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Some might even take a sketchpad instead, or a paperback volume of Homer.
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Everyone prefers to take a computer, but very few consider taking a book or sketchpad.
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contradiction
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The trouble is that you've gone through so much pain to collect the damned junior-high-school transcript or the quote from Bellow's landlord in Paris in 1948 that you feel you have to put it in--just to get credit.
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But the credit was received and well worth it.
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neutral
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Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced.
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Since the nouns are reversed in the sentences the verbs are too.
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neutral
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Both are actors who involved themselves in politics.
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The actors who have different view points are involved in politics.
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neutral
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This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today.
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Many mainstream feminists are free of being perceived as resentful today.
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contradiction
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Schumer, like D'Amato, is aggressive, opportunistic, and unpleasant in more ways that I care to discover.
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Schumer is a lovely man.
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contradiction
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Hey, Mambo!Mambo Italiano ...Go, go, Joe!You mixed-up Siciliano
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Someone tells Joe to stop.
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contradiction
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The data are computerized, but for policy reasons the reports are not available online.
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The papers are stored in file cabinets but can be scanned and accessed online.
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contradiction
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Come fall and winter, surges and stumbles will really mean something.
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The surges and stumbles may mean something in the fall and winter.
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neutral
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The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts.
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Options trades are not known for inspiring charitable acts.
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entailment
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Well, did she or didn't she?
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There is a very good chance she did it herself.
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neutral
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It's a little hard to believe that the Jasons of the world end up straightening out, as Lewis titles the section about the worst-off cases, just as it's hard to buy the extreme view that parents are hopeless screw-ups.
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Lewis writes about positive family dynamics and ignores troubled cases.
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contradiction
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You've got to get Tripp to give him the go-ahead.
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Tripp is the one that has to give you the okay.
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entailment
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But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.
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W.H. Auden's saying was disproved momentarily.
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entailment
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But as Felix Frankfurter wrote in dissent, this distinction is silly.
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The author believes the distinction is silly.
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entailment
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Attitudes changed too.
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There has been a shift in attitudes.
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entailment
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The already-outdated cover story wonders if NATO's deal with Yugoslavia will hold.
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The cover story is from a month ago.
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contradiction
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Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.
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Taliban leaders executed the warlords in Afghanistan.
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neutral
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Once flight capabilities are established and demonstrated in a motion picture, they must be used consistently and logically throughout, without regard to the convenience of the filmmakers.
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You know, a filmmakers convenience ain't taken into regard about flight capabilities when they are making fighter jet movies.
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neutral
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I fear that a certain software billionaire may be a nut job.
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Someone is brave in their belief that a software billionaire is crazy.
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entailment
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My mother, who is a charming woman in almost all other respects, appears to have a grave problem staying employed.
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My mother has trouble keeping a job.
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entailment
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In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.
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McDonald has just one store in Hong Kong
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contradiction
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(Aniston, by the way, might want to compare notes with The Enquirer says that she too fell victim to a freak rear end accident this month when an overzealous deer nipped her hindquarters.
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The Enquirer ended up being right in most of what they reported about the accident.
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neutral
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But why should Bradley shut up about the Clinton-Gore fund-raising scandal?
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Bradley should shut up about the scandal.
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neutral
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Let me enlighten Almost every time I need to use the disabled stall (I am in a wheelchair), I have to wait for an AB to leave, and they all apologize meekly when they leave.
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The author is more disabled than those in the stall.
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neutral
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The unofficial spin, from James Jones is a puppet of greedy right-wingers, and besides, Clinton is whipping her in the polls.
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Clinton is beating her in the polls, and greedy right wings and other left wingers also.
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neutral
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The Pescis and Esther Williams won't come unless they get some!
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The Pescis and Esther Williams are very stubborn.
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neutral
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Another scheme, reported by the Chronicle last May, was the case of a fast-talking ex-convict who convinced dozens of professors that he was the nephew of esteemed Berkeley race and sports sociologist Harry Edwards.
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The ex-convict was Harry Edwards biological nephew.
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contradiction
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A core group of kids do have a distinct attention abnormality, but Ritalin worked so well--it can reduce distractibility even in perfectly normal children--that now almost any difficult child is considered for the diagnosis and drug.
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Ritalin helps all children not be so distracted.
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entailment
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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).
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Mickey Kaus also writes for other publications.
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neutral
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Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.
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Some presidents use parts of past presidents speeches.
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entailment
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In 1992, the paper delayed its expose of masher Sen.
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The paper did not delay exposing masher Sen.
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contradiction
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And, basset people, like me, want dogs that have the good sense not to do any of those things.
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Basset people want dogs who will be mean.
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contradiction
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The images in Touch of E v il have been boiled down so that all its ingredients are mashed together in the sludge.
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A Touch of Evil had only bad reviews.
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contradiction
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John Conyers, D-Mich., have used the Hale case to call for Starr's resignation.
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Starr's resignation has been called for.
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entailment
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2) An elderly Milwaukee couple are soliciting women to conceive and bear their grandchild, using frozen sperm from their dead son.
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There is a older couples from Milwaukee that are trying to find women to become pregnant using their decease sons frozen sperm.
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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 ghettos would continue to persist well into the future.
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neutral
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Newsweek 's Michael Jordan cover story focuses on off-the-court Jordan.
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The story focuses on Jordan away from the basketball court.
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entailment
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They assure the readers that they, like most economists and finance people, have their retirement savings in stocks.
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They assured the readers that they have their retirement savings in bonds and that they stay away from stocks.
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contradiction
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It was exciting, albeit in a slightly childish way, to see your name on that signboard, confirming that you still had your cushy job in this historic broadcasting center.
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The person that is mentioned works at a broadcasting company.
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entailment
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It also creates a presumption that it will be treated.
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It may be treated by doctors and nurses.
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neutral
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Sani Abacha died , reportedly of a heart attack.
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Sani Abacha passed away suddenly.
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entailment
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After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.
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Harvard committed a breach of trust.
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entailment
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The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate.
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There were other scandals still looming.
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neutral
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Such thinking has no doubt fostered an environment in which, reports the Journal , AT&T has 8,000 employees married to each other.
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The AT&T company was the focus of the article reported in the Journal.
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entailment
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She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me.
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Pentagon founts can talk about everything going on in their offices
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contradiction
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The 200 page report, the company says, merely pointed out that the Chinese rockets had faulty soldering.
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The company put out a 200 page report that included information about faulty soldering on Chinese rockets.
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entailment
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I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver.
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Due to lack of funding, the film would only have small, scattered showings throughout the Midwest.
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contradiction
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The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story.
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Nothing was said about the story by Bradley's staff.
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entailment
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Equity options themselves aren't the problem--they have legitimate uses--and without the ability to lock in positions that equity options offer, certain folks might not be in the equity market in the first place.
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Equity options are rarely legitimate for the consumer.
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contradiction
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For a turnaround to be real, the company has to become not merely profitable but also positioned for steady growth.
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In order for turnaround to happen, the company should be in good standing for growth AND be earning a lot of money.
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entailment
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I fear that a certain software billionaire may be a nut job.
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Someone is brave in their belief that Bill Gates is crazy.
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neutral
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Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their authenticity and ends in bowdlerization.
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Mintz has a personal problem with us.
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neutral
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Solid candidates, such as RFK (or HRC), weather the charges.
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Political figures are always honest.
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contradiction
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As was the case with Reebok, Hilfiger's pursuit of the minority market has exposed him to a backlash (it's probably no accident that Lauren, whose turf he invaded, was cast as the good guy in the Klensch Style story).
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The minority market was something that Hilfiger sought after
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entailment
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Still, Frisby did a better job than Woodward in offering meaning.
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Woodward's attempt to offer meaning was the best.
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contradiction
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She is hauled away, presumably to be killed.
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A woman has been forced to stay in place
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contradiction
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Along with Mad magazine, he provided comedy to my suburban boyhood--Schulz the philosophical and Mad the topical--at just the right intellectual level for a suburban boy.
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Mad magazine was outlawed in schools before the author's time.
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contradiction
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In a way, I think it has already helped Microsoft's image.
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The view we have of Microsoft was hurt greatly.
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contradiction
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And then there's everyone else in the city.
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Then there's everyone else in the countryside.
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contradiction
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Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.
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Making enemies of the lower classes hastened the downfall of the Whig party.
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neutral
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It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.
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It is straightforward to the point of being mundane.
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neutral
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They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children.
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They desire restrictions on teenage behavior.
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entailment
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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.
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The next hit of electricity caused him to shutter and fire to rise from his head.
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entailment
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Along with Mad magazine, he provided comedy to my suburban boyhood--Schulz the philosophical and Mad the topical--at just the right intellectual level for a suburban boy.
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Reading Mad magazine as a boy will bring positive memories of the event in the future.
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entailment
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Indeed, Tripp pulls down more than all but a handful of the U.S. military's most senior officers.
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Tripp is a 10 year senior officer in the U.S. military..
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neutral
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However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.
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The author is ecstatic about the measurement for popular music.
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contradiction
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Burn How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet ,by Michael Wolff (Simon & Schuster).
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The book was published by HarperCollins.
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contradiction
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I take my 15 cents and head for the liquor store.
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I decided that I was going to save my money and stay home.
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contradiction
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Some people think you have it easier.
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The subject effectively got it easier
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neutral
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(If that were my name, I might not want to talk about the scandal either.)
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The scandal had been unfolding for weeks.
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neutral
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Sometimes it's because there are nonmarket goods involved--the high value people place on personal safety, national security, a clean environment, or social welfare.
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People rank personal safety, national security, a clean environment and social welfare very low in what they consider valuable.
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contradiction
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Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey.
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Howard Davies directed Kevin Spacey in a movie.
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entailment
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The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.
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When he speaks about the government, Reagan prefers to get his point across directly.
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contradiction
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When high-status males leave their wives for a younger model, you can stigmatize them, damaging their social, and even professional, standing.
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Wealthy men are unable to be criticized for leaving their wives for younger women.
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contradiction
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Forks will receive funding for its entire wish list, probably with Port Angeles' conference center thrown in for good measure.
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Port Angeles' conference center will get funding.
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entailment
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The Orioles pressed for several design changes that lowered Camden Yards' top deck and produced a middle-row viewing distance of 199 feet, about eight rows closer than Arlington's.
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The team in Baltimore lowered the stadiums top deck.
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entailment
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Specifically, it wants $90,000 for a confiscated file of telegrams and letters sent in response to Nixon's famous Silent Majority speech.
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No time table was given as to if and when the $90,000 sum would be given, in reference to the confiscated file of telegrams and letters of the Nixon speech.
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neutral
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Yet, assume that this famous still was not portraying an act of Would it be a relief or a disappointment?
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The famous still is a disappointment to a majority of people.
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neutral
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Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments.
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Dr. Dean Ornish is a heart guru.
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entailment
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There was only one slip-up last week, when Rubin referred to them as our position.
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Rubin got all the information about our positions correct.
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contradiction
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It depends on how you score it.
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I could score it.
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neutral
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American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.
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Citizens of the US, mainly men, didn't really like the artistically written words from his works.
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neutral
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The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.
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It is true that the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.
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neutral
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Largely because they have heard so many alarming tales about HMOs.
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People have many great things to say about HMOs.
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contradiction
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Woodward's 1996 campaign finance pieces struck a chord that still rings, and I predict a similar impact for Barton Gellman's two-part series last week about how the United States and China nearly went to war in 1996 (click here and here).
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Woodward was thought to be wrong by everyone about his views on the 1996 campaign finance.
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contradiction
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The appeal lies partly in the weirdness of his obsessions (scantily clad little girls with penises), so pungently suggestive of an imagined world, says New York 's Mark Stevens.
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This type of fascination is extremely common.
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contradiction
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The difference, of course, is that instead of rewarding the poor, it rewards the powerful.
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Instead of rewarding the poor, we should be rewarding the powerful.
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contradiction
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I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son.
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The man had his son circumcised before the article was published.
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contradiction
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Tobacco growers managed to avoid that fate last year.
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Tobacco growers may hopefully avoid that fate next year.
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neutral
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And the name of that guy?
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The name of that girl is known by everyone
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contradiction
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(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in
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Krugman thinks the WTO is flawed.
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contradiction
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Civility is not one of the major virtues.
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One should be civil as they could be judged by that since it is a key virtue.
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contradiction
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Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.
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The patient anticipated his regular tics.
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neutral
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Everybody says--every politician--[that] it's to your disadvantage not to answer it.
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The popular consensus is to answer it.
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entailment
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He is a sort of vanguard, and follows her upon exiting.
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In the show, he decided against following her when she left the stage.
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contradiction
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But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news.
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Reporters rely heavily of seduction to tell the story.
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contradiction
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Time reports on a peculiar development in medical fake operations.
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The report of fake medical operations, as reported by Time, brought great awareness to the issue and brought about investigations into the matter.
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neutral
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The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world; and 2) fallen short of victory in Kosovo by using excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force in a conflict involving no strategic interest of the United States.
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United States decided to remain neutral regarding the conflict in Kosovo
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contradiction
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Dutch World, where all sorts of fictional characters created by Edmund Morris come out to play with children of all ages!
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These fictional characters from Dutch World were created by Morris.
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entailment
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