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But don't expect them for a few decades.	They are expected to come out next week.	contradiction
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 a complicated man with who thinks is above everyone else.	neutral
However, Clinton would risk legislative revenge if he tried to pursue the issue in the face of firm majorities against him in Congress.	Clinton remained unfazed by any threat of retaliation and decided to press the issue.	neutral
The problem, though, is that the ADR phenomenon has created a situation where U.S. investors are pouring billions of dollars into companies whose standards of financial disclosure and corporate governance are dramatically different from our own and which are, in some cases, nonexistent.	The billions of dollars invested in foreign companies have been unaccounted for.	neutral
There will be enough for everybody!	Everyone will have plenty.	entailment
And he would certainly consent if the alternative was impeachment.	He consented because the alternative was impeachment.	neutral
Despite a lineup of big-name talent--including Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, and Claus Oldenberg--the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition fails to excite.	Jeff Koons was very skilled in art.	entailment
Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose.	Other issues didn't have the chance to arise because there wasn't any pearly whites left due to a lack of brushing.	neutral
Bush himself couldn't utter these words with a straight face.	Bush had trouble saying certain words.	entailment
The other example is Chaconne , starring Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins.	The two performers got married after their intimate work together.	neutral
In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.	McDonald tries to pay its employees the least they can	neutral
He's making himself a positive role model for kids and displaying the leadership for which the American people are hungering.	America has lacked a leader for years.	neutral
New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction	One in seven black males have committed a serious crime in their life.	entailment
On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)	The company really cared about its employees and their learning experiences.	entailment
) The narrative is laced throughout with colorful, distinctly Southern characters, including a Delta store owner who displays a Happy Holidays sign year round ([w]e have a holiday every two months or so) and a Georgia rabbi whose rock 'n' roll temple fuses Jewish and Southern ways ([w]e're sort of reconformadox).	The delta store owner sells T-shirts.	neutral
Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents.	She fibbed to security guards.	entailment
How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?	Adaptec and Skadden got on the list at the same time.	neutral
Clinton, though, has also faced a continuing barrage of unserious allegations--implausible and untrue.	Clinton is also facing serious allegations.	neutral
Slate , where my daughter Karenna worked in '96 and '97.	Karenna worked a second job on top of her job at Slate.	neutral
far off, unseen, but audible,repeats its syncopated intervals,a song that's not a cry	The song was close by.	contradiction
There are people who are not members of the Libertarian Party but who are open-minded about it and willing to listen, even though you may not be able to convert them.	Just because you're not in the Libertarian Party, it doesn't mean you're close-minded.	entailment
This book is not a road map for improving the American economy.	The book has been praised by critics.	neutral
The paper's art critic compared the exhibit to unprocessed sewage and said that if Emin wins the prize, as she very well might, her victory will testify not to the vitality of British art but to a campaign of promotion so brazen that it has left even the cynical London art world awestruck.	The exhibit was very disgusting and all critics hated it.	neutral
Edward Murphy, but Commander (later Admiral ) Joseph M. Murph Murphy.	Edward Murphy advanced his position in the military.	entailment
Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past.	Thurmond is trying to change the way he thinks about race from the past.	neutral
I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.	I read last month's Committee of Advice for Dole, with high interest and great amazement.	contradiction
By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education.	LAT is just a niche thing without importance	contradiction
He then blames military leaders for overestimating the effectiveness of bombing.	He always blames the military for any wrong doing.	neutral
Most alarmingly, convenience gambling exacts huge social costs in the form of addiction and financial hardship without providing any economic benefit.	Convenience gambling, is just as rewarding, as it is thrilling, for the person that takes part in it.	contradiction
All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences.	All three excel in science.	entailment
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a Bush rival, Here is a fellow that went and flew airplanes and learned to be a pilot and was prepared to go, if he had to go.	Orrin hatch was a friend of Bush.	contradiction
It works, maybe to a fault.	Almost too perfect a situation, it even works when operated by untrained personnel.	neutral
If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?	Women hate big government and little government.	contradiction
5) The real outrage is that the fight was boring.	One of the contenders was injured, and he couldn't give the best of himself	neutral
I think I can read your story between the lines.	The author is uninterested in reading between the lines.	contradiction
Physicians will unionize against managed care.	Physicians will unionize in order to achieve freeform, unmanaged care.	entailment
Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth).	The nude events are quite popular.	neutral
(The Yankees have a 12-year, $486-million cable deal.)	The Yankees were able to secure a a 12-year contract for a cable company worth $486 million.	entailment
Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky?	Granny is indeed feeling lucky.	neutral
In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma.	Christopher Plummer has a strong personality	entailment
PointCast responded with a piece of software for companies' central computers designed to minimize its own impact.	PointCast's new product aimed to maximize its presence.	contradiction
They spoke of our guys and those guys.	One set of guys was better than the next set.	neutral
After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.	In 1985 I gave up after a dozen years, a pack a day of Camels.	entailment
I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.	During her ordeal Monica would take a job or volunteer if she could.	neutral
They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity.	Steve Austin is a wrestler.	entailment
Replace George Will's column with weekly photo of him being punched in the nose.	A lot of people despise George Wallace.	neutral
In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Bob Dole made a big fuss about Clinton's refusal to categorically rule out pardons for former associates caught up in Whitewater.	Bob Dole did not care about Clinton's refusal to rule out pardons for his former associates that were caught up in Whitewater.	contradiction
Indeed, there are dozens of clinical experiments showing that high doses of calcium either arrest bone loss or even build bone in older women.	There is no benefit from taking calcium supplements.	contradiction
SportsZone, SportsLine, et al practice the anti-gambling puritanism of TV, which dumped its oddsmakers years ago.	Oddsmakers are no longer used by most television sports media.	entailment
He recently said that a Washington state initiative to require trigger locks was written by Satan.	He thinks Satan was behind the Washington state initiative to require trigger locks.	entailment
In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.	The hero's roiling unconscious spawns dark slapstick debacles.	entailment
Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward	Right now, this strategy is uncertain to be optimal.	entailment
A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.	Greg Evans has a personal issue with the playwright.	neutral
H ome Every baby superstore features a section that could be called the Wall of Death.	The Wall of Life is seen at every baby superstore, offering products intended for baby safety.	contradiction
I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women.	The World Cup they are discussing was held in Russia.	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 created the printing press.	contradiction
Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.	She may speak with an English accent but she will modified it to American English when necessary.	entailment
A book-review editor at Science says she was pressured to retire this past summer after she published a negative review of a book that claimed to defend science from postmodern critiques.	The editor held a vendetta against the author of the novel she reviewed.	neutral
Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?	Bradley was for welfare reform.	contradiction
(The of supranational NGO lobbying in general is analyzed by Jessica Mathews in the January/February Foreign Affairs .) Thus the old left, intentionally or not, is pushing us from national regulation to supranational regulation--albeit, in this case, a kind of private-sector supranational regulation.	Jessica Mathews is a successful journalist.	neutral
(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.)	He would talk further about his plans for a fourth Indiana Jones movie, which caused a stir amongst longtime fans of the series.	neutral
They thought Bob Dole lost in 1996 because he was mean and distant.	They believed that Bob Dole lost in 1996 because he was mean and distant.	entailment
The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.	After reading what was written, you get the feeling that the person in question is disoriented and slow witted.	entailment
Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.	Buchanan was happy when Kofi Annan later apologized for his statement.	neutral
Maybe lime green was a big mistake, but it's his mistake to live with.	Lime green was certainly the best choice	contradiction
Three kinds of theories of history have been prominent in recent discussion--ending theories, wave theories, and cycle theories.	There are only three theories that have been discussed recently.	neutral
Bob Barr, R-Ga., have given speeches to a white citizens' group whose members attended Duke's latest fund raiser.	Bob Barr is a Republican politician from Georgia.	entailment
It will be because they hope it may mean a happier, more secure week for their kid and a less anxious one for themselves.	They are hoping for a better week for their kid.	entailment
While most people want to believe that God created us one way or another, few can swallow the literal creationist reading of the Bible, which holds that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.	There are more creationalist in the world than those who believe in evolution.	neutral
The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy.	Clinton's decisions about Kosovo were completely justified by the circumstances	neutral
But it is not a transitional problem.	It is definitely a translational problem.	contradiction
As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.	Someone from Washington PR states corporate and public-interest lobbyists are often marketing these cases to the state attorneys general.	entailment
Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow.	CNN gives a lot of time to 24 hour coverage.	entailment
Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible.	Bombing Hanoi led to more fighting.	neutral
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 completely synthesizes your speech.	neutral
White describes his wife Katherine, who, very sick in the fall of the last year of her life, goes out into the garden, as she has done every year before, to plant the spring bulbs she knew she would never live to see rise.	White's wife got dirty in the garden while planting bulbs.	neutral
Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.	Laureate Andrew Motion really hated Bob Dylan's songs.	contradiction
Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.	Both major parties have very similar rates of haressment.	neutral
House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., has so far refused to schedule a hearing on Barr's resolution.	Solomon has scheduled a hearing on Barr's resolution.	contradiction
Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model.	The talk show host was more relate-able when she was heavier.	neutral
But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny.	He has religious convictions not shared by everyone.	entailment
Kasich's proposed corporate-welfare package draws together a measly $11.	The corporate-welfare package is lower than ideal.	entailment
But few would discard laws against organ selling.	Organ selling laws will not be discarded by all.	entailment
The article's author, Smithsonian curator Paul Forman, accused Gross and Levitt of trying to place science back on its pre-postmodern pedestal.	Paul Forman is a famous anthropologist	contradiction
The reality, though, is that this kind of stuff still happens all the time (even though eventually everyone does seem to get caught).	Everyone gets caught because they are bad at covering their tracks.	neutral
We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions.	There are exceptions to not agreeing on things.	entailment
His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.	The song made its author one of the wealthiest singers of his time	neutral
This from a former chief clerk for a U.S.	This from a former vice president for a US.	contradiction
Entrepreneurs now use cheap new technology, such as remote-operated vehicles, to salvage artifacts from ancient wrecks.	Remote controlled objects are used by entrepreneurs.	entailment
Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.	Kauai is unable to write articles worth being published	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 have tried for an education but have found it difficult to work and study at the same time.	neutral
This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.	McCain-Feingold was scuttled quickly.	neutral
Maybe she would like the Pentagon.	The Pentagon is a good place for women to work.	neutral
Shots of cute animals are deemed an inadequate substitute for the cutting wit that made the earlier film (by the same cast, and also written by John Cleese) a cult hit.	Cute animals are not a replacement for witting dialog.	entailment
(Isn't there some high-tech way to fly him from class to class, perhaps on Boeing's new Delta III rocket; you know, once it stops malfunctioning.)	Boeing's Delta III rocket will get him from class to class because it works flawlessly.	contradiction
They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise.	The cruise was only for people in the entertainment industry.	neutral
People are smart--or, at least, they are smart Darwinian robots . Darwinian theory does posit that homo sapiens were designed to get their genes into the next generation, but not that they were designed to do so consciously and rationally.	Homo Sapiens picked their partners with the goal to transmit the best genes to their descendants	entailment
He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington.	India's lack of a lobby in Washington opened them up to the berating of the Clinton administration.	entailment
Now it appears that he may have been simply assuring himself she really was dead, at least according to three of Wynette's daughters, who have filed a $50 million wrongful death suit against Richey and a doctor.	Wynette's three daughters filed a large law suit against Richey and a doctor.	entailment
The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics.	A movie and a play have been made titled Wilde.	entailment

But don't expect them for a few decades.

They are expected to come out next week.

contradiction

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 a complicated man with who thinks is above everyone else.

neutral

However, Clinton would risk legislative revenge if he tried to pursue the issue in the face of firm majorities against him in Congress.

Clinton remained unfazed by any threat of retaliation and decided to press the issue.

neutral

The problem, though, is that the ADR phenomenon has created a situation where U.S. investors are pouring billions of dollars into companies whose standards of financial disclosure and corporate governance are dramatically different from our own and which are, in some cases, nonexistent.

The billions of dollars invested in foreign companies have been unaccounted for.

neutral

There will be enough for everybody!

Everyone will have plenty.

entailment

And he would certainly consent if the alternative was impeachment.

He consented because the alternative was impeachment.

neutral

Despite a lineup of big-name talent--including Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, and Claus Oldenberg--the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition fails to excite.

Jeff Koons was very skilled in art.

entailment

Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose.

Other issues didn't have the chance to arise because there wasn't any pearly whites left due to a lack of brushing.

neutral

Bush himself couldn't utter these words with a straight face.

Bush had trouble saying certain words.

entailment

The other example is Chaconne , starring Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins.

The two performers got married after their intimate work together.

neutral

In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post carried a report Monday saying that McDonald's staff in the territory are the lowest paid of all business chain employees.

McDonald tries to pay its employees the least they can

neutral

He's making himself a positive role model for kids and displaying the leadership for which the American people are hungering.

America has lacked a leader for years.

neutral

New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction

One in seven black males have committed a serious crime in their life.

entailment

On other occasions, the company has seemed more like a postgraduate workshop for the promising and ill-prepared (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). (Click here for a schedule.)

The company really cared about its employees and their learning experiences.

entailment

) The narrative is laced throughout with colorful, distinctly Southern characters, including a Delta store owner who displays a Happy Holidays sign year round ([w]e have a holiday every two months or so) and a Georgia rabbi whose rock 'n' roll temple fuses Jewish and Southern ways ([w]e're sort of reconformadox).

The delta store owner sells T-shirts.

neutral

Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents.

She fibbed to security guards.

entailment

How did Adaptec or Skadden get on the list?

Adaptec and Skadden got on the list at the same time.

neutral

Clinton, though, has also faced a continuing barrage of unserious allegations--implausible and untrue.

Clinton is also facing serious allegations.

neutral

Slate , where my daughter Karenna worked in '96 and '97.

Karenna worked a second job on top of her job at Slate.

neutral

far off, unseen, but audible,repeats its syncopated intervals,a song that's not a cry

The song was close by.

contradiction

There are people who are not members of the Libertarian Party but who are open-minded about it and willing to listen, even though you may not be able to convert them.

Just because you're not in the Libertarian Party, it doesn't mean you're close-minded.

entailment

This book is not a road map for improving the American economy.

The book has been praised by critics.

neutral

The paper's art critic compared the exhibit to unprocessed sewage and said that if Emin wins the prize, as she very well might, her victory will testify not to the vitality of British art but to a campaign of promotion so brazen that it has left even the cynical London art world awestruck.

The exhibit was very disgusting and all critics hated it.

neutral

Edward Murphy, but Commander (later Admiral ) Joseph M. Murph Murphy.

Edward Murphy advanced his position in the military.

entailment

Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past.

Thurmond is trying to change the way he thinks about race from the past.

neutral

I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.

I read last month's Committee of Advice for Dole, with high interest and great amazement.

contradiction

By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education.

LAT is just a niche thing without importance

contradiction

He then blames military leaders for overestimating the effectiveness of bombing.

He always blames the military for any wrong doing.

neutral

Most alarmingly, convenience gambling exacts huge social costs in the form of addiction and financial hardship without providing any economic benefit.

Convenience gambling, is just as rewarding, as it is thrilling, for the person that takes part in it.

contradiction

All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences.

All three excel in science.

entailment

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

Orrin hatch was a friend of Bush.

contradiction

It works, maybe to a fault.

Almost too perfect a situation, it even works when operated by untrained personnel.

neutral

If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?

Women hate big government and little government.

contradiction

5) The real outrage is that the fight was boring.

One of the contenders was injured, and he couldn't give the best of himself

neutral

I think I can read your story between the lines.

The author is uninterested in reading between the lines.

contradiction

Physicians will unionize against managed care.

Physicians will unionize in order to achieve freeform, unmanaged care.

entailment

Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth).

The nude events are quite popular.

neutral

(The Yankees have a 12-year, $486-million cable deal.)

The Yankees were able to secure a a 12-year contract for a cable company worth $486 million.

entailment

Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky?

Granny is indeed feeling lucky.

neutral

In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma.

Christopher Plummer has a strong personality

entailment

PointCast responded with a piece of software for companies' central computers designed to minimize its own impact.

PointCast's new product aimed to maximize its presence.

contradiction

They spoke of our guys and those guys.

One set of guys was better than the next set.

neutral

After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.

In 1985 I gave up after a dozen years, a pack a day of Camels.

entailment

I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.

During her ordeal Monica would take a job or volunteer if she could.

neutral

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

Steve Austin is a wrestler.

entailment

Replace George Will's column with weekly photo of him being punched in the nose.

A lot of people despise George Wallace.

neutral

In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Bob Dole made a big fuss about Clinton's refusal to categorically rule out pardons for former associates caught up in Whitewater.

Bob Dole did not care about Clinton's refusal to rule out pardons for his former associates that were caught up in Whitewater.

contradiction

Indeed, there are dozens of clinical experiments showing that high doses of calcium either arrest bone loss or even build bone in older women.

There is no benefit from taking calcium supplements.

contradiction

SportsZone, SportsLine, et al practice the anti-gambling puritanism of TV, which dumped its oddsmakers years ago.

Oddsmakers are no longer used by most television sports media.

entailment

He recently said that a Washington state initiative to require trigger locks was written by Satan.

He thinks Satan was behind the Washington state initiative to require trigger locks.

entailment

In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.

The hero's roiling unconscious spawns dark slapstick debacles.

entailment

Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward

Right now, this strategy is uncertain to be optimal.

entailment

A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.

Greg Evans has a personal issue with the playwright.

neutral

H ome Every baby superstore features a section that could be called the Wall of Death.

The Wall of Life is seen at every baby superstore, offering products intended for baby safety.

contradiction

I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women.

The World Cup they are discussing was held in Russia.

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 created the printing press.

contradiction

Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.

She may speak with an English accent but she will modified it to American English when necessary.

entailment

A book-review editor at Science says she was pressured to retire this past summer after she published a negative review of a book that claimed to defend science from postmodern critiques.

The editor held a vendetta against the author of the novel she reviewed.

neutral

Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?

Bradley was for welfare reform.

contradiction

(The of supranational NGO lobbying in general is analyzed by Jessica Mathews in the January/February Foreign Affairs .) Thus the old left, intentionally or not, is pushing us from national regulation to supranational regulation--albeit, in this case, a kind of private-sector supranational regulation.

Jessica Mathews is a successful journalist.

neutral

(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.)

He would talk further about his plans for a fourth Indiana Jones movie, which caused a stir amongst longtime fans of the series.

neutral

They thought Bob Dole lost in 1996 because he was mean and distant.

They believed that Bob Dole lost in 1996 because he was mean and distant.

entailment

The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull.

After reading what was written, you get the feeling that the person in question is disoriented and slow witted.

entailment

Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.

Buchanan was happy when Kofi Annan later apologized for his statement.

neutral

Maybe lime green was a big mistake, but it's his mistake to live with.

Lime green was certainly the best choice

contradiction

Three kinds of theories of history have been prominent in recent discussion--ending theories, wave theories, and cycle theories.

There are only three theories that have been discussed recently.

neutral

Bob Barr, R-Ga., have given speeches to a white citizens' group whose members attended Duke's latest fund raiser.

Bob Barr is a Republican politician from Georgia.

entailment

It will be because they hope it may mean a happier, more secure week for their kid and a less anxious one for themselves.

They are hoping for a better week for their kid.

entailment

While most people want to believe that God created us one way or another, few can swallow the literal creationist reading of the Bible, which holds that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.

There are more creationalist in the world than those who believe in evolution.

neutral

The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy.

Clinton's decisions about Kosovo were completely justified by the circumstances

neutral

But it is not a transitional problem.

It is definitely a translational problem.

contradiction

As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.

Someone from Washington PR states corporate and public-interest lobbyists are often marketing these cases to the state attorneys general.

entailment

Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow.

CNN gives a lot of time to 24 hour coverage.

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Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible.

Bombing Hanoi led to more fighting.

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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 completely synthesizes your speech.

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White describes his wife Katherine, who, very sick in the fall of the last year of her life, goes out into the garden, as she has done every year before, to plant the spring bulbs she knew she would never live to see rise.

White's wife got dirty in the garden while planting bulbs.

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Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.

Laureate Andrew Motion really hated Bob Dylan's songs.

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Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.

Both major parties have very similar rates of haressment.

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House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., has so far refused to schedule a hearing on Barr's resolution.

Solomon has scheduled a hearing on Barr's resolution.

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Actually, part of the problem is that fans liked the talk show host better when she was bigger britched, before she became the Vogue cover model.

The talk show host was more relate-able when she was heavier.

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But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny.

He has religious convictions not shared by everyone.

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Kasich's proposed corporate-welfare package draws together a measly $11.

The corporate-welfare package is lower than ideal.

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But few would discard laws against organ selling.

Organ selling laws will not be discarded by all.

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The article's author, Smithsonian curator Paul Forman, accused Gross and Levitt of trying to place science back on its pre-postmodern pedestal.

Paul Forman is a famous anthropologist

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The reality, though, is that this kind of stuff still happens all the time (even though eventually everyone does seem to get caught).

Everyone gets caught because they are bad at covering their tracks.

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We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions.

There are exceptions to not agreeing on things.

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His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music.

The song made its author one of the wealthiest singers of his time

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This from a former chief clerk for a U.S.

This from a former vice president for a US.

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Entrepreneurs now use cheap new technology, such as remote-operated vehicles, to salvage artifacts from ancient wrecks.

Remote controlled objects are used by entrepreneurs.

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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.

Kauai is unable to write articles worth being published

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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 have tried for an education but have found it difficult to work and study at the same time.

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This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.

McCain-Feingold was scuttled quickly.

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Maybe she would like the Pentagon.

The Pentagon is a good place for women to work.

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Shots of cute animals are deemed an inadequate substitute for the cutting wit that made the earlier film (by the same cast, and also written by John Cleese) a cult hit.

Cute animals are not a replacement for witting dialog.

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(Isn't there some high-tech way to fly him from class to class, perhaps on Boeing's new Delta III rocket; you know, once it stops malfunctioning.)

Boeing's Delta III rocket will get him from class to class because it works flawlessly.

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They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise.

The cruise was only for people in the entertainment industry.

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People are smart--or, at least, they are smart Darwinian robots . Darwinian theory does posit that homo sapiens were designed to get their genes into the next generation, but not that they were designed to do so consciously and rationally.

Homo Sapiens picked their partners with the goal to transmit the best genes to their descendants

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He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington.

India's lack of a lobby in Washington opened them up to the berating of the Clinton administration.

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Now it appears that he may have been simply assuring himself she really was dead, at least according to three of Wynette's daughters, who have filed a $50 million wrongful death suit against Richey and a doctor.

Wynette's three daughters filed a large law suit against Richey and a doctor.

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The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics.

A movie and a play have been made titled Wilde.

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