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So Hollings embraces Inglis' charges that he's a pork- He calls it pork.	Hollings agrees it's pork.	entailment
How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?	Every one knows how Adaptec was removed from the list.	contradiction
This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.	People like Vic Fazio the best.	neutral
Still, the solution Schor proposes seems almost as forced and obsessive as overspending itself.	Like overspending, Schor's answer seems unnatural.	entailment
In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway.	Larson appeared on Broadway.	neutral
Mount Marty administrators allegedly violated the due-process rights and academic freedom of an English professor, who had been trying to revive a local chapter of the AAUP, when they fired him a few months ago.	The AAUP is an organization that everyone loves.	contradiction
The two most successful stories here, That I Had the Wings and Flying Home, are less self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.	A Coupla Scalped Indians' plot is different than that of That I Had the Wings and Flying Home.	neutral
Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.	Many states are against a simple shove, while are for it.	neutral
He's plunging us, the viewers, into it, too.	He is making the viewers a part of the show.	entailment
Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped.	Wells and Sidney partook in the mantra.	entailment
Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.	My women friends hated the movie.	neutral
(Violence among theatrical people, on the other hand, can be entertainingly savage, cf, All About Eve .) In all the hullabaloo about violence in popular entertainment, movies and television were often chastised, the stage never.	The lenience of violence in theatre can be attributed to its lack of popularity among children.	neutral
Sure, the FDA's efforts are done in the name of kids.	Because of children, the FDA is clearly not lazy.	entailment
A long article in the same magazine enters the terrifying world of the yakuza , Japanese organized-crime syndicates.	There were multiple writers on the article.	neutral
He fights movie monsters, sings in a musical Western, and celebrates Thanksgiving ( Thanksgiving?	He sings in a musical about Japan.	contradiction
But--and Levin is likely to find this praise more infuriating than any criticism--had he chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, he might have given us one of the greatest recordings of the piece ever put on disc.	Levin finds this praise likely more infuriating than any criticism if he had only chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway.	entailment
Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to Pundit Central 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies.	Bode's partying days are many decade in the past.	neutral
Someone has to absorb the loss.	Someone lost.	entailment
While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated.	Job creation is the end goal for these branches.	contradiction
This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's Praetorian Guard--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.	The secret service shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.	entailment
either Lee or Chang or Wong.	Lee, Chang, and Wong are Chinese.	neutral
(If that were my name, I might not want to talk about the scandal either.)	The author doesn't have much interest in discussing the scandal.	entailment
Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...	Reviewers really enjoyed the set.	contradiction
The key ingredient seems to be averageness.	Averageness is an avoidable tolerance.	contradiction
I blame the ambiguous use of ellipses.	Ellipses are used to explain better a part of the sentence	contradiction
In retrospect, though, two things seem clear.	Nothing is obvious when it comes to this subject.	contradiction
An unmarried dependent student qualifies before age 23, as does any adult child who acquired a physical or mental disability before age 21;	A child who was disabled after 21 qualifies.	contradiction
Some journalists wrote scathingly of me, Mitchell, [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards [also McPherson's partner], because we had agreed to do that.	The New York Times criticized Mitchell's views.	neutral
Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode.	Van Zandt was looked up too as an idol by several women and men.	neutral
Then the three were asked to comment on these past thoughts (none found any errors, of course).	They were asked to provide commentary on what they thought in the past.	entailment
They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.	Ellison was interested in telling about blacks.	entailment
He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine.	The man feels liberation from the slot machine.	neutral
Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ...	Streams run uphill in the Rockies.	contradiction
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.	Chan used slapstick techniques in the art museum scene.	entailment
John points out that by 1828, only 36 years after Congress passed the Post Office Act of 1792, the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain and over five times as many offices as the postal system in France.	The US postal system only has a few offices in various states.	contradiction
The only really arresting work he did after 1950 is . With its electric brightness, this huge painting, which Pollock's friends started for him, is stunning but sad, a big smile for the camera and perhaps a kind of requiem for his earlier work.	He really didn't do much arresting work after 1950.	entailment
But I can give two illustrations, both from ballets by George Balanchine that I have on tape.	Balanchine can give illustrations on ballet.	neutral
The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something.	You will not be able to see the show without money in your pocket.	entailment
But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.	Once answered it will lead to zero more questions.	contradiction
As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again.	Winter season flakes just started to fall on the plants now.	neutral
Whites who never practiced discrimination are nonetheless beneficiaries of it.	Caucasians enjoy the fruits of prejudice even if they themselves are not prejudiced.	entailment
Map maker, map maker, make me a map.	Map makers make maps.	entailment
I don't understand how one would read this argument and not get that it is about the effect these changes will have on the commons.	The argument appears to be very straightforward.	entailment
The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.	The Swiss' image has been tarnished by the boycott.	entailment
In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over.	He never regained his reign of terror.	neutral
If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.	The fact that so much new money goes into indexed funds is a troubling thought.	entailment
A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.	Car and Driver's demographic is largely affluent people.	neutral
Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.	Bauer believed that morality was on a downward trend.	entailment
The editors Slate is here for the duration.	Slate is going to work on a few publications this winter.	neutral
(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)	Clinton's popularity is as legitimate as the governors'.	entailment
I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver.	Joel Silver was not the only financier of this major motion picture.	neutral
If the jocks don't know why Bradley should be president, why are they endorsing him?	Bradley's endorsement by the jocks was followed by their many reasons for his candidacy.	contradiction
In general, arts and cultural articles are posted early in the week, and newsier and political stuff is posted Thursday and Friday.	An article about politics can be found on Friday.	entailment
The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.	The cyanide had to be watered down by the chemist in charge of the analysis.	entailment
They're deceased!	They're no longer alive	entailment
Chavis and Farrakhan both argue that Christianity and the nation are incompatible, and many predict that the 49-year-old Chavis will ultimately succeed Farrakhan.	Farrakhan firmly believes that Christianity is an integral component of the nation's strength.	contradiction
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.	This personal metamorphosis took the Palestinian leader several years.	neutral
(To read the first three chapters, click here.)	Due to copyright laws I must refrain from providing links to the book.	contradiction
The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom.	The Times does not stalk their own reporters.	entailment
This one-way connection will offer speeds up to 150,000 bits per second.	With this new level of speed, individuals will find their media download and streaming experiences to be the best that they have ever witnessed.	neutral
Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as casuistry in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior.	The teologians still use this method today.	neutral
Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.	Michael Frisby worked for the Wall Street Journal for 10 years.	neutral
Behavior in the Human Male , in its impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged.	Human males seek out liberation and acceptance, above all else.	neutral
As a society we may have to face facts.	In general, it is better for most members of the community to ignore the facts.	contradiction
Did this really make her beautiful?	The girl isn't actually beautiful.	neutral
And in the Where are they now?	They might be in Georgia.	neutral
This is, admittedly, just a single line from a long-ago interview, but it suggests that the Clintons are locked into a denial.	The Clintons gave interviews that showed their firm belief in their version of events.	contradiction
Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change.	I think Larry is wrong.	entailment
The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.	The International Monetary Fund was created in 1995.	entailment
In any event, foolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self- If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop.	Excessive trade surpluses are more problematic than excessive trade deficits.	entailment
His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.	His rarely ever name-drops, says one friend.	contradiction
After the Madness reads like going to court feels.	After the Madness is a light hearted comedy.	contradiction
A better explanation is that males' reproductive fate depends more strongly than females' on competing when they are young.	There is scientific evidence that males' reproductive fate is based on competing.	neutral
The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers.	The New York Times will elect the winner of Hackathlon.	contradiction
And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated.	Food contamination is less of a problem than it used to be.	neutral
After the treaty, they will fall into one of two 1) those that suffer economic sanctions and a clear-cut stigma, and 2) those that have agreed to allow short-notice inspections of any suspicious site in their territory.	They will either have to comply with inspections, or be forced to endure sanctions.	entailment
Half of them die within five years of diagnosis.	They may die within half of the five years of diagnosis.	neutral
But the IRS isn't out of control.	The IRS is a very controlled organization run by the government.	entailment
Nor does Big Blue exercise the kind of financial or cultural power that Morgan once did.	Big Blue was unable to achieve the same status as Morgan, which caused it to live in the shadows of it's predecessor, throughout it's existence .	neutral
I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another.	Groups of people can be critic of other groups of people	entailment
Given his track record as the District's mayor, you might want to sell your stock in that company.	The company's stock is definitely one to buy.	contradiction
In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.	Easy situations are under consideration with mutual trust.	contradiction
I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him.	I think Blumenthal is great.	contradiction
As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace.	We are not at all interested in how one would classify Ames' economic style.	contradiction
If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc.	The details of the surprise inspections are negotiable.	neutral
[Hersh has] disassembled and obliterated his own career and reputation.	Hersh has a great reputation and is highly regarded in his career field.	contradiction
Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable.	The Small Business Administration was formed in the 70s.	neutral
And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression.	They used drugs to heal abnormalities of the mind.	entailment
An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.	It is assumed that congress will keep a budget ceiling by cutting funding of domestic programs.	entailment
In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma.	Christopher Plummer is among the best Canadian actors	neutral
All American reporters care about is Monica Lewinsky, and we're trying to get away from that, one U.S. official told me.	Monika Lewinsky didn't want to really talk to the reporters.	neutral
Time identifies a new racial bilingual education.	The new education teaches in two languages.	entailment
(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.)	Commentary has people that have continued to write for it.	entailment
We've come a long way together from Strom Thurmond's ass (which, while not free, is surprisingly affordable), and if online technology were not in its infancy, right about now I'd be buying you all a round of free-range rug shampoo.	Rug shampoo is very pricey.	neutral
Degas, according to Daniel Halevy, carried his camera as proudly as a child carrying a rifle.	Degas liked to carry his camera as a child.	entailment
There is too much flexing of stylistic muscle, says the New Republic 's Robert Alter.	There is too much style according to the New Republic's Robert Alter.	entailment
The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul.	Henry Paul died in a drunk driving accident.	neutral
You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc.	This program is slowly making a name for itself and it will undoubtedly overtake Microsoft Excel.	neutral
Restore national controls over global capital.	National control may be better	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 like features that sell so they offer lucrative jobs to those who agree to have sex with a variety of animals.	neutral

So Hollings embraces Inglis' charges that he's a pork- He calls it pork.

Hollings agrees it's pork.

entailment

How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?

Every one knows how Adaptec was removed from the list.

contradiction

This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.

People like Vic Fazio the best.

neutral

Still, the solution Schor proposes seems almost as forced and obsessive as overspending itself.

Like overspending, Schor's answer seems unnatural.

entailment

In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway.

Larson appeared on Broadway.

neutral

Mount Marty administrators allegedly violated the due-process rights and academic freedom of an English professor, who had been trying to revive a local chapter of the AAUP, when they fired him a few months ago.

The AAUP is an organization that everyone loves.

contradiction

The two most successful stories here, That I Had the Wings and Flying Home, are less self-conscious than A Coupla Scalped Indians.

A Coupla Scalped Indians' plot is different than that of That I Had the Wings and Flying Home.

neutral

Many states are already finding that a simple shove can have surprising results.

Many states are against a simple shove, while are for it.

neutral

He's plunging us, the viewers, into it, too.

He is making the viewers a part of the show.

entailment

Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped.

Wells and Sidney partook in the mantra.

entailment

Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.

My women friends hated the movie.

neutral

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

The lenience of violence in theatre can be attributed to its lack of popularity among children.

neutral

Sure, the FDA's efforts are done in the name of kids.

Because of children, the FDA is clearly not lazy.

entailment

A long article in the same magazine enters the terrifying world of the yakuza , Japanese organized-crime syndicates.

There were multiple writers on the article.

neutral

He fights movie monsters, sings in a musical Western, and celebrates Thanksgiving ( Thanksgiving?

He sings in a musical about Japan.

contradiction

But--and Levin is likely to find this praise more infuriating than any criticism--had he chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, he might have given us one of the greatest recordings of the piece ever put on disc.

Levin finds this praise likely more infuriating than any criticism if he had only chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway.

entailment

Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to Pundit Central 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies.

Bode's partying days are many decade in the past.

neutral

Someone has to absorb the loss.

Someone lost.

entailment

While the branches are largely noncompeting, some will be closed, and about 15,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated.

Job creation is the end goal for these branches.

contradiction

This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's Praetorian Guard--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.

The secret service shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.

entailment

either Lee or Chang or Wong.

Lee, Chang, and Wong are Chinese.

neutral

(If that were my name, I might not want to talk about the scandal either.)

The author doesn't have much interest in discussing the scandal.

entailment

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

Reviewers really enjoyed the set.

contradiction

The key ingredient seems to be averageness.

Averageness is an avoidable tolerance.

contradiction

I blame the ambiguous use of ellipses.

Ellipses are used to explain better a part of the sentence

contradiction

In retrospect, though, two things seem clear.

Nothing is obvious when it comes to this subject.

contradiction

An unmarried dependent student qualifies before age 23, as does any adult child who acquired a physical or mental disability before age 21;

A child who was disabled after 21 qualifies.

contradiction

Some journalists wrote scathingly of me, Mitchell, [former Texas Gov.] Ann Richards [also McPherson's partner], because we had agreed to do that.

The New York Times criticized Mitchell's views.

neutral

Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode.

Van Zandt was looked up too as an idol by several women and men.

neutral

Then the three were asked to comment on these past thoughts (none found any errors, of course).

They were asked to provide commentary on what they thought in the past.

entailment

They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.

Ellison was interested in telling about blacks.

entailment

He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine.

The man feels liberation from the slot machine.

neutral

Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ...

Streams run uphill in the Rockies.

contradiction

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.

Chan used slapstick techniques in the art museum scene.

entailment

John points out that by 1828, only 36 years after Congress passed the Post Office Act of 1792, the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain and over five times as many offices as the postal system in France.

The US postal system only has a few offices in various states.

contradiction

The only really arresting work he did after 1950 is . With its electric brightness, this huge painting, which Pollock's friends started for him, is stunning but sad, a big smile for the camera and perhaps a kind of requiem for his earlier work.

He really didn't do much arresting work after 1950.

entailment

But I can give two illustrations, both from ballets by George Balanchine that I have on tape.

Balanchine can give illustrations on ballet.

neutral

The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something.

You will not be able to see the show without money in your pocket.

entailment

But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.

Once answered it will lead to zero more questions.

contradiction

As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again.

Winter season flakes just started to fall on the plants now.

neutral

Whites who never practiced discrimination are nonetheless beneficiaries of it.

Caucasians enjoy the fruits of prejudice even if they themselves are not prejudiced.

entailment

Map maker, map maker, make me a map.

Map makers make maps.

entailment

I don't understand how one would read this argument and not get that it is about the effect these changes will have on the commons.

The argument appears to be very straightforward.

entailment

The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.

The Swiss' image has been tarnished by the boycott.

entailment

In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over.

He never regained his reign of terror.

neutral

If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.

The fact that so much new money goes into indexed funds is a troubling thought.

entailment

A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.

Car and Driver's demographic is largely affluent people.

neutral

Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.

Bauer believed that morality was on a downward trend.

entailment

The editors Slate is here for the duration.

Slate is going to work on a few publications this winter.

neutral

(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.)

Clinton's popularity is as legitimate as the governors'.

entailment

I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver.

Joel Silver was not the only financier of this major motion picture.

neutral

If the jocks don't know why Bradley should be president, why are they endorsing him?

Bradley's endorsement by the jocks was followed by their many reasons for his candidacy.

contradiction

In general, arts and cultural articles are posted early in the week, and newsier and political stuff is posted Thursday and Friday.

An article about politics can be found on Friday.

entailment

The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.

The cyanide had to be watered down by the chemist in charge of the analysis.

entailment

They're deceased!

They're no longer alive

entailment

Chavis and Farrakhan both argue that Christianity and the nation are incompatible, and many predict that the 49-year-old Chavis will ultimately succeed Farrakhan.

Farrakhan firmly believes that Christianity is an integral component of the nation's strength.

contradiction

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.

This personal metamorphosis took the Palestinian leader several years.

neutral

(To read the first three chapters, click here.)

Due to copyright laws I must refrain from providing links to the book.

contradiction

The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom.

The Times does not stalk their own reporters.

entailment

This one-way connection will offer speeds up to 150,000 bits per second.

With this new level of speed, individuals will find their media download and streaming experiences to be the best that they have ever witnessed.

neutral

Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as casuistry in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior.

The teologians still use this method today.

neutral

Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.

Michael Frisby worked for the Wall Street Journal for 10 years.

neutral

Behavior in the Human Male , in its impulse toward acceptance and liberation, the broad and generous desire for others not to be harshly judged.

Human males seek out liberation and acceptance, above all else.

neutral

As a society we may have to face facts.

In general, it is better for most members of the community to ignore the facts.

contradiction

Did this really make her beautiful?

The girl isn't actually beautiful.

neutral

And in the Where are they now?

They might be in Georgia.

neutral

This is, admittedly, just a single line from a long-ago interview, but it suggests that the Clintons are locked into a denial.

The Clintons gave interviews that showed their firm belief in their version of events.

contradiction

Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change.

I think Larry is wrong.

entailment

The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

The International Monetary Fund was created in 1995.

entailment

In any event, foolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self- If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop.

Excessive trade surpluses are more problematic than excessive trade deficits.

entailment

His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.

His rarely ever name-drops, says one friend.

contradiction

After the Madness reads like going to court feels.

After the Madness is a light hearted comedy.

contradiction

A better explanation is that males' reproductive fate depends more strongly than females' on competing when they are young.

There is scientific evidence that males' reproductive fate is based on competing.

neutral

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

The New York Times will elect the winner of Hackathlon.

contradiction

And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated.

Food contamination is less of a problem than it used to be.

neutral

After the treaty, they will fall into one of two 1) those that suffer economic sanctions and a clear-cut stigma, and 2) those that have agreed to allow short-notice inspections of any suspicious site in their territory.

They will either have to comply with inspections, or be forced to endure sanctions.

entailment

Half of them die within five years of diagnosis.

They may die within half of the five years of diagnosis.

neutral

But the IRS isn't out of control.

The IRS is a very controlled organization run by the government.

entailment

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

Big Blue was unable to achieve the same status as Morgan, which caused it to live in the shadows of it's predecessor, throughout it's existence .

neutral

I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another.

Groups of people can be critic of other groups of people

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Given his track record as the District's mayor, you might want to sell your stock in that company.

The company's stock is definitely one to buy.

contradiction

In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.

Easy situations are under consideration with mutual trust.

contradiction

I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him.

I think Blumenthal is great.

contradiction

As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace.

We are not at all interested in how one would classify Ames' economic style.

contradiction

If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc.

The details of the surprise inspections are negotiable.

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[Hersh has] disassembled and obliterated his own career and reputation.

Hersh has a great reputation and is highly regarded in his career field.

contradiction

Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable.

The Small Business Administration was formed in the 70s.

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And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression.

They used drugs to heal abnormalities of the mind.

entailment

An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.

It is assumed that congress will keep a budget ceiling by cutting funding of domestic programs.

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In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma.

Christopher Plummer is among the best Canadian actors

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All American reporters care about is Monica Lewinsky, and we're trying to get away from that, one U.S. official told me.

Monika Lewinsky didn't want to really talk to the reporters.

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Time identifies a new racial bilingual education.

The new education teaches in two languages.

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(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.)

Commentary has people that have continued to write for it.

entailment

We've come a long way together from Strom Thurmond's ass (which, while not free, is surprisingly affordable), and if online technology were not in its infancy, right about now I'd be buying you all a round of free-range rug shampoo.

Rug shampoo is very pricey.

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Degas, according to Daniel Halevy, carried his camera as proudly as a child carrying a rifle.

Degas liked to carry his camera as a child.

entailment

There is too much flexing of stylistic muscle, says the New Republic 's Robert Alter.

There is too much style according to the New Republic's Robert Alter.

entailment

The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul.

Henry Paul died in a drunk driving accident.

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You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc.

This program is slowly making a name for itself and it will undoubtedly overtake Microsoft Excel.

neutral

Restore national controls over global capital.

National control may be better

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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 like features that sell so they offer lucrative jobs to those who agree to have sex with a variety of animals.

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