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Meanwhile, John McLaughlin stares directly at Fred Beetle Barnes, pauses, and calls him Pat Buchanan.
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John McLaughlin didn't like Fred Barnes very much.
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neutral
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In a way, truthful shadow pages are the scariest of all.
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The scariest pages are truthful.
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neutral
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What's more, the latter reads more like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists.
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The story was a fascinating tale about the world of cutting hair.
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contradiction
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The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.
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The Dayton accord separates the country into 3 parts.
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contradiction
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Yet there is no good reason not to go with the 0.08 standard.
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Their are many good reasons to use the 0.08 standard.
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contradiction
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Don't be surprised when it flops.
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Be prepared for failure, but also it could succeed.
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neutral
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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.
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Every one wears words on clothes.
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neutral
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But Jacob was pierced by shafts of doubt.
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Jacob was worried.
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entailment
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Once flight capabilities are established and demonstrated in a motion picture, they must be used consistently and logically throughout, without regard to the convenience of the filmmakers.
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You know, a filmmakers convenience ain't taken into regard about flight capabilities.
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entailment
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I admit a good deal of my concern is self-motivated.
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They have very unselfish worries.
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contradiction
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Perhaps Internet users are more depressed because they are better informed.
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Depression has been found to be more prevalent in internet users.
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neutral
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So fascinated that it ran not one, but two stories on the apparently bottomless topic, one in the Money and Business section and one in the Week in Review.
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They will not run anymore stories on it because the topic has no depth.
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contradiction
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Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does.
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Howard Stern may want his enemies to be unhappy.
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entailment
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Upon returning to Apple, he began criticizing almost immediately the company's 1995 decision to finally allow a limited number of companies to manufacture Mac clones, calling these firms leeches.
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He had returned to Apple after being away for 8 years.
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neutral
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The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection.
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The defection is going to have a serious cost for the tobacco industry
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entailment
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The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance.
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Clinton refuses to acknowledge the romance.
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entailment
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One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.
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One profession lies to bring down the other.
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entailment
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Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.
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Farmers agree to use less soil amendments.
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contradiction
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First of all, my extreme apologies for the spelling mistake.
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The spelling error was of little importance.
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contradiction
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Taylor proposes that teen-agers on welfare be paid to use an implanted device to prevent pregnancy.
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Using the implant would have the added incentive of money along with the prevention of unwanted pregnancy.
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entailment
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President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.
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President Clinton told the same draft story every time.
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contradiction
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Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention
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Clinton is often object of criticism
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neutral
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(I look forward to explaining how such systems work in a forthcoming column.)
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I dread having to explain the system in the next column.
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contradiction
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The verdict?
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The case has gone to a verdict.
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entailment
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Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad.
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John F. Nash Jr. was mentally sane.
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contradiction
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Majority Whip Tom DeLay, another Texan, is Armey's opposite--the Republican Jim Wright.
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Tom Delay shares a couple views that Dick Armey shares.
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neutral
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When Sam Donaldson pointed out on This Week that two Republicans, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, had pioneered engagement in the Shanghai Communique, George Will I was for impeaching Nixon over the Shanghai Communique!
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Richard Nixon has never been president.
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contradiction
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FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection.
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FEMA officials believe inhabiting the flood plains is a good idea.
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contradiction
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In one massacre, an 11-year-old girl watched her father being marched off and later found his charred body.
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The father of an 11-year-old girl had been burned to death.
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entailment
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A sidebar speculates that Slobodan Milosevic is probably hoarding chemical weapons, including nerve gas, blister agents, choking compounds, and hallucinogens.
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Slobodan Milosevic might be preparing for a war with chemical armaments
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entailment
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There are many things that are permitted to adults--e.g.
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Most things are impermissable for adults.
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contradiction
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Most agree that he's a Clinton-style weather vane, adapting his positions to the demands of contrary constituencies ranging from the army to foreign investors to Western diplomats.
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He is unable to adapt.
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contradiction
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Spins on the monetary 1) It will make Europe the United States' new economic rival.
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It would help Europe to become economically equal with the U.S.
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entailment
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A capitalist, of whom there are one or two among us, I hear tell, might bear this in mind when targeting malt liquor, fast food, and sneaker commercials.
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Capitalists consider targeting commercials of fast food, sneakers, and malt liquor during the Super Bowl.
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neutral
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The new company may also benefit from merging warehousing and inventory management, and ideally there will be joint production of components that both companies use.
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The new company could benefit from merging departments.
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entailment
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Morris constantly describes his visitors as voters who are engaged in referenda through vote.com.
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Referenda are never discussed on vote.com
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contradiction
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One Because they're cyber sages.
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They are viewed as being cyber vagabonds.
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contradiction
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The general principle is that these questions, unfortunately, are going to be asked.
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It's going to be fun being asked these questions
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contradiction
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The changes were attributed 1) increased cohabitation
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Cohabitation should be increased.
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entailment
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During the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises, Rubin constructed bailout deals that benefited outside creditors above all.
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The outside creditors were left out to dry by Rubin, as he refused to offer them a deal during the crisis.
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contradiction
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If slightness in a Library of America volume is a mark of esteem, Kerr can be assured that the two svelte books she reviewed, at under a thousand pages each, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series.
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This is the first time that Gertrude Stein is included in the series.
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neutral
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If being smart is no guarantee of being right, having been right is not necessarily an indicator that someone is smart.
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Being smart is a strong indicator of being right.
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contradiction
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Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.
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Buchanan was not happy with Kofi Annan's suggestion that diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.
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entailment
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You may not believe that such intervention will work in practice, but that's a judgment about the rules of politics, not economics.
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The intervention will work.
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neutral
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Somehow I doubt that Bill Gates thinks of Dell as parasitic because its computers run only on Windows.
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Dell computers run off of Mac.
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contradiction
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In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.
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All races and ethnicities share the same Old Country in Europe.
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contradiction
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It's understandable why this fantasy of flight would take root in black America, which, at numerous moments in its history, has been given reason to fear that conditions in the diaspora can never be improved.
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It's hard to understand why this fantasy of flight would take root in Black America, although, through it's history, has been given reason to hope that conditions in the diaspora can be improved.
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contradiction
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In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S.
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Issues aren't uncommon in US colleges
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entailment
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Slate 's chief political correspondent, looked around him a few months ago and saw nothing but squalor.
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When Slate looked around he saw was cleanliness.
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contradiction
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good after-school programs, lots of computers, smaller classes, and higher standards for teachers.
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Those schools with good-after school programs tend to have many lots of computers, smaller classes and higher standards for teachers.
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entailment
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I think Wolfe is right about the potential of this kind of novel, one that takes us through unexplored precincts of our own society while spinning a good yarn.
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The novel is about American society in the 80s.
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neutral
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Second, the Newsweek online story stated that the tapes offer no clear evidence to support or undermine Tripp's allegations.
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The tape isn't relevant to Tripp's allegation
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entailment
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Critics say expansion could be another Yalta (the 1945 meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on spheres of influence in postwar Europe)--imposing a line between East and West, and leaving nonmembers subject to Russian bullying.
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Yalta imposed a line between Eastern and Western Europe.
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entailment
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A hint of hulk is apparently not unwelcome in the modern woman's image, and a slightly humped back, spinal curve, and forward-thrusting neck go well with that.
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Deformities of the female body aren't frowned upon in their likeness in magazine pictures.
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neutral
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Needless to say, one such entry would be unacceptable, and we've adopted strict safeguards to prevent any such problems.
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No safeguards are required, therefor none will betaken.
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contradiction
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His technique is too methodical and slow, she said.
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She marveled at how elegant and smooth his technique was.
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contradiction
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A sidebar says Monica combed Gennifer Flowers' autobiography for tips on how to seduce the president.
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Neither Monica Lewinsky or Gennifer Flowers have an autobiography.
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contradiction
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If you'd like to know more about Kwanzaa, you can read The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley; A Kwanzaa Celebrating the Holiday With New Traditions and Feasts , by Jessica B. Harris; or Merry Christmas, A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury , edited by Felix H. Liddell and Paula L. Woods.
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You have a hard time finding books about Kwanzaa.
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contradiction
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Delicious dish, but watch out for the aftertaste.
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The scrumptious dish goes on sale soon.
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neutral
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For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country.
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Administrators of Colorado schools like to brag that their state had the best SAT scores.
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entailment
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He permits little discussion--he doesn't think it changes anyone's mind--and races through votes.
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He feels conversations are pointless, and doesn't allow them.
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neutral
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They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money.
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The company funds invalidate the group's cause.
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neutral
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The race was notable for the last several laps, in which Earnhardt rode Gordon's bumper at 190 mph.
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Earnhardt rode Gordon's bumper at 250 mph.
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contradiction
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A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January.
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Paul Simon wrote the cover story about The Capeman.
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contradiction
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It sounds as if things are just fine as long as your correspondent doesn't have to visit her friend's house.
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Your correspondent has too much fun with her friend that she forgets about everything else.
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neutral
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The civil rights movement was great.
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The civil rights movement was insignificant.
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contradiction
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But Will He Bring Back the Football Team?
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The football team is destined to be brought back very soon
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neutral
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That assumption may or may not be correct.
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It is more likely that the assumption is correct.
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neutral
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Questioned about China at his press conference, President Clinton admitted for the first time that his constructive-engagement policy hasn't improved China's behavior, but he maintained that it will in the future.
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Clinton predicts that two decades from now, China's behavior will worsen due to his policy.
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contradiction
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(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.)
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The output of the writing is extremely good
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neutral
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So fascinated that it ran not one, but two stories on the apparently bottomless topic, one in the Money and Business section and one in the Week in Review.
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The topic was such a hit that they wrote two stories on it.
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entailment
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(In Paragraph 19, Line 106, replace the words 'Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction' with the words 'seven hundred fifty million dollars.
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Leave all text exactly as it is.
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contradiction
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Mavis believes the deaths are accidental, but circumstances suggest that the act was at least unconsciously volitional.
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All the deaths are volitional
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contradiction
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What those dumb hicks really lack is the wherewithal for a fine university education that will lead to a job in the go-go tech sector.
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Those folk only need to keep their options open to opportunity.
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contradiction
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Is it proper for attendants to wear black at a wedding?
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People normally wear white to weddings.
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entailment
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Deciding he'd like to make an eccentric regional comedy with universal themes, he journeyed to a village in Ireland, set himself up in the pub, and took notes on what he saw and heard.
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Everything in the movie was true.
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neutral
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Last weekend, journalist couple Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue signed affidavits claiming that Blumenthal told them last March that Lewinsky was a stalker.
|
Bluementahal correctly stated that Lewinsky was a stalker.
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neutral
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But anti-Semitism permeated Nazi ideology, and Finkelstein is deaf to its nuances.
|
Finkelstein is very aware of the relationship betweens Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism.
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contradiction
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I liked Michael Kinsley's article . Here's a political glossary that might be helpful in interpreting future lies.
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The author recommends a political glossary after reading Kinsley's article.
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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.
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The World Bank was created as the third leg of the national financial order.
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contradiction
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He's not just a man in the He generates his own light.
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The man generates light.
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entailment
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She's could be saying, I'm in this world but not of it.
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They are talking about their fantasies.
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neutral
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Second, the Newsweek online story stated that the tapes offer no clear evidence to support or undermine Tripp's allegations.
|
The tape undermines Tripp's allegation
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contradiction
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Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones.
|
The search for an AIDS cure has been going on for decades.
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neutral
|
Yet in almost any diaspora--whether black, yellow, brown, or white --the dispersed are far better off, at least materially, than those back home.
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When it comes to material things everybody is equal.
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contradiction
|
How they do so may be within our control.
|
Others have control as well.
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neutral
|
Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.
|
Bennett was criticized by the Clinton family for his misuse of a commodity.
|
contradiction
|
So--contrary to what we're told by orthodox economic theory--two individuals with exactly the same preferences and exactly the same opportunities can adopt dramatically different attitudes toward saving.
|
Orthodox economic theory is always correct.
|
contradiction
|
But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either.
|
The character succeeds in becoming a villain.
|
contradiction
|
She upset 16-year-old champion Michelle Kwan, who fell down twice during her routine.
|
Michelle Kwan was the reigning champion.
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neutral
|
Candidates for citizenship must 1) be 18 or older; 2) have resided in the United States continuously for five years--or three years if married to a U.S. citizen--(short absences are OK); 3) demonstrate the ability to speak English, and a basic knowledge of American history and government (click here to see if you pass the test); and 4) be of good moral character.
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All people must be over 18 to apply for citizenship.
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entailment
|
The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back.
|
Relaxation is impossible at this time.
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neutral
|
I'm about as big a media hound as anyone, McCain told one newspaper, but I've turned down at least 500--maybe 600 or 700--requests to go on talk shows on this issue.
|
McCain would continue to avoid talk show requests.
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neutral
|
If you want to look like a propaganda organ of Microsoft, about the best thing you could do would be to publish an article about a very hotly contested industry issue, take Microsoft's side, and support your point with misinformation and untruths.
|
Microsoft is going to be in a lot of hotly contested industry issues
|
neutral
|
Time 's education cover package says parents should get their kids reading at an early age, be involved in their schools, not castigate them for mistakes, let them find their own learning styles, and praise hard work and persistence--not just outcomes.
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Time's education package is the best there is.
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neutral
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Mir's crew was docked pay for its incompetence.
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The crew was given a promotion.
|
contradiction
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These notes were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on June 21, 1996.
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Kenneth Starr found damaging evidence in the notes that he subpoenaed.
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neutral
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He had a decade of writing his novel behind him and almost three more ahead of him.
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He had a decade of writing his recipe guide behind him and almost three more ahead of him.
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contradiction
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In the lobby, children waiting for music lessons bend over their homework, mom perched at their shoulder.
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The lobby includes children doing their homework under parental supervision.
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entailment
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I suppose Franke-Ruta was compelled to read every single line without really wanting to at all?
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Franke-Ruta had to prepare his speech before it happened.
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neutral
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