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My own admittedly romantic preference is to see his career as a quest for inspiration, and to say Pollock sought it long, found it briefly, and couldn't live without it.	He was training to be an artist.	neutral
They drive fabulous cars and pick up every check.	They drive very ugly cars and walk out on the checks.	contradiction
The most extreme version of this concept, called group selection, is Gaia, which suggests that all of life cooperates so as to ensure its continued survival.	Gaia is the one that is most common.	contradiction
The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.	It was a busy time the year he returned to his government position in 1965.	neutral
These AUs, usually identified by the facial muscles that perform these various tasks, are the tools used in What the Face Reveals . (To look at a few examples, click here and here.)	What the Face Reveals surprisingly neglected to utilize AUs.	contradiction
Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.	Monet searched for a more openly patriotic tie to the French landscape, which was hard to find in his own water garden.	contradiction
Heavily promote the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters.	The heavily promoted collection of letters by Edmund Wilson and Paula Barbieri received a great amount of attention.	neutral
Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent.	Bob Smith opted to leave the party to run as an independent.	entailment
That's not your demographic profile on the Net, observes consultant Rob Arena, of Presage Internet Consulting, who coordinated Bob Dole's Internet campaign in 1996.	Your demographic profile is observed by Bob Arena in 1996.	neutral
Quota sampling assumes that the answers of a particular demographic group such as white, 18-to-25-year-old Internet users can be projected to describe the opinions of white 18-to-25-year-olds at large.	Quota sampling showed that particular demographics were unable to represent the group at large.	contradiction
The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports.	Imports or exports wouldn't raise immediately with the Decline in the won.	entailment
In her 18 years with him, she had never once heard Dole say, 'Here's what we're doing.	He proclaimed that statement away from her.	neutral
As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.	The woman is being framed for sexual harassment.	contradiction
The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended.	Hostilities have been happening due to infighting among Republicans and Democrats.	neutral
The new company may also benefit from merging warehousing and inventory management, and ideally there will be joint production of components that both companies use.	The new company could also benefit from reducing management altogether.	neutral
Still, the tip of political e-commerce is beginning to poke up through the Web's surface.	Political e-commerce is starting to show on the internet's surface.	entailment
Critics worry that the kids underestimate the importance of blue-chip college credentials.	Critics state blue college credentials have fallen off as a requirement.	contradiction
But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely postpone it.	You and your child will get along very well if you choose to do this.	contradiction
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.	The university highly values diversity.	neutral
Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.	Every lost sale means a lost potential customer of Internet Explorer.	entailment
Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter).	During the past year, she gave a recital in New York City.	entailment
Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore.	He is shameful of both of his components.	neutral
I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does.	Joan Didion might have the answer to some question.	entailment
The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.	Living Out Loud was heavily influenced by old Disney films.	neutral
The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.	Today's corporate landscape is being taken over by many more independent groups.	entailment
Betsy's logical mind and wonderful laugh, among other gifts, made it all happen (well, most of the time).	Betsy graduated with honors from a prestigious university.	neutral
Hours before, Netanyahu had given a speech insisting that Israel would not halt the rapid construction of a controversial housing project in East Jerusalem or make further concessions to halt terrorism.	Netanyahu's speech, which focused on the housing project, did not want to do anything about terrorism.	neutral
The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate.	The private investigators are buying many shares in the forensics industry.	neutral
The New Yorker has a seven day window.	The New Yorker has seven days to clean up it's act.	neutral
Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.	It's show was cancelled because outraged views made so many complaints.	entailment
To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal?	Outrageous bribes have a massive role in determining our laws.	contradiction
The kids will be gone in no time.	The children are here to stay	contradiction
Bloom glides over her motives.	Bloom wants to discard the motives.	contradiction
In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S.	US colleges work flawlessly	contradiction
In Ireland, compassionate teachers would seem to be painfully rare.	Professionals who care in the education industry are uncommon.	entailment
These improvements have not taken place because well-meaning people in the West have done anything to help--foreign aid, never large, has lately shrunk to virtually nothing.	The money formally spent on foreign aid has been targeted towards national needs.	neutral
At least it gives the film a surprise ending.	The film ended like the watchers were expecting it would have	contradiction
I can confirm he does, for I have tried to convey the same Ionian Enchantment in my recent book How the Mind Works.	He thinks different about the Ionian Enchantment.	contradiction
Either way, sellers would find their inflated profits eroded.	The sellers would not find their profits to be flourishing.	entailment
We've received thousands of e-mail messages since our launch June 24 (most of them friendly, thanks), and this is a small taste.	The emails mainly come from men in their forties and fifties.	neutral
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate.	Eric Holder thinks there's something fishy with the Baitgate	entailment
We're having debates.	We're having a heated discussion on climate change.	neutral
President Attends World Cup Final, Enjoys Two Scoreless Hours.	The president ordered something to eat at the world cup final.	neutral
By the end, just before his death from rectal cancer (a grimly appropriate fate for the author of The Search for Fecality, in which he Is god a being?	He may have survived rectal cancer.	contradiction
It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.	Dial-up service was proposed to cost little to no money.	entailment
Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.	Though youth serves a president well, the young are also able to appreciate it.	neutral
With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general.	Lesbians and other females drive above 100 miles per hour.	neutral
Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposes, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like dual hegemony, limited nuclear war, and the slogan win the peace to the American language.	The Cold War has been a complex period for America and for the Americans	entailment
, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.	Higher taxation and more welfare for the less wealthy are considered contrary to their beliefs.	entailment
The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.	Dominic is a very cynical, selfish person.	entailment
Whatever the fortunes of religion itself, a dwindling cultural acquaintance with the Bible's English is surely inevitable.	The Bible's English is not very popular with Christians anymore.	entailment
His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season.	The election season is a popular Slate feature.	neutral
The publication doesn't report where Mrs.	The publication gave full disclosure about Mrs.	contradiction
Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.	Orrin Hatch co-sponsored the balanced-budget amendment.	neutral
People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners.	People would come to spend a great deal of time arranging the lawn recliners, in hopes of finding new ways to achieve a more audacious and amusing result.	neutral
The analogous leap today is from national to supranational regulation.	The comparable leap today is from national to having power that transcends government regulations.	entailment
Ah, it's always the big but.	Some things just don't work out the way you expect.	entailment
And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game.	Making money is the name of the game.	contradiction
(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.)	The calls went unanswered because the numbers dialed were incorrect.	neutral
Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference.	The internet was used in the election in 1980.	contradiction
Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening?	The project resulted in a doubling of the width.	neutral
There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001.	It would be politically unwise for Clinton to commute Pollard's sentence.	neutral
The study suggested that between 23 and 46 of every 1 million patients taking fen-phen would die from the condition each year.	23 to 46 people died of the condition yearly.	entailment
Simpson defense : law professor Barry Scheck and forensic expert Henry Lee.	A professor and forensics expert is all Simpson needs to win the case.	neutral
For example, had the writer of the Genesis creation story been composing for a 20 th century readership, he or she would have explained God's hand in the evolutionary process as opposed to the more magical creation story in the Bible.	Religious views and scriptures are forcefully set in stone and immutable in time	contradiction
The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.	The religious right supported Bush.	neutral
Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening).	Arendt's language was thought of as being meant to anger feminists.	entailment
New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution.	The American Revolution never happened.	contradiction
In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race.	In 1963 less than 1% of blacks married someone of another race.	entailment
Knightley carefully concludes only that the photograph turns out not to be the clear and simple statement of fact that it otherwise appears.	Knightley stopped his investigation after seeing the evidence wasn't in the photo.	neutral
And so, as I said, the co-op's story helps me to resist the pull of fatalism and pessimism.	The co-op story causes the author to struggle	contradiction
Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.	The priestly meeting is a period that prohibits boasting.	contradiction
Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.	Critics really enjoyed every aspect of the film made for TV.	contradiction
Why are you coming at me with that pillow?	Someone is questioning what is being done with a pillow.	entailment
We learn, for example, that on his field trips with Lady Gregory, Yeats had difficulty understanding the thick Irish accent of the peasants.	The peasants' thick accents were hard for Yeats to understand.	entailment
Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.	Benigni is over the top when he celebrates.	neutral
This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire.	Despite obstacles the business empire managed to thrive.	neutral
This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal.	It was decided that things would be carried out in a fair and legal manner, which benefitted all the candidates.	neutral
This is a drop in the bucket.	It was like a overflowing down pour of rain into a tiny bucket.	contradiction
An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record.	Donald Trump has never donated to any charities before.	neutral
Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader!	Iraqi commando units from Baghdad were reported to be gutting a live dog while saying, "Our God, our nation, our lead"!	entailment
As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.	We carry the card at all times.	neutral
(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)	Phillip Weiss often throws small temper tantrums towards his mom in the paper.	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 sometimes pondered autumn leaves.	neutral
In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.	Steve Brill remains a hot topic even into his second week as press scourge.	entailment
That ought to impress Ellen Barkin.	It indeed turned out that Ellen Barkin was very impressed and they remembered this for quite some time.	neutral
You'd have to invoke your own gods for the requisite charm.	You can determine the requirements for yourself in order to receive the charm.	contradiction
You can bet no one will ever elect me to public office.	Everyone loves me and I can use my popularity to leverage any election.	contradiction
In the case of drug testing, however, the proposed warrantless blanket invasions of privacy serve only a symbolic value.	Warrantless drug testing is a breach of privacy that happens everyday.	neutral
Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.	If true, Hersh's information is encouraging for his opponent.	contradiction
Also, while PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver, SlateCast TM will package acute witticisms about the news directly onto your voice-mail answering message--in your own voice--thereby completely eliminating the need to develop or even to express your own opinions.	The new technology throws breaking stories into a newspaper.	contradiction
I take my 15 cents and head for the liquor store.	I put the money in my pocket before I went to the store.	neutral
An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate.	His daughter and wife could agree on his $200 million estate.	neutral
The bald, pointy-eared vampire in Nosferatu is barely ambulatory, in fact.	Though not paralyzed, Nosferatu has a hard time getting about.	entailment
Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!	Map maker, retire from your trade as a perfect map is a weapon too dangerous!	contradiction
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.	The argument surrounding pollution taxes has been debated since the 1980s.	neutral
Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes.	You can now buy Martin Luther King, Jr. Keep the Dream Alive checks.	entailment
Few people these days believe that evil spirits cause illness, that the rain god causes rain, or that electric-light bulbs are mystical.	The light bulb is still the number one cause of fear for people these days, narrowly beating cancer.	contradiction
I keep losing at their damn casinos.	Their casinos have great odds and I win frequently.	contradiction
Fischel is also the author of The Conspiracy To Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution . Administrators protest that they are only keeping pace with their UNEXT has already signed on with Columbia, while Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell are considering commercial partners for their own online programs.	This was not Fischelâ€™s first attempt at a book.	neutral

My own admittedly romantic preference is to see his career as a quest for inspiration, and to say Pollock sought it long, found it briefly, and couldn't live without it.

He was training to be an artist.

neutral

They drive fabulous cars and pick up every check.

They drive very ugly cars and walk out on the checks.

contradiction

The most extreme version of this concept, called group selection, is Gaia, which suggests that all of life cooperates so as to ensure its continued survival.

Gaia is the one that is most common.

contradiction

The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.

It was a busy time the year he returned to his government position in 1965.

neutral

These AUs, usually identified by the facial muscles that perform these various tasks, are the tools used in What the Face Reveals . (To look at a few examples, click here and here.)

What the Face Reveals surprisingly neglected to utilize AUs.

contradiction

Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.

Monet searched for a more openly patriotic tie to the French landscape, which was hard to find in his own water garden.

contradiction

Heavily promote the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters.

The heavily promoted collection of letters by Edmund Wilson and Paula Barbieri received a great amount of attention.

neutral

Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent.

Bob Smith opted to leave the party to run as an independent.

entailment

That's not your demographic profile on the Net, observes consultant Rob Arena, of Presage Internet Consulting, who coordinated Bob Dole's Internet campaign in 1996.

Your demographic profile is observed by Bob Arena in 1996.

neutral

Quota sampling assumes that the answers of a particular demographic group such as white, 18-to-25-year-old Internet users can be projected to describe the opinions of white 18-to-25-year-olds at large.

Quota sampling showed that particular demographics were unable to represent the group at large.

contradiction

The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports.

Imports or exports wouldn't raise immediately with the Decline in the won.

entailment

In her 18 years with him, she had never once heard Dole say, 'Here's what we're doing.

He proclaimed that statement away from her.

neutral

As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.

The woman is being framed for sexual harassment.

contradiction

The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended.

Hostilities have been happening due to infighting among Republicans and Democrats.

neutral

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

The new company could also benefit from reducing management altogether.

neutral

Still, the tip of political e-commerce is beginning to poke up through the Web's surface.

Political e-commerce is starting to show on the internet's surface.

entailment

Critics worry that the kids underestimate the importance of blue-chip college credentials.

Critics state blue college credentials have fallen off as a requirement.

contradiction

But those same principles also suggest that if you choose to do so, you won't avoid the noisy battle of wills with your child--you'll merely postpone it.

You and your child will get along very well if you choose to do this.

contradiction

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country.

The university highly values diversity.

neutral

Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.

Every lost sale means a lost potential customer of Internet Explorer.

entailment

Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter).

During the past year, she gave a recital in New York City.

entailment

Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore.

He is shameful of both of his components.

neutral

I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does.

Joan Didion might have the answer to some question.

entailment

The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.

Living Out Loud was heavily influenced by old Disney films.

neutral

The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules.

Today's corporate landscape is being taken over by many more independent groups.

entailment

Betsy's logical mind and wonderful laugh, among other gifts, made it all happen (well, most of the time).

Betsy graduated with honors from a prestigious university.

neutral

Hours before, Netanyahu had given a speech insisting that Israel would not halt the rapid construction of a controversial housing project in East Jerusalem or make further concessions to halt terrorism.

Netanyahu's speech, which focused on the housing project, did not want to do anything about terrorism.

neutral

The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate.

The private investigators are buying many shares in the forensics industry.

neutral

The New Yorker has a seven day window.

The New Yorker has seven days to clean up it's act.

neutral

Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.

It's show was cancelled because outraged views made so many complaints.

entailment

To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal?

Outrageous bribes have a massive role in determining our laws.

contradiction

The kids will be gone in no time.

The children are here to stay

contradiction

Bloom glides over her motives.

Bloom wants to discard the motives.

contradiction

In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S.

US colleges work flawlessly

contradiction

In Ireland, compassionate teachers would seem to be painfully rare.

Professionals who care in the education industry are uncommon.

entailment

These improvements have not taken place because well-meaning people in the West have done anything to help--foreign aid, never large, has lately shrunk to virtually nothing.

The money formally spent on foreign aid has been targeted towards national needs.

neutral

At least it gives the film a surprise ending.

The film ended like the watchers were expecting it would have

contradiction

I can confirm he does, for I have tried to convey the same Ionian Enchantment in my recent book How the Mind Works.

He thinks different about the Ionian Enchantment.

contradiction

Either way, sellers would find their inflated profits eroded.

The sellers would not find their profits to be flourishing.

entailment

We've received thousands of e-mail messages since our launch June 24 (most of them friendly, thanks), and this is a small taste.

The emails mainly come from men in their forties and fifties.

neutral

Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate.

Eric Holder thinks there's something fishy with the Baitgate

entailment

We're having debates.

We're having a heated discussion on climate change.

neutral

President Attends World Cup Final, Enjoys Two Scoreless Hours.

The president ordered something to eat at the world cup final.

neutral

By the end, just before his death from rectal cancer (a grimly appropriate fate for the author of The Search for Fecality, in which he Is god a being?

He may have survived rectal cancer.

contradiction

It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.

Dial-up service was proposed to cost little to no money.

entailment

Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.

Though youth serves a president well, the young are also able to appreciate it.

neutral

With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general.

Lesbians and other females drive above 100 miles per hour.

neutral

Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposes, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like dual hegemony, limited nuclear war, and the slogan win the peace to the American language.

The Cold War has been a complex period for America and for the Americans

entailment

, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.

Higher taxation and more welfare for the less wealthy are considered contrary to their beliefs.

entailment

The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.

Dominic is a very cynical, selfish person.

entailment

Whatever the fortunes of religion itself, a dwindling cultural acquaintance with the Bible's English is surely inevitable.

The Bible's English is not very popular with Christians anymore.

entailment

His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season.

The election season is a popular Slate feature.

neutral

The publication doesn't report where Mrs.

The publication gave full disclosure about Mrs.

contradiction

Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.

Orrin Hatch co-sponsored the balanced-budget amendment.

neutral

People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners.

People would come to spend a great deal of time arranging the lawn recliners, in hopes of finding new ways to achieve a more audacious and amusing result.

neutral

The analogous leap today is from national to supranational regulation.

The comparable leap today is from national to having power that transcends government regulations.

entailment

Ah, it's always the big but.

Some things just don't work out the way you expect.

entailment

And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game.

Making money is the name of the game.

contradiction

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

The calls went unanswered because the numbers dialed were incorrect.

neutral

Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference.

The internet was used in the election in 1980.

contradiction

Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening?

The project resulted in a doubling of the width.

neutral

There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001.

It would be politically unwise for Clinton to commute Pollard's sentence.

neutral

The study suggested that between 23 and 46 of every 1 million patients taking fen-phen would die from the condition each year.

23 to 46 people died of the condition yearly.

entailment

Simpson defense : law professor Barry Scheck and forensic expert Henry Lee.

A professor and forensics expert is all Simpson needs to win the case.

neutral

For example, had the writer of the Genesis creation story been composing for a 20 th century readership, he or she would have explained God's hand in the evolutionary process as opposed to the more magical creation story in the Bible.

Religious views and scriptures are forcefully set in stone and immutable in time

contradiction

The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.

The religious right supported Bush.

neutral

Arendt's conception of the public was phrased in quasimilitaristic language almost expressly designed to irritate feminists (it didn't, but only because they had stopped listening).

Arendt's language was thought of as being meant to anger feminists.

entailment

New Englanders, fearing British corruption and tyranny, provoked the American Revolution.

The American Revolution never happened.

contradiction

In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race.

In 1963 less than 1% of blacks married someone of another race.

entailment

Knightley carefully concludes only that the photograph turns out not to be the clear and simple statement of fact that it otherwise appears.

Knightley stopped his investigation after seeing the evidence wasn't in the photo.

neutral

And so, as I said, the co-op's story helps me to resist the pull of fatalism and pessimism.

The co-op story causes the author to struggle

contradiction

Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion.

The priestly meeting is a period that prohibits boasting.

contradiction

Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film.

Critics really enjoyed every aspect of the film made for TV.

contradiction

Why are you coming at me with that pillow?

Someone is questioning what is being done with a pillow.

entailment

We learn, for example, that on his field trips with Lady Gregory, Yeats had difficulty understanding the thick Irish accent of the peasants.

The peasants' thick accents were hard for Yeats to understand.

entailment

Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.

Benigni is over the top when he celebrates.

neutral

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

Despite obstacles the business empire managed to thrive.

neutral

This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal.

It was decided that things would be carried out in a fair and legal manner, which benefitted all the candidates.

neutral

This is a drop in the bucket.

It was like a overflowing down pour of rain into a tiny bucket.

contradiction

An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record.

Donald Trump has never donated to any charities before.

neutral

Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, Our God, our nation, our leader!

Iraqi commando units from Baghdad were reported to be gutting a live dog while saying, "Our God, our nation, our lead"!

entailment

As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.

We carry the card at all times.

neutral

(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)

Phillip Weiss often throws small temper tantrums towards his mom in the paper.

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 sometimes pondered autumn leaves.

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In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.

Steve Brill remains a hot topic even into his second week as press scourge.

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That ought to impress Ellen Barkin.

It indeed turned out that Ellen Barkin was very impressed and they remembered this for quite some time.

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You'd have to invoke your own gods for the requisite charm.

You can determine the requirements for yourself in order to receive the charm.

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You can bet no one will ever elect me to public office.

Everyone loves me and I can use my popularity to leverage any election.

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In the case of drug testing, however, the proposed warrantless blanket invasions of privacy serve only a symbolic value.

Warrantless drug testing is a breach of privacy that happens everyday.

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Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.

If true, Hersh's information is encouraging for his opponent.

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Also, while PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver, SlateCast TM will package acute witticisms about the news directly onto your voice-mail answering message--in your own voice--thereby completely eliminating the need to develop or even to express your own opinions.

The new technology throws breaking stories into a newspaper.

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I take my 15 cents and head for the liquor store.

I put the money in my pocket before I went to the store.

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An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate.

His daughter and wife could agree on his $200 million estate.

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The bald, pointy-eared vampire in Nosferatu is barely ambulatory, in fact.

Though not paralyzed, Nosferatu has a hard time getting about.

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Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!

Map maker, retire from your trade as a perfect map is a weapon too dangerous!

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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.

The argument surrounding pollution taxes has been debated since the 1980s.

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Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes.

You can now buy Martin Luther King, Jr. Keep the Dream Alive checks.

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Few people these days believe that evil spirits cause illness, that the rain god causes rain, or that electric-light bulbs are mystical.

The light bulb is still the number one cause of fear for people these days, narrowly beating cancer.

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I keep losing at their damn casinos.

Their casinos have great odds and I win frequently.

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Fischel is also the author of The Conspiracy To Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution . Administrators protest that they are only keeping pace with their UNEXT has already signed on with Columbia, while Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell are considering commercial partners for their own online programs.

This was not Fischelâ€™s first attempt at a book.

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