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They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children.	Many teens are rebelling, some even threatening to leave home permanently.	neutral
our casual voodoo the pleasure to give pain that gives pleasure of pain, unmerited, cruel, free creation	Casual voodoo is harmful to those who partake in it.	neutral
Technology to me has its good points and its bad points.	Technology has made it impossible for the world to advance.	contradiction
Finally, as he prepares to launch his own daily TV show, we thought we'd highlight National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker's confident prediction that there'll never, ever be a post-Lewinsky photo showing Bill [Clinton] with a cigar.	Mike Walker works for the New York Times.	contradiction
Another online pollster, Harris Interactive, is using its Harris Poll Online to learn about the public's views on the 2000 election.	The Harris Poll Online was used to learn public views about the 1988 election.	contradiction
The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you.	Thinking about farming canines makes you sick.	entailment
And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can.	Hospitals bill for everything they can with insurers in order to get as much profit as they can.	entailment
We anticipate accidents at stock car races.	We never expect accidents at stock car races.	contradiction
This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.	Bernhard Riemann work would resonate for years to come, much past 1859.	neutral
How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.	The Republican solution is better.	entailment
6) The real outrage is that boxing officials won't be able to raise enough money to pay the exorbitant sums the boxers are demanding for a rematch.	The boxers demand an unreasonable amount of money to perform in a rematch.	entailment
There have even been some frustrated musings among conservative writers and pundits that the people are not necessarily all-wise.	The conservative writers and pundits have only spoke about how impressed they are with the wisdom that the average person is able to display in this day and age.	contradiction
The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.	The governor's wife spent tens of thousands of dollars for a single piece of jewelry	neutral
Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.	Clinton was seen snarfing down his food at McDonalds in Hawaii.	entailment
The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.	Germans have thicker hair than other Europeans.	neutral
Rosenthal, and other conservatives for their flirtations with Farrakhan.	Conservatives avoid relating themselves with Farrakhan.	contradiction
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a Bush rival, Here is a fellow that went and flew airplanes and learned to be a pilot and was prepared to go, if he had to go.	Orrin Hatch was educated to be a pilot.	entailment
The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.	The aftermath of Malaysia's economic apostasy is dependent on the weight of Mahathir's crimes.	contradiction
But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best.	Tutors hate helping any student with their math homework.	contradiction
Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.	The cost of making a phone call went up quickly to almost 5 dollars a minute.	neutral
He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.	He was unable to free himself from anyone.	entailment
And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.	The soil samples have to be picked by me.	neutral
First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection.	The entire collection was destroyed due to the epidemic.	entailment
This is where I disagree with Michael Lind--and with you, Fred, I'm guessing.	Fred disagrees with the writer.	neutral
Then Bauer hit Bush for not adhering to conservative values, being clandestinely pro-abortion, and assorted other sins.	Bush adhered to his conservative values and was praised for it.	contradiction
Click Start , then Find , then Files or Folders , type *.dll , then hit Find Now . (Make sure your hard drive is selected in the drop-down list in Look in .) On my computer I found 1,230 .dll files.	You should type the extension of the file or folder type you want after clicking Start and then Find and Files and Folders.	entailment
That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change.	Theories are applicable in certain circumstances and those circumstances may change.	entailment
A story says tourism is destroying the Chicago blues scene.	There is only one sentence.	contradiction
There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable.	Jeffrey Sachs is one of those who are considered to be smart.	entailment
What's their bet?	They have a bet.	entailment
The brand that we now think of as irresistible seemed tired and used up, and this now seamlessly efficient company lacked even a formal business model before 1983.	Despite some high hopes in its promising start, the brand has been on a steady decline.	contradiction
Missed the link to more blather on independence?	We need to hear more speeches about independence	contradiction
This tax-cutting initiative, which he is readying for the November 2000 election, will cap annual property-tax appraisals at 2 percent and exempt vehicles from the property tax (on the long shot that the government might start taxing cars as property).	One policy of this initiative includes the doing away of property-tax appraisals.	contradiction
It is beyond me to chart the future byways of the digital revolution, but I'll venture one counterintuitive Electronic media will usher in a resurgence in the quality and value in handwriting.	I can definitively chart the future of the digital revolution.	contradiction
It's Sunday, what channel is this?	The channel is a news channel.	neutral
In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.	Few companies give ten percent away per quarter.	neutral
Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with other people's Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or whoever.	The shift in change has been good.	neutral
Kondracke screams back that he's used them before, he'll use them again.	Kondracke has an anger problem	neutral
Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy.	The actor of the elder beauty made the movie unbearable to one critic.	neutral
Much of the money given away by the Slate 60 goes to finance new buildings at already wealthy universities.	Slate 60 only gives away a very small amount of money to finance new buildings at wealthy universities.	contradiction
Could we curb Milosevic's aggression through diplomacy rather than bombing?	Milosevic is a ruthless dictator.	neutral
Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this.	I definitely am not fond of Mastering Linux.	entailment
Smith's political ideas are more elusive.	Smith does not mean to be evasive.	neutral
Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago, fanning up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships.	Seamus Heaney's poems won a few prizes	neutral
While the home still evinces mutterings of Xanadu from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor.	Spelling is perceived as dumb to Californians.	neutral
An entire six pack.	This item is packaged only in multiple of six	neutral
A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.	The media didn't report on the war against fat.	contradiction
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.	In 1970 Kennedy was still the president.	contradiction
Today we cede our vision of '50s female fashion to the movie version, as if that were the real mirror of the decade--everything blatantly cleansed of error, willfully idealized into unreality, odorless, effortless, affectless.	The fashion from the '50s has never gone out of style.	contradiction
She studied the First Amendment with Tommie the Commie Emerson and was seen around the influential circle of Robert Borosage, later connected to the Institute for Policy Studies which promoted pro-Soviet movements in the Third World at the height of the renewed Cold War.	She looked over part of the Constitution, which helped give her clout with an important clique.	entailment
We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.	The author's acts of philanthropy serve to boost his self-interests.	entailment
But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part.	The mistake was not able to be fixed.	neutral
As Lost in the Funhouse notes, Kaufman actually joined Lawler on the professional circuit and traveled across the country in a kind of touring carnival.	The pair would often hit the trail in this life on tour.	entailment
We should lead by example and suasion.	Setting an example is a way to lead.	entailment
Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted nay on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.	Despite including some of her own suggestions, she voted no on the bill anyway.	entailment
4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority.	Syria's conditions might be improved by the Palestinian Authority	neutral
And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development.	Economic development is only based on low wages.	contradiction
I was about to say that studies showed no connection.	There is no connection between the studies of science and math.	neutral
Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?	Modernist momento mori is best exemplified by eviscerated cows and death throed fowl.	neutral
I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.	She was going to be in the wedding.	entailment
driving a car--that are not wrong in themselves, just wrong for a 5-year-old.	Having a 5 year old drive is not okay.	entailment
Their actual relationship was more complicated.	They kept their relationship simple.	contradiction
, Goodwin) argue that Roosevelt spawned the civil rights and feminist movements by putting everyone to work regardless of race or gender.	Roosevelt did much to get people out of work and create a system of inequality among the people.	contradiction
(His colleagues feel he's a showboat and a camera hog, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.)	He has wanted to be an actor for a long time.	neutral
Waking Ned Devine might have been a snooze if Jones hadn't stocked it with a slew of old actors with magically lived-in visages.	Waking Ned Devine received plenty of good reviews but also bad ones	neutral
Nevertheless--the nevertheless paragraph ineluctably follows the to be sure one--it would be a mistake to try to turn back the clock.	It would be mistake to change what has happened.	entailment
The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.	Rather than objectively look at the publicity of Eyes Wide Shut, the story added to the scandal.	entailment
Not to orthodox quiz participants, for whom greeting cards are to genuine manifestations of feeling what Big Macs are to real hamburgers, with some sort of joke about Hallmark and bulimia--and an ugly image that would be, if only I had the wit to express it.	Most quiz participants think of greeting cards as superficial symbols of compassion.	entailment
And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist.	Bradley can't afford to look like a strategist	entailment
Somehow I am happy to be too formal for your society.	I am happy you accepted me into your society.	contradiction
This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.	Measured inflation remains inactive, and cannot be explained by just covert productivity increases.	entailment
Friday, we publish the weekend edition at about 11 a.m.	The weekend edition is printed Saturday at 6 pm.	contradiction
As a jazz composer, Sun Ra never fulfilled the bright promise of his early recordings like Jazz in Silhouette . But by founding a cult, he earned a lasting place in the larger culture, which otherwise might have eluded him.	Sun Ra's cult was a religious one.	neutral
But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection.	It was easy to make the connection.	neutral
Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.	William Shawn was particularly handsome and well mannered	neutral
What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.	Bradley paid no attention at all to Brazile's cheap shot.	contradiction
The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives.	The music school in Scarsdale draws in the majority of Asian-Americans in New York.	neutral
Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.	Heston wasn't really into gun rights	entailment
The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral.	There is a objection to Dalmatian farming.	entailment
So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him.	Brown, who sold out for $700,000, revealed his expectation.	neutral
Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, soft money, and other current arrangements some people don't care for.	Some Republicans like part of the bill.	neutral
The data are computerized, but for policy reasons the reports are not available online.	One cannot access the papers online.	entailment
Smith's press secretary, Ken Wolfe, boasts that by offering that bill, We have called their bluff.	Ken Wolfe works for Smith.	entailment
Well, his proof does leave one loophole.	One loophole exists in his proof.	entailment
It is hard to believe that people who have spent years, even decades, writing about economics are really so fuzzy-minded that they cannot see the difference between protecting consumers from tainted produce and protecting workers from competing products.	The lack of clarity is mainly due to differing opinions.	neutral
The pump also offers superb ease of squeeze.	A person would have a hard time operating the pump.	contradiction
He was too old, his back hurt too much, he had too many outside interests ...	He had pains in other parts of his body besides his back.	neutral
But they admit that at least some consumers are being misled by the logo.	The logo is as clear as it can possibly be for the consumer.	contradiction
On Cultural The Wilson-Brustein Discussion , moderated by Anna Deavere Smith (Town Hall, New York).	Moderation was not needed for the Wilson-Brustein Discussion because the two were such eloquent and polite debaters.	contradiction
We don't trust Madison Avenue to tell us the truth about fabric softener, so why are we letting it brainwash our children about drugs?	Madison Avenue is very trustworthy.	contradiction
Lohengrin (Metropolitan Opera, New York City).	The Metropolitan Opera is in Las Vegas.	contradiction
Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system.	The health care system stopped giving managed care to liberal reformers 3 years ago.	contradiction
People can be weak, and money is all too often the way to their heart.	These people are strong in other instances.	neutral
I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work.	The author wants the low standards to apply to them.	entailment
(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.)	Random House and Toobin both ignored my calls.	entailment
They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages.	William Ginsburg left the establishment in high regards.	contradiction
I can think of no better introduction to the Romantic era.	No matter how good an introduction is, it's always possible to improve it	neutral
The new health scare is a staph germ that is becoming immune to the antibiotic of last resort.	The newest health scare is a bacteria that antibiotics will not work against.	entailment
It might be desirable for me to say nothing.	The person is considering not saying anything.	entailment
The Washington Post , not Gerth, reported that Loral voluntarily revealed this breach of security to the government, precipitating the Pentagon investigation.	Gerth reported that Loral revealed the breach of security voluntarily to the government.	contradiction

They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children.

Many teens are rebelling, some even threatening to leave home permanently.

neutral

our casual voodoo the pleasure to give pain that gives pleasure of pain, unmerited, cruel, free creation

Casual voodoo is harmful to those who partake in it.

neutral

Technology to me has its good points and its bad points.

Technology has made it impossible for the world to advance.

contradiction

Finally, as he prepares to launch his own daily TV show, we thought we'd highlight National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker's confident prediction that there'll never, ever be a post-Lewinsky photo showing Bill [Clinton] with a cigar.

Mike Walker works for the New York Times.

contradiction

Another online pollster, Harris Interactive, is using its Harris Poll Online to learn about the public's views on the 2000 election.

The Harris Poll Online was used to learn public views about the 1988 election.

contradiction

The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you.

Thinking about farming canines makes you sick.

entailment

And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can.

Hospitals bill for everything they can with insurers in order to get as much profit as they can.

entailment

We anticipate accidents at stock car races.

We never expect accidents at stock car races.

contradiction

This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.

Bernhard Riemann work would resonate for years to come, much past 1859.

neutral

How much better, then--so much cleaner and more satisfying--is the Republican solution.

The Republican solution is better.

entailment

6) The real outrage is that boxing officials won't be able to raise enough money to pay the exorbitant sums the boxers are demanding for a rematch.

The boxers demand an unreasonable amount of money to perform in a rematch.

entailment

There have even been some frustrated musings among conservative writers and pundits that the people are not necessarily all-wise.

The conservative writers and pundits have only spoke about how impressed they are with the wisdom that the average person is able to display in this day and age.

contradiction

The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.

The governor's wife spent tens of thousands of dollars for a single piece of jewelry

neutral

Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.

Clinton was seen snarfing down his food at McDonalds in Hawaii.

entailment

The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.

Germans have thicker hair than other Europeans.

neutral

Rosenthal, and other conservatives for their flirtations with Farrakhan.

Conservatives avoid relating themselves with Farrakhan.

contradiction

Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a Bush rival, Here is a fellow that went and flew airplanes and learned to be a pilot and was prepared to go, if he had to go.

Orrin Hatch was educated to be a pilot.

entailment

The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.

The aftermath of Malaysia's economic apostasy is dependent on the weight of Mahathir's crimes.

contradiction

But they won't be able to say they weren't helped with their math homework by the very best.

Tutors hate helping any student with their math homework.

contradiction

Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.

The cost of making a phone call went up quickly to almost 5 dollars a minute.

neutral

He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.

He was unable to free himself from anyone.

entailment

And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.

The soil samples have to be picked by me.

neutral

First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection.

The entire collection was destroyed due to the epidemic.

entailment

This is where I disagree with Michael Lind--and with you, Fred, I'm guessing.

Fred disagrees with the writer.

neutral

Then Bauer hit Bush for not adhering to conservative values, being clandestinely pro-abortion, and assorted other sins.

Bush adhered to his conservative values and was praised for it.

contradiction

Click Start , then Find , then Files or Folders , type *.dll , then hit Find Now . (Make sure your hard drive is selected in the drop-down list in Look in .) On my computer I found 1,230 .dll files.

You should type the extension of the file or folder type you want after clicking Start and then Find and Files and Folders.

entailment

That's because theories apply only in certain circumstances, and circumstances change.

Theories are applicable in certain circumstances and those circumstances may change.

entailment

A story says tourism is destroying the Chicago blues scene.

There is only one sentence.

contradiction

There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable.

Jeffrey Sachs is one of those who are considered to be smart.

entailment

What's their bet?

They have a bet.

entailment

The brand that we now think of as irresistible seemed tired and used up, and this now seamlessly efficient company lacked even a formal business model before 1983.

Despite some high hopes in its promising start, the brand has been on a steady decline.

contradiction

Missed the link to more blather on independence?

We need to hear more speeches about independence

contradiction

This tax-cutting initiative, which he is readying for the November 2000 election, will cap annual property-tax appraisals at 2 percent and exempt vehicles from the property tax (on the long shot that the government might start taxing cars as property).

One policy of this initiative includes the doing away of property-tax appraisals.

contradiction

It is beyond me to chart the future byways of the digital revolution, but I'll venture one counterintuitive Electronic media will usher in a resurgence in the quality and value in handwriting.

I can definitively chart the future of the digital revolution.

contradiction

It's Sunday, what channel is this?

The channel is a news channel.

neutral

In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.

Few companies give ten percent away per quarter.

neutral

Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with other people's Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or whoever.

The shift in change has been good.

neutral

Kondracke screams back that he's used them before, he'll use them again.

Kondracke has an anger problem

neutral

Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy.

The actor of the elder beauty made the movie unbearable to one critic.

neutral

Much of the money given away by the Slate 60 goes to finance new buildings at already wealthy universities.

Slate 60 only gives away a very small amount of money to finance new buildings at wealthy universities.

contradiction

Could we curb Milosevic's aggression through diplomacy rather than bombing?

Milosevic is a ruthless dictator.

neutral

Just the sight of Mastering Linux induced the stomach-churning sense of dread that my sixth-grade math textbook once gave I don't get this.

I definitely am not fond of Mastering Linux.

entailment

Smith's political ideas are more elusive.

Smith does not mean to be evasive.

neutral

Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago, fanning up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships.

Seamus Heaney's poems won a few prizes

neutral

While the home still evinces mutterings of Xanadu from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor.

Spelling is perceived as dumb to Californians.

neutral

An entire six pack.

This item is packaged only in multiple of six

neutral

A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.

The media didn't report on the war against fat.

contradiction

By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.

In 1970 Kennedy was still the president.

contradiction

Today we cede our vision of '50s female fashion to the movie version, as if that were the real mirror of the decade--everything blatantly cleansed of error, willfully idealized into unreality, odorless, effortless, affectless.

The fashion from the '50s has never gone out of style.

contradiction

She studied the First Amendment with Tommie the Commie Emerson and was seen around the influential circle of Robert Borosage, later connected to the Institute for Policy Studies which promoted pro-Soviet movements in the Third World at the height of the renewed Cold War.

She looked over part of the Constitution, which helped give her clout with an important clique.

entailment

We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.

The author's acts of philanthropy serve to boost his self-interests.

entailment

But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part.

The mistake was not able to be fixed.

neutral

As Lost in the Funhouse notes, Kaufman actually joined Lawler on the professional circuit and traveled across the country in a kind of touring carnival.

The pair would often hit the trail in this life on tour.

entailment

We should lead by example and suasion.

Setting an example is a way to lead.

entailment

Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted nay on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.

Despite including some of her own suggestions, she voted no on the bill anyway.

entailment

4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority.

Syria's conditions might be improved by the Palestinian Authority

neutral

And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development.

Economic development is only based on low wages.

contradiction

I was about to say that studies showed no connection.

There is no connection between the studies of science and math.

neutral

Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?

Modernist momento mori is best exemplified by eviscerated cows and death throed fowl.

neutral

I have always promised her she would be in my wedding.

She was going to be in the wedding.

entailment

driving a car--that are not wrong in themselves, just wrong for a 5-year-old.

Having a 5 year old drive is not okay.

entailment

Their actual relationship was more complicated.

They kept their relationship simple.

contradiction

, Goodwin) argue that Roosevelt spawned the civil rights and feminist movements by putting everyone to work regardless of race or gender.

Roosevelt did much to get people out of work and create a system of inequality among the people.

contradiction

(His colleagues feel he's a showboat and a camera hog, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.)

He has wanted to be an actor for a long time.

neutral

Waking Ned Devine might have been a snooze if Jones hadn't stocked it with a slew of old actors with magically lived-in visages.

Waking Ned Devine received plenty of good reviews but also bad ones

neutral

Nevertheless--the nevertheless paragraph ineluctably follows the to be sure one--it would be a mistake to try to turn back the clock.

It would be mistake to change what has happened.

entailment

The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.

Rather than objectively look at the publicity of Eyes Wide Shut, the story added to the scandal.

entailment

Not to orthodox quiz participants, for whom greeting cards are to genuine manifestations of feeling what Big Macs are to real hamburgers, with some sort of joke about Hallmark and bulimia--and an ugly image that would be, if only I had the wit to express it.

Most quiz participants think of greeting cards as superficial symbols of compassion.

entailment

And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist.

Bradley can't afford to look like a strategist

entailment

Somehow I am happy to be too formal for your society.

I am happy you accepted me into your society.

contradiction

This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.

Measured inflation remains inactive, and cannot be explained by just covert productivity increases.

entailment

Friday, we publish the weekend edition at about 11 a.m.

The weekend edition is printed Saturday at 6 pm.

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As a jazz composer, Sun Ra never fulfilled the bright promise of his early recordings like Jazz in Silhouette . But by founding a cult, he earned a lasting place in the larger culture, which otherwise might have eluded him.

Sun Ra's cult was a religious one.

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

It was easy to make the connection.

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Mehta evidently loved William Shawn at least as much as Lillian Ross did, although his love was not requited in the same way.

William Shawn was particularly handsome and well mannered

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What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.

Bradley paid no attention at all to Brazile's cheap shot.

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The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives.

The music school in Scarsdale draws in the majority of Asian-Americans in New York.

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Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.

Heston wasn't really into gun rights

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The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral.

There is a objection to Dalmatian farming.

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So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him.

Brown, who sold out for $700,000, revealed his expectation.

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

Some Republicans like part of the bill.

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The data are computerized, but for policy reasons the reports are not available online.

One cannot access the papers online.

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

Ken Wolfe works for Smith.

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Well, his proof does leave one loophole.

One loophole exists in his proof.

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It is hard to believe that people who have spent years, even decades, writing about economics are really so fuzzy-minded that they cannot see the difference between protecting consumers from tainted produce and protecting workers from competing products.

The lack of clarity is mainly due to differing opinions.

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The pump also offers superb ease of squeeze.

A person would have a hard time operating the pump.

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He was too old, his back hurt too much, he had too many outside interests ...

He had pains in other parts of his body besides his back.

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But they admit that at least some consumers are being misled by the logo.

The logo is as clear as it can possibly be for the consumer.

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On Cultural The Wilson-Brustein Discussion , moderated by Anna Deavere Smith (Town Hall, New York).

Moderation was not needed for the Wilson-Brustein Discussion because the two were such eloquent and polite debaters.

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We don't trust Madison Avenue to tell us the truth about fabric softener, so why are we letting it brainwash our children about drugs?

Madison Avenue is very trustworthy.

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Lohengrin (Metropolitan Opera, New York City).

The Metropolitan Opera is in Las Vegas.

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Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system.

The health care system stopped giving managed care to liberal reformers 3 years ago.

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People can be weak, and money is all too often the way to their heart.

These people are strong in other instances.

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I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work.

The author wants the low standards to apply to them.

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(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.)

Random House and Toobin both ignored my calls.

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They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages.

William Ginsburg left the establishment in high regards.

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I can think of no better introduction to the Romantic era.

No matter how good an introduction is, it's always possible to improve it

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The new health scare is a staph germ that is becoming immune to the antibiotic of last resort.

The newest health scare is a bacteria that antibiotics will not work against.

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It might be desirable for me to say nothing.

The person is considering not saying anything.

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The Washington Post , not Gerth, reported that Loral voluntarily revealed this breach of security to the government, precipitating the Pentagon investigation.

Gerth reported that Loral revealed the breach of security voluntarily to the government.

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