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The High-Minded Dismissal.	The High Minded are a very accepting people who are generous with open arms.	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.	The NGO was reviewed in the January/February Foreign Affairs.	contradiction
The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts.	the psychologist shows off their spectacular proficiency in manipulative arts.	entailment
Congress cannot impose community service on the president without his permission--that would be an unconstitutional bill of attainder.	Once the president gives their permission, they cannot rescind it.	neutral
Earlier this week, Roy confessed that she'd stuffed some movie-related faxes into books, saving them for a calmer time ...	Roy admitted she had saved some faxes about movies for when things weren't as stressful.	entailment
A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton.	Oxenberg found Salinger attractive.	neutral
The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953).	John Wayne appeared in western movies.	entailment
Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani.	White ethnic voters who live in the suburbs tend to prefer Rudy Giuliani.	entailment
Bill Bennett said Newt Gingrich is cozying up to the left and should change course or step down.	Bill Bennett refused to name the sources of his information.	neutral
I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.	I don't want to hear anything about the last chapter.	contradiction
Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.	We were on a ferry touring Lake Como.	entailment
Your advice to struck me as amazing.	Your advice was not helpful at all and was detrimental to completing my task.	contradiction
Twenty percent of students take psychopharmaceuticals, from Adderall to Zoloft.	The use of psychopharmaceuticals among students has always stayed below ten percent.	contradiction
They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money.	The group has never donated money.	contradiction
In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.	Nobody cares about the topic of Steve Brill.	contradiction
Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.	Allergy science has become stagnant.	contradiction
People who gorged themselves survived winter famines and reproduced more than others.	People are capable of eating too much food.	entailment
A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed exhibition guide that replaces the usual wall panels.	There is a contention between groups on what various images of naked women truly represent.	entailment
But if you look at the international monetary literature when Mundell was in his glory days, you get the impression that he was 15 or 20 years ahead of his contemporaries.	Mundell enjoyed bike riding on sunny days.	neutral
The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.	There was very little general interest in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.	contradiction
The coverage of her day in court was uniformly kind, rarely mentioning that she has lied before and changed her story now.	No one published articles on her change of story.	neutral
sadistic (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). A few critics take the audience's boos as evidence of New York opera-goers' conservatism.	The boos were very loud from the audience.	neutral
And it reports that a friend says Sheen likes free-basing and he keeps loaded guns in the house.	I hear Sheen also enjoys shooting cats.	neutral
Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.	Washington wants the pope to praise Slobo.	contradiction
We have close friends who have us to their home for dinner almost every week.	We eat at our friends house about once a week on average.	entailment
House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., has so far refused to schedule a hearing on Barr's resolution.	There is no hearing on Barr's resolution.	entailment
Careful what you wish for, Mayer cautions her fellow You'll miss his clownish antics when he's gone.	You might want to rethink your stance on this person.	entailment
Slate is scheduled to take up residence Monday, Oct. 27, as an anchor tenant on AOL's news-channel newsstand.	Slate will remain in residence on AOL's news-channel for one year.	neutral
If loans to ski resorts, fast-food chains, and the Bolivian government paid a slightly higher return than loans to a local small business or housing complex, then they had to be the more deserving use of capital.	Ski resorts and fast-food chains pay back the loans on time.	neutral
Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship.	Picasso has no following.	contradiction
a) Starr's top deputy had spent much of the day briefing these people.	There was not much of the day left after the briefings.	entailment
But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web.	Internet can only come preinstalled from Windows 95.	contradiction
This is an assumption about demand.	you've not assumed anything.	contradiction
How could the Mormons have practiced polygamy?	Some Mormons had more than one spouse at the same time.	entailment
(Read for Slate 's take on Jackson's findings.)	Slate had no opinion of Jackson's findings.	contradiction
They are so dissimilar that they cannot contradict one another.	They are very similar you cant tell them apart.	contradiction
Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.	Allergy treatment has great potential for growth.	entailment
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 did not think the aliens were sending him messages as that is a crazy idea.	contradiction
The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.	The third book has very mixed reactions amongst readers and critics.	entailment
The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them.	The future of Asia is dependant on the success of newer generations staying in touch with their ancient roots.	entailment
THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO LIVE.	The doctors have all given her a clean bill of health and expect her to be around for a long time to come.	contradiction
complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.	When speaking with her, they praised their fellow citizens.	contradiction
Critics mostly applaud this movie about a female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home.	Every critic hated the movie.	contradiction
But when he became impotent, it took his identity away.	His impotency was only a bump in the road - his identity was still strongly intact.	contradiction
He sees a sign that says Chain-Up Area Next Exit and finds it hilariously suggestive.	He would like to be chained-up.	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 took action in support of the Reagan budget cuts.	entailment
I see a method to his madness.	I don't understand his purpose.	contradiction
Starr has been especially squirmy about this.	Starr had good reason for not being completely forthcoming about the matter.	neutral
In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven.	The song No Depression in Heaven took a lot of inspiration from the launch of No Depression.	contradiction
The magazine predicts softer GOP stances on gun control and abortion.	GOP stances on gun control and abortion are going to get harder.	contradiction
Insurers would then have to cater to their needs.	The Insurers don't have to worry about it.	contradiction
It's impossible to arrive at any general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.	It's difficult to draw any conclusions about which instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.	entailment
Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.	The president is well known for having wasted their youth.	contradiction
The strength of the spot is that the fabric of its images converts the actuarial into the nearly spiritual, and raises numbers--money--to the level of moral values.	There is some merit to the way the spot handles its themes.	entailment
And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up.	New York is full of people with imagination.	neutral
You mean you want to slip into something that might attract the attention and admiration of a fellow mammal?	They wished to be noticed by other mammals.	entailment
An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.	The article points out that the the average person in the year 1000 did not live a happy life.	entailment
To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average.	The die plates can't be used to engrave stationary.	contradiction
But over the course of a generation, activists and bureaucrats have manufactured a single race out of a diverse mass of several million people whose origins can be traced to dozens of countries.	The origins of several million people can only be traced to one single country.	contradiction
The personal destruction spin is a big winner.	If it's about personal destruction, then it's a winner.	entailment
You look like f--ing hell, Brando, the Star reports he said, and he advised the actor to lose maybe a hundred pounds, pallie.	The Star says Brando looks like hell because of the 100 pounds he has lost.	contradiction
That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.	teaching doesn't offer the typical benefits other full time jobs do.	neutral
Hillary could have known in detail, known in general, not wanted to know, or truly had no idea.	There are many possibilities to what Hillary knew.	entailment
I was about to say that studies showed no connection.	The studies focused on the possible correlation between computers and intestinal cancer.	neutral
In the case of drug testing, however, the proposed warrantless blanket invasions of privacy serve only a symbolic value.	Drug testing legislation was currently being debated by lawmakers.	neutral
Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.	I do not enjoy the people participating in the News Quiz.	contradiction
Time 's education cover package says parents should get their kids reading at an early age, be involved in their schools, not castigate them for mistakes, let them find their own learning styles, and praise hard work and persistence--not just outcomes.	Children will achieve the best educational outcomes by allowing them to figure out how best to learn.	neutral
And a great marketing Buy my books, because they're good for your daughter.	Your child will not benefit from you buying my books.	contradiction
On Meet the Press , he insisted that the $150 he allots to each person's monthly insurance premium is not a cap.	He never appeared on Meet the Press.	contradiction
After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject.	Newsweek was too busy covering Monica Lewinsky to cover health-related topics for a while.	entailment
Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it Protein X).	Prusiner has definitively shown proteins can be infectious.	contradiction
It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting.	It is foolhardy to ever contemplate intent.	contradiction
There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look.	Aerobics influenced the appearance of leg warmers.	entailment
Because his theoretical debt to Michel Foucault and his unabashedly political intentions marked him as an avatar of the emerging academic left, a lot of the criticism came from traditional scholars.	The academic left do not think of him as a liberal and the traditional scholars favor him.	contradiction
The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.	The Clinton administration banned technology transfers because of the risks.	contradiction
Paul's statement that this is simple and reasonable does not make it right.	Paul overlooked the small details that complicate the task.	neutral
Take the long U.S. policy wobbles because it is always responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of dissidents, etc.	The U.S. policy isn't always stable because of the response to WTO.	entailment
It's impossible today to realize how shocking The Picture of Dorian Gray was to 1890s readers.	The Picture of Dorian Gray was viewed tepidly and with little in the way of shock.	contradiction
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.	the price of swearing is essentially valueless.	entailment
The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate.	Starr has been very cooperative with his information.	neutral
He was 65 at the time.	As he grows older than 65, his health may suffer.	neutral
They call it tantric sex.	Tantric sex is a variant of sexual practice.	entailment
But editorialists said Nicholson had made the investigators' job comically easy (he even climbed into a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian Embassy) and, even so, hadn't been caught and busted soon enough.	Although Nicholson remained at large for some time he has been apprehended.	entailment
perhaps for when she repairs to that quiet cottage in the central Indian jungle.	The cottage has a roof made of banana leaves.	neutral
Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.	According to Israeli security, the real-estate dealer was killed by a member of the Palestinian Authority police.	entailment
Well, maybe two jokes if you count Heritage USA; is that still for sale?	Heritage USA was put up for sale.	entailment
Good economic news, as the man once said, always comes bundled with bad.	A man claimed economic news will always be great.	contradiction
In contrast, this may not be the case in Sunni-dominated Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.	Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are allies.	neutral
Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month.	Richard Romley was the DA for Maricopa County.	entailment
The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent.	Christianity had nothing to do with the rise of Europe in the global balance for power.	contradiction
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 in charge of more than one child.	entailment
Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier.	The law is very clear when the hyperlink leads to an image.	contradiction
That sort of thing generally entails a coach or an east regional sales manager exhorting you to do something pointless, painful, or profitable to someone else.	The east regional sales manager is of Chinese descent.	neutral
Eszterhas is reminiscent of Playboy 's Hugh They share the same exaggerated sense of importance, the same pontificating humorlessness about their ridiculous jobs.	Eszterhas and Hugh Hefner both have large egos.	entailment
If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax.	If I take steps to profit monetarily from this I will also have to pay for tax.	entailment
Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...	Reviewers loved the set.	contradiction
However, there are currently no federal laws prohibiting the second category.	Federal laws didn't include restrictions on all categories.	entailment
Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases.	The plan sought to heavily tax shoppers so that they could no longer make purchases.	contradiction
The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.	Some have made claims of imporvement.	entailment
However, if the second possibility were correct, then both George Bush Sr.'s and George W.' southern identities would have to be called into question.	There is some dispute over George Bush Sr. and George W Bush being from the South.	entailment

The High-Minded Dismissal.

The High Minded are a very accepting people who are generous with open arms.

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.

The NGO was reviewed in the January/February Foreign Affairs.

contradiction

The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts.

the psychologist shows off their spectacular proficiency in manipulative arts.

entailment

Congress cannot impose community service on the president without his permission--that would be an unconstitutional bill of attainder.

Once the president gives their permission, they cannot rescind it.

neutral

Earlier this week, Roy confessed that she'd stuffed some movie-related faxes into books, saving them for a calmer time ...

Roy admitted she had saved some faxes about movies for when things weren't as stressful.

entailment

A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton.

Oxenberg found Salinger attractive.

neutral

The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953).

John Wayne appeared in western movies.

entailment

Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani.

White ethnic voters who live in the suburbs tend to prefer Rudy Giuliani.

entailment

Bill Bennett said Newt Gingrich is cozying up to the left and should change course or step down.

Bill Bennett refused to name the sources of his information.

neutral

I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.

I don't want to hear anything about the last chapter.

contradiction

Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.

We were on a ferry touring Lake Como.

entailment

Your advice to struck me as amazing.

Your advice was not helpful at all and was detrimental to completing my task.

contradiction

Twenty percent of students take psychopharmaceuticals, from Adderall to Zoloft.

The use of psychopharmaceuticals among students has always stayed below ten percent.

contradiction

They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money.

The group has never donated money.

contradiction

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

Nobody cares about the topic of Steve Brill.

contradiction

Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.

Allergy science has become stagnant.

contradiction

People who gorged themselves survived winter famines and reproduced more than others.

People are capable of eating too much food.

entailment

A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed exhibition guide that replaces the usual wall panels.

There is a contention between groups on what various images of naked women truly represent.

entailment

But if you look at the international monetary literature when Mundell was in his glory days, you get the impression that he was 15 or 20 years ahead of his contemporaries.

Mundell enjoyed bike riding on sunny days.

neutral

The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it.

There was very little general interest in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.

contradiction

The coverage of her day in court was uniformly kind, rarely mentioning that she has lied before and changed her story now.

No one published articles on her change of story.

neutral

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

The boos were very loud from the audience.

neutral

And it reports that a friend says Sheen likes free-basing and he keeps loaded guns in the house.

I hear Sheen also enjoys shooting cats.

neutral

Washington wants the pope to condemn Slobo, and the White House might offer humanitarian aid to Serb cities that oppose him.

Washington wants the pope to praise Slobo.

contradiction

We have close friends who have us to their home for dinner almost every week.

We eat at our friends house about once a week on average.

entailment

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

There is no hearing on Barr's resolution.

entailment

Careful what you wish for, Mayer cautions her fellow You'll miss his clownish antics when he's gone.

You might want to rethink your stance on this person.

entailment

Slate is scheduled to take up residence Monday, Oct. 27, as an anchor tenant on AOL's news-channel newsstand.

Slate will remain in residence on AOL's news-channel for one year.

neutral

If loans to ski resorts, fast-food chains, and the Bolivian government paid a slightly higher return than loans to a local small business or housing complex, then they had to be the more deserving use of capital.

Ski resorts and fast-food chains pay back the loans on time.

neutral

Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship.

Picasso has no following.

contradiction

a) Starr's top deputy had spent much of the day briefing these people.

There was not much of the day left after the briefings.

entailment

But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web.

Internet can only come preinstalled from Windows 95.

contradiction

This is an assumption about demand.

you've not assumed anything.

contradiction

How could the Mormons have practiced polygamy?

Some Mormons had more than one spouse at the same time.

entailment

(Read for Slate 's take on Jackson's findings.)

Slate had no opinion of Jackson's findings.

contradiction

They are so dissimilar that they cannot contradict one another.

They are very similar you cant tell them apart.

contradiction

Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.

Allergy treatment has great potential for growth.

entailment

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 did not think the aliens were sending him messages as that is a crazy idea.

contradiction

The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.

The third book has very mixed reactions amongst readers and critics.

entailment

The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them.

The future of Asia is dependant on the success of newer generations staying in touch with their ancient roots.

entailment

THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO LIVE.

The doctors have all given her a clean bill of health and expect her to be around for a long time to come.

contradiction

complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.

When speaking with her, they praised their fellow citizens.

contradiction

Critics mostly applaud this movie about a female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home.

Every critic hated the movie.

contradiction

But when he became impotent, it took his identity away.

His impotency was only a bump in the road - his identity was still strongly intact.

contradiction

He sees a sign that says Chain-Up Area Next Exit and finds it hilariously suggestive.

He would like to be chained-up.

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 took action in support of the Reagan budget cuts.

entailment

I see a method to his madness.

I don't understand his purpose.

contradiction

Starr has been especially squirmy about this.

Starr had good reason for not being completely forthcoming about the matter.

neutral

In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven.

The song No Depression in Heaven took a lot of inspiration from the launch of No Depression.

contradiction

The magazine predicts softer GOP stances on gun control and abortion.

GOP stances on gun control and abortion are going to get harder.

contradiction

Insurers would then have to cater to their needs.

The Insurers don't have to worry about it.

contradiction

It's impossible to arrive at any general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.

It's difficult to draw any conclusions about which instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.

entailment

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

The president is well known for having wasted their youth.

contradiction

The strength of the spot is that the fabric of its images converts the actuarial into the nearly spiritual, and raises numbers--money--to the level of moral values.

There is some merit to the way the spot handles its themes.

entailment

And I understood that it was partly because of Alfred Kazin that New York seemed a place of the imagination, a place where life opened up.

New York is full of people with imagination.

neutral

You mean you want to slip into something that might attract the attention and admiration of a fellow mammal?

They wished to be noticed by other mammals.

entailment

An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.

The article points out that the the average person in the year 1000 did not live a happy life.

entailment

To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average.

The die plates can't be used to engrave stationary.

contradiction

But over the course of a generation, activists and bureaucrats have manufactured a single race out of a diverse mass of several million people whose origins can be traced to dozens of countries.

The origins of several million people can only be traced to one single country.

contradiction

The personal destruction spin is a big winner.

If it's about personal destruction, then it's a winner.

entailment

You look like f--ing hell, Brando, the Star reports he said, and he advised the actor to lose maybe a hundred pounds, pallie.

The Star says Brando looks like hell because of the 100 pounds he has lost.

contradiction

That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.

teaching doesn't offer the typical benefits other full time jobs do.

neutral

Hillary could have known in detail, known in general, not wanted to know, or truly had no idea.

There are many possibilities to what Hillary knew.

entailment

I was about to say that studies showed no connection.

The studies focused on the possible correlation between computers and intestinal cancer.

neutral

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

Drug testing legislation was currently being debated by lawmakers.

neutral

Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me.

I do not enjoy the people participating in the News Quiz.

contradiction

Time 's education cover package says parents should get their kids reading at an early age, be involved in their schools, not castigate them for mistakes, let them find their own learning styles, and praise hard work and persistence--not just outcomes.

Children will achieve the best educational outcomes by allowing them to figure out how best to learn.

neutral

And a great marketing Buy my books, because they're good for your daughter.

Your child will not benefit from you buying my books.

contradiction

On Meet the Press , he insisted that the $150 he allots to each person's monthly insurance premium is not a cap.

He never appeared on Meet the Press.

contradiction

After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject.

Newsweek was too busy covering Monica Lewinsky to cover health-related topics for a while.

entailment

Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it Protein X).

Prusiner has definitively shown proteins can be infectious.

contradiction

It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting.

It is foolhardy to ever contemplate intent.

contradiction

There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look.

Aerobics influenced the appearance of leg warmers.

entailment

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

The academic left do not think of him as a liberal and the traditional scholars favor him.

contradiction

The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.

The Clinton administration banned technology transfers because of the risks.

contradiction

Paul's statement that this is simple and reasonable does not make it right.

Paul overlooked the small details that complicate the task.

neutral

Take the long U.S. policy wobbles because it is always responding to the crisis du jour--the Cox report, WTO, the latest suppression of dissidents, etc.

The U.S. policy isn't always stable because of the response to WTO.

entailment

It's impossible today to realize how shocking The Picture of Dorian Gray was to 1890s readers.

The Picture of Dorian Gray was viewed tepidly and with little in the way of shock.

contradiction

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

the price of swearing is essentially valueless.

entailment

The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate.

Starr has been very cooperative with his information.

neutral

He was 65 at the time.

As he grows older than 65, his health may suffer.

neutral

They call it tantric sex.

Tantric sex is a variant of sexual practice.

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But editorialists said Nicholson had made the investigators' job comically easy (he even climbed into a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian Embassy) and, even so, hadn't been caught and busted soon enough.

Although Nicholson remained at large for some time he has been apprehended.

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perhaps for when she repairs to that quiet cottage in the central Indian jungle.

The cottage has a roof made of banana leaves.

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Israeli security officials believed that the murdered real-estate dealer was executed by plainclothes Palestinian Authority police.

According to Israeli security, the real-estate dealer was killed by a member of the Palestinian Authority police.

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Well, maybe two jokes if you count Heritage USA; is that still for sale?

Heritage USA was put up for sale.

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Good economic news, as the man once said, always comes bundled with bad.

A man claimed economic news will always be great.

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In contrast, this may not be the case in Sunni-dominated Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are allies.

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Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month.

Richard Romley was the DA for Maricopa County.

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The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent.

Christianity had nothing to do with the rise of Europe in the global balance for power.

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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 in charge of more than one child.

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Interestingly, if the page simply provides a hyperlink to the image in question, the law becomes even murkier.

The law is very clear when the hyperlink leads to an image.

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That sort of thing generally entails a coach or an east regional sales manager exhorting you to do something pointless, painful, or profitable to someone else.

The east regional sales manager is of Chinese descent.

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Eszterhas is reminiscent of Playboy 's Hugh They share the same exaggerated sense of importance, the same pontificating humorlessness about their ridiculous jobs.

Eszterhas and Hugh Hefner both have large egos.

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If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax.

If I take steps to profit monetarily from this I will also have to pay for tax.

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Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...

Reviewers loved the set.

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However, there are currently no federal laws prohibiting the second category.

Federal laws didn't include restrictions on all categories.

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Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases.

The plan sought to heavily tax shoppers so that they could no longer make purchases.

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The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.

Some have made claims of imporvement.

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However, if the second possibility were correct, then both George Bush Sr.'s and George W.' southern identities would have to be called into question.

There is some dispute over George Bush Sr. and George W Bush being from the South.

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