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If we want to change that attitude, Hollywood should not be the main place we look.	One should look beyond Hollywood when contemplating changing attitudes.	entailment
The unofficial spin, from James Jones is a puppet of greedy right-wingers, and besides, Clinton is whipping her in the polls.	Clinton is losing to her in the polls, and greedy right wings also.	contradiction
Newsweek berates NATO for its obfuscation of civilian casualties.	Newsweek has an article on NATO's response to civilian casualties.	neutral
McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.	A pair was taken against their will for their outspokenness.	entailment
Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.	Liberal academics could find some common grounds with traditional scholars.	neutral
Forty thousand of us die that way each year.	Most people die that way each year.	neutral
Bottomless Mug	A very tall coffee mug.	entailment
Sports pundits likened him to Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus.	Nicklaus and Jordan are the furthest thing from comparison to him, according to sports pundits.	contradiction
Republicans have long demanded smaller government.	Politicians have been demanding a larger government.	contradiction
(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over.	According to those of Wall Street, the crisis in China continues to worsen.	contradiction
Pollard handed over information about how the United States tracked Soviet subs.	The US did not face the problem of being unable to follow Soviet subs because of radar and airplanes.	neutral
But Tiepolo's vision, like Rilke contemplating autumn leaves, was of a world where everything is And yet, there is One who holds this falling with infinite softness in his hands.	Tiepolo's vision is nothing like pondering autumn leaves.	contradiction
Pouring their hearts out to reporters is the only therapy Republican politicians can get.	Democrats can only pour their hearts out to reporters.	contradiction
It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.	The conversations are calm and always end up with a answers.	contradiction
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.	These days nobody thinks twice about using offensive language.	entailment
And it implies that the Harlem racket reverted to local control.	That the Harlem racket reverted to local control was a good thing.	neutral
Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.	Zhukov was highly regarded as an amazing general by his soldiers.	neutral
Besides denying reproductive freedom to women, such efforts would increase the number of children born and reared in impoverished single-parent families.	Families' efforts deny freedom.	contradiction
Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair?	The president should not worry about the fate of nation or it's future, but instead, find a way to deal with the issue of the Monica affair, and secure his own wellbeing.	contradiction
Read him his rights for what crime?	I know what crime he has commited.	contradiction
He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications.	He was worried about the police.	entailment
The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet.	Santeria is gaining adherents in the USA, according to the New York Times.	entailment
Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.	Expect a package in 3 days if you upgrade to next day air.	neutral
But for the past month, and especially last week, there has been a kinder, gentler Monica, an innocent trapped in a scandal not of her own making.	Monica has been far from mean for the last year, because she was guilty of a scandal of her own making.	contradiction
Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.	PrintSmart and WebRecord offer the same advantages	contradiction
It's a ballot box, he says.	He said it was shoebox.	contradiction
Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.	Soviet's themselves characterized the U.S. and it's capitalist society.	neutral
Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.	Harry and Louise were very happy to be able to pick the doctor they liked	contradiction
Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules.	If crumbs get brushed in a laptop its keyboard will collect plenty	neutral
Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the double dividend debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it.	There is an agreement on the matter involving taxes on pollution that could reduce the GDP.	entailment
But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.	Auden's saying is infamous and widely hated in the world of writers.	neutral
American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.	Citizens of the US didn't really like the artistically written words from his works.	entailment
She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me.	It's possible to get news from Pentagon founts	entailment
The herbal extract shows success in treating mild dementia and preventing Alzheimer's memory loss.	The herbal extract is useless to those who have dementia.	contradiction
The notion is ludicrous on the face of it.	The thought of the idea is foolish.	entailment
Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?	Reasonable caution is a null reason.	contradiction
What those dumb hicks really lack is the wherewithal for a fine university education that will lead to a job in the go-go tech sector.	Those hicks are in need of an education for more job opportunities.	entailment
While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.	Affirmative action and busing will do a lot of good.	contradiction
Talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford found out that a lump in her breast was benign.	Gifford's lump was not cancerous.	entailment
For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents.	Pooh was a moderately popular franchise during the first fifty years of the book series' life.	entailment
And no one will be nicer.	That was the meanest person.	contradiction
Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion.	Demand-side thinking is from the past.	entailment
To give up on River Rouge in order to build your brand is one thing.	You must double down on River Rouge to be able to build your brand.	contradiction
Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.	Employers should sell eggs to stockholders.	contradiction
Give Microsoft a monopoly on browsers, and you'll intensify the downward pressure on the price of its operating systems.	Microsoft has yet to have a monopoly on anything.	contradiction
Negotiations with the powerful postal unions begin in August, with contracts due to expire in November.	The contracts with the postal union will expire in November.	entailment
The New Yorker has a seven day window.	The New Yorker has seven days for a grace period.	entailment
Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them.	pro-choice advocates make strong arguments over late-term abortions.	neutral
That led him to the not-very-civil act of complaining to Bob Haldeman.	Haldeman did the complaining.	contradiction
This Johnny was just a wig and a smear of lipstick on a clenched fist, but he made Seeor Wences that rarest of performers, a genuinely funny ventriloquist.	The doll that Seeor Wences used looked professional to Wences.	neutral
If so, it seems to have worked.	It is clear that it worked regardless.	contradiction
Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.	He was asked to write something for the publication.	entailment
Salinger wrote similar letters to other young female writers.	Salinger sealed each letter with a kiss.	neutral
What happened to Rocker's right to free (albeit despicable) speech?	Rocker's speech was very admirable.	contradiction
If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.	Klimt does not care about his art.	contradiction
How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' garage.	Despite having monstrous visions, those students would avoid performing tragedies in Littleton.	contradiction
Wolf did call after this item was posted, but our conversation was off-the-record.	Wolf discussed purchasing the item.	neutral
He models No Limit on the mob, not the Fortune 500.	He is active in the Fortune 500 instead of the mob.	contradiction
But for the role of spiritual guru to a candidate with a charisma deficit, he seems like just the guy.	The candidate does not have a very good image and needs help.	entailment
Such coverage is good Your Live at Five NewsTeam covers Election '96!	The Live at Five News Team gave evening updates each day, during the '96 Election.	neutral
Oddly, this part of the 20/20 segment isn't quite as damaging to Ellis as the raw interview transcript was.	The transcript was leaked after the airing of the show.	neutral
He says this will make our system the best.	He thinks there is still more work to do even after this.	contradiction
Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?	The Cold War is destined to repeat in the near future	neutral
ATandT's plan, announced in February, to use wireless systems to offer local phone service has been widely dismissed as unconvincing.	AT&T's February plan was unconvincing to many.	entailment
By forbidding its dealers to compete with each other via prices, Schwinn forces them to compete with each other via quality of service, to the ultimate benefit of consumers.	Schwinn dealers are free to set own prices.	contradiction
But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated.	The Japanese manufacturing process was best known as being boisterous.	contradiction
Le Monde 's editorial Sunday said the action might be terribly counterproductive because it won't change the minds of Serbs who believe Milosevic's propaganda, but it will appear pointlessly destructive of human lives to those who don't.	Not all Serb's believed in Milosevic's propaganda.	neutral
Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to agree that social and cultural factors are driving up teen drug use.	Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to disagree on the cause of rising drug use amongst teens.	contradiction
The transformation of normal to abnormal may start with a pill.	A pill could change a person from normal to not normal.	entailment
They were all slaves, weren't they?	They could earn their freedoms by working hard.	neutral
Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.	It was a simple matter for Reno to put a stop to the policies.	contradiction
The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity.	Those who ask for anonymity usually have better stories.	neutral
The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.	You might be able to find one or two metaphors in there that aren't tired.	neutral
Other figures of the Reagan-Thatcher era chose other retirement plans.	Not everyone chose the same retirement plans.	entailment
The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable).	Regression analysis is probably the best tool of statistical social science.	neutral
The girls who believe the scarves mean freedom may in fact be blinded by them.	There are no girls that believe the scares represent freedom.	contradiction
In particular, an increase in the savings rate will translate into higher investment after all, because the Fed will make sure that it does.	The Fed will also lower the interest rate.	neutral
Recently, three economists named Harold Cole, George Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite (for whom I will use the collective abbreviation CMP) have proposed a compromise between the two On the one hand, people do not care directly about their relative positions in the wealth distribution.	The author includes Harold Cole in the abbreviation CMP.	entailment
They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity.	Dawson's Creek was unpopular to them.	contradiction
The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.	Compared to other television channels, UPN's new fall program debuted early.	entailment
The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.	The 2000s were tarnished with an unexpected downturn in sales.	neutral
How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles?	Articles recognize I am wrong.	contradiction
Many of them in fine restaurants.	They enjoy fine restaurants.	entailment
Even readers who share Wilson's worldview will find much to provoke them.	There aren't any readers that share Wilson's worldview.	contradiction
That, of course, is precisely why Java has become such fertile ground for cyberevangelism.	Cyberevangelism thrives in the fertile ground of Java.	entailment
But in both cases, the feds can help.	It's not that often that the feds cooperate.	neutral
This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire.	This business empire will definitely succeed with this support.	contradiction
denunciations of American imperialism.	American imperialism is supported by all.	contradiction
Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.	Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran had catastrophic consequences, as well as did the occupation of Kuwait.	entailment
The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.	The machines of the 90s owe their existence to the takeover mania of the prior decade.	entailment
The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record.	The suspected shooter was considered very kind with no prior convictions.	entailment
(Read the transcripts of the better CNN chats here . Look for the Allpolitics section toward the bottom of the page.)	The page contains several sections dedicated to politics.	neutral
To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students.	The magnet schools were abused as a tool for desegregation.	neutral
Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now.	On Mars, oddly enough was life.	neutral
Newsweek says the future of the country may be riding on Powell's campaign to save at-risk kids, but doubts whether the general can persuade corporations to make long-term commitments to philanthropy.	Newsweek doesn't have much faith in the willing of the corporations to commit to be helpful in the long period	entailment
He is a tedious corporate drone, as innocuous as the lackluster buildings erected by Donald Trump.	Trump building aren't considered to be daring or inspiring.	neutral
In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll.	Cole associated Internet Explorer with several affidavits.	contradiction
He kept a personal ledger in which he recorded all the money he spent, even the $118 he paid for his wife's engagement ring, which he listed under Sundry Expenses.	There is a personal ledger that includes a $118 purchase for an engagement ring.	entailment
Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex	Leonardo had an aversion to swirling water.	contradiction
The Nazi flag of the opening scene has become a Tibetan one, which they place on the summit.	At the center of the flag was a circle with a large happy face.	contradiction

If we want to change that attitude, Hollywood should not be the main place we look.

One should look beyond Hollywood when contemplating changing attitudes.

entailment

The unofficial spin, from James Jones is a puppet of greedy right-wingers, and besides, Clinton is whipping her in the polls.

Clinton is losing to her in the polls, and greedy right wings also.

contradiction

Newsweek berates NATO for its obfuscation of civilian casualties.

Newsweek has an article on NATO's response to civilian casualties.

neutral

McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest.

A pair was taken against their will for their outspokenness.

entailment

Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.

Liberal academics could find some common grounds with traditional scholars.

neutral

Forty thousand of us die that way each year.

Most people die that way each year.

neutral

Bottomless Mug

A very tall coffee mug.

entailment

Sports pundits likened him to Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus.

Nicklaus and Jordan are the furthest thing from comparison to him, according to sports pundits.

contradiction

Republicans have long demanded smaller government.

Politicians have been demanding a larger government.

contradiction

(After all, when Wall Streeters say today that the Asia crisis is over, what they mean is that American exposure is over.

According to those of Wall Street, the crisis in China continues to worsen.

contradiction

Pollard handed over information about how the United States tracked Soviet subs.

The US did not face the problem of being unable to follow Soviet subs because of radar and airplanes.

neutral

But Tiepolo's vision, like Rilke contemplating autumn leaves, was of a world where everything is And yet, there is One who holds this falling with infinite softness in his hands.

Tiepolo's vision is nothing like pondering autumn leaves.

contradiction

Pouring their hearts out to reporters is the only therapy Republican politicians can get.

Democrats can only pour their hearts out to reporters.

contradiction

It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.

The conversations are calm and always end up with a answers.

contradiction

But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.

These days nobody thinks twice about using offensive language.

entailment

And it implies that the Harlem racket reverted to local control.

That the Harlem racket reverted to local control was a good thing.

neutral

Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.

Zhukov was highly regarded as an amazing general by his soldiers.

neutral

Besides denying reproductive freedom to women, such efforts would increase the number of children born and reared in impoverished single-parent families.

Families' efforts deny freedom.

contradiction

Would it be better for the president, and the first lady too, for that matter, to be able to give their undivided attention to getting America across that bridge into the next millennium than it is to have them distracted by the Monica affair?

The president should not worry about the fate of nation or it's future, but instead, find a way to deal with the issue of the Monica affair, and secure his own wellbeing.

contradiction

Read him his rights for what crime?

I know what crime he has commited.

contradiction

He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications.

He was worried about the police.

entailment

The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet.

Santeria is gaining adherents in the USA, according to the New York Times.

entailment

Upgrading to Next Day Air does NOT [their emphasis] mean you'll get your order the next day.

Expect a package in 3 days if you upgrade to next day air.

neutral

But for the past month, and especially last week, there has been a kinder, gentler Monica, an innocent trapped in a scandal not of her own making.

Monica has been far from mean for the last year, because she was guilty of a scandal of her own making.

contradiction

Called WebRecord, it has some advantages over PrintSmart.

PrintSmart and WebRecord offer the same advantages

contradiction

It's a ballot box, he says.

He said it was shoebox.

contradiction

Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.

Soviet's themselves characterized the U.S. and it's capitalist society.

neutral

Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.

Harry and Louise were very happy to be able to pick the doctor they liked

contradiction

Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules.

If crumbs get brushed in a laptop its keyboard will collect plenty

neutral

Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the double dividend debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it.

There is an agreement on the matter involving taxes on pollution that could reduce the GDP.

entailment

But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.

Auden's saying is infamous and widely hated in the world of writers.

neutral

American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.

Citizens of the US didn't really like the artistically written words from his works.

entailment

She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me.

It's possible to get news from Pentagon founts

entailment

The herbal extract shows success in treating mild dementia and preventing Alzheimer's memory loss.

The herbal extract is useless to those who have dementia.

contradiction

The notion is ludicrous on the face of it.

The thought of the idea is foolish.

entailment

Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?

Reasonable caution is a null reason.

contradiction

What those dumb hicks really lack is the wherewithal for a fine university education that will lead to a job in the go-go tech sector.

Those hicks are in need of an education for more job opportunities.

entailment

While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.

Affirmative action and busing will do a lot of good.

contradiction

Talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford found out that a lump in her breast was benign.

Gifford's lump was not cancerous.

entailment

For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents.

Pooh was a moderately popular franchise during the first fifty years of the book series' life.

entailment

And no one will be nicer.

That was the meanest person.

contradiction

Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion.

Demand-side thinking is from the past.

entailment

To give up on River Rouge in order to build your brand is one thing.

You must double down on River Rouge to be able to build your brand.

contradiction

Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.

Employers should sell eggs to stockholders.

contradiction

Give Microsoft a monopoly on browsers, and you'll intensify the downward pressure on the price of its operating systems.

Microsoft has yet to have a monopoly on anything.

contradiction

Negotiations with the powerful postal unions begin in August, with contracts due to expire in November.

The contracts with the postal union will expire in November.

entailment

The New Yorker has a seven day window.

The New Yorker has seven days for a grace period.

entailment

Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them.

pro-choice advocates make strong arguments over late-term abortions.

neutral

That led him to the not-very-civil act of complaining to Bob Haldeman.

Haldeman did the complaining.

contradiction

This Johnny was just a wig and a smear of lipstick on a clenched fist, but he made Seeor Wences that rarest of performers, a genuinely funny ventriloquist.

The doll that Seeor Wences used looked professional to Wences.

neutral

If so, it seems to have worked.

It is clear that it worked regardless.

contradiction

Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.

He was asked to write something for the publication.

entailment

Salinger wrote similar letters to other young female writers.

Salinger sealed each letter with a kiss.

neutral

What happened to Rocker's right to free (albeit despicable) speech?

Rocker's speech was very admirable.

contradiction

If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.

Klimt does not care about his art.

contradiction

How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' garage.

Despite having monstrous visions, those students would avoid performing tragedies in Littleton.

contradiction

Wolf did call after this item was posted, but our conversation was off-the-record.

Wolf discussed purchasing the item.

neutral

He models No Limit on the mob, not the Fortune 500.

He is active in the Fortune 500 instead of the mob.

contradiction

But for the role of spiritual guru to a candidate with a charisma deficit, he seems like just the guy.

The candidate does not have a very good image and needs help.

entailment

Such coverage is good Your Live at Five NewsTeam covers Election '96!

The Live at Five News Team gave evening updates each day, during the '96 Election.

neutral

Oddly, this part of the 20/20 segment isn't quite as damaging to Ellis as the raw interview transcript was.

The transcript was leaked after the airing of the show.

neutral

He says this will make our system the best.

He thinks there is still more work to do even after this.

contradiction

Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?

The Cold War is destined to repeat in the near future

neutral

ATandT's plan, announced in February, to use wireless systems to offer local phone service has been widely dismissed as unconvincing.

AT&T's February plan was unconvincing to many.

entailment

By forbidding its dealers to compete with each other via prices, Schwinn forces them to compete with each other via quality of service, to the ultimate benefit of consumers.

Schwinn dealers are free to set own prices.

contradiction

But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated.

The Japanese manufacturing process was best known as being boisterous.

contradiction

Le Monde 's editorial Sunday said the action might be terribly counterproductive because it won't change the minds of Serbs who believe Milosevic's propaganda, but it will appear pointlessly destructive of human lives to those who don't.

Not all Serb's believed in Milosevic's propaganda.

neutral

Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to agree that social and cultural factors are driving up teen drug use.

Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to disagree on the cause of rising drug use amongst teens.

contradiction

The transformation of normal to abnormal may start with a pill.

A pill could change a person from normal to not normal.

entailment

They were all slaves, weren't they?

They could earn their freedoms by working hard.

neutral

Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.

It was a simple matter for Reno to put a stop to the policies.

contradiction

The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity.

Those who ask for anonymity usually have better stories.

neutral

The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.

You might be able to find one or two metaphors in there that aren't tired.

neutral

Other figures of the Reagan-Thatcher era chose other retirement plans.

Not everyone chose the same retirement plans.

entailment

The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable).

Regression analysis is probably the best tool of statistical social science.

neutral

The girls who believe the scarves mean freedom may in fact be blinded by them.

There are no girls that believe the scares represent freedom.

contradiction

In particular, an increase in the savings rate will translate into higher investment after all, because the Fed will make sure that it does.

The Fed will also lower the interest rate.

neutral

Recently, three economists named Harold Cole, George Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite (for whom I will use the collective abbreviation CMP) have proposed a compromise between the two On the one hand, people do not care directly about their relative positions in the wealth distribution.

The author includes Harold Cole in the abbreviation CMP.

entailment

They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity.

Dawson's Creek was unpopular to them.

contradiction

The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.

Compared to other television channels, UPN's new fall program debuted early.

entailment

The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.

The 2000s were tarnished with an unexpected downturn in sales.

neutral

How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles?

Articles recognize I am wrong.

contradiction

Many of them in fine restaurants.

They enjoy fine restaurants.

entailment

Even readers who share Wilson's worldview will find much to provoke them.

There aren't any readers that share Wilson's worldview.

contradiction

That, of course, is precisely why Java has become such fertile ground for cyberevangelism.

Cyberevangelism thrives in the fertile ground of Java.

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But in both cases, the feds can help.

It's not that often that the feds cooperate.

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This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire.

This business empire will definitely succeed with this support.

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denunciations of American imperialism.

American imperialism is supported by all.

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Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.

Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran had catastrophic consequences, as well as did the occupation of Kuwait.

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The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.

The machines of the 90s owe their existence to the takeover mania of the prior decade.

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The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record.

The suspected shooter was considered very kind with no prior convictions.

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(Read the transcripts of the better CNN chats here . Look for the Allpolitics section toward the bottom of the page.)

The page contains several sections dedicated to politics.

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To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students.

The magnet schools were abused as a tool for desegregation.

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Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now.

On Mars, oddly enough was life.

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Newsweek says the future of the country may be riding on Powell's campaign to save at-risk kids, but doubts whether the general can persuade corporations to make long-term commitments to philanthropy.

Newsweek doesn't have much faith in the willing of the corporations to commit to be helpful in the long period

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He is a tedious corporate drone, as innocuous as the lackluster buildings erected by Donald Trump.

Trump building aren't considered to be daring or inspiring.

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In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll.

Cole associated Internet Explorer with several affidavits.

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He kept a personal ledger in which he recorded all the money he spent, even the $118 he paid for his wife's engagement ring, which he listed under Sundry Expenses.

There is a personal ledger that includes a $118 purchase for an engagement ring.

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Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex

Leonardo had an aversion to swirling water.

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The Nazi flag of the opening scene has become a Tibetan one, which they place on the summit.

At the center of the flag was a circle with a large happy face.

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