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A few seconds later, Jackie Kennedy comes on the line.
Jackie Kennedy received a call from a journalist regarding the current upheaval at the White House.
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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.
All adventurers want to be famous.
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We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions.
They disagree on that.
contradiction
(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.)
George W. Bush was a mayor and never ran for congress.
contradiction
The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.
Microsoft is under scrutiny by the government.
entailment
What, you may ask, is the key difference between chemical and biological weapons?
What is the difference between chemical and biological weapons?
entailment
The wrestlers also enact crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.
The wrestlers' performances include crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.
entailment
According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco.
Dopamine is the cause of addictions.
entailment
Perhaps so, but in that case somebody should tell this to Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division.
They think Joel Klein should remain uninformed about this.
contradiction
When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help.
Dexter found that Atlanta based nonprofits were doing fine without assistance.
contradiction
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.
Johnson risked to be impeached despite the weak charges
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At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none.
Ken Starr must have felt extremely proud of himself.
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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.)
The handful of people who are enamored with their jobs are perceived as weird.
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He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years.
He wasn't a very innovative person
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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.
There are no quotes in the book.
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I bet that what Carrey saw from inside Kaufman's head would be more illuminating than anything in the movie.
The author did not find the movie to be particularly inspiring.
entailment
As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.
Corporate and public-interest lobbyists are rarely involved in these cases marketed to the state attorneys general.
contradiction
Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.
The author blames Hillary for forcing Clinton to seek sex elsewhere.
entailment
TV is the most important medium for conveying history.
Historical information is best conveyed through text.
contradiction
Staying on that show is like staying in an abusive marriage.
The people on the show are like a loving family.
contradiction
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.
The ad executive showed a knack for clairvoyance.
contradiction
(The analogy is imperfect, because there's no fixed line of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, only a broad gray field.)
The line between fiction and nonfiction is not clear.
entailment
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 ).
It is claimed the film doesn't have any real sense of continuity.
entailment
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.
The men are always available to her.
contradiction
Let me send it back over to you to address some of them.
They need to be addressed.
entailment
But if they just gave the magazine away, advertisers would lose interest.
The one's buying the ads would lose out in future revenue.
neutral
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.
All workers protecting the law are saints who can do no wrong in my eyes.
contradiction
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.
Smiley attacked the classic Twain novel.
entailment
In tears, jailbird confesses to her role in the murder of Vince Foster and 'anything else Ken Starr wants.
Besides The confessed murder Jailbird has commuted three other crimes.
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Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington.
Elizabeth Drew's reporting style has garnered a bit of a following.
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It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.
This act is very virtuous
contradiction
The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.
The bastion is unworthy of being defended.
contradiction
The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul.
Both magazines recount the last drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul.
entailment
The family has also tightened its grip on King's work.
The family didn't trust the king's work so they needed to tighten their grip.
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If you're lying, shame on you.
The author shames those who lie.
entailment
Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ...
Streams in the Rockies form lakes.
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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.
Kundera's groundbreaking ideologies haven taken the world by storm.
contradiction
(At least they said it was hers when Sophie R-C handed over a100,000 of Bill Gates' money.)
Sophie R-C had some business relationship with Bill Gates
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I missed the last couple of days because of a computer crash.
The author missed a couple of days due to a car crash.
contradiction
There are those who argue passionately that life originated with a single replicated molecule.
Christians do not believe in life originating from molecules nowadays.
neutral
Of course he wasn't under oath, so that's OK.
People say exclusively the truth when under oath
contradiction
Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet!
A bullet for a tiny weapon costs more than a rocket
contradiction
Even so, analysts' recommendations have manifested the Wall Street equivalent of grade inflation.
Analysts have other recommendations besides the Wall Street Equivalent of grade inflation.
neutral
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.
Unpredictable results come up when applying economic theories to criminality.
contradiction
Chinese President Jiang Zemin is attracting scrutiny now that his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, is dead.
The leader of Chinas political rival passed away.
entailment
I think neglecting to mention this shows that the Journal 's editorial page lacks intellectual integrity.
The Journal has time and time again shown its great intellectual integrity and honesty.
contradiction
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.
Flowers and the troopers are better off inventing a new story.
entailment
All of these measures together will not cause the ghettos to disappear.
The measures that are in place could do noting to bring an end to the impoverished ghetto.
entailment
A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1.
Risk-neutral people are indifferent to gambling.
neutral
Missed the link to more blather on independence?
It's not unusual to hear speeches about independence
entailment
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep.
Dick Armey is a democrat.
contradiction
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.
Immigrants are ready to spend no more than $10k to get a green card
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I invite you to compare Reich's account with reality by clicking .
Reich's account of reality is not the same as yours.
entailment
What happens to an artist whose characters refuse to cooperate?
The characters of an artist don't cooperate if the artist doesn't feel strongly for them
neutral
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.
The oligarchs began to switch out their rubles for dollars, as money began to quickly disappear in the land.
entailment
Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?
The guides are covering the city very differently.
contradiction
Dr. Arroway (Foster) explains herself to Joss (McConaughey).
Joss explains herself to Dr. Arroway.
contradiction
Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.
Don't expect a package tomorrow if you upgrade to next day air.
entailment
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.
Judges have historically made the law into what they want it to say.
entailment
Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.
The study is done even with red wines
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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.
It won the CBS suit and $1,700 plus legal fees from USA Today.
entailment
The rest is only half-glimpsed, fantasized, or saturated by memory--or is the present the memory?
It's very clearly written
neutral
O, how I faint when I of you do write,
I stand strong when I write about you.
contradiction
Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?
His major achievement was in physics.
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5 percent of the GDP in calendar year 1994.
5 percent of the GDP occurred during 1994.
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And second, in fact, there is no obligation to disclose anything.
The author is actively preventing others from speaking.
contradiction
But I'm not kidding, it's time for her to go.
She is welcome to stay for a long time.
entailment
For such people, he said, the Pope becomes persona non grata when he tries to convince the world of human sin.
When the Pope bans certain groups from a country, he tries to convince the world of human sins.
entailment
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.
In this world we will judge politicians with careful consideration of their personalities.
contradiction
Get rid of all guns?
Eliminate all the guns?
entailment
There's something unbearably sad about a 60-year-old man who still takes drugs.
The 60-year-old man's habits were under control and he was not abusing them.
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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.
The way he does this is the best way.
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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?
The person is leaving the country soon.
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b) Did not quit on principle after Clinton admitted lies.
The person wanted to quit when Clinton lied.
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The pessimistic one will lead to the other.
The other is a positive one.
neutral
Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.
The establishment was open to everyone, accepting even the drabbest of guests.
contradiction
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.
Couples with varying incomes pay different amounts.
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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.
Locally storing data that is automatically grabbed from the web is a newer development in software.
entailment
Last year, advertisers spent $2 billion on the Internet, compared with $35 billion spent on broadcast TV and $10 billion spent on cable.
The bulk amount of the ad money is spent on broadcast TV.
entailment
But I begin to see in the public's indifference to the myriad accusations of presidential adultery that Weisberg speaks for the majority.
I have began to notice that the public has lack of interest in presidents who are accused of adultery.
entailment
Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book a fascinating cautionary tale of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects.
Amy Cortese loved the book.
entailment
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.
Only a few measures were needed to succeed, not all of them.
neutral
I have filters that keep me from being subjected to that sort of language in my e-mail.
My email inbox is filled with offensive emails.
contradiction
Twenty-four terms is enough for anyone.
Twenty-four terms is universally satisfactory.
entailment
Political analysts pretend to explain the past and predict the future with the same certainty as natural scientists.
Natural scientists are the same as political analysts.
contradiction
Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid
Kennedy decided to bide his time and went on a hiatus that spanned 1964.
contradiction
Religious conservatives complain that the GOP has ignored their causes.
The GOP frequently ignores religious conservatives.
neutral
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.
The man wants his marriage to work, but is thinking about telling his wife he doesn't feel like he is her focus.
neutral
Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it.
Microsoft’s defensive nature is to protect itself from attacks by the government.
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The cover story reports on Robert McNamara's visit with his old North Vietnamese counterparts.
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.
neutral
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems.
The committee asked Samaranch about corruption.
neutral
We have an obligation to sit back as jurors and let the case be presented (Santorum).
The Jury is obligated to sit and watch the presentation of the case.
entailment
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.
Japan has been doing all it can for those that felt victimized.
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 has meet the president of an African country.
entailment
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.
A person took there life because of the one-day crash of '87.
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It's not hard to see why they use it.
It is useless to them.
contradiction
If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax.
I pay tax if I write my name where it's suppose to go and cash it.
entailment
The main reason the media have greeted Jack Kemp so rapturously isn't his ideas, his optimism, or his compassion.
The media greeted Jack Kemp rapturously because of his style.
neutral
Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns.
Burton is pretending again with another question.
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 information about the affair was true and accurate.
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