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Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.	Senate Republicans rejected a campaign finance reform bill.	entailment
The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about.	He lied in every statement.	neutral
Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient.	Two exercises are performed to revive the patient.	contradiction
But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection.	I like to do things that are hard to make a connection.	entailment
For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.	Dawkins and Huffington have nothing to do with carpetbagger charge.	contradiction
An ecological theory of the kosher laws suggests that they're meant to proscribe animals who'd compete with us for the foods we need.	Kosher law specifically demands that all animals are consumed.	contradiction
e) Some or all of the above.	It is all of the above and that's final.	contradiction
This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape.	The New Yorker halted the Letters from Europr column.	neutral
Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment.	Hill wanted to tell that Thomas sexually harrased her.	neutral
Better health care affects athletic ability directly.	Not all athletes receive this benefit of good health care.	neutral
He was tall, charismatic, with piercing blue eyes that made Monica weak inside--and, best of all, he was the most powerful man on Earth!	Monica had hoped he was single.	neutral
The important question is not whether Clinton had sex with her and lied about it but what the country should do about this.	Clinton cheated on his wife.	entailment
Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.	The magnates are struggling to earn any money.	contradiction
We see a worker clocking in while the narrator points to 10 million new jobs and, as the spot cuts to a Kennedyesque Clinton with children, it concludes with the phrase a better future.	The documentary highlights economic achievements under Clinton.	neutral
My situation is something of a good news-bad news thing.	I'm in one of the best situations that a person could be in right now.	contradiction
Get With It, Ye of Little Faith	One of little faith is trying to understand and get their act together.	neutral
Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin?	Wisconsin may require more than $25 million.	neutral
Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.	The actors and playwrights showed up at the theaters every night and put on a good show for the people.	contradiction
I loved everything about talking to the folks who schlepped there on a Sunday morning; the comic effect of having a guy dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog from public service ads, standing behind Dole.	I loathed every moment of having to talk to the people who were still there on Sunday morning.	contradiction
If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here.	The Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation was shown to be incorrect in what it asserts.	contradiction
Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.	It's not possible to support income redistribution and not appear hypocritical.	neutral
the tester meows as he drops the vermin on the developer's doorstep.	Cats love to bark after catching a vermin	contradiction
Coulter argues ad Clinton's China satellite policy was treason.	Clinton was in treason, argues China.	contradiction
Vice President Gore is on the hot seat in the campaign-finance investigation . The Washington Post reported that some of the money Gore raised in phone calls from the White House went to the Clinton-Gore campaign (hard money) instead of the Democratic National Committee (soft money).	The Washington Post ran a story on Vice President Gore.	entailment
This is another way of saying that in the last 30 years, the people who owned America have lost 40 percent of their wealth held in the form of equity.	Many Americans are struggling more now than in the past 30 years.	neutral
We admire perfectionist monomania in Internet tycoons, so why not in Martha?	Internet tycoons show enthusiasm.	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.	No one ever created a website dedicated to the situation.	contradiction
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.	Tragically, the plane carrying Paxon and his son Suby crashed midflight in Lake Superior.	contradiction
Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages.	He chose to disregard signing it.	entailment
I thought of ending the book with his quote, but then some other stuff happened in his life (you'll have to buy the book--$24.	The book can be bought for $24.	entailment
Group is involved in joint ventures with Ford and Nynex.)	Ford and Nynex are working together	entailment
In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.	Doctors are corrupted in Chicago and Northridge.	neutral
And, as for the type of respect we Machiavelli's advice--that it is better to be feared than loved--will make much less sense in the 21 st century than it did in the 16 th . Goodwill toward America is becoming a national-security asset worth cultivating.	We should be kind toward America and more respectful.	entailment
This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works.	In his time, Mozart's compositions made people leave auditoriums in anger.	neutral
The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah.	Daryl Hannah wanted to end it prior to John F. Kennedy Jr.	neutral
No adult ever played with Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers.	Many adults enjoyed playing with Ninja Turtles.	contradiction
On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site).	Nixon gave permission for the Simpsons to use him in the show.	neutral
An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).	An essay lauds authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with magazine models.	contradiction
To counteract mushy curricula (whole math, multiculturalism) and keep pace on the highly competitive college track.	Keeping pace with the competitive college scene doesn't involve unorthodox material.	entailment
As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be.	Big Trouble needed to be this big.	contradiction
Such expressions might subtly shift market psychology and begin the gradual deflation.	The market previously had been in a period of high inflation.	neutral
The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.	The decision led to the strike ending much later than originally forecasted.	neutral
Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?	Bradley served in the military.	neutral
Our powerful, multipurpose computers will continue to become even more powerful, but as they acquire new skills--like voice recognition--their appeal will be limited by their price.	As AI becomes more common in powerful computers, this will decrease their price.	contradiction
But editorialists said Nicholson had made the investigators' job comically easy (he even climbed into a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian Embassy) and, even so, hadn't been caught and busted soon enough.	Nicholson was able to make the investigators' job harder for them after his initial mistake.	neutral
France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.	President Chirac has never said anything mean to anyone.	contradiction
How do we know when the president had done a good job?	How is it known when the president did their job well.	entailment
As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.	We are a new medium.	entailment
If he had lied under oath about parking illegally I wouldn't be so disgusted.	He did not lie under oath about parking.	neutral
And on tour with the president in Africa, Jesse Jackson gives Maureen Dowd his theology of the Lewinsky There are nine more Commandments.	Jesse Jackson had 20 commandments.	contradiction
Does computerization give ETS an unfair advantage?	Computers are biased in favor of ETS.	neutral
He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves.	The quality of the valves was quite good.	neutral
' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force.	Withdrawal of forces, a discontinuation of bombing, and having an international peace keeping force are all necessary.	entailment
And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.	Congress has a tendency to abuse its governmental power.	neutral
You look like f--ing hell, Brando, the Star reports he said, and he advised the actor to lose maybe a hundred pounds, pallie.	He said that Brando looked terrible and that he should lose a bit of weight.	entailment
Like many NBA old-timers, Bird deplores the MTVification of the league.	The MTVification of the league isn't liked by many of the old-timers.	entailment
Prudie must confess that your advice is a tad more constructive than her own.	Prudie often seeks advice from others.	neutral
An interview with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski finds him good-humored and sincere.	While he appeared sincere, it was merely a facade.	neutral
The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start Ms.	Janna Malamud Smith thinks we need complex guidelines about telling the truth.	contradiction
the thing is I don't know how I can pick one or the other as maid of honor.	I really like one option for maid of honor compared to the alternative.	contradiction
Inflation is at a 23-year low of 7 percent.	Inflation will continue at 7 percent for at least a decade.	neutral
Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)	Check out Page 2 for the unsatisfactory, but funny, responses.	entailment
Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one.	Bruce Ackerman, decided that he would forgo testifying before the House of Representatives, and let things play out on their own.	contradiction
France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.	France's economy is not doing well.	neutral
Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.	U.N. inspectors utilized similar actions in further countries to achieve similar results.	neutral
The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.	The U.S, and Sino do not have a good relationship.	entailment
Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.	Paul thinks there is a risk of decreasing the strength of the economy with the rise in national savings.	entailment
Both newsweeklies celebrate cities.	The newsweeklies had a huge celebration for the cities.	neutral
He has thought it through, spelled it out, and told you who's asking it and why.	He has done a lot for you.	entailment
The Republicans on the Hill--Issue 2--draw fire from all sides.	The Republicans on the Hill are opposed by all sides.	entailment
Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.	Taliban leaders declared a war against Islam.	contradiction
According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.	Sonny was very close to her husband at one time.	neutral
It means that you're the seventh or eighth on the call list to be lied to, instead of the 25 th .	You will be called after the 25th person.	contradiction
In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.	The new software is totally unlike Microsoft's Encarta.	contradiction
Kurds constitute only 10 percent of Iran's population; their culture and language are much closer to Iran's than they are to Turkey's or Iraq's; and Iranian governments have permitted them limited cultural expression, though no political autonomy.	No one in Turkey feels close to the Kurd's Culture and language.	neutral
The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker.	Gore and Gephardt to this day despise one another.	contradiction
The Bush people say the results of their effort aren't in yet, but they're optimistic and expect to stick with Internet advertising.	According to the Bush campaign, the results are not in yet but they are feeling hopeful with advertising on the interneet.	entailment
Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.	The book was a work of fiction based on science fiction.	contradiction
A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.	E-mail solicitations would eventually come to obtain a form of legal reassurance, in order to bring it to a similar place with traditional mail.	neutral
But he is older now.	His is now aged more.	entailment
Upon rebooting you'll find that the Internet Explorer icon is gone from your desktop and Windows works fine.	Windows will continue to work with the internet explorer icon gone.	entailment
Ut's was not the only camera present	All the cameras present were of nice quality.	neutral
We have to try to do something about the real world in which children are growing up.	In the real world where children are growing up, something needs to be done.	entailment
But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.	Declaring that happiness is dependent on economic levels and resources has subversive implications.	entailment
Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.	The Israeli army's Chief Medical Officer thinks people are happy to let his doctors practice on the fallen soldiers.	contradiction
The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends.	The movie follows the same conclusion as Todd Solondz's Happiness.	contradiction
The cover story asserts that Kenneth Starr's indictment of Julie Hiatt Steele is based on unbelievable assertions by Kathleen Willey, who choreographed her allegations to make them more marketable.	Kenneth Starr has insider knowledge.	neutral
For example, no reasonable person would expect the United States to invade or bomb Turkey to stop genocide against the Kurds.	It is to be expected of America to overrun Turkey due to genocide against the Kurds.	contradiction
The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).	HBO has a hip-hop film.	entailment
Meanwhile, Russia is debating whether to cut its conventional forces and authorize first use of its nukes as a substitute deterrent (as the United States will still do).	Russia has decided that U.S. appearance of aggression will be responded with nuclear force.	contradiction
The author of Bastard out of Carolina , known as a confessional memoirist par excellence, writes about someone other than herself, and earns mixed reviews.	Her audience prefers her older books.	neutral
Instead, the cost of computer gear is falling precipitously, and affordable bandwidth--the measure of data transmission--is growing at an exponential rate.	The amount of cheap bandwidth is growing, and computer gear is becoming less expensive.	entailment
They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.	Terrorists will hijack an airplane.	entailment
The following letter contains perhaps the funniest story the Shopping Avenger has heard about U-Haul, and by now the Shopping Avenger has received upward of 6.7 million complaints about U-Haul.	There have been few letters of complaints about U-Haul sent to the Shopping Avenger.	contradiction
Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told	Hatfield is unclear about anything that Eufaula has stated.	contradiction
Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif.	Mayor Jerry Brown served multiple terms in office.	neutral
The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division.	One item by itself could have made it successful.	contradiction
Glimpses into his character do not add up to a full motivation for Bunt's aimlessness (Thomas Keneally, the New York Times Book Review ).	Bunt's haphazard actions are fully justified and explained by his nature	contradiction
His proposal introduces prescription drug coverage and eliminates payment for preventive services but aims to cut costs by stoking price competition among HMOs and requiring patients to chip in for some services.	This policy would reduce a part of the costs of health care, and increase others	entailment
Smith's press secretary, Ken Wolfe, boasts that by offering that bill, We have called their bluff.	Smith had planned for the bluff to be called the whole time.	neutral

Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.

Senate Republicans rejected a campaign finance reform bill.

entailment

The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about.

He lied in every statement.

neutral

Neither exercise is intended to revive the patient.

Two exercises are performed to revive the patient.

contradiction

But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection.

I like to do things that are hard to make a connection.

entailment

For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.

Dawkins and Huffington have nothing to do with carpetbagger charge.

contradiction

An ecological theory of the kosher laws suggests that they're meant to proscribe animals who'd compete with us for the foods we need.

Kosher law specifically demands that all animals are consumed.

contradiction

e) Some or all of the above.

It is all of the above and that's final.

contradiction

This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape.

The New Yorker halted the Letters from Europr column.

neutral

Hill never claimed that her unpleasant encounters with Thomas constituted actionable sexual harassment.

Hill wanted to tell that Thomas sexually harrased her.

neutral

Better health care affects athletic ability directly.

Not all athletes receive this benefit of good health care.

neutral

He was tall, charismatic, with piercing blue eyes that made Monica weak inside--and, best of all, he was the most powerful man on Earth!

Monica had hoped he was single.

neutral

The important question is not whether Clinton had sex with her and lied about it but what the country should do about this.

Clinton cheated on his wife.

entailment

Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.

The magnates are struggling to earn any money.

contradiction

We see a worker clocking in while the narrator points to 10 million new jobs and, as the spot cuts to a Kennedyesque Clinton with children, it concludes with the phrase a better future.

The documentary highlights economic achievements under Clinton.

neutral

My situation is something of a good news-bad news thing.

I'm in one of the best situations that a person could be in right now.

contradiction

Get With It, Ye of Little Faith

One of little faith is trying to understand and get their act together.

neutral

Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin?

Wisconsin may require more than $25 million.

neutral

Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.

The actors and playwrights showed up at the theaters every night and put on a good show for the people.

contradiction

I loved everything about talking to the folks who schlepped there on a Sunday morning; the comic effect of having a guy dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog from public service ads, standing behind Dole.

I loathed every moment of having to talk to the people who were still there on Sunday morning.

contradiction

If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here.

The Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation was shown to be incorrect in what it asserts.

contradiction

Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.

It's not possible to support income redistribution and not appear hypocritical.

neutral

the tester meows as he drops the vermin on the developer's doorstep.

Cats love to bark after catching a vermin

contradiction

Coulter argues ad Clinton's China satellite policy was treason.

Clinton was in treason, argues China.

contradiction

Vice President Gore is on the hot seat in the campaign-finance investigation . The Washington Post reported that some of the money Gore raised in phone calls from the White House went to the Clinton-Gore campaign (hard money) instead of the Democratic National Committee (soft money).

The Washington Post ran a story on Vice President Gore.

entailment

This is another way of saying that in the last 30 years, the people who owned America have lost 40 percent of their wealth held in the form of equity.

Many Americans are struggling more now than in the past 30 years.

neutral

We admire perfectionist monomania in Internet tycoons, so why not in Martha?

Internet tycoons show enthusiasm.

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.

No one ever created a website dedicated to the situation.

contradiction

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.

Tragically, the plane carrying Paxon and his son Suby crashed midflight in Lake Superior.

contradiction

Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages.

He chose to disregard signing it.

entailment

I thought of ending the book with his quote, but then some other stuff happened in his life (you'll have to buy the book--$24.

The book can be bought for $24.

entailment

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

Ford and Nynex are working together

entailment

In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.

Doctors are corrupted in Chicago and Northridge.

neutral

And, as for the type of respect we Machiavelli's advice--that it is better to be feared than loved--will make much less sense in the 21 st century than it did in the 16 th . Goodwill toward America is becoming a national-security asset worth cultivating.

We should be kind toward America and more respectful.

entailment

This is a controversial practice even in Mozart concertos, and unheard of in 19 th -century works.

In his time, Mozart's compositions made people leave auditoriums in anger.

neutral

The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah.

Daryl Hannah wanted to end it prior to John F. Kennedy Jr.

neutral

No adult ever played with Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers.

Many adults enjoyed playing with Ninja Turtles.

contradiction

On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site).

Nixon gave permission for the Simpsons to use him in the show.

neutral

An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models).

An essay lauds authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with magazine models.

contradiction

To counteract mushy curricula (whole math, multiculturalism) and keep pace on the highly competitive college track.

Keeping pace with the competitive college scene doesn't involve unorthodox material.

entailment

As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be.

Big Trouble needed to be this big.

contradiction

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

The market previously had been in a period of high inflation.

neutral

The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.

The decision led to the strike ending much later than originally forecasted.

neutral

Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?

Bradley served in the military.

neutral

Our powerful, multipurpose computers will continue to become even more powerful, but as they acquire new skills--like voice recognition--their appeal will be limited by their price.

As AI becomes more common in powerful computers, this will decrease their price.

contradiction

But editorialists said Nicholson had made the investigators' job comically easy (he even climbed into a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian Embassy) and, even so, hadn't been caught and busted soon enough.

Nicholson was able to make the investigators' job harder for them after his initial mistake.

neutral

France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.

President Chirac has never said anything mean to anyone.

contradiction

How do we know when the president had done a good job?

How is it known when the president did their job well.

entailment

As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.

We are a new medium.

entailment

If he had lied under oath about parking illegally I wouldn't be so disgusted.

He did not lie under oath about parking.

neutral

And on tour with the president in Africa, Jesse Jackson gives Maureen Dowd his theology of the Lewinsky There are nine more Commandments.

Jesse Jackson had 20 commandments.

contradiction

Does computerization give ETS an unfair advantage?

Computers are biased in favor of ETS.

neutral

He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves.

The quality of the valves was quite good.

neutral

' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force.

Withdrawal of forces, a discontinuation of bombing, and having an international peace keeping force are all necessary.

entailment

And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.

Congress has a tendency to abuse its governmental power.

neutral

You look like f--ing hell, Brando, the Star reports he said, and he advised the actor to lose maybe a hundred pounds, pallie.

He said that Brando looked terrible and that he should lose a bit of weight.

entailment

Like many NBA old-timers, Bird deplores the MTVification of the league.

The MTVification of the league isn't liked by many of the old-timers.

entailment

Prudie must confess that your advice is a tad more constructive than her own.

Prudie often seeks advice from others.

neutral

An interview with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski finds him good-humored and sincere.

While he appeared sincere, it was merely a facade.

neutral

The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start Ms.

Janna Malamud Smith thinks we need complex guidelines about telling the truth.

contradiction

the thing is I don't know how I can pick one or the other as maid of honor.

I really like one option for maid of honor compared to the alternative.

contradiction

Inflation is at a 23-year low of 7 percent.

Inflation will continue at 7 percent for at least a decade.

neutral

Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)

Check out Page 2 for the unsatisfactory, but funny, responses.

entailment

Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one.

Bruce Ackerman, decided that he would forgo testifying before the House of Representatives, and let things play out on their own.

contradiction

France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.

France's economy is not doing well.

neutral

Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work.

U.N. inspectors utilized similar actions in further countries to achieve similar results.

neutral

The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.

The U.S, and Sino do not have a good relationship.

entailment

Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.

Paul thinks there is a risk of decreasing the strength of the economy with the rise in national savings.

entailment

Both newsweeklies celebrate cities.

The newsweeklies had a huge celebration for the cities.

neutral

He has thought it through, spelled it out, and told you who's asking it and why.

He has done a lot for you.

entailment

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

The Republicans on the Hill are opposed by all sides.

entailment

Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.

Taliban leaders declared a war against Islam.

contradiction

According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.

Sonny was very close to her husband at one time.

neutral

It means that you're the seventh or eighth on the call list to be lied to, instead of the 25 th .

You will be called after the 25th person.

contradiction

In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.

The new software is totally unlike Microsoft's Encarta.

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Kurds constitute only 10 percent of Iran's population; their culture and language are much closer to Iran's than they are to Turkey's or Iraq's; and Iranian governments have permitted them limited cultural expression, though no political autonomy.

No one in Turkey feels close to the Kurd's Culture and language.

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The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker.

Gore and Gephardt to this day despise one another.

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The Bush people say the results of their effort aren't in yet, but they're optimistic and expect to stick with Internet advertising.

According to the Bush campaign, the results are not in yet but they are feeling hopeful with advertising on the interneet.

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Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.

The book was a work of fiction based on science fiction.

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A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.

E-mail solicitations would eventually come to obtain a form of legal reassurance, in order to bring it to a similar place with traditional mail.

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But he is older now.

His is now aged more.

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Upon rebooting you'll find that the Internet Explorer icon is gone from your desktop and Windows works fine.

Windows will continue to work with the internet explorer icon gone.

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Ut's was not the only camera present

All the cameras present were of nice quality.

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We have to try to do something about the real world in which children are growing up.

In the real world where children are growing up, something needs to be done.

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But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.

Declaring that happiness is dependent on economic levels and resources has subversive implications.

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Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.

The Israeli army's Chief Medical Officer thinks people are happy to let his doctors practice on the fallen soldiers.

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The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends.

The movie follows the same conclusion as Todd Solondz's Happiness.

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The cover story asserts that Kenneth Starr's indictment of Julie Hiatt Steele is based on unbelievable assertions by Kathleen Willey, who choreographed her allegations to make them more marketable.

Kenneth Starr has insider knowledge.

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For example, no reasonable person would expect the United States to invade or bomb Turkey to stop genocide against the Kurds.

It is to be expected of America to overrun Turkey due to genocide against the Kurds.

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The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).

HBO has a hip-hop film.

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Meanwhile, Russia is debating whether to cut its conventional forces and authorize first use of its nukes as a substitute deterrent (as the United States will still do).

Russia has decided that U.S. appearance of aggression will be responded with nuclear force.

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The author of Bastard out of Carolina , known as a confessional memoirist par excellence, writes about someone other than herself, and earns mixed reviews.

Her audience prefers her older books.

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Instead, the cost of computer gear is falling precipitously, and affordable bandwidth--the measure of data transmission--is growing at an exponential rate.

The amount of cheap bandwidth is growing, and computer gear is becoming less expensive.

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They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.

Terrorists will hijack an airplane.

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The following letter contains perhaps the funniest story the Shopping Avenger has heard about U-Haul, and by now the Shopping Avenger has received upward of 6.7 million complaints about U-Haul.

There have been few letters of complaints about U-Haul sent to the Shopping Avenger.

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Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told

Hatfield is unclear about anything that Eufaula has stated.

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Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif.

Mayor Jerry Brown served multiple terms in office.

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The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division.

One item by itself could have made it successful.

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Glimpses into his character do not add up to a full motivation for Bunt's aimlessness (Thomas Keneally, the New York Times Book Review ).

Bunt's haphazard actions are fully justified and explained by his nature

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His proposal introduces prescription drug coverage and eliminates payment for preventive services but aims to cut costs by stoking price competition among HMOs and requiring patients to chip in for some services.

This policy would reduce a part of the costs of health care, and increase others

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Smith's press secretary, Ken Wolfe, boasts that by offering that bill, We have called their bluff.

Smith had planned for the bluff to be called the whole time.

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