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Added tiers devoted to luxury seating at the new parks also push the upper deck away from the field. | The new seating pushed the upper deck further from the athletes. | entailment |
There are people that just want to get this president (Sen. | No one wants to get the President. | contradiction |
In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1. | American Re bought a German Company for a financial gain of $1. | contradiction |
In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways). | James Wood is not liked by other authors. | neutral |
Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse. | Traditionalists complain that it will ruin all the things that make the World Series great. | entailment |
Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ). | Pfitzner's work was loved by everyone. | contradiction |
Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes. | Despite their strict demeanors, the bouncers were known to accept bribes for entry. | neutral |
If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem. | Babies who wake up at night to feed are well adjusted. | contradiction |
Other fragments and versions will add to what Callahan has assembled, not overwrite it. | Often times what other fragments and versions could had to what he has construct. | neutral |
Talk about when you became out of touch with her and maybe why. | She moved away, that's why you lost touch with her. | neutral |
Russia continues to bomb Chechnya. | Russia is holding off on bombing Chechnya. | contradiction |
They won't be satisfied--and won't relax--until they've identified his flaws. | That guys' got some flaws, and they ain't going to let up about it. | entailment |
GS's Saturday Evening Post articles eerily suggest words we were to hear 50 or 60 years later. | GS's Saturday Evening Post writings aren't suitable for teenagers | neutral |
The Army discharged a 20-year decorated veteran one week before he would have been eligible for retirement benefits, because investigators discovered evidence of his homosexuality after an arsonist torched his home. | The Army isn't going to promote any homosexual to 5 star general | neutral |
As Chatterbox pointed out in his earlier item, movie tickets are fundamentally inexpensive , so you aren't going to lure many more people into seeing, say, Eyes Wide Shut by slashing the already low price of first-run admission. | Tickets to a movie are not very expensive. | entailment |
The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches). | In the past the majority of men wasn't taller than 5 feet 2 inches | neutral |
But Weld blew this moral advantage by attacking Helms July 15. | Helms retaliated with his own showing of offense, hoping to replicate Weld's successful display of integrity. | contradiction |
Microsoft's position is that Jackson did not actually remove Internet Explorer from his computer because the add/remove procedure leaves components of Internet Explorer on the machine. | Jackson thought that Internet Explorer was as good and valuable as having a raincoat in the desert to protect yourself from the rain | neutral |
There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner. | No timeframe exists that can tell you when you've found the right partner. | entailment |
The notion is ludicrous on the face of it. | The notion seems silly but might work when put in to action. | neutral |
Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like. | Programmers have been debugging the old software for months and losing sleep over it. | neutral |
The only standard by which news organizations feel comfortable evaluating a policy is success or failure, not right or wrong. | The only standards considered for a policy in news media is right and wrong. | contradiction |
Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal. | Henry enjoyed flowers that women really hated. | contradiction |
The RPH does not much elaborate on how he would balance the budget after his cuts. | The RPH has not publicly detailed his upcoming plans. | entailment |
To News Quiz participants, investigation is not theological (angels?) | The News Quiz participants approached investigation from a new perspective, after being given clarification on it's meaning. | neutral |
What's more pernicious about the coverage is that it confuses the qualities of a crusader with those of a president. | The coverage is pernicious. | entailment |
And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill. | Influence peddlers create good will and tons of hope for all people on Capital Hill. | neutral |
That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not. | Those values and culture can be found in some people of Chinese descent | neutral |
The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed. | The media all completely agreed to look into Bush's drug history. | contradiction |
The example of loyalty and When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman). | He met Dustin Hoffman. | neutral |
A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity. | Corporate values are different than traditional values. | neutral |
They never forgave Arafat for bowing to what Ajami calls the logic of brute, irreversible facts. | Arafat is going to be exiled from his community. | neutral |
But the big news in Ireland is the peace negotiations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. | The news in Ireland payed little heed to the peace talks between the British and Irish Prime Ministers. | contradiction |
But you could very well make the opposite argument. | The opposite argument is impossible. | contradiction |
The RPH has hidden literary talents. | There are obvious literary talents in RPH. | contradiction |
But the big news in Ireland is the peace negotiations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. | The peace talks between The British and Irish Prime Ministers went well. | neutral |
Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits. | Ellison quit writing that day. | contradiction |
The Falcons, who have stunk perennially, are football's best Cinderella story in years. | The Falcons are a rags to riches story. | entailment |
They're interested in the clash of personalities. | The people like when others do not get along. | entailment |
In effect, Nixon's misdeeds () so dwarf Clinton's--even the most severe charges of suborning perjury--that Republicans could wind up bollixed. | Clinton's Wrong doings were almost as bad as Nixon's wrong doing, but not quite. | neutral |
the thing is I don't know how I can pick one or the other as maid of honor. | Both prospective maids of honor would likely do an equally good job. | neutral |
But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99. | The election was absolutely conclusive. | neutral |
As in his Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), the outcome of every scene is predictable, but how Zaillian gets from beat to beat is surprisingly fresh. | The review which focuses on Searching for Bobby Fischer lambasts the movie for being predictable. | entailment |
I'm afraid to step out of the car. | Stepping out of the car makes me afraid. | entailment |
In the Washington Post , Archer accuses Democrats of supporting big government on autopilot and argues that the cuts epitomize compassionate conservatism. | Archer thinks that Democrats will always support big goverment. | entailment |
(Click for more on the U.S. role in that restriction.) | Further details can be obtained about the interesting contribution that the U.S. added to the cause regarding the restriction. | neutral |
It is a beautiful, sad little movie about betrayal. | Movies about betrayal exclusively portray a happy life. | contradiction |
(A great continental nation--I love that phrase, but what the hell does it mean?) | Europe is a good example of a great continental nation. | contradiction |
As one agent A parolee of mine is OK and is looking for a job. | The agent helps the parolee find a job. | neutral |
If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean | hard to say as the sentence was not complete. | contradiction |
Raves for this chronicle of the 1991 storm of the century that swallowed up a boatload of New England fishermen. | No lives were lost to any New England fisherman from the storm in 1991. | contradiction |
I do not know whether this theory is true. | Every theory is inherently correct, and we shouldn't doubt about them | contradiction |
The personal destruction spin is a big winner. | The spin is a loser to other peoples' eyes. | neutral |
Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity. | Bennett was told by Standard to change the article title. | neutral |
(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.) | Russia usually have worst situations than the ones they depict | neutral |
Rubin himself probably does not care about such back scratching, but it is a lesson that heir-apparent Summers, an eager press hound, has surely absorbed. | Rubin highly values being giving him favors. | contradiction |
Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force. | The troops want to invade soon. | neutral |
Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time. | Amazon admits the form can be confusing. | entailment |
Young people work in a corporate world by day but play in a moral and cultural universe shaped by the Sixties. | Nowadays generations are embracing the values of the generation of the SIxties | neutral |
More importantly, it reminds us that racial identity is utterly malleable--and that racial essence is utterly artificial. | The essence of race is artificial. | entailment |
When you see Bradley, you see a naturally diffident man talking about how he would like to run for president and fretting about the distance between his ideal campaign and the real one. | Bradley is worried about how his ideal campaign is coming across in real life. | entailment |
No one blinks 40-car motorcades that shut down interstates and gridlock traffic, the 200-plus-strong Secret Service delegation that accompanies the president abroad, the transformation of the open White House into an impenetrable fortress. | No one thinks twice about the White House being turned into a fortress because of a war. | neutral |
People will argue about where to draw the line. | The line won't be drawn because of one person. | neutral |
The book's plot (about a man's anonymous love letters to his girlfriend) is said to be trite, and the ending is called a cop out. | The story is not very original | entailment |
Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map! | I want the map maker to come to a decision. | entailment |
American soldiers gave her a drink and poured water over her. | The troops wet her. | entailment |
Top aides from recent administrations are The Secret Service never lets the president escape its protection. | The Secret Service hunts presidents, kills them and eats them for dinner. | contradiction |
The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others. | The fields holds no sway over the debates to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist. | contradiction |
While conservatives bash Bulworth for its political correctness, The Nation likens it to Citizen Kane . Like [Orson] Welles, [Warren] Beatty brings to this production a history of left-liberal politics and an admiration for black musicians, says Stuart Klawans. | The Nation bashes Citizen Kane , Orson Welles, Warren Beatty and Bulworth. | contradiction |
As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar). | According to local legend, there was a headless body found at a topless bar. | entailment |
That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxes in order to fatten the undeserving poor, eager to sell out America's military supremacy out of some guilt-ridden moralism. | The emerging Republicans didn't like Bobby Kennedy, but that was true for Democrats as well. | neutral |
He dramatizes right up to the point where a dramatist would be expected to provide some insight--and then, hey, he's a documentarian. | One can see a fine line exists between a dramatist and a documentarian. | entailment |
Perhaps Internet users are more depressed because they are better informed. | The internet informs users. | entailment |
Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me. | Ross is unable to accept his motives for voting the way he did. | entailment |
Check out our newest feature, Ask Bill Barnes. | The new feature ask Bill Barnes is viewed favorably. | neutral |
What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow. | Meier's earlier work was much better. | neutral |
Performance artist Karen Finley reprises her 1990 show--she spread chocolate over her naked body--which made her the poster girl for right-wing denunciations of the National Endowment for the Arts. | Karen Finley's show was created for shock value. | neutral |
(It is this same vision that Kaplan so admires.) | Kaplan wants to get rid of this vision. | contradiction |
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades. | McCain's crusades also focus scrutiny on McConnell. | neutral |
If I write a new diagnosis in a patient's chart, I have to indicate what I plan to do about it. | Whenever I have a new diagnosis about a patient, I need to write my plans for that patients in their chart. | entailment |
In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price. | Negotiating well is harder when my interest in buying is high, because I get more nervous. | contradiction |
The PKK has also bombed Turkish targets in Germany. | Turks were targeted by explosives in Germany. | entailment |
And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist. | Bradley had a hard time with strategy. | neutral |
An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down a dead alley and swimming against the historical tide of unification. | Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui went down a blind alley. | neutral |
He was 65 at the time. | He had just reached the ripe old age of puberty. | contradiction |
I remember the epigraph of James T. Farrell's book Studs Lonigan , which I read more than 60 years | Studs Lonigan was written in the past few years. | contradiction |
This is the mutual contempt, hinted at but not developed in this valuable book, that haunts us today. | The book that hints at the mutual contempt that bothers us today can still be bought at Barnes and Noble. | neutral |
I do not know whether this theory is true. | It's not possible to always be sure about everythings | entailment |
MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. | A wide group of people believe that these seven focuses do not define intelligence. | neutral |
That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the The written word enables us to preserve our laws. | Linda Douglass feels Johann Gutenberg is more important than he gets credit for. | entailment |
In contrast, this may not be the case in Sunni-dominated Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. | Education is different in Sunni-Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. | neutral |
Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward | Right now, this strategy is certain to be optimal. | contradiction |
Weird Ted receives The New Yorker , New York Review of Books , and Los Angeles Times in prison and spends his rare recreation time with fellow bombers Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef. | All three bombers could be scheduled for release, affording them the free world again. | neutral |
At the conference, they defended their activities against numerous Solidarity leaders denied they made too many compromises; priests denied they had been co-opted by the party; and Communists denied they had committed treason. | The conference was full of flying accusations, arguments, and disagreement, as little would be accomplished during the session. | neutral |
Israelis sided with the Serbs against the Croats, who had been truly monstrous toward Jews during the war. | There were a large number of Jews in Croatia. | neutral |
South Carolina likes re-electing Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority? | Hollings and Thurmond were born in North Carolina | contradiction |
It rejects Albania's claims for independence but decries the crackdown. | Albania claims they are independant. | entailment |
Keirsey does not muck around in your excretions in order to determine your personality. | Your personality is determined by Keirsey. | entailment |
. I suppose you could make an argument that it's a significant enough phenomenon, so that it deserves to be here. | The argument is weak. | contradiction |
But less tendentious media outlets have also reported on Albright's ethnic background. | Albright's ethnic background hasn't come up in the media. | contradiction |
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