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A few seconds later, Jackie Kennedy comes on the line.
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Jackie Kennedy received a call from a journalist regarding the current upheaval at the White House.
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neutral
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The motivation of adventurers everywhere is to achieve something no one else has achieved and to derive the pleasure that arises from that--and, not incidentally, to get famous by writing books about it.
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All adventurers want to be famous.
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neutral
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We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions.
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They disagree on that.
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contradiction
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(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.)
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George W. Bush was a mayor and never ran for congress.
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contradiction
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The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.
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Microsoft is under scrutiny by the government.
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entailment
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What, you may ask, is the key difference between chemical and biological weapons?
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What is the difference between chemical and biological weapons?
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entailment
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The wrestlers also enact crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.
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The wrestlers' performances include crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.
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entailment
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According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco.
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Dopamine is the cause of addictions.
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entailment
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Perhaps so, but in that case somebody should tell this to Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division.
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They think Joel Klein should remain uninformed about this.
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contradiction
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When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help.
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Dexter found that Atlanta based nonprofits were doing fine without assistance.
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contradiction
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In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them.
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Johnson risked to be impeached despite the weak charges
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neutral
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At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none.
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Ken Starr must have felt extremely proud of himself.
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neutral
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(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.)
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The handful of people who are enamored with their jobs are perceived as weird.
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neutral
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He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years.
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He wasn't a very innovative person
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entailment
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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.
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There are no quotes in the book.
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neutral
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I bet that what Carrey saw from inside Kaufman's head would be more illuminating than anything in the movie.
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The author did not find the movie to be particularly inspiring.
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entailment
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As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.
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Corporate and public-interest lobbyists are rarely involved in these cases marketed to the state attorneys general.
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contradiction
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Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.
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The author blames Hillary for forcing Clinton to seek sex elsewhere.
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entailment
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TV is the most important medium for conveying history.
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Historical information is best conveyed through text.
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contradiction
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Staying on that show is like staying in an abusive marriage.
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The people on the show are like a loving family.
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contradiction
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As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there.
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The ad executive showed a knack for clairvoyance.
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contradiction
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(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)
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The line between fiction and nonfiction is not clear.
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entailment
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Detractors say the film lacks any real sense of narrative continuity and feels like bits and pieces of half a dozen coming-of-age films (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ).
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It is claimed the film doesn't have any real sense of continuity.
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entailment
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What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable.
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The men are always available to her.
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contradiction
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Let me send it back over to you to address some of them.
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They need to be addressed.
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entailment
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But if they just gave the magazine away, advertisers would lose interest.
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The one's buying the ads would lose out in future revenue.
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neutral
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I would encourage a reinterpretation of the exclusionary principle to keep criminals in jail where they belong, but only if the cops and prosecutors are severely punished for their crimes as well.
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All workers protecting the law are saints who can do no wrong in my eyes.
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contradiction
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After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.
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Smiley attacked the classic Twain novel.
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entailment
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In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.
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Besides The confessed murder Jailbird has commuted three other crimes.
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neutral
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
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Elizabeth Drew's reporting style has garnered a bit of a following.
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neutral
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It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.
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This act is very virtuous
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contradiction
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The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.
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The bastion is unworthy of being defended.
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contradiction
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The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul.
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Both magazines recount the last drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul.
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entailment
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The family has also tightened its grip on King's work.
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The family didn't trust the king's work so they needed to tighten their grip.
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neutral
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If you're lying, shame on you.
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The author shames those who lie.
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entailment
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Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ...
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Streams in the Rockies form lakes.
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neutral
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No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.
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Kundera's groundbreaking ideologies haven taken the world by storm.
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contradiction
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(At least they said it was hers when Sophie R-C handed over a100,000 of Bill Gates' money.)
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Sophie R-C had some business relationship with Bill Gates
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neutral
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I missed the last couple of days because of a computer crash.
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The author missed a couple of days due to a car crash.
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contradiction
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There are those who argue passionately that life originated with a single replicated molecule.
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Christians do not believe in life originating from molecules nowadays.
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neutral
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Of course he wasn't under oath, so that's OK.
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People say exclusively the truth when under oath
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contradiction
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Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet!
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A bullet for a tiny weapon costs more than a rocket
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contradiction
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Even so, analysts' recommendations have manifested the Wall Street equivalent of grade inflation.
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Analysts have other recommendations besides the Wall Street Equivalent of grade inflation.
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neutral
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Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.
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Unpredictable results come up when applying economic theories to criminality.
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contradiction
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Chinese President Jiang Zemin is attracting scrutiny now that his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, is dead.
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The leader of Chinas political rival passed away.
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entailment
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I think neglecting to mention this shows that the Journal 's editorial page lacks intellectual integrity.
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The Journal has time and time again shown its great intellectual integrity and honesty.
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contradiction
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As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.
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Flowers and the troopers are better off inventing a new story.
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entailment
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All of these measures together will not cause the ghettos to disappear.
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The measures that are in place could do noting to bring an end to the impoverished ghetto.
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entailment
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A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1.
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Risk-neutral people are indifferent to gambling.
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neutral
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Missed the link to more blather on independence?
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It's not unusual to hear speeches about independence
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entailment
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House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep.
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Dick Armey is a democrat.
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contradiction
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When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character.
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Immigrants are ready to spend no more than $10k to get a green card
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neutral
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I invite you to compare Reich's account with reality by clicking .
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Reich's account of reality is not the same as yours.
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entailment
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What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
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The characters of an artist don't cooperate if the artist doesn't feel strongly for them
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neutral
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But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available.
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The oligarchs began to switch out their rubles for dollars, as money began to quickly disappear in the land.
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entailment
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Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?
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The guides are covering the city very differently.
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contradiction
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Dr. Arroway (Foster) explains herself to Joss (McConaughey).
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Joss explains herself to Dr. Arroway.
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contradiction
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Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.
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Don't expect a package tomorrow if you upgrade to next day air.
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entailment
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To Scalia, however, the idea that judicial power responds to the demands of the time merely proves that there have always been willful judges who bend the law to their wishes.
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Judges have historically made the law into what they want it to say.
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entailment
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Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.
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The study is done even with red wines
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neutral
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Besides the CBS suit, it won $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today after the newspaper reprinted the I Have a Dream speech without permission.
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It won the CBS suit and $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today.
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entailment
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The rest is only half-glimpsed, fantasized, or saturated by memory--or is the present the memory?
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It's very clearly written
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neutral
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O, how I faint when I of you do write,
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I stand strong when I write about you.
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contradiction
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Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?
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His major achievement was in physics.
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neutral
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5 percent of the GDP in calendar year 1994.
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5 percent of the GDP occurred during 1994.
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neutral
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And second, in fact, there is no obligation to disclose anything.
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The author is actively preventing others from speaking.
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contradiction
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But I'm not kidding, it's time for her to go.
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She is welcome to stay for a long time.
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entailment
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For such people, he said, the Pope becomes persona non grata when he tries to convince the world of human sin.
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When the Pope bans certain groups from a country, he tries to convince the world of human sins.
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entailment
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So now we are living in the world everyone has long claimed to where we judge politicians based only on the issues and their public records of governance.
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In this world we will judge politicians with careful consideration of their personalities.
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contradiction
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Get rid of all guns?
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Eliminate all the guns?
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entailment
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There's something unbearably sad about a 60-year-old man who still takes drugs.
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The 60-year-old man's habits were under control and he was not abusing them.
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neutral
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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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The way he does this is the best way.
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neutral
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Truly, I believe the country is in the best of hands, but how do I rid myself of these impure thoughts?
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The person is leaving the country soon.
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neutral
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b) Did not quit on principle after Clinton admitted lies.
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The person wanted to quit when Clinton lied.
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neutral
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The pessimistic one will lead to the other.
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The other is a positive one.
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neutral
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Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.
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The establishment was open to everyone, accepting even the drabbest of guests.
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contradiction
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For two earners each making $23,350, Alterman is serendipitously close to the mark when he asserts a marriage penalty of $1,001 a year.
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Couples with varying incomes pay different amounts.
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neutral
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Even this distinction, though, is changing with the development of off-line software that automatically goes to the Web to retrieve material, and stores it on your own computer.
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Locally storing data that is automatically grabbed from the web is a newer development in software.
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entailment
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Last year, advertisers spent $2 billion on the Internet, compared with $35 billion spent on broadcast TV and $10 billion spent on cable.
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The bulk amount of the ad money is spent on broadcast TV.
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entailment
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But I begin to see in the public's indifference to the myriad accusations of presidential adultery that Weisberg speaks for the majority.
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I have began to notice that the public has lack of interest in presidents who are accused of adultery.
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entailment
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Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book a fascinating cautionary tale of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects.
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Amy Cortese loved the book.
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entailment
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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.
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Only a few measures were needed to succeed, not all of them.
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neutral
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I have filters that keep me from being subjected to that sort of language in my e-mail.
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My email inbox is filled with offensive emails.
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contradiction
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Twenty-four terms is enough for anyone.
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Twenty-four terms is universally satisfactory.
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entailment
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Political analysts pretend to explain the past and predict the future with the same certainty as natural scientists.
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Natural scientists are the same as political analysts.
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contradiction
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Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid
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Kennedy decided to bide his time and went on a hiatus that spanned 1964.
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contradiction
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Religious conservatives complain that the GOP has ignored their causes.
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The GOP frequently ignores religious conservatives.
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neutral
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My wish is to make this marriage work because I love my wife, but I am feeling like second fiddle to a gang of girls.
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The man wants his marriage to work, but is thinking about telling his wife he doesn't feel like he is her focus.
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neutral
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Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it.
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Microsoft’s defensive nature is to protect itself from attacks by the government.
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neutral
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The cover story reports on Robert McNamara's visit with his old North Vietnamese counterparts.
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Robert McNamra has an article written about him concerning his visit with old buddies from North Vietnam that he fought in the war side by side with.
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neutral
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IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems.
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The committee asked Samaranch about corruption.
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neutral
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We have an obligation to sit back as jurors and let the case be presented (Santorum).
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The Jury is obligated to sit and watch the presentation of the case.
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entailment
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Asahi Shimbun added that if Japan had tried to resolve these problems a little at a time, those who felt themselves victimized by Japan might have felt at least somewhat mollified; but that with the passing of time while we do nothing, however, discontent and ill will can coalesce into bitter enmity.
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Japan has been doing all it can for those that felt victimized.
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neutral
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And on tour with the president in Africa, Jesse Jackson gives Maureen Dowd his theology of the Lewinsky There are nine more Commandments.
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Jesse Jackson has meet the president of an African country.
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entailment
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The one-day crash of '87, for example, reduced people's net worth by billions without directly reducing by as much as a single doughnut the amount of goods and services or the economy's ability to produce more of them.
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A person took there life because of the one-day crash of '87.
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neutral
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It's not hard to see why they use it.
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It is useless to them.
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contradiction
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If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax.
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I pay tax if I write my name where it's suppose to go and cash it.
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entailment
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The main reason the media have greeted Jack Kemp so rapturously isn't his ideas, his optimism, or his compassion.
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The media greeted Jack Kemp rapturously because of his style.
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neutral
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Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns.
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Burton is pretending again with another question.
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entailment
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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.
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The information about the affair was true and accurate.
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neutral
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