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All American reporters care about is Monica Lewinsky, and we're trying to get away from that, one U.S. official told me.	The American reporters didn't care about the Monika Lewinsky story.	contradiction
But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook.	Even the conservatives have been lax	entailment
So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present.	The present under these circumstances wouldn't be reconizable.	entailment
What does this calendar tell us about the Spice Girls?	The Spice Girls tell us about this calendar.	contradiction
Still, every now and then, a professor would have four genuine A students and only three A's to give out.	The professor always gave out A's to student's who deserved them.	contradiction
sadistic (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). A few critics take the audience's boos as evidence of New York opera-goers' conservatism.	Audiences adore all music performances.	contradiction
The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said.	The heir would remain in the US after inheriting the world's largest private oil fortune.	contradiction
Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.	Dolphins rank high on the list of highly intelligent creatures.	neutral
Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.	Every chant sounds the same when chanted.	contradiction
Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.	Even mobsters have a soft side that can be elicited by good music	entailment
Two of my brothers still smoke, although both would press the magic button and quit tomorrow if they could.	My brothers have put effort into quitting smoking previously.	neutral
They're deceased!	It's been a catastrophic accident	neutral
Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.	African Americans are paid only 70% of the national average for equal work.	neutral
George W. Bush takes both covers.	This was the first time Bush had accomplished this task.	neutral
What about the children?	The issue of the children require some consideration.	entailment
Wait Until Dark (Brooks Atkinson Theatre).	The movie playing at the theatre is called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.	contradiction
There's a returning kids-on-milk-cartons sense of hysteria to the whole crusade.	Missing kids pictures on a container causes panic to everyone.	neutral
Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.	Kindleberger has a degree in finance from Princeton University.	neutral
Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them.	Tripp's lawyers, who worked on the case, could not have briefed reporters asking for the tapes.	entailment
Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.	Barr has always wanted national attention.	neutral
And then there's everyone else in the city.	Everyone else in the city is then taken into account.	entailment
If you know that the state lottery is likely to be rigged, you'll buy fewer tickets.	You are likely to purchase more lottery tickets when you know it is controlled by deception.	contradiction
While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote.	Both sides refused to politicize the Iraq Conflict to fit their own agendas.	contradiction
The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division.	Several things helped to improve.	entailment
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.	The writing was lazy compared to the earlier film.	neutral
The pierced generation may simply be acknowledging the deadliness of the times we live in, suggestive as they are of earlier epochs in human history.	The times we live in appear to be deadly.	entailment
On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome.	He and his educated colleagues are fond of the Marie Antoinette syndrome.	contradiction
As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him.	Noyce and Moore failed at Intel, where Grove was very successful.	contradiction
Lehman said afterward, I feel an incredible amount of pain.	Lehman was unable to feel the pain at the time it happened.	neutral
The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.	The unscrupulous find themselves without benefit every time.	contradiction
In the publicity leading up to the release of Showgirls , Eszterhas gave interview after interview about the importance of the movie, of its deep moral message, its serious purpose.	Showgirls was promoted throughout a series of interviews.	entailment
Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security.	Privatization gives great freedom.	entailment
But Aaron hardly figures here and, of course, psychology isn't the point.	Psychology is definitely the key point.	contradiction
What's worse, Wolf flip-flops in her opinion of The Slut every few pages.	Wolf's critique is a solid three-page article.	contradiction
Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a cineplex (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).	Barton Myers' buildings have 5 colors in each floor design.	neutral
An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.	The author is remembering a story from a publication.	entailment
Figgis' camera is probing and alive, so that even when his meanings are laughable, his images remain allusive and mysterious.	Figgis camera can be funny.	entailment
Such coverage is good Your Live at Five NewsTeam covers Election '96!	The Live at Five News Team helped to cover the 1996 Election.	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 characters are distinctly southern.	entailment
One consequence is that the United States needs fewer land-based nukes since it is no longer planning all-out war with Russia.	Not being in the verge of a war with Russia allows the United States to have a lighter war armament	entailment
If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for?	The meaning of life is helping others and building relationships.	neutral
Unless one believes that the lives of Europeans are intrinsically more valuable than those of Africans, the humanitarian justification for military intervention is unsustainable, he wrote.	The author thinks that Europeans and Africans are treated in the same way	contradiction
What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about the new, there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.	The author is excited about the desire for history and the past.	entailment
Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.	No question about it there is life on other planets.	neutral
Wilson uses a stage backdrop of nothing but stark blue and projects bands of white light across it, while his performers stand almost motionless.	The stage backdrop uses a complicated array of colors and patterns.	contradiction
In criticizing the ability of the exclusionary rule to reverse a conviction, he The wrong done was the search, not the conviction.	There is a sizable number of people who disagree with the exclusionary rule being able to reverse conditions.	neutral
When you wanted to shop, you went to the mall and confined your search to the stores you found there.	The mall only had restaurants to eat at.	contradiction
I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs.	They will be involved in many different activities that will better their well-being and health.	entailment
It's certainly better than living in a society that allows money to entice people to convert their own health into a commodity.	Humans shouldn't be provoked to use their health as an asset.	entailment
Marjorie, it's been a delight to correspond with you this week.	Marjorie wrote back.	neutral
Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it.	It is good business to indulge in the attention garnered by the internet.	neutral
The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her.	As it turns out, Clinton rolled in the hay with more than one woman, according to his secretary.	neutral
We can come pretty close to neutral reporting and analysis of news developments in features like Today's Papers and The Week/The Spin.	The spin has a far right leaning reporting style.	contradiction
The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.	Every Bradley piece is full of fresh metaphors.	contradiction
Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock	We should have seen the rock destroyed by the journalists.	entailment
It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.	Many gangster pictures are better quality than Coppola's films.	contradiction
Conde Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists, writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines.	The mandarin journalists are poor.	contradiction
Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.	She always follows culture and society trends.	contradiction
In other words, yes.	I would lean towards saying yes.	neutral
But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake.	He was not clear on how you can end up losing more.	neutral
Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities.	The cover story in Newsweek about how schools deal with learning disabilities caused some parents to question their children's schools.	neutral
Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.	Some hopeful attendees were not allowed past the door due to their style of dress.	entailment
For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country.	Administrators paid little attention the the fact that their state had the best SAT scores.	contradiction
And then, of course, there was the New York Times , that old mainstay of psychotic delusion--Nash thought aliens were sending him encrypted messages through its pages (come to think of it, that could explain the Times ' odd prose).	Nash thought that aliens sent him secret messages through the pages of the New York Times.	entailment
The Times speculated that NATO officials leaked the bad news to persuade Congress not to pull out the troops.	Congress did not pull out the troops.	neutral
Deducing that the whole of the Old Testament was the work of aliens is, therefore, perfectly logical.	The Old Testament is more popular than the New Testament.	neutral
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues.	The issues in the play requires no apology because of the way he draws his audience.	entailment
The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.	The country is separated in two by the Dayton accord.	entailment
It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.	If a woman becomes pregnant, men don't have to marry them.	entailment
Nevertheless--the nevertheless paragraph ineluctably follows the to be sure one--it would be a mistake to try to turn back the clock.	What has happened can be changed.	neutral
If my dog is reading this, he'd better run now.	My dog should walk instead of run.	contradiction
Why, it's their Chineseness, of course.	Being Chinese allows them many privileges in this instance.	neutral
But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.	A person's happiness is independent of their economic level and resources.	contradiction
That Explains Why Clinton's Finger The McLaughlin Group spends 11 minutes in a straight-faced discussion of Maureen Dowd's jokey suggestion that Clinton is actually ...	The McLaughlin Group spent 11 minutes seriously discussing something said in jest.	entailment
Note 3 : Here's Theroux on	There is only one note.	contradiction
Critics have demanded that UFC install ropes instead.	Critics want ropes installed because they said it would improve safety.	neutral
One is The old neighborhoods are breaking up, and it's the old neighborhoods that produced the mob farm teams.	Some of the houses in the old neighborhoods produced mob farm teams.	entailment
Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object.	The critics were afraid to raise any objections to Tanenhaus's remarks.	neutral
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 lobby in Washington protected them from the Clinton administration's insults.	contradiction
This has rekindled the concern and outrage sparked a few weeks ago by the similar death of a pledge at Louisiana State University.	The pledge died several months ago at Louisiana State University.	contradiction
Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.	Circle in the Round lasts more than half one hour	entailment
(In last week's win against Minnesota, the Jets committed only one.)	Minnesota committed more than the Jets.	neutral
Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.	Prudie does not know why you would wear a thinly padded T-shirt bra.	entailment
Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness.	The novel didn't need any change according to Henry James	contradiction
He's making himself a positive role model for kids and displaying the leadership for which the American people are hungering.	America is longing for a negative leader.	contradiction
(The predictable lesson--justice isn't cut and dry--clogs the film's gears, says the Washington Post 's Eric Brace.)	Eric Brace has reviewed films for the past ten years for the Washington Post.	neutral
As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer.	Washington Week is disliked by conservative individuals.	neutral
The nanny, by comparison, can be trusted to control the children, but her constant presence irritates the children and slows down the shoot.	The nanny is doing the best she can to not mess with the shoot.	neutral
Today, after our investigation, I come to a point that frankly I prayed I would never reach.	The conclusion is not good news for the American public.	neutral
The wrestlers also enact crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.	The wrestlers explore various themes depending on their audience.	neutral
Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place?	Managed-care has nothing to do with employers offering health insurance.	contradiction
The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said.	The music that the computer is creating will be equally as good as the originals.	neutral
Neither Simon nor Lyons likes Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work ( Steward is one of five dramas about his own kinfolk), however.	Simon and Lyons dislike the works of playwright Sebastian Barry.	entailment
Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.	Sometimes a strike is overlooked by investors.	entailment
Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).	Mickey Kaus writes for the New York Times exclusively.	contradiction
The fourth quarter is Jordan Time.	Jordan Time can be related to quarters	entailment
It would be shorter once you got the hang of it.	It won't be that long soon, practice makes perfect.	entailment
Junger is grimly precise about the mechanics of drowning, says Time 's John Skow.	John Skow is associated with Time.	entailment
People can be weak, and money is all too often the way to their heart.	Every now and then with certain individuals, money is their love language.	entailment
I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.	They are very sick with pneumonia and are about to die.	neutral

All American reporters care about is Monica Lewinsky, and we're trying to get away from that, one U.S. official told me.

The American reporters didn't care about the Monika Lewinsky story.

contradiction

But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook.

Even the conservatives have been lax

entailment

So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present.

The present under these circumstances wouldn't be reconizable.

entailment

What does this calendar tell us about the Spice Girls?

The Spice Girls tell us about this calendar.

contradiction

Still, every now and then, a professor would have four genuine A students and only three A's to give out.

The professor always gave out A's to student's who deserved them.

contradiction

sadistic (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). A few critics take the audience's boos as evidence of New York opera-goers' conservatism.

Audiences adore all music performances.

contradiction

The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said.

The heir would remain in the US after inheriting the world's largest private oil fortune.

contradiction

Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.

Dolphins rank high on the list of highly intelligent creatures.

neutral

Other people's chants, particularly when chanted in translation, sound a little silly.

Every chant sounds the same when chanted.

contradiction

Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.

Even mobsters have a soft side that can be elicited by good music

entailment

Two of my brothers still smoke, although both would press the magic button and quit tomorrow if they could.

My brothers have put effort into quitting smoking previously.

neutral

They're deceased!

It's been a catastrophic accident

neutral

Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.

African Americans are paid only 70% of the national average for equal work.

neutral

George W. Bush takes both covers.

This was the first time Bush had accomplished this task.

neutral

What about the children?

The issue of the children require some consideration.

entailment

Wait Until Dark (Brooks Atkinson Theatre).

The movie playing at the theatre is called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

contradiction

There's a returning kids-on-milk-cartons sense of hysteria to the whole crusade.

Missing kids pictures on a container causes panic to everyone.

neutral

Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.

Kindleberger has a degree in finance from Princeton University.

neutral

Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them.

Tripp's lawyers, who worked on the case, could not have briefed reporters asking for the tapes.

entailment

Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.

Barr has always wanted national attention.

neutral

And then there's everyone else in the city.

Everyone else in the city is then taken into account.

entailment

If you know that the state lottery is likely to be rigged, you'll buy fewer tickets.

You are likely to purchase more lottery tickets when you know it is controlled by deception.

contradiction

While accusing Clinton of invoking the Iraq conflict to delay the impeachment vote, Republicans invoke the Iraq conflict to expedite the impeachment vote.

Both sides refused to politicize the Iraq Conflict to fit their own agendas.

contradiction

The Reagan defense budgets helped, as did an aggressive marketing plan abroad and, most importantly, the merger with Martin Marietta and the acquisition of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter division.

Several things helped to improve.

entailment

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.

The writing was lazy compared to the earlier film.

neutral

The pierced generation may simply be acknowledging the deadliness of the times we live in, suggestive as they are of earlier epochs in human history.

The times we live in appear to be deadly.

entailment

On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome.

He and his educated colleagues are fond of the Marie Antoinette syndrome.

contradiction

As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him.

Noyce and Moore failed at Intel, where Grove was very successful.

contradiction

Lehman said afterward, I feel an incredible amount of pain.

Lehman was unable to feel the pain at the time it happened.

neutral

The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.

The unscrupulous find themselves without benefit every time.

contradiction

In the publicity leading up to the release of Showgirls , Eszterhas gave interview after interview about the importance of the movie, of its deep moral message, its serious purpose.

Showgirls was promoted throughout a series of interviews.

entailment

Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security.

Privatization gives great freedom.

entailment

But Aaron hardly figures here and, of course, psychology isn't the point.

Psychology is definitely the key point.

contradiction

What's worse, Wolf flip-flops in her opinion of The Slut every few pages.

Wolf's critique is a solid three-page article.

contradiction

Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a cineplex (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).

Barton Myers' buildings have 5 colors in each floor design.

neutral

An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.

The author is remembering a story from a publication.

entailment

Figgis' camera is probing and alive, so that even when his meanings are laughable, his images remain allusive and mysterious.

Figgis camera can be funny.

entailment

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

The Live at Five News Team helped to cover the 1996 Election.

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 characters are distinctly southern.

entailment

One consequence is that the United States needs fewer land-based nukes since it is no longer planning all-out war with Russia.

Not being in the verge of a war with Russia allows the United States to have a lighter war armament

entailment

If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for?

The meaning of life is helping others and building relationships.

neutral

Unless one believes that the lives of Europeans are intrinsically more valuable than those of Africans, the humanitarian justification for military intervention is unsustainable, he wrote.

The author thinks that Europeans and Africans are treated in the same way

contradiction

What impresses me, in fact, is that with all the blather about the new, there is a hunger for history, and for many people, the old is more relevant than the new.

The author is excited about the desire for history and the past.

entailment

Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.

No question about it there is life on other planets.

neutral

Wilson uses a stage backdrop of nothing but stark blue and projects bands of white light across it, while his performers stand almost motionless.

The stage backdrop uses a complicated array of colors and patterns.

contradiction

In criticizing the ability of the exclusionary rule to reverse a conviction, he The wrong done was the search, not the conviction.

There is a sizable number of people who disagree with the exclusionary rule being able to reverse conditions.

neutral

When you wanted to shop, you went to the mall and confined your search to the stores you found there.

The mall only had restaurants to eat at.

contradiction

I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs.

They will be involved in many different activities that will better their well-being and health.

entailment

It's certainly better than living in a society that allows money to entice people to convert their own health into a commodity.

Humans shouldn't be provoked to use their health as an asset.

entailment

Marjorie, it's been a delight to correspond with you this week.

Marjorie wrote back.

neutral

Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it.

It is good business to indulge in the attention garnered by the internet.

neutral

The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her.

As it turns out, Clinton rolled in the hay with more than one woman, according to his secretary.

neutral

We can come pretty close to neutral reporting and analysis of news developments in features like Today's Papers and The Week/The Spin.

The spin has a far right leaning reporting style.

contradiction

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

Every Bradley piece is full of fresh metaphors.

contradiction

Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock

We should have seen the rock destroyed by the journalists.

entailment

It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.

Many gangster pictures are better quality than Coppola's films.

contradiction

Conde Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists, writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines.

The mandarin journalists are poor.

contradiction

Lamentably, she has lost sight of just how weird and out of the mainstream that culture is.

She always follows culture and society trends.

contradiction

In other words, yes.

I would lean towards saying yes.

neutral

But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake.

He was not clear on how you can end up losing more.

neutral

Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities.

The cover story in Newsweek about how schools deal with learning disabilities caused some parents to question their children's schools.

neutral

Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.

Some hopeful attendees were not allowed past the door due to their style of dress.

entailment

For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country.

Administrators paid little attention the the fact that their state had the best SAT scores.

contradiction

And then, of course, there was the New York Times , that old mainstay of psychotic delusion--Nash thought aliens were sending him encrypted messages through its pages (come to think of it, that could explain the Times ' odd prose).

Nash thought that aliens sent him secret messages through the pages of the New York Times.

entailment

The Times speculated that NATO officials leaked the bad news to persuade Congress not to pull out the troops.

Congress did not pull out the troops.

neutral

Deducing that the whole of the Old Testament was the work of aliens is, therefore, perfectly logical.

The Old Testament is more popular than the New Testament.

neutral

But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues.

The issues in the play requires no apology because of the way he draws his audience.

entailment

The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.

The country is separated in two by the Dayton accord.

entailment

It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.

If a woman becomes pregnant, men don't have to marry them.

entailment

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

What has happened can be changed.

neutral

If my dog is reading this, he'd better run now.

My dog should walk instead of run.

contradiction

Why, it's their Chineseness, of course.

Being Chinese allows them many privileges in this instance.

neutral

But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.

A person's happiness is independent of their economic level and resources.

contradiction

That Explains Why Clinton's Finger The McLaughlin Group spends 11 minutes in a straight-faced discussion of Maureen Dowd's jokey suggestion that Clinton is actually ...

The McLaughlin Group spent 11 minutes seriously discussing something said in jest.

entailment

Note 3 : Here's Theroux on

There is only one note.

contradiction

Critics have demanded that UFC install ropes instead.

Critics want ropes installed because they said it would improve safety.

neutral

One is The old neighborhoods are breaking up, and it's the old neighborhoods that produced the mob farm teams.

Some of the houses in the old neighborhoods produced mob farm teams.

entailment

Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object.

The critics were afraid to raise any objections to Tanenhaus's remarks.

neutral

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 lobby in Washington protected them from the Clinton administration's insults.

contradiction

This has rekindled the concern and outrage sparked a few weeks ago by the similar death of a pledge at Louisiana State University.

The pledge died several months ago at Louisiana State University.

contradiction

Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.

Circle in the Round lasts more than half one hour

entailment

(In last week's win against Minnesota, the Jets committed only one.)

Minnesota committed more than the Jets.

neutral

Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.

Prudie does not know why you would wear a thinly padded T-shirt bra.

entailment

Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness.

The novel didn't need any change according to Henry James

contradiction

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

America is longing for a negative leader.

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(The predictable lesson--justice isn't cut and dry--clogs the film's gears, says the Washington Post 's Eric Brace.)

Eric Brace has reviewed films for the past ten years for the Washington Post.

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As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer.

Washington Week is disliked by conservative individuals.

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The nanny, by comparison, can be trusted to control the children, but her constant presence irritates the children and slows down the shoot.

The nanny is doing the best she can to not mess with the shoot.

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Today, after our investigation, I come to a point that frankly I prayed I would never reach.

The conclusion is not good news for the American public.

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The wrestlers also enact crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.

The wrestlers explore various themes depending on their audience.

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Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place?

Managed-care has nothing to do with employers offering health insurance.

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The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said.

The music that the computer is creating will be equally as good as the originals.

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Neither Simon nor Lyons likes Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work ( Steward is one of five dramas about his own kinfolk), however.

Simon and Lyons dislike the works of playwright Sebastian Barry.

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Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.

Sometimes a strike is overlooked by investors.

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Slate writer Mickey Kaus calls them).

Mickey Kaus writes for the New York Times exclusively.

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The fourth quarter is Jordan Time.

Jordan Time can be related to quarters

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It would be shorter once you got the hang of it.

It won't be that long soon, practice makes perfect.

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Junger is grimly precise about the mechanics of drowning, says Time 's John Skow.

John Skow is associated with Time.

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

Every now and then with certain individuals, money is their love language.

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I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.

They are very sick with pneumonia and are about to die.

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