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From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate.	A lot of reporting tends to be almost 100% accurate according to them.	contradiction
White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is in the hot seat for testifying that he never mentioned President Clinton's stalker description of Monica Lewinsky to reporters.	Sidney Blumenthal forgot what happened after so many years.	neutral
(The New York Post 's Page Six gossip column ran a lead item on the Enquirer story on Christmas Day.)	The New York Post and the Enquirer collaborated on an article for the Holidays.	neutral
denunciations of American imperialism.	Citizens of America support imperialism.	neutral
But nothing like this ever gets said.	Something like this has been said repeatedly	contradiction
The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.	Of Mice and Men, ET, and Starman are examples of movies with a score mentioned.	entailment
The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.	It was the first time they had received an A on the national test.	neutral
Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs.	Morris had a hard time getting the president re-elected.	neutral
Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities.	Newsweek printed a story about how schools deal with learning disabilities.	entailment
Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.	Mr. Gilder has a low opinion of American cities because he is always stuck in a traffic jam.	neutral
Podhoretz implies that Sharpton's behavior is both representative of and entirely in keeping with the character of African-Americans in general.	Podhoertz stereotypes Sharpton and his race.	entailment
USAT : After all, this is the man about whom Carly Simon was rumored to have written the hit 1972 song, You're So Vain.	You're So Vain was allegedly written about this man.	entailment
As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.	Growth in Holocaust memory is explained by its contemporary purpose in my approach.	entailment
In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him.	The former talk segment was rife with insults.	neutral
The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.	The spot is directed to female mammals too	entailment
Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier.	The law becomes clearer if the page includes a hyperlink to the picture that is in question.	contradiction
Should we reward him for keeping us out of war?	They went to war, which they may be rewarded for.	contradiction
But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?	The answer is yes.	contradiction
On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love).	The band has a huge following.	neutral
I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed.	When the outside door shut, it was so loud that it startled me.	neutral
Starr has said that leaking grand jury testimony before it's actually delivered doesn't count.	The leaked testimony will sway the judge/jury.	neutral
Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.	A delivery from Amazon takes 157 days.	contradiction
Such expressions might subtly shift market psychology and begin the gradual deflation.	Steady deflation is possible with a subtle change in current market attitudes.	entailment
Time calls Bill Bradley's nascent presidential campaign strategy charming and insane.	Time thought Bill Bradly's campaign was normal and boring.	contradiction
Knightley carefully concludes only that the photograph turns out not to be the clear and simple statement of fact that it otherwise appears.	Knightley didn't bother looking over the photographs thoroughly.	contradiction
No question, taxes can affect behavior.	Behavior is rarely affected by taxes.	contradiction
It concerns itself with something that matters--a million bucks--yet Regis' presence makes it frivolous.	Regis being there makes the matter of a million dollars not very serious.	entailment
Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off.	We reconnected with Degas after our friendship was shut off.	neutral
The Star covers George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park as if it's writing a review.	The Star regularly makes wild speculations in its articles.	neutral
After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject.	Newsweek enjoys talking about politics.	entailment
Scientists have learned how bacteria can build up in gaps in the gum, cause infection, weaken the jawbone, and eventually murder teeth.	Cultivating bacteria between the gums aids in rejuvenating teeth.	contradiction
The Republicans on the Hill--Issue 2--draw fire from all sides.	The Republicans stand their ground.	neutral
Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.	Oil prices will go down next week if it is warm.	neutral
One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.	Cybill Shepherd and Robert Martin didn't part ways very friendly	entailment
(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)	Analogies are normally imperfect.	neutral
So long as China continues to develop, Hong Kong will get a substantial chunk of that growth.	Hong Kong is the largest city inside China.	neutral
As a college student familiar with all the latest urban lingo, I believe the proper term to be used in these contexts is boink.	I graduated college years ago.	contradiction
) says herbal remedies can work--Saint Johnswort does cure some folks' mild depression--but herbs also have nasty side effects.	Saint Johnsword does cure many folks of mild depression.	entailment
On Friday's NewsHour , Gigot asks, Is this a Republican Congress?	Gigot, not beating around the bush, asks if Congress is Republican.	entailment
The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.	The media ignored Bush.	contradiction
The bleakest lesson of After the Madness is perhaps that prison has lost its capacity to shock.	Prisons were more shocking after the Madness.	contradiction
They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.	Air power can one day win a war.	neutral
Scouring each company's Web site could take forever, but Gurnee Mills puts all the information on one page . And while most malls let you click on links to their retailers, the links usually take you not to the national Web sites of those retailers but to dummy pages on the mall's site that tell you only about that retailer's store in the mall.	Gurnee Mills has a website.	entailment
While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.	The inspector was terrified by the electric chair and kept staying very far from it	contradiction
Our compassion must defend the disabled.	Not all who are disabled are helpless.	neutral
Solid candidates, such as RFK (or HRC), weather the charges.	RFK or HRC which were solid candidates, overcame any charges brought against them.	entailment
Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.	The US launched airstrikes on Iraq.	entailment
Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.	The pants were next looked for in the women's department to the left.	contradiction
Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument.	In this case it seems right to really blame America	neutral
If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.	The cost of everything else would have had to drop in order for gold to not rise in price.	entailment
A piece describes how women in their 20s donate eggs to infertile couples for thousands of dollars.	Young egg donors are miserably compensated.	contradiction
Steve Forbes intends to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where people who might vote for him are likely to be found.	Forbes intends to advertise on night trading sites.	contradiction
That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi!	Mr Saatchi is excited about it.	neutral
A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.	Greenspan was apathetic.	contradiction
The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.	It was panned by one critic upon release for employing an abundance of cheap stereotypes.	neutral
On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts.	An evolutionist professor was impressed with how how the Kansas board conducts itself.	contradiction
But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble.	It has caused them a lot of hardship.	contradiction
In other words, I write because I think it is right.	The author stopped writing because they thought what they wrote is wrong.	contradiction
Police are said to be inept and corrupt.	Police are said to be incompetent and corrupt.	entailment
Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude.	Their difficulties are entirely due to their refusal to give up methamphetamine.	contradiction
The overlapping dialogue and squealing Cuban-African music heard over tinny-sounding radios seems meant to induce a migraine to accompany the seasickness.	The sound quality was very unpleasant to listen to.	entailment
First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change.	The golden rule about conventional wisdom is that it most always remain the same.	contradiction
I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.	Promises were made that she would stay out of the wedding.	contradiction
If Chernomyrdin succeeds in convincing Milosevic to accept enough of NATO's demands to guarantee some sort of deal, he will go down in domestic political history as the man who sold out Serbia.	Chernomyrdin and Milosevic have to work together to succeed in their plans.	neutral
It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.	The movie was the best movie I had ever seen.	contradiction
Having endlessly debated the staying power of his '60s comic-strip sendups, most critics now conclude his art will last.	Due to his staying power in the 1960's, his comic strip sendups are now concluded by most critics to last forever.	entailment
The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy.	It's not true that union members are being forced to finance this union campaign	entailment
Another Fan Page has a set of good links about the affair and a message board, too, though on last visit, it was no longer available.	The fan page is no longer hosted online.	entailment
Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used.	The four politicians believe industry self-regulation is always better for society.	neutral
(Formerly the state sport was catching and returning runaway slaves.)	Catching slaves was difficult sport, but much more difficult for the slaves that were caught.	neutral
Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month.	They weren't thrilled with the amount of responses last year.	contradiction
What, you may ask, is the key difference between chemical and biological weapons?	Is there a difference between chemical and biological weapons?	neutral
Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires.	Bettelheim's ideas were well defined and delimited	contradiction
ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular.	It's suspected ABC's problems are going to be easy to solve.	contradiction
Music that conjures up a sense of suspended time and a still, suburban afterglow seems a perfect occasion for its debut.	Music that conjures imperfect debuts is for loud cities..	contradiction
But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack.	The style which he makes movies requires a great deal of energy.	neutral
The 17-year-old Jess Gupta (male student), for example, is listed as a housewife in another filing.	Jess Gupta may be gay.	contradiction
Soon, Starling was conscripted into following the couple on their walks through Washington's Rock Creek Park (for more details, click ) and fending off reporters.	Reporters followed the couple only in Rock Creek Park.	neutral
Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.	White wines are used together with red wines in this study	contradiction
Rudy plans to consolidate his lead in the burbs by pushing school vouchers, while Hillary will tap into health-care frustrations and make the election a national contest.	Rudy and Hillary are running against each other in the election.	entailment
The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.	These pictures weren't very steady	entailment
Furthermore she wrote, scathingly, about class, and Americans have never liked to hear about class.	Americans find it an insult to hear about class .	entailment
Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation.	Without the post office, we would not be what we are today as a country.	neutral
For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering	People like to sing.	neutral
During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y.	Molinari, Paxon, and Suby all shared a flight to New York.	entailment
Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.	He started using a multitude of different hues.	contradiction
The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts.	After the antitrust trial's judge's finding of the facts anti-Microsoft lawsuits came forth.	entailment
Josh Pons did not like this.	Josh does not enjoy this.	entailment
But still, in one degree or another the feeling described by Auden, of not wanting to be forgotten, must be nearly universal.	He speaks about widespread emotions	entailment
And every tournament game receives this treatment.	All the tournament games are treated the same way.	entailment
It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.	It will have a huge effect on any elections held in the future.	contradiction
But who window shops anymore, except at 35 mph, through a window set in the frame of a vehicle?	You can look out your window and window shop.	entailment
From home, I call my office three or four times a day.	My only office is at home and I make calls from there 3 or 4 times a day	contradiction
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 has more offices than in the UK and France.	entailment
Her protagonist (Natasha Lyonne) spends her teen-age years being shuttled with her two brothers from one cheap dive to another in the 90210 ZIP code, all because her egregiously unsuccessful father (Alan Arkin) wants them to be educated in the best schools.	The protagonist and her brothers grow up in Japan.	contradiction
And if there were, any elective late abortion--even by induction--would be wrong, though D and E and partial-birth abortion would seem especially cruel.	A late abortion could become a crime in the near future	neutral
Parents find themselves intervening to stop their kids from making bad deals with unscrupulous classmates.	Parents sue other parents over deals their kids make.	neutral
The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.	Bowling has become more popular in recent years among families.	neutral
We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.	Miss America has many talents across different subjects.	neutral
The Enquirer is probably the only publication in the world to go with this Lucy Mercer hypothesis.	The Enquirer thinks the Lucy Mercer hypothesis is bogus.	contradiction

From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate.

A lot of reporting tends to be almost 100% accurate according to them.

contradiction

White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is in the hot seat for testifying that he never mentioned President Clinton's stalker description of Monica Lewinsky to reporters.

Sidney Blumenthal forgot what happened after so many years.

neutral

(The New York Post 's Page Six gossip column ran a lead item on the Enquirer story on Christmas Day.)

The New York Post and the Enquirer collaborated on an article for the Holidays.

neutral

denunciations of American imperialism.

Citizens of America support imperialism.

neutral

But nothing like this ever gets said.

Something like this has been said repeatedly

contradiction

The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.

Of Mice and Men, ET, and Starman are examples of movies with a score mentioned.

entailment

The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.

It was the first time they had received an A on the national test.

neutral

Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs.

Morris had a hard time getting the president re-elected.

neutral

Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities.

Newsweek printed a story about how schools deal with learning disabilities.

entailment

Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.

Mr. Gilder has a low opinion of American cities because he is always stuck in a traffic jam.

neutral

Podhoretz implies that Sharpton's behavior is both representative of and entirely in keeping with the character of African-Americans in general.

Podhoertz stereotypes Sharpton and his race.

entailment

USAT : After all, this is the man about whom Carly Simon was rumored to have written the hit 1972 song, You're So Vain.

You're So Vain was allegedly written about this man.

entailment

As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.

Growth in Holocaust memory is explained by its contemporary purpose in my approach.

entailment

In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him.

The former talk segment was rife with insults.

neutral

The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.

The spot is directed to female mammals too

entailment

Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier.

The law becomes clearer if the page includes a hyperlink to the picture that is in question.

contradiction

Should we reward him for keeping us out of war?

They went to war, which they may be rewarded for.

contradiction

But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?

The answer is yes.

contradiction

On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love).

The band has a huge following.

neutral

I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed.

When the outside door shut, it was so loud that it startled me.

neutral

Starr has said that leaking grand jury testimony before it's actually delivered doesn't count.

The leaked testimony will sway the judge/jury.

neutral

Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.

A delivery from Amazon takes 157 days.

contradiction

Such expressions might subtly shift market psychology and begin the gradual deflation.

Steady deflation is possible with a subtle change in current market attitudes.

entailment

Time calls Bill Bradley's nascent presidential campaign strategy charming and insane.

Time thought Bill Bradly's campaign was normal and boring.

contradiction

Knightley carefully concludes only that the photograph turns out not to be the clear and simple statement of fact that it otherwise appears.

Knightley didn't bother looking over the photographs thoroughly.

contradiction

No question, taxes can affect behavior.

Behavior is rarely affected by taxes.

contradiction

It concerns itself with something that matters--a million bucks--yet Regis' presence makes it frivolous.

Regis being there makes the matter of a million dollars not very serious.

entailment

Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off.

We reconnected with Degas after our friendship was shut off.

neutral

The Star covers George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park as if it's writing a review.

The Star regularly makes wild speculations in its articles.

neutral

After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject.

Newsweek enjoys talking about politics.

entailment

Scientists have learned how bacteria can build up in gaps in the gum, cause infection, weaken the jawbone, and eventually murder teeth.

Cultivating bacteria between the gums aids in rejuvenating teeth.

contradiction

The Republicans on the Hill--Issue 2--draw fire from all sides.

The Republicans stand their ground.

neutral

Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.

Oil prices will go down next week if it is warm.

neutral

One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.

Cybill Shepherd and Robert Martin didn't part ways very friendly

entailment

(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)

Analogies are normally imperfect.

neutral

So long as China continues to develop, Hong Kong will get a substantial chunk of that growth.

Hong Kong is the largest city inside China.

neutral

As a college student familiar with all the latest urban lingo, I believe the proper term to be used in these contexts is boink.

I graduated college years ago.

contradiction

) says herbal remedies can work--Saint Johnswort does cure some folks' mild depression--but herbs also have nasty side effects.

Saint Johnsword does cure many folks of mild depression.

entailment

On Friday's NewsHour , Gigot asks, Is this a Republican Congress?

Gigot, not beating around the bush, asks if Congress is Republican.

entailment

The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.

The media ignored Bush.

contradiction

The bleakest lesson of After the Madness is perhaps that prison has lost its capacity to shock.

Prisons were more shocking after the Madness.

contradiction

They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.

Air power can one day win a war.

neutral

Scouring each company's Web site could take forever, but Gurnee Mills puts all the information on one page . And while most malls let you click on links to their retailers, the links usually take you not to the national Web sites of those retailers but to dummy pages on the mall's site that tell you only about that retailer's store in the mall.

Gurnee Mills has a website.

entailment

While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.

The inspector was terrified by the electric chair and kept staying very far from it

contradiction

Our compassion must defend the disabled.

Not all who are disabled are helpless.

neutral

Solid candidates, such as RFK (or HRC), weather the charges.

RFK or HRC which were solid candidates, overcame any charges brought against them.

entailment

Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.

The US launched airstrikes on Iraq.

entailment

Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.

The pants were next looked for in the women's department to the left.

contradiction

Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument.

In this case it seems right to really blame America

neutral

If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.

The cost of everything else would have had to drop in order for gold to not rise in price.

entailment

A piece describes how women in their 20s donate eggs to infertile couples for thousands of dollars.

Young egg donors are miserably compensated.

contradiction

Steve Forbes intends to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where people who might vote for him are likely to be found.

Forbes intends to advertise on night trading sites.

contradiction

That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi!

Mr Saatchi is excited about it.

neutral

A second answer is that the Fed can express concern , as Greenspan did.

Greenspan was apathetic.

contradiction

The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.

It was panned by one critic upon release for employing an abundance of cheap stereotypes.

neutral

On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts.

An evolutionist professor was impressed with how how the Kansas board conducts itself.

contradiction

But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble.

It has caused them a lot of hardship.

contradiction

In other words, I write because I think it is right.

The author stopped writing because they thought what they wrote is wrong.

contradiction

Police are said to be inept and corrupt.

Police are said to be incompetent and corrupt.

entailment

Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude.

Their difficulties are entirely due to their refusal to give up methamphetamine.

contradiction

The overlapping dialogue and squealing Cuban-African music heard over tinny-sounding radios seems meant to induce a migraine to accompany the seasickness.

The sound quality was very unpleasant to listen to.

entailment

First, the Golden Rule of Conventional Wisdom, which is that it must change.

The golden rule about conventional wisdom is that it most always remain the same.

contradiction

I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.

Promises were made that she would stay out of the wedding.

contradiction

If Chernomyrdin succeeds in convincing Milosevic to accept enough of NATO's demands to guarantee some sort of deal, he will go down in domestic political history as the man who sold out Serbia.

Chernomyrdin and Milosevic have to work together to succeed in their plans.

neutral

It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.

The movie was the best movie I had ever seen.

contradiction

Having endlessly debated the staying power of his '60s comic-strip sendups, most critics now conclude his art will last.

Due to his staying power in the 1960's, his comic strip sendups are now concluded by most critics to last forever.

entailment

The notion that millions of union members are being forced against their will to help finance this union campaign is simply a Republican fantasy.

It's not true that union members are being forced to finance this union campaign

entailment

Another Fan Page has a set of good links about the affair and a message board, too, though on last visit, it was no longer available.

The fan page is no longer hosted online.

entailment

Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used.

The four politicians believe industry self-regulation is always better for society.

neutral

(Formerly the state sport was catching and returning runaway slaves.)

Catching slaves was difficult sport, but much more difficult for the slaves that were caught.

neutral

Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month.

They weren't thrilled with the amount of responses last year.

contradiction

What, you may ask, is the key difference between chemical and biological weapons?

Is there a difference between chemical and biological weapons?

neutral

Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires.

Bettelheim's ideas were well defined and delimited

contradiction

ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular.

It's suspected ABC's problems are going to be easy to solve.

contradiction

Music that conjures up a sense of suspended time and a still, suburban afterglow seems a perfect occasion for its debut.

Music that conjures imperfect debuts is for loud cities..

contradiction

But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack.

The style which he makes movies requires a great deal of energy.

neutral

The 17-year-old Jess Gupta (male student), for example, is listed as a housewife in another filing.

Jess Gupta may be gay.

contradiction

Soon, Starling was conscripted into following the couple on their walks through Washington's Rock Creek Park (for more details, click ) and fending off reporters.

Reporters followed the couple only in Rock Creek Park.

neutral

Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.

White wines are used together with red wines in this study

contradiction

Rudy plans to consolidate his lead in the burbs by pushing school vouchers, while Hillary will tap into health-care frustrations and make the election a national contest.

Rudy and Hillary are running against each other in the election.

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The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.

These pictures weren't very steady

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Furthermore she wrote, scathingly, about class, and Americans have never liked to hear about class.

Americans find it an insult to hear about class .

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Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation.

Without the post office, we would not be what we are today as a country.

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For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering

People like to sing.

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During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y.

Molinari, Paxon, and Suby all shared a flight to New York.

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Stretching his paint strokes into long, narrow ribbons, he retreated toward a kind of linear drawing in three colors.

He started using a multitude of different hues.

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The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts.

After the antitrust trial's judge's finding of the facts anti-Microsoft lawsuits came forth.

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Josh Pons did not like this.

Josh does not enjoy this.

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But still, in one degree or another the feeling described by Auden, of not wanting to be forgotten, must be nearly universal.

He speaks about widespread emotions

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And every tournament game receives this treatment.

All the tournament games are treated the same way.

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It will probably have no effect on future elections or public policy.

It will have a huge effect on any elections held in the future.

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But who window shops anymore, except at 35 mph, through a window set in the frame of a vehicle?

You can look out your window and window shop.

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From home, I call my office three or four times a day.

My only office is at home and I make calls from there 3 or 4 times a day

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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 has more offices than in the UK and France.

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Her protagonist (Natasha Lyonne) spends her teen-age years being shuttled with her two brothers from one cheap dive to another in the 90210 ZIP code, all because her egregiously unsuccessful father (Alan Arkin) wants them to be educated in the best schools.

The protagonist and her brothers grow up in Japan.

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And if there were, any elective late abortion--even by induction--would be wrong, though D and E and partial-birth abortion would seem especially cruel.

A late abortion could become a crime in the near future

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Parents find themselves intervening to stop their kids from making bad deals with unscrupulous classmates.

Parents sue other parents over deals their kids make.

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The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.

Bowling has become more popular in recent years among families.

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We could easily follow along in that vein, in our less perfect versions, and so can Miss America, in her sweet one; but what's truly groundbreaking nowadays is to stroll on the sand or romp in the waves in a full-length dress.

Miss America has many talents across different subjects.

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The Enquirer is probably the only publication in the world to go with this Lucy Mercer hypothesis.

The Enquirer thinks the Lucy Mercer hypothesis is bogus.

contradiction