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Perhaps the uncritical reportage of Fitzsimmons' new story can be explained by pangs of guilt about the uncritical reportage of his old one. | There has been a hyper critical report of Fitzsimmons story. | contradiction |
(The baseball season is another and AMC is a third.) | The sport season is the same | contradiction |
If you're lying, shame on you. | The author has had a bad experience with people who lie. | neutral |
Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey. | Kevin Spacey directed Howard Davies in a movie. | contradiction |
And at a time when ad people all seem to be drawing from the same palette of colors and styles, creativity and distinctiveness are, oddly enough, not synonymous. | Ad people were trying to make ads that targeted parents of children. | neutral |
Microsoft isn't preventing anyone from using Netscape or charging Netscape for the right of access; it's providing Internet Explorer free, but then that would be normal practice in this kind of industry even if IE wasn't allegedly an integral part of Windows 95. | Internet Explorer can be bought for 5 dollars on the Apple store | contradiction |
Explainer thanks many Slate readers for suggesting this topic. | The slate readers appreciated being thanked by the explainer. | neutral |
Esme, played by Judi Dench, is an actress who lives for the theater. | Judi Dench is an actress whose life is centered around theater. | entailment |
Earlier this week, Roy confessed that she'd stuffed some movie-related faxes into books, saving them for a calmer time ... | Roy stuffed the faxes because she wanted to leave work on time instead of staying late. | neutral |
Many responses were built on the assumption that Southern Baptists are bad in bed. | The majority of Southern Baptists makes vote of chastity | contradiction |
Any nontechnologist ventures into the browser wars at his peril, but here is how I understand After initially missing the significance of the Internet, Microsoft has gone to the other extreme, designing Windows 95 so that it uses an Internetlike metaphor for everything. | Microsoft 95 was less internet friendly than MS-Dos | contradiction |
He hasn't much changed America. | In America much hasn't change. | entailment |
Wolf did both, by turning the issue into an object lesson on women's professional success. | Women's professional success was an issue on objects. | contradiction |
In 1984 Charles Murray wrote, in Losing Ground , that government programs sap the initiative of the black population, creating feelings of dependency and entitlement. | Government subsidies helping blacks cause them to be unmotivated according to Losing Ground. | entailment |
But in the final five minutes, I raised my bid to $250, then $275, then $300, and finally won the auction, exhilarated by my victory. | The bidder refused to go over $100 to win. | contradiction |
I don't understand how one would read this argument and not get that it is about the effect these changes will have on the commons. | The argument was very hard to follow on what effects the changes would keep the commons the same. | contradiction |
to be such excellent quiz wranglers. | There is no aspect of competency regarding quizzes. | contradiction |
But he was abrupt with her--not rude, just abrupt. | He dealt with her in a hurried manner. | entailment |
Now they are claiming they have no money and can't afford a wedding. | They claim they are going to have a huge wedding with music an dinner provided to guests. | contradiction |
Malcolm Gladwell's exegesis, however, suggests that we are to vote for the most impressive display of empty virtuosity. | Gladwell thinks our votes should go to whoever shows the most extravagant display. | entailment |
Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing. | Professional storytellers can pick and choose what facts to include in their narrations. | neutral |
The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity. | Some folk fans seek unproduced recordings. | entailment |
He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves. | There was a source of valves from China. | entailment |
If Evans and Novak want to capture the real Farrakhan, Pundit Central suggests that they accompany him to one of his rallies. | Evans and Novak may consider capturing Pundit Central. | contradiction |
) 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). | There is a Rabbi with a strict orthodox temple. | contradiction |
recalls one ex- Vogue staffer wistfully. | Vogue is a small corporation. | contradiction |
The second objection to Dalmatian farming is visceral. | Everybody agrees Dalmatian farming is a great thing for everyone. | contradiction |
A 1990 study found that 28 percent of children diagnosed with the disorder didn't actually meet the definition. | Very few children were misdiagnosed. | contradiction |
They call it tantric sex. | Tantric sex is about the love of one's partner. | neutral |
The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as | There are some key points to their critique of The Bell Curve. | neutral |
I hear you, she said by way of introduction. | She continued to insist that she was deaf. | contradiction |
. I suppose you could make an argument that it's a significant enough phenomenon, so that it deserves to be here. | I believe that it does deserve to be here because it is significant. | entailment |
As any 10-year-old knows (and game theorists can now elaborately prove), three-person secrets are particularly troublesome in this regard, because nobody can ever pinpoint which of the other two might have cheated. | Sharing a secret in three doesn't allow to know right away who misbehaved. | entailment |
THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO LIVE. | The person is only expected to live for 6 more months. | entailment |
In BeauSeigneur's novels, the Antichrist is Jewish, for sure, but he's also a man who was produced in a lab by misguided scientists using cells taken from the Shroud of Turin. | The Antichrist was created from cells in a lab by scientists. | entailment |
(Frank is hardly the first to note that the tastes of a hip bohemian elite have spread to the masses, or to argue that the results of this cultural migration are deleterious. | Frank is not a fan of the bohemian culture that pervades society. | entailment |
[ Peanuts ] is also a commentary on the culture. | With respect to this culture, it is much less of a commentary and more so an exposé and political hit piece . | contradiction |
So we all have benefited indirectly. | In addition, a few of us directly benefited from it. | neutral |
Another option is to blend spandex with fleece to make it stretchier and more form-fitting. | If spandex and fleece are blended together they become more form fitting. | entailment |
At the hang gliding site, click Links ... | There is a hang gliding site. | entailment |
Such a sudden collapse of so much mammary matter could possibly result in some kind of Hollywood black hole. | A Hollywood black hole is a possible result of a collapse of mammary matter. | entailment |
First, why would allowing the interplay of free-market forces imply that stadiums, movie houses, and other mass entertainment centers would become dominated by wealthy people? | There is no free-market within this economy. | contradiction |
The cover shows Johnson, a bland-looking man in full business attire, on the porch of an all-American home that looks a tad too small to be his. | Johnson posed with a home that seemed somewhat below him while dressed in business clothes. | entailment |
A few years ago I was helping a neighbor thread tracks back onto his bulldozer. | Not too many years ago I was lending a hand to my neighbor. | entailment |
In that sense, the stock market boom is founded firmly on the steadier achievements to which Kazin refers. | Kazin refers to the start of the stock market boom. | entailment |
An exclusive report reveals that controversial feminist Naomi Wolf is advising the Gore campaign on how to win the women's vote. | Naomi Wolf strategies are effective to bring women to vote for Al Gore | neutral |
It just means they're really, really serious about you. | They could be really really serious about others. | neutral |
To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy. | KYC’s encroached financial privacy when others aren’t. | neutral |
Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like the Unabomber, Katz is driven frothy by a world that won't conform to his expectations. | Katz never wrote anything himself but was an avid reader. | contradiction |
oh, I'm sorry--are we out of time? | The person did not mention time at all. | contradiction |
The main reason the media have greeted Jack Kemp so rapturously isn't his ideas, his optimism, or his compassion. | Jack Kemp was greeted rapturously by the media. | entailment |
Similarly, the idea that Native American babies, or black babies, or whatever, have some mystical genetic affinity with their own kind is silly. | A number of babies actually have an inexplicable affinity with their own kind | neutral |
The play is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind, says the New York Times ' Brantley. | Brantley was the only reviewer to feel the play was bad. | neutral |
It was immediately clear that Lott should not have said this. | Lott says the right thing every time. | contradiction |
The allegation, reported in Newsweek , is that when Willey met alone with Clinton at the White House in 1993 to ask for a paying job, Clinton made a pass at her--a charge denied by the president's attorney. | Newsweek reported that when Wiley asked Clinton for a job in 1993, he made a pass at her which was denied by his attorney. | entailment |
This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape. | The passage is all fiction and completely uninteresting. | contradiction |
Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle. | The shuttle program and the Hubble both were constructed in part by Lockheed. | entailment |
What makes a late abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now--like a fully formed child. | Late abortions are easy to bear thanks to the size of the fetus | contradiction |
Our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday (but not Thanksgiving Day). | Today's Paper column will be posted Thanksgiving day. | contradiction |
In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31. | $10 off on Mother's Day flowers deal lasts until September 1st. | contradiction |
In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels. | It's possible to have an imbalance of Planet Hollywoods and Intels. | entailment |
Le Monde 's editorial Sunday said the action might be terribly counterproductive because it won't change the minds of Serbs who believe Milosevic's propaganda, but it will appear pointlessly destructive of human lives to those who don't. | Serb's believed in Milosevics's propaganda. | entailment |
Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth. | Wolfe's portrait captures nothing. | contradiction |
(He also turns into a hyena and an armadillo, species that are similarly not native to Transylvania.) | He avoids the city of Cluj-Napoca, because he cannot transform into an armadillo. | contradiction |
At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people. | Elie Wiesels remarks were about white people. | contradiction |
As Bill Clinton ratchets up the pressure on Baghdad, Saddam will inevitably bellow Nasserite defiance. | Saddam will use this pressure to incite the people of his nation. | neutral |
Instead of engendering hope and optimism, they breed mistrust and cynicism. | They are trustworthy. | contradiction |
Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, who studies the daily life of Jews in Nazi Germany. | Marion Kaplan is a Chinese sounding name | contradiction |
The key word is overall . The increase or decrease in any particular item not only does not, but cannot, produce inflation. | An increase or decrease in an item can have a number of effects. | neutral |
But anyway, that is all beside the point. | It’s possible to come up with a rationale between this and the point. | neutral |
Some places are so boring that that's what's comically interesting about Peoria, Encino, Cleveland. | It's considered to be funny, that some places in Peoria, Encino, and Cleveland are extremely boring. | entailment |
From the podium, Dunn and Rice, two of the committee's three front women, implored Bush's wife and daughters to endure the campaign's trial by fire. | Dunn and Rice begged Bush's wife to try to survive the campaign trials. | entailment |
That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt. | His top priority in life was the love. | contradiction |
Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its cliched depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending. | While the book focuses on legal proceedings the actual meaning was much deeper. | neutral |
The ad displays information in a format similar to a stock ticker. | Ads are displayed in formats that stay the same forever, | 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. | Indeed there are 72 clinical experiments that show high doses of Calcium stop bone loss. | entailment |
And good afternoon to you, too, President Reagan. | Hello to you too, Sir. | entailment |
I'm not sure whether to invite him to mine. | I'm indecisive about the guest list. | entailment |
LeTourneau was the boy's teacher in both second and sixth grades, and he describes their relationship When I was six or seven, she encouraged me in my drawing. | LeTourneau encouraged my drawing. | entailment |
About what you did to that nice Galileo? | The Galileo you completed was fantastic. | neutral |
Many of them in fine restaurants. | They enjoy fine Italian restaurants. | neutral |
The movie, one of the year's most pleasant surprises, is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness , a humanist's answer to Solondz's evident conviction that life is all dead ends. | The movie is the antithesis of Todd Solondz's Happiness. | entailment |
4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority. | Syria is facing a period of unrest | entailment |
The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story. | The story was extremely scandelous. | neutral |
I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship. | Happy Texas isn't a nice place by the sounds of it. | entailment |
To the contrary, Jacob, he declared. | Jacob believed he was loud. | neutral |
Thanks to this blurring of the victim-perpetrator distinction, Ted's nephew Joe was able to get elected to Congress despite his own car accident, which likewise devastated his passenger, four years after Chappaquiddick. | A pedestrian was involved in the car accident | neutral |
He frequently quotes Ronald Reagan. | Ronald Reagan said a lot of profound things. | neutral |
Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro. | Bullets burst through the glass. | entailment |
I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home past dark, tires wailing,I howled with every song on the radio,screamed some teen-age stranger's stupid words,shrieked somebody else's rage, somebody's lovetill I could bear my own voice, and its silence. | It's forbidden to listen to the radio while driving | contradiction |
The benefits of managed care are unremarkable and undramatic (lower premiums, more preventive care). | Managed care benefits are hard to come by in these turbulent times. | neutral |
The cover story journeys to HMO hell. | HMO Hell is what the cover story is about. | neutral |
Keirsey does not muck around in your excretions in order to determine your personality. | Keirsey determines your personality by mucking around in excretions. | contradiction |
MLS's dilemma is If it doesn't pay for talent, it will certainly remain a minor league. | MLS has a very clear plan to follow. | contradiction |
This question generated, by far, a record number of similarlies all focused on Pat Buchanan's politics. | Pat Buchanan participates in politics. | entailment |
It half-works right up to the point where people start getting gassed, and then Benigni's moist-eyed heroism and tenacious faith in his own irresistibility start to seem like a monstrous ego trip--a clown's megalomania. | Benigni is panned for his performance. | neutral |
Other candidates may be sexier at this hour, but once we go through the battering of New Hampshire and Iowa it might be a different story, says Connors. | New Hampshire and Iowa often change one's thoughts. | neutral |
On one occasion recounted by the author, a woman rented a horse, stripped naked, and arrived at the door, Lady Godiva-style. | It's illegal to ride a horse while being naked anywhere in the world and under any circumstances | contradiction |
So what's a randy president to do? | Some have considered a president to be a randy. | entailment |
Newt Gingrich messed with Medicare and went down in flames. | Newt Gingrich fell into oblivion, after tampering with Medicare. | entailment |
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