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But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
The vouchers are not worth that much.
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Does W. agree with this sentiment?
I wonder if W. agrees with this idea?
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Will Tina tame these tough guys?
It's unimaginable that guys are tough.
contradiction
This is a political as well as military project.
This military project might be political.
neutral
It is hard to imagine a smaller step than the one Greenspan took.
The step Greenspan took may of been small but effected many.
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But, except on election night, these were a relatively small part of their Web sites, let alone their overall news.
It was the most popular /page on election night.
neutral
One common mistake is to count federal grants-in-aid as state and local taxes, but that's double counting, since they're already paid for by federal taxes.
Double counting state taxes as local taxes is one common mistake.
neutral
Twenty percent of students take psychopharmaceuticals, from Adderall to Zoloft.
Students are often misdiagnosed and given a prescription for psychopharmaceuticals.
neutral
The editor published the study to help Clinton.
The study was intended to be a hindrance to Clinton.
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But what about the other editors of the Daily Cal who couldn't say they'd been martyred at a campus once renowned for its leftism?
The campus where the Daily Cal is produced is renowned for leftist activism.
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Right now there is nothing approaching an international regime for keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Terrorists are using harmless weapons.
contradiction
Even this was Lentauw and Yamasami, Zulu tribesmen, entered the marathon because they happened to be in St. Louis as part of an exhibit about the Boer war.
the Zulu tribesman entered the marathon race many months before the Olympics.
contradiction
Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society ( office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.
She will agree to marry the rake.
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The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.
This will greatly affect the national savings rate.
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In all conquered regions, the Taliban has immediately implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law.
Taliban has conquered a region.
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Chernow attributes this attitude to Rockefeller's uncommon respect for the dollar.
The demeanor is linked to disregard for currency.
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In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.
While his popularity might have been different prior, Steve Brill, the new press scourge, has been popular the last two weeks.
neutral
With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well.
He has enough experience and resources to be patient.
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He was killed in a dispute over timber by a Pamunkey Indian from Virginia who would have been considered black in Virginia but escaped prosecution because he was considered white in Mississippi.
He used his looks often to get away with crimes.
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At least, Chatterbox thinks that's what Johnsen said ...
Johnsen only uses Chatterbox once in awhile.
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If that's censorship, so be it (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's Diary.
Bill Reel of Newsday says if that's censorship, so be it.
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Scientists are now convinced that a vast internal ocean is, or was recently, roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.
The internal ocean is connected to one of the surface oceans.
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Which has a curious--and perhaps salutary--effect.
The effects are mainly health-realted.
neutral
The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India will soon pass China to first).
India, Pakistan, and Indonesia are having political problems.
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But this is not the way to debate free-market pricing of technology.
Technology is priced too highly in the free-market.
neutral
Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth.
Wolfe's portrait was very good.
neutral
That argument which holds that the attempt to raise saving will end up lowering national income, because consumption will fall, and with it profits, output, and employment.
The argument holds no water according to economists.
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I begin to count Rep.
I was counting.
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The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy.
The forecast covers Al Gore's strategy to win the 270 electoral votes for the US Presidency.
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At least you know they're not reading a book or anything.
It was easy to make an assessment about them since they haven't read a book on the matter.
neutral
In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.
WTO wins over Kodak.
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Some journalists wrote scathingly of me, Mitchell, [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards [also McPherson's partner], because we had agreed to do that.
Journalists were not pleased with the former Texas governor.
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New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.
John Simon found the cuteness of the play annoying.
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Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced.
There was no change in the order of the nouns in the sentences.
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The first day after the Democratic primary, Schumer unleashed Too many lies for too long ads.
Schumer sprung into action shortly after the Democratic primary.
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even falling knowing already he was dead, and how much I pray to myself I want not, ever,
I knew he was dead and I still prayed.
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Is it Christmas in Tel Aviv or New Year's Eve in Manhattan?
The author asks about the holidays that are currently going on in different parts of the world.
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The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.
The Third Wave feminist book is highly rated.
neutral
He was too old, his back hurt too much, he had too many outside interests ...
Despite his age, he was pain free and enjoyed a simple life.
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Of course they have delighted voters by goosing popular social programs with extra millions.
Voters were delighted by money for popular programs.
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Industry folks fear they have given too much away.
They within the industry felt that they had been to generous with what the offered.
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It's really cool to be postmodern and hip
Being postmodern and hip is considered outmoded
contradiction
No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it; I will have it all and, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine.
He loves the country.
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Newsweek also lets Martha Stewart describe her successful foray into Web marketing.
Martha Stewart did an interview for Newsweek about her web marketing adventures.
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Name-calling began at their first interaction.
They were good friends from the moment they met.
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But in setting up a world-vs.
In setting up a world, new possibilities have been opened up.
neutral
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has worked well enough to send countless young men to their deaths through the ages.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has killed old men as well.
neutral
the guy over there, in charge, in Taiwan ...
In Taiwan there won't ever be a female in charge
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It's an odd maxim for a man whose work is dedicated to the idea that the way to amass wealth is to take it, not create it.
The man believed you should steal wealth.
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Nor does Big Blue exercise the kind of financial or cultural power that Morgan once did.
Blue Blue is not as powerful as Morgan was.
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That is the sense in which we are all on the same bus.
The sense is we are all on a different bus.
contradiction
Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.
Soderbergh has the correct response.
neutral
Chinese leaders are fretting about Taiwan's prosperous democracy and its flirtation with independence.
Chinese leaders are upset with how things have been going in Taiwan recently.
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Look, I paid 20 bucks for this rag, and I want all of it.
I spent $10 on the rag.
contradiction
While King vacillated, Malcolm X seized the nation's attention with his calls for retribution, tempting blacks weary of King's nonviolence and sending whites into a panic.
King's calls for retribution garnered much support from those tired of Malcolm X's nonviolence.
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TUMORS AND IS A TERMINAL ILLNESS.
Tumors can kill.
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The film gives the impression that Flynt has none, although he has five--to the best of his knowledge.
As far as Flynt is aware, he has five of them.
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Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions.
Conservative Christians are suspicious of environmentalists' links to nature as paganist.
neutral
Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?
The Boston Tea Party is completely dissimilar to this.
contradiction
The Supreme Court might not cooperate in rejecting the administration's public position and embracing its secret desire.
The Supreme Court will always uphold their mission of maintaining transparency of their motivations.
contradiction
There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk.
You must have expensive and complex material goods to enjoy yourself.
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Heavily promote the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters.
The collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters should receive a huge promotion campaign.
entailment
Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple--he the rake and she the one who will never, ever agree to marry anyone--find themselves in society ( office structure) at the highest levels and must prove themselves to one another by being bright, competent, and able to handle lesser people in their circle.
Since Restoration comedy, the normative couple must prove themselves to one another by being bright and competent.
entailment
Maybe Wachtler writes cliches because prison has become cliche.
Wachtler writes about everything but prison.
contradiction
George Bush didn't ask permission to invade Panama in 1989.
The President bumrushed the Central American country in the 80s.
entailment
The Chechen Russia is trying to take us over again.
Chechen Russia will keep trying to take over.
neutral
As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in the London Sunday Mirror reporting claims that Clarke had paid for sex with young boys.
Arthur C Clarke is unable to read or write.
contradiction
There's more free stuff available online to fill up the time when the boss isn't around than the proxy-censor will ever let us read.
The boss wants us to do the free stuff online instead of work.
contradiction
Best wishes until we meet again--perhaps over Volume 9 of some future 14-volume biography of Rosalynn Carter.
I will see you all in class tomorrow.
contradiction
Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people.
An NRA bumper sticker's quibbling is a pathetic evasion.
neutral
The cover story journeys to HMO hell.
The NBA is full of all young stable men.
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Has the government not tried hard enough?
The government's efforts are in question.
entailment
But what about the other editors of the Daily Cal who couldn't say they'd been martyred at a campus once renowned for its leftism?
Alt-right martyrs were renowned as Daily Cal campus editors.
contradiction
, people who don't exist) are suitable candidates for Jedi knighthood (perhaps Yoda will enlarge his definition of fear in subsequent episodes).
Yoda thinks he's got nothing to fear from any candidate for Jedi knighthood
contradiction
Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.
Executive privilege protects communications between the president and his top advisers.
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Even the singers don't like these songs.
There are a few people that do like the songs.
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Team owners bought land and paid for stadium construction--some even built trolley lines to transport fans to the games.
Fans are transported to games by trolley lines that are funded by team owners.
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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
Republicans can be guilty of sexual harassment.
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It also helps if you can send your husband on Larry King Live to grovel before the nation, as Frank did.
An apology from your spouse on Larry King Live would be helpful.
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The Other Side of the Rainbow
There was only one side of the rainbow.
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According to those who know him, he has learned why newspapers are a public trust since his unfortunate cereal interview.
He learned a lot about newspapers and public trust.
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And then there's everyone else in the city.
And then everyone else in the city will be thought of later on down the line.
neutral
Why would you assume that this comment has to do with African-Americans anyway?
African-Americans are the target of many assumptions.
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For example, the idea of putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom is attractive but, in the long run, federally funded stone tablets will only breed dependency on the nanny state.
Teaching the Ten Commandments in school is not a good long term idea.
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In general, arts and cultural articles are posted early in the week, and newsier and political stuff is posted Thursday and Friday.
The Presidential Debate will be covered on Tuesday.
contradiction
2 pencils and a look of disdain.
The pencils are what someone is disdained over.
neutral
No wonder so many find this market-tested spiritualism so cool.
Spiritualism has been market-tested, and found to be stupid.
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And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, infrequent communications with family and the outside world.
Buses also have a problem crowding and privacy.
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Republicans should counter with logical, informative statements that point out the costs involved in litigation.
The cost of litigation are very low.
contradiction
It has been tempting to see in Soutine's flayed forms a premonition of things to come.
Soutine had a intuition as to what was going to occur in the future.
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We can stumble into a war with China over Taiwan very easily, warns Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University.
He claims that the subject of the possible dispute would be Japan.
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A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.
Greenspan expressed concern.
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My own admittedly romantic preference is to see his career as a quest for inspiration, and to say Pollock sought it long, found it briefly, and couldn't live without it.
Pollock was fine living without inspiration.
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It's impossible today to realize how shocking The Picture of Dorian Gray was to 1890s readers.
The Picture of Dorian Gray was quite distressing for readers to bare in the 1890's.
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There are at least three public accusations against Clinton.
The public is making accusations against Clinton.
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Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually.
Alternative therapies generate very slim revenue and have a small market.
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Leave it to the Globe to conclude, JFK Jr, Slashed!
JFK Jr agreed with the interpretation that the Globe came up with.
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He's got oil to sell, and we've got gas guzzlers to keep rolling.
The author may want to buy oil to keep the gas guzzlers rolling.
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The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.
The Supreme Court justice is happy.
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(Yes, if it uses speed attacks rather than electrical ones.)
Electric attacks are better than speed attacks and that why the author prefers them.
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