovation at the address.	entailment
In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch.	The book was a piece of non-fiction.	contradiction
The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.	Some American's paid so the organization might not have to shut down.	neutral
Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.	There is life only on this planet even if you call that life.	contradiction
Am I supposed to look at the ceiling the entire meeting, steal the occasional glance, or just assume it's a '90s thing?	I am supposed to look at the floor for the entire meeting, stealing an occasional glance upwards, and just assume it's a '80's thing.	contradiction
in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye.	Through his story, Quentin Compson paints the picture that white Southern Culture is very dark.	entailment
The world is aging, frets the cover story . Life expectancy is climbing, fertility is sliding, and the cost of supporting the elderly could cause a global recession.	The number of elderly people in the world is declining.	contradiction
Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.	Quayle was not phased by assertions that Bush was already chosen as winner, as he put up a good fight during the presidential race.	neutral

Rothschild did what any loving wife would do in those I tried everything.

Rothschild was married.

entailment

To make matters even more confusing, there's a third version of the story involving an entirely different Murphy--not Capt.

There was only one Murphy in the story.

contradiction

Is there really a common sensibility that unites the inspirational homiletics of Nike's Just Do It and the remorseless irony of ABC's You can talk to your wife anytime campaign?

It's been debated whether a common thread exists between Nike's and ABC's ideas.

entailment

5 percent of the GDP in calendar year 1994.

The percent of the GDP being discussed in from 1994.

entailment

The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection.

This is the worst defection that ever hit the tobacco industry

neutral

To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.

George Gilder can write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows when he wants.

entailment

The Supreme Court began its new term.

The Supreme Court is not happy about starting the new term.

neutral

Many News Quiz responses were rejected by Slate 's e-mail server.

Responses from grroups othen News Quiz went through.

neutral

The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)

Times have changed and life is more complicated now than when the book was written.

neutral

Newsweek 's Michael Jordan cover story focuses on off-the-court Jordan.

The cover story was only made to get an insight into Jordan's life.

neutral

But these targets still seem far out of reach.

It will be hard to achieve these objectives

entailment

Randall tells the Enquirer the baby, Jefferson, is named after 19 th century comic actor Joseph Jefferson but does not say if Randall actually attended any of the actor's performances.

Randall let the tabloid know that the baby was named after Joseph Jefferson.

entailment

Clinton has no such out.

There is no way out for Clinton.

entailment

But the 20mph speed limit is probably obsolete.

The 20mph speed limit is a very useful law.

contradiction

Because the $50,000 prize to be announced July 29 is for the artist's whole oeuvre and not the work submitted for the show, I would award it, if forced to choose, to South African William Kentridge, who is known for powerful , many with anti-apartheid themes.

Kentridge encountered frequent opposition from South African government in his rise to fame.

neutral

Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.

Disney always tries to make their movies child-friendly.

neutral

Unrestricted trade will help U.S. industries in the first category but will wipe out those in the second category.

Both categories will ultimately be eradicated.

neutral

How do you forbid the kids to practice what you, er, practice?

Kids sometimes want to practice what their parents practice.

entailment

The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.

The vast majority of money spent will be wasted as the advertisements will he ignored.

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 speaks with such sweet, eloquent words, that it leaves her audience begging for more.

contradiction

Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.

The chants do indeed sound silly.

neutral

James BeauSeigneur, a premill from Rockville, Md., has written a fictional trilogy dramatizing the End Times.

The End Times was written by James Beau Seugneur.

entailment

Critics mostly applaud this movie about a female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home.

The movie lampoons necrophiliacs.

neutral

How important are these essays compared to SAT scores as a college determines acceptances, and are the essays fair assessments of a students' abilities?

Essay's are definitively more effective at gauging a student's abilities than SAT scores

contradiction

The Encyclopedia of New York states that, after 1935, Luciano and Lansky took over the Harlem racket.

The Encyclopedia of New York would share a large number of insights into how Luciano and Lansky did things during their time in Harlem.

neutral

So far, we'd spent about 10 minutes decoding just five words, but I felt on top of them and was ready to move on.

It took around ten minutes to figure out five words.

entailment

There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position.

Rubin only made one mistake last week.

entailment

I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school.

The school district has a population of low income students.

entailment

But there is one place where Will's journalism does seem to matter, where he does toss baseball.

Will was a sports journalist.

neutral

For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence.

The words on your clothes cast your physical existence into doubt.

contradiction

Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea.

The majority of ideas are flawless

contradiction

It's silly that this is all such a guessing game.

There's probably a correct answer, but foolishly, we're making this a guessing game.

neutral

All that's missing is the steroids (out-of-control steroid use by the mob's young guns is what's killing the mafia as much as anything else).

The mafia's oldest members tend to abuse steroids the most.

contradiction

As Vecsey puts it, women eschew the cynical fouls and flagrant flops of the men.

When pertaining to basketball, women occasionally will tolerate the aggressive fouls of men.

neutral

It's the kind where you look for everything, you vacuum up everything that's unfavorable, use all of it, whether it's rumor, fact, innuendo, hearsay, use all it, and don't let a kind word get in the whole thing.

We're slinging mud for a political campaign.

neutral

Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock

The reason for destroying the rock was valid.

neutral

Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other.

AT&T made people divorce when they worked for them.

contradiction

The Republican platform advocated that citizenship be denied to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.

Republicans demanded citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.

contradiction

Not Homo economicus is not a central pillar of my faith--he is merely a working assumption, albeit one that is extremely useful in many circumstances.

Homo economicus is useful in the authors pillar of faith, and used to be the central pillar of their faith.

neutral

Dentists can now make crowns that last forever, bridges that stay anchored, dentures that behave almost like real teeth.

Some false teeth act just like real teeth.

entailment

'If prison is going to be my next home,' he did not quip, 'I'd better get used to this.

He is doing something illegal.

neutral

Group is involved in joint ventures with Ford and Nynex.)

The collaboration between them has been successful

neutral

on Late Edition , citing the Serb surrender to the Dayton peace conference as an example.

The Serb surrender to Dayton was the crux of the Late Edition episode.

neutral

Part uplift for black kids, part thrilling feats of circus daring, it's family programming that can appeal to adults of all races.

There is something for everyone in this TV program.

entailment

Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.

This is the best way to save money.

neutral

Another time I had to go and look after my brother Kenny in Buffalo.

Kenny was my youngest brother.

neutral

Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.

There were actually more nations in 1992 that could have participated,

neutral

While it challenged Twin Peaks in obscure plot turns, it was ever entertaining, and the first spot I'd stop at on your site.

Twin Peaks contains cryptic plot twists.

entailment

At the expense of the middle class.

Other classes are also effected by it.

neutral

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

The snapshots are crystal clear.

contradiction

At the hang gliding site, click Links ...

When you click Links it will take you to what you need.

neutral

I want to have a fairly simple wedding, but there are two people I can't imagine getting married without (not counting the groom).

The bride finds it okay if the groom is unavailable for the wedding.

contradiction

Ohio Democrats want Jerry Springer to run for Congress.

Jerry Springer ran for Congress.

neutral

But a small item in the WP 's TV column makes you wonder even about It seems that UPN has ordered up a full season of episodes for the virtually all-black Moesha, which as of last Sunday, the paper reports, ranked 124th among the 139 series on the air.

It seems the UPN ordered a full season of the 124th of 139th series.

entailment

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

Pesants really did not like to celebrate holidays in 1000.

neutral

It's Wallace's lack of interest in Wigand's story--the movie's most powerful--that damns him in the audience's eyes.

The audience sees Wallace as a bad person.

entailment

Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one.

Tobey avoids going to the downtown Pike Place Public Market.

contradiction

This year's round of 16 boast the highest number of Cinderella teams in the tournament's history.

In the Cinderella teams tournament history, this year's round of 16 is the highest.

entailment

There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash.

The name for this is "Throw Out the Garbage."

contradiction

The question is, said Alice, whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.

Alice wonders if you can make world mean a lot of different things

entailment

It works out to about 5 cents per lie.

Lies are sold in bundles of eight.

neutral

I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.

Betty Currie is unknown by the interns because of Monica Lewinsky's contacts with the president.

neutral

Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.

Food irradiators are expensive to maintain.

neutral

Those in the bottom half are threatened by globalization and technological change.

Many in the bottom half have much love and hope in globalization and technological change.

contradiction

That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.

Teacher make one of the best working salaries out of any profession.

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.

UPN stated in an interview that they felt pressure to debut before September.

neutral

Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call libertarianism, with its cross-pollination between cultural trends (do-it-yourself rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the entrepreneur as hero, the brand of me, and ever-lowering barriers to the flow of capital from market to market).

Brand and Toffler really understood modern cultural trends.

entailment

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

Having realized the cause of their failures has helped Starr to find the road to recovery and redemption.

neutral

The fights are riotous slapstick set In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals.

Slapstick is common in Chan's movies.

neutral

But he has never done what his characters would have.

His characters do things.

entailment

far off, unseen, but audible,repeats its syncopated intervals,a song that's not a cry

The song was faraway.

entailment

Reporters rely on neighbors to flesh out the characters of killers, but what, really, do neighbors know?

Killers reveal their characters to neighbors.

neutral

They are too easy a target.

There is a hard target.

contradiction

When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?

People suspect everyone survives the fights from the ultimate fighting sport.

contradiction

Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.

The IRS almost always collects all the money it is owed from taxes.

contradiction

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

Kennewick Man could be ancient.

neutral

Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!

Photos are rarely taken at the bris.

neutral

If Evans and Novak want to capture the real Farrakhan, Pundit Central suggests that they accompany him to one of his rallies.

Pundit Central gives advice to people to carry out their agenda.

neutral

Lied about it to everyone .

Everyone was lied to.

entailment

This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!

Bootstrapping is the best method to appear as you are breaking rules when you actually had followed them the entire time

contradiction

The territory's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 5 percent or 6 percent in 1997 and 1998, up from 4.7 percent in 1996.

The territory's GDP is expected to raise from 1996 to 1998.

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Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.

The writer and Carey came up with the story together.

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The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning?

Italy and Greece object to using ground troops.

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We hate to sound like Girl Scouts, but you really must accept cookies if you're going to subscribe to

You must accept cookies from Girl Scouts to subscribe.

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The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent.

Christians were far more active in converting other cultures to their religion.

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O'Connor's desire for a baseball-free Good Friday, on the other hand, is surely heartfelt.

O'Connor would like to see more baseball played on Good Friday.

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When agencies lose major accounts, they often fire nearly everyone involved with the account.

Agencies lose nearly every major account.

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Ned Devine is this year's stab at The Full Monty (1997), which made more than $100 million and even snagged an Oscar nomination.

The Full Monty received many accolades and was a box office success.

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The problem, Keynes wrote, was that people desire the moon--a perfectly safe place to store their wealth.

People want to go to the moon.

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Entering Final Four weekend, I rank no higher than 12,277 th place in any of them.

I don't rank higher than 12,277th place.

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Randy's Tough Love Wrap-Up

Randy is an expert on Tough Love.

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Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.

Arabs are trying to find a solution from the past that will work for them today.

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During last month's State of the Union address, every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic, rose repeatedly to give Clinton standing ovations.

Every Congress member gave Clinton a standing ovation at the address.

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In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch.

The book was a piece of non-fiction.

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The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.

Some American's paid so the organization might not have to shut down.

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Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.

There is life only on this planet even if you call that life.

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Am I supposed to look at the ceiling the entire meeting, steal the occasional glance, or just assume it's a '90s thing?

I am supposed to look at the floor for the entire meeting, stealing an occasional glance upwards, and just assume it's a '80's thing.

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in which Quentin Compson puts together a story that rattles family skeletons and points up the reality that white Southern culture is blacker than meets the eye.

Through his story, Quentin Compson paints the picture that white Southern Culture is very dark.

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The world is aging, frets the cover story . Life expectancy is climbing, fertility is sliding, and the cost of supporting the elderly could cause a global recession.

The number of elderly people in the world is declining.

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Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.

Quayle was not phased by assertions that Bush was already chosen as winner, as he put up a good fight during the presidential race.

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