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Last year, Clinton signed legislation prohibiting federal recognition of gay marriages, then bragged about it in campaign ads.	Clinton signed legislation saying gay marriage should be recognized by the federal courts.	contradiction
They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring.	Bush is trying to bring in new ethical issues that will make his self-image look better.	entailment
My kids after they graduate.	My husband and I decided not to have kids years ago.	contradiction
The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.	James Hewitt's mistress stole his love letters from Diana and tried to burn them to keep them hidden.	contradiction
He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination.	He wants him to try for the political group's nod.	entailment
Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.	National monetary authorities create a dangerous environment for global financial markets according to Kindleberger.	entailment
The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex.	The students feel that oral sex is a safer than having actual sexual intercourse.	neutral
This December, it will happen Tens of thousands of children will hound their parents into buying charming Dalmatian pups for Christmas.	Dalmatian pups were the worst toy of the Christmas season.	contradiction
If it doesn't wake up soon, another scandalous case will inevitably surface, and the government will take matters into its own hands.	The government alone can solve the situation	neutral
I might even vote for her.	I would never vote for her.	contradiction
Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe.	The complaint is legitimate.	entailment
But what does it mean?	It might mean something difficult to understand.	neutral
Vaclav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.	Vaclav Havel, who was in New York, went to Prague and meet Alexander Dubcek.	entailment
Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.	The owners of the building are delighted about the high praise that their architecture received in Times.	contradiction
Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates.	The Newsweek story helped to shed light into the plight of children who end up in this situation.	neutral
And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust.	Wilderness fantasies bore down on myself as I searched for the forest.	neutral
As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.	Bradley sees it as immoral to ever challenge anyone.	contradiction
He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context.	He wanted a short extract that would be sure to grab attention.	entailment
Another AP item in the Post reports that at her weekly news conference, Janet Reno admitted she has become so confused over the computer system in her office that she has forsaken it for paper and pencil.	Janet Reno didn't understand the computer in her office.	entailment
Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.	Americans are going to be skeptical until they see it work out.	neutral
There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.	Work never aspires to a lyric summing up.	contradiction
They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring.	Bush cares little about how other people view him or morality.	contradiction
First Build the prototype.	Building the prototype is the first step.	entailment
The media is going to beat it to death until he finally has to just say one way or the other.	The media has the upper hand in this issue.	entailment
As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes.	Remembering catastrophes is a contemporary Jewish tradition.	neutral
Mossad, which employs about 1,200 people, now has difficulty competing with private-sector recruiters . Its early agents were well-educated, European-born cosmopolitans who ran the agency like an exclusive club.	Mossad is the sole intelligence agency allowed to exist in Israel	contradiction
That much his memoir gets right.	His Memoir got somethings write.	entailment
Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.	The postal network was shut down by the US government.	contradiction
At the beginning of the novel the heroine, Elizabeth Shulman, feels so at home in her Jewish skin that God and the scriptures, worship and ritual, are all simple, practical things for her.	The novel was about animals and didn't contain anything about people or religion,	contradiction
Those who want to believe in the Torah codes will always be able to find ELS that impress them.	The Torah contains very interesting text for who believes in it	entailment
Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in ordinary dramas, too.	Peaceful harmony in dramas is always the right way to do it.	contradiction
Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.	Occidental culture is superior to the other cultures, and we should follow just this one	contradiction
The word fundamentally in the previous paragraph carries a lot of weight, but it is important to think of what is fundamental.	The word fundamentally in the last paragraph should be ignored because it is meaningless.	contradiction
It's not like we want it by mid-February.	Mid-February is not a deadline that we imposed.	entailment
He became a devoted editor of George , which seems likely to founder in his absence.	George will struggle when he leaves.	neutral
Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community.	James and Dewey liked the idea of personal pronouns.	entailment
O, how I faint when I of you do write,	I fall to the ground when I write of you because I like you so much.	neutral
Then the electricity hits him again, and the fire rises from his head, from the black leather mask, and he shudders forward and is slammed back against the chair.	He survived even this next jolt of electricity.	neutral
Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts.	Levi might be not as stylish as its competitors	entailment
FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection.	Rescuing people each passing year becomes more and more difficult.	neutral
Newt Gingrich said that if the evidence holds up, the United States should consider a military strike against Iran.	Newt Gingrich thought it absurd that the Iran strike even be proposed.	contradiction
The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.	It is suggested that the culture of bowling has experienced a shift to more of a fun outing with friends and family.	entailment
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films).	A Soldier's Daughter Constantly Cries. (October Films).	contradiction
Raves for this chronicle of the 1991 storm of the century that swallowed up a boatload of New England fishermen.	Often the New England fisherman will talk about the storm of 1991.	neutral
As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did.	Lucasfilm made a deal.	entailment
The Enquirer is probably the only publication in the world to go with this Lucy Mercer hypothesis.	Regarding the Lucy Mercer hypothesis, other publications do not believe in it but the Enquirer does.	entailment
Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless.	Infants can expect to be perfectly healthy following disease in infancy.	contradiction
That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.	Drunkenness leads to higher frequency of sex.	neutral
With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well.	He came from nothing and built his media empire in less than a decade.	neutral
I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference?	The difference wasn't noticeable to some.	neutral
says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.	Norm Dicks stood by his statement and was proven correct.	contradiction
And these are things that, in this day and age, are rarely said at all.	These things are hardly mentioned anymore.	entailment
That is labor's real job, the very core purpose of a union.	Labor does not participate in unions.	contradiction
Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks, are by and large following the classic patterns of immigrant and ethnic assimilation.	Regardless of the race, immigrants assimilate to a country using the same patterns.	neutral
Sunday's NYT was more than a little fascinated with the topic of whether or not companies with 20th Century in their names would change with the times.	All the companies that called themselves 20th Century have changed their names to 21st Century.	neutral
(The predictable lesson--justice isn't cut and dry--clogs the film's gears, says the Washington Post 's Eric Brace.)	Eric Brace of the Washington Post loves predictability in movies.	contradiction
(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue.	Two former players offered their anecdotes in the Slate Dialogue as 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 have largely been unsuccessful in disarming Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras.	contradiction
Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages.	He signed it, and even added one of his famous cheery little messages.	contradiction
Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of father-son talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed.	In the film, Levy was talking to his son about girls.	neutral
They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating.	Combative contests are a small part of how they see politics.	contradiction
In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1.	American RE was sold to a German company for a financial gain of $!.	entailment
Linux found my various devices, such as my mouse and graphics card.	My computer uses Windows.	contradiction
He was a very spiritual man, seeor . Some of the birds, however, would just fly straight up and dive down into the ground, embedding their beaks like the Daffy Duck of the gringo cartoon features.	The birds would then flap their wings in a futile attempt to unearth their beaks.	neutral
The Progressive Policy Institute's Rob Shapiro, who invented the concept of corporate welfare before Reich gave it a name, has identified $300 billion worth.	Reich is also a member of the Progressive Policy Institute.	neutral
But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious.	Eisner understood that one must stick to the old standard ways for a brand to succeed.	contradiction
However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.	The text is a critique of someone's measurement for popular music.	entailment
Like Seattle's software, bookselling, and coffee tycoons, Chihuly has triumphed by marketing and branding the hell out of his product, elevating it to something at once precious and ubiquitous.	Chihuly lives in Seattle.	neutral
But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture.	Evidence shows the European culture is stagnate and unchanging.	contradiction
Many of them in fine restaurants.	They view fine restaurants as a place they refuse to go.	contradiction
The wet wool smell of your uncles in their Eaton's sweaters and army surplus peacoats and shredded wheat for breakfast and thin ice on the tide pools and diesel as the engines kick in.	The smell of diesel overpowers the smell of wet wool.	neutral
A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.	Stephen Holden believes it's one of the worst movies of all time.	neutral
Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.	Clinton didn't seek to satisfy his sexual needs.	contradiction
Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting.	Ultimate fighting, wrestling, and boxing always involve blood.	neutral
Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail.	Bill Bradley is very vocal about his religion.	contradiction
The writers had to make their points in terms that people of the time would understand.	At the time, points had to be made by the writers so they would understand.	entailment
The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not?	Adoption agencies were unlikely to take in the small boy.	contradiction
The new company may also benefit from merging warehousing and inventory management, and ideally there will be joint production of components that both companies use.	The firm has applied these methods for several years.	contradiction
We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.	We will be back on the effort of appropriationinig three years worth of bills.	entailment
I'd say some News Quiz participants owe some quasi-autonomous but government-regulated agency a letter of apology.	A few News Quiz participants apologized for their behaviour.	neutral
The Washington Post 's front-page story notes, Gore has gone to great lengths to conceal Wolf's role.	Wolf's roles was hidden by Gore using great lengths.	entailment
Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is indispensable in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles The pair repeat the prediction that even privatization-friendly Dems will cynically whack GOP candidates who dare to support privatizing Social Security.	Cookie Roberts and Steve Roberts often have the same views about the GOP candidates.	neutral
Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's.	Universities publish dropout rates in order to motivate students to work harder.	neutral
There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look.	There was a time period where leg warmers were very popular in order to achieve an exercise class look.	entailment
Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover.	Schumer has good qualities as well.	neutral
Fred Thompson (who will chair the investigation), and campaign reform.	Fred Thompson is in charge of the investigation.	entailment
The unusual picks include Robert Smithson and Donald Judd.	Robert Smithson and Donald Judd were passed over.	contradiction
It costs virtually the same amount to produce, no matter how many people use it, and no matter how heavy the use.	The cost is the same no matter the use.	entailment
Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.	Information technology also helps with the ever fluctuating stock market.	neutral
The 1992-93 famine lacked the central direction of a genocide, and its victims were not murdered on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.	Humans that died in 1992 did not die due to race.	entailment
Their actual relationship was more complicated.	The relationship looked simple to others.	neutral
Is it true you have no penis?	The author is fed up with the person that they are talking to.	neutral
Crazy Richard Nixon and All That Jazz , by Leonard Garment (Times Books).	Leonard Garnet's Book was self published.	contradiction
You mean you want to slip into something that might attract the attention and admiration of a fellow mammal?	You changed your clothes to attract attention	entailment
Bettelheim believed grandiosely in being a guide, but he had fundamentally humble guidance to that in the end, as in the beginning (one of his favorite phrases), one can hope to grow only by endeavoring to be one's own guide.	Bettelheim focused on the importance of being a guide	entailment
Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.	A gavone is sort of live an Italian scmuck.	entailment
Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.	All nations have already been participation in the new currency.	contradiction
Unfortunately, most of today's credibility mongers invoke credibility precisely to avoid such a moral commitment.	Today's credibility mongers consistently show great credibility.	contradiction
In a way, it's Bradley's fault.	This one's on Bradley, in some form or another.	entailment
But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.	The self controlled optimist has saved up a lot of money and can now enjoy their life even more.	neutral

Last year, Clinton signed legislation prohibiting federal recognition of gay marriages, then bragged about it in campaign ads.

Clinton signed legislation saying gay marriage should be recognized by the federal courts.

contradiction

They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring.

Bush is trying to bring in new ethical issues that will make his self-image look better.

entailment

My kids after they graduate.

My husband and I decided not to have kids years ago.

contradiction

The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.

James Hewitt's mistress stole his love letters from Diana and tried to burn them to keep them hidden.

contradiction

He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination.

He wants him to try for the political group's nod.

entailment

Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.

National monetary authorities create a dangerous environment for global financial markets according to Kindleberger.

entailment

The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex.

The students feel that oral sex is a safer than having actual sexual intercourse.

neutral

This December, it will happen Tens of thousands of children will hound their parents into buying charming Dalmatian pups for Christmas.

Dalmatian pups were the worst toy of the Christmas season.

contradiction

If it doesn't wake up soon, another scandalous case will inevitably surface, and the government will take matters into its own hands.

The government alone can solve the situation

neutral

I might even vote for her.

I would never vote for her.

contradiction

Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe.

The complaint is legitimate.

entailment

But what does it mean?

It might mean something difficult to understand.

neutral

Vaclav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.

Vaclav Havel, who was in New York, went to Prague and meet Alexander Dubcek.

entailment

Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.

The owners of the building are delighted about the high praise that their architecture received in Times.

contradiction

Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates.

The Newsweek story helped to shed light into the plight of children who end up in this situation.

neutral

And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust.

Wilderness fantasies bore down on myself as I searched for the forest.

neutral

As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later.

Bradley sees it as immoral to ever challenge anyone.

contradiction

He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context.

He wanted a short extract that would be sure to grab attention.

entailment

Another AP item in the Post reports that at her weekly news conference, Janet Reno admitted she has become so confused over the computer system in her office that she has forsaken it for paper and pencil.

Janet Reno didn't understand the computer in her office.

entailment

Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.

Americans are going to be skeptical until they see it work out.

neutral

There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.

Work never aspires to a lyric summing up.

contradiction

They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring.

Bush cares little about how other people view him or morality.

contradiction

First Build the prototype.

Building the prototype is the first step.

entailment

The media is going to beat it to death until he finally has to just say one way or the other.

The media has the upper hand in this issue.

entailment

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

Remembering catastrophes is a contemporary Jewish tradition.

neutral

Mossad, which employs about 1,200 people, now has difficulty competing with private-sector recruiters . Its early agents were well-educated, European-born cosmopolitans who ran the agency like an exclusive club.

Mossad is the sole intelligence agency allowed to exist in Israel

contradiction

That much his memoir gets right.

His Memoir got somethings write.

entailment

Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.

The postal network was shut down by the US government.

contradiction

At the beginning of the novel the heroine, Elizabeth Shulman, feels so at home in her Jewish skin that God and the scriptures, worship and ritual, are all simple, practical things for her.

The novel was about animals and didn't contain anything about people or religion,

contradiction

Those who want to believe in the Torah codes will always be able to find ELS that impress them.

The Torah contains very interesting text for who believes in it

entailment

Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in ordinary dramas, too.

Peaceful harmony in dramas is always the right way to do it.

contradiction

Indeed, he sounds almost like a lefty relativist when he says we must accept global multiculturality and discard the linear view of history, which sees Western values as the inexorable fate of humankind.

Occidental culture is superior to the other cultures, and we should follow just this one

contradiction

The word fundamentally in the previous paragraph carries a lot of weight, but it is important to think of what is fundamental.

The word fundamentally in the last paragraph should be ignored because it is meaningless.

contradiction

It's not like we want it by mid-February.

Mid-February is not a deadline that we imposed.

entailment

He became a devoted editor of George , which seems likely to founder in his absence.

George will struggle when he leaves.

neutral

Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community.

James and Dewey liked the idea of personal pronouns.

entailment

O, how I faint when I of you do write,

I fall to the ground when I write of you because I like you so much.

neutral

Then the electricity hits him again, and the fire rises from his head, from the black leather mask, and he shudders forward and is slammed back against the chair.

He survived even this next jolt of electricity.

neutral

Levi relies on its famous brand name--competitors rely on their stylish cuts.

Levi might be not as stylish as its competitors

entailment

FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection.

Rescuing people each passing year becomes more and more difficult.

neutral

Newt Gingrich said that if the evidence holds up, the United States should consider a military strike against Iran.

Newt Gingrich thought it absurd that the Iran strike even be proposed.

contradiction

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

It is suggested that the culture of bowling has experienced a shift to more of a fun outing with friends and family.

entailment

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films).

A Soldier's Daughter Constantly Cries. (October Films).

contradiction

Raves for this chronicle of the 1991 storm of the century that swallowed up a boatload of New England fishermen.

Often the New England fisherman will talk about the storm of 1991.

neutral

As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did.

Lucasfilm made a deal.

entailment

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

Regarding the Lucy Mercer hypothesis, other publications do not believe in it but the Enquirer does.

entailment

Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless.

Infants can expect to be perfectly healthy following disease in infancy.

contradiction

That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.

Drunkenness leads to higher frequency of sex.

neutral

With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well.

He came from nothing and built his media empire in less than a decade.

neutral

I felt as if I had wandered in in the middle of the second act--why did it make such a big difference?

The difference wasn't noticeable to some.

neutral

says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.

Norm Dicks stood by his statement and was proven correct.

contradiction

And these are things that, in this day and age, are rarely said at all.

These things are hardly mentioned anymore.

entailment

That is labor's real job, the very core purpose of a union.

Labor does not participate in unions.

contradiction

Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks, are by and large following the classic patterns of immigrant and ethnic assimilation.

Regardless of the race, immigrants assimilate to a country using the same patterns.

neutral

Sunday's NYT was more than a little fascinated with the topic of whether or not companies with 20th Century in their names would change with the times.

All the companies that called themselves 20th Century have changed their names to 21st Century.

neutral

(The predictable lesson--justice isn't cut and dry--clogs the film's gears, says the Washington Post 's Eric Brace.)

Eric Brace of the Washington Post loves predictability in movies.

contradiction

(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue.

Two former players offered their anecdotes in the Slate Dialogue as 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 have largely been unsuccessful in disarming Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras.

contradiction

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

He signed it, and even added one of his famous cheery little messages.

contradiction

Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of father-son talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed.

In the film, Levy was talking to his son about girls.

neutral

They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating.

Combative contests are a small part of how they see politics.

contradiction

In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1.

American RE was sold to a German company for a financial gain of $!.

entailment

Linux found my various devices, such as my mouse and graphics card.

My computer uses Windows.

contradiction

He was a very spiritual man, seeor . Some of the birds, however, would just fly straight up and dive down into the ground, embedding their beaks like the Daffy Duck of the gringo cartoon features.

The birds would then flap their wings in a futile attempt to unearth their beaks.

neutral

The Progressive Policy Institute's Rob Shapiro, who invented the concept of corporate welfare before Reich gave it a name, has identified $300 billion worth.

Reich is also a member of the Progressive Policy Institute.

neutral

But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious.

Eisner understood that one must stick to the old standard ways for a brand to succeed.

contradiction

However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.

The text is a critique of someone's measurement for popular music.

entailment

Like Seattle's software, bookselling, and coffee tycoons, Chihuly has triumphed by marketing and branding the hell out of his product, elevating it to something at once precious and ubiquitous.

Chihuly lives in Seattle.

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But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture.

Evidence shows the European culture is stagnate and unchanging.

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Many of them in fine restaurants.

They view fine restaurants as a place they refuse to go.

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The wet wool smell of your uncles in their Eaton's sweaters and army surplus peacoats and shredded wheat for breakfast and thin ice on the tide pools and diesel as the engines kick in.

The smell of diesel overpowers the smell of wet wool.

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A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.

Stephen Holden believes it's one of the worst movies of all time.

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Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.

Clinton didn't seek to satisfy his sexual needs.

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Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting.

Ultimate fighting, wrestling, and boxing always involve blood.

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Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail.

Bill Bradley is very vocal about his religion.

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The writers had to make their points in terms that people of the time would understand.

At the time, points had to be made by the writers so they would understand.

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The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not?

Adoption agencies were unlikely to take in the small boy.

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The new company may also benefit from merging warehousing and inventory management, and ideally there will be joint production of components that both companies use.

The firm has applied these methods for several years.

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We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well.

We will be back on the effort of appropriationinig three years worth of bills.

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I'd say some News Quiz participants owe some quasi-autonomous but government-regulated agency a letter of apology.

A few News Quiz participants apologized for their behaviour.

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The Washington Post 's front-page story notes, Gore has gone to great lengths to conceal Wolf's role.

Wolf's roles was hidden by Gore using great lengths.

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Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is indispensable in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles The pair repeat the prediction that even privatization-friendly Dems will cynically whack GOP candidates who dare to support privatizing Social Security.

Cookie Roberts and Steve Roberts often have the same views about the GOP candidates.

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Unlike the universities, the military has none of the notorious statistics about dropouts and racial separatism and it has many success stories, such as Colin Powell's.

Universities publish dropout rates in order to motivate students to work harder.

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There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look.

There was a time period where leg warmers were very popular in order to achieve an exercise class look.

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Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover.

Schumer has good qualities as well.

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Fred Thompson (who will chair the investigation), and campaign reform.

Fred Thompson is in charge of the investigation.

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The unusual picks include Robert Smithson and Donald Judd.

Robert Smithson and Donald Judd were passed over.

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It costs virtually the same amount to produce, no matter how many people use it, and no matter how heavy the use.

The cost is the same no matter the use.

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Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies.

Information technology also helps with the ever fluctuating stock market.

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The 1992-93 famine lacked the central direction of a genocide, and its victims were not murdered on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.

Humans that died in 1992 did not die due to race.

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Their actual relationship was more complicated.

The relationship looked simple to others.

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Is it true you have no penis?

The author is fed up with the person that they are talking to.

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Crazy Richard Nixon and All That Jazz , by Leonard Garment (Times Books).

Leonard Garnet's Book was self published.

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You mean you want to slip into something that might attract the attention and admiration of a fellow mammal?

You changed your clothes to attract attention

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Bettelheim believed grandiosely in being a guide, but he had fundamentally humble guidance to that in the end, as in the beginning (one of his favorite phrases), one can hope to grow only by endeavoring to be one's own guide.

Bettelheim focused on the importance of being a guide

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Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.

A gavone is sort of live an Italian scmuck.

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Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.

All nations have already been participation in the new currency.

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Unfortunately, most of today's credibility mongers invoke credibility precisely to avoid such a moral commitment.

Today's credibility mongers consistently show great credibility.

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In a way, it's Bradley's fault.

This one's on Bradley, in some form or another.

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But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.

The self controlled optimist has saved up a lot of money and can now enjoy their life even more.

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