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He is too many other solid things, in addition to being a Star.
He is too old to be a Star.
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What's worse, Wolf flip-flops in her opinion of The Slut every few pages.
The author does not approve of how the opinion of Wolf changes throughout the book.
entailment
Linux found my various devices, such as my mouse and graphics card.
Linux was unable to locate any of the connected USB or PCIe devices.
contradiction
In this light the meaning of his call to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics seems separate but equal.
He has no preference when it comes to the character of global politics.
contradiction
Even liberal economists who are opposing the CPI adjustment understand how good the status quo is for the GOP.
The GOP likes the status quo.
entailment
Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.
There are no expected changes after three years.
contradiction
The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue.
Korbels came from a place where Jews on the Czech/German border had completely assimilated into the secular lifestyle, not even having a synagogue.
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The President further charmed Monica by fantasizing out loud how wonderful it would be if he had a son.
The President never knew Monica nor talked to her.
contradiction
You can make an argument that intelligence is an extremely unlikely, random, quirky event in terrestrial biology, or you can make the counter-argument that you can see intelligence coming down the pike from many millions of years in advance.
Intelligence can be seen as a quirky event in terrestrial biology or it can be seen as coming down the pike from millions of years in advance.
entailment
The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).
The bones were buried in sand.
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Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.
The Taliban are not religious people.
contradiction
No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.
Kundera overindulges in his philosophical musics.
entailment
Like Seattle's software, bookselling, and coffee tycoons, Chihuly has triumphed by marketing and branding the hell out of his product, elevating it to something at once precious and ubiquitous.
Chihuly did not work very hard on his product.
contradiction
But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G.
Nexis is the CEO of Columnist Helper
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He is a sort of vanguard, and follows her upon exiting.
He lets her walk on her own.
contradiction
Upon returning to Apple, he began criticizing almost immediately the company's 1995 decision to finally allow a limited number of companies to manufacture Mac clones, calling these firms leeches.
The man was angry at Apple.
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Deciding he'd like to make an eccentric regional comedy with universal themes, he journeyed to a village in Ireland, set himself up in the pub, and took notes on what he saw and heard.
He has always lived in America never setting foot out of the country.
contradiction
These pronouncements on subjective issues annoy me no end.
I think the pronouncements on subjective issues are good.
contradiction
An interview with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski finds him good-humored and sincere.
Ted Kaczynski has a negative reputation among most people.
entailment
Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.
Critics thought that the emlpoyees investing stock in the company they worked for was a bad idea.
entailment
California Institute of Technology vaults from fourth to first in the magazine's annual university rankings . Its three-to-one student-faculty ratio is much praised, as is its annual spending of $192,000 on each student.
The California Institute of Technology needs to improve its student-faculty ratio.
contradiction
But nothing like this ever gets said.
Things that aren't like this get said.
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(The magazine revised its methodology to reward high spending on instruction.)
The company that runs the magazine would never consider changing how they operate.
contradiction
Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.
The research invovles placebo surgeries where the paitents are opened up and then sewn back up
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Read him his rights for what crime?
He was being arrested.
entailment
Does his behavior add up to grounds for removal from office?
He was irritable and uncooperative around the office.
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The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.
The women and men travelled together.
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Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space.
The people who came to the new domain more recently want new rules.
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His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
The Vanity Fair photo shoot showed Lewinsky posing in an office.
neutral
Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.
More good jobs and those jobs' pay are becoming more plentiful.
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But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
The vouchers have unlimited value.
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Even if you handle it right, you still don't want this kind of thing out there, argued Susan Estrich on Fox News Sunday . There's some people who only hear a piece of it and say to themselves, is something wrong with John McCain?
Susan Estrich appeared on Fox News Sunday.
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While the home still evinces mutterings of Xanadu from the envious, it is actually smaller than Aaron Spelling's 50,000-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, and no one in California thinks it unseemly that the genius who brought us Charlie's Angels shouldn't reap the fruits of his labor.
Aaron Spelling has a 50,000 square foot house in California.
entailment
As Jodie T. Allen in Slate in 1997, a primary function of any disaster is to funnel pork to important states.
Trying to generate an economic windfall from disasters was unheard of before the year 2000.
contradiction
In Ireland, compassionate teachers would seem to be painfully rare.
All teachers in Ireland show great empathy to their students.
contradiction
In a culture where Xena and Hercules have hit TV shows, it's a lot more fun imagining that you are a valiant warrior doing business-as-battle than it is to admit that you're a pudgy functionary whose most daring deed is to draft a boldly worded memo.
The pudgy functionary has been trying to lose some weight but hasn't had much success.
neutral
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.
The photo was incredibly well shot and crystal clear.
contradiction
Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.
The plans are exactly going as stated in the prospectus.
contradiction
Skeptical doctors assert that such NDEs are purely physiological (naval pilots exposed to extreme gravity also have visions of bright lights and a God figure).
The doctors beleive that naval pilots saw God.
contradiction
The company could have monitored distribution better but didn't because it wanted to keep its hands clean, Hass has said.
Distribution was not handled the best it could have been.
entailment
Coulter argues ad Clinton's China satellite policy was treason.
Coulter is a writer.
neutral
Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.
Lake Como is a popular place for weddings.
neutral
Since top athletes inevitably are drawn from the healthiest sector of the population, a generally superior system of health care means a bigger pool of people to draw from.
The more heathy people there are, the greater the population of top athletes.
entailment
To make matters even more confusing, there's a third version of the story involving an entirely different Murphy--not Capt.
They understand the complete story.
contradiction
Why should the pro-gamblers cooperate with a critical study?
The study is insignificant.
contradiction
Lehman said afterward, I feel an incredible amount of pain.
Lehman had never felt better than he did in that moment.
contradiction
The end of the Cold War has freed them to pursue humanitarian The United States now can be the world's policeman, so it should be.
The cold war has ended.
entailment
It is one of the most cherished questions in Romantic poetry.
It has nothing to do with Romantic poetry.
contradiction
Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)
Tanenhaus has done research on Chambers interactions with McCarthyism.
entailment
When Dorothy Parker lamented that I hate writing, but I love having written, she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework.
Dorothy Parker rejoiced for my love of writing.
contradiction
The political culture of nationalism reserved its approval for those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, Ajami writes.
The statement comes from an author named Ajami.
entailment
Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.
The American people are being told the truth and there is no reason for them to think otherwise.
contradiction
Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor's waiting to receive their leader.
The barbarians are intending to arrive as soon as possible.
neutral
An article celebrates the return to favor of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose sharp tongue is nearly as famous as his music (he disses Wynton Marsalis as a talented high-school trumpet player).
The sharp tongue of Keith Jarrett was developed over years of banter between musicians.
neutral
In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House?
It has nothing to do with Russia.
contradiction
Our campaigns often end up doing the very opposite of what they intend, Bradley laments.
The campaigns always workout perfectly as planned.
contradiction
The cover story reports on Robert McNamara's visit with his old North Vietnamese counterparts.
Robert McNamara had a visit with his old North Vietnamese counterparts.
entailment
What's more, the latter reads more like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists.
The speaker had only one point to make on the subject.
contradiction
We Californians apparently do little else.
We Californians apparently do a plethora of activities.
contradiction
Hundreds of civilians have died and at least 160,000 have fled the breakaway republic since Russia began military operations there in the wake of Moscow terrorist bombings.
Russia intends to occupy the area for a minimum of 2 months.
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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.
Some people have been moved to tears by the spot.
neutral
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 character is American, for sure.
contradiction
Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable.
Republicans favor small businesses and believe banks get in the way of their growth.
neutral
You can be sure of only two Each party is arguing exactly the opposite of what it argued the last time a Republican president led the nation into war, and exactly the opposite of what it will argue next time.
Political parties are always consistent with their arguments.
contradiction
The machines, in comparison, seem fuzzy.
The machines are more fuzzy than what they are compared to.
entailment
In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references.
Some have noticed an increased in the amount of allusions made towards homosexuals.
entailment
Quality-of-life drugs offer not just the pleasing possibility that you can do something about impotence, baldness, blackened toenails.
No drug has been made to deal with impotence.
contradiction
Let's pause for a moment to map the nuances of that pitch.
The best way to map the nuances of that pitch is to keep going.
contradiction
Did Stevenson speak with any of the fans with whose hopes he claimed to be so familiar?
Stevenson spoke with the fans.
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That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious.
political and moral cases for violence often differ.
entailment
His son Bill was a professor in the Princeton math department, and his granddaughter Julie was my best friend.
Bill had no father.
contradiction
They never forgave Arafat for bowing to what Ajami calls the logic of brute, irreversible facts.
Arafat was criticized for not standing his ground.
entailment
Not until then will we know whether this is real money or funny money--whether it will be worth a continental.
The money might be fake.
entailment
The study suggested that between 23 and 46 of every 1 million patients taking fen-phen would die from the condition each year.
the study shows no correlation between fen-phen and death.
contradiction
But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either.
The person should have acted as a villain in this instance.
neutral
Someone, maybe a family counselor, needs to deal with the alienation the youngster feels and the hostility harbored by your husband.
The family had no problems to speak of.
contradiction
Wolfe doesn't see himself as primarily a satirist.
Some critics see Wolfe as primarily a satirist.
neutral
In Sulloway's theory, as in life, Daniel is the category-defying, black sheep Baldwin.
Daniel Baldwin is not as financially successful as the other members of his family.
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Deseg students bused from the inner-city find class differences harder to bridge than racial ones.
School administrators are working to address the issue.
neutral
The magazines do the math on the State of the Union address.
the magazines ignore the State of the Union address.
contradiction
That, of course, is precisely why Java has become such fertile ground for cyberevangelism.
The Java related push has more to do with corporate profit than it does the usefulness of the technology.
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Delicious dish, but watch out for the aftertaste.
The dish had a particular aftertaste.
entailment
Russian mothers traveled to Chechnya, pulled their sons off the front lines, and brought them home.
Moms of Russian soldiers went to Chechnya to take their sons out of combat.
entailment
The vote on Proposition 227 is evidence of the public will, says Gigot--the people reject screwy ideas such as bilingual education.
The proposition required providing education in Spanish and English.
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Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters.
Bill Clinton has never had the chance to meet anyone from Boston.
contradiction
The WP reports that following a year of sensitive negotiations, the German government has finally agreed to spend $110 million to compensate 18,000 Jewish victims of the Nazis who are living in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The Germans paid reparations to Jewish holocaust victims.
entailment
The flames are nearly a foot high, they arc out from underneath the black leather hood; there is smoke, the huge buzzing sound of the electricity, there are white walls and Venetian blinds and linoleum underfoot.
The flames were put out by somebody carrying a fire extinguisher.
contradiction
Wore a rag on his head.
No one wore any head coverings.
contradiction
The key word is overall . The increase or decrease in any particular item not only does not, but cannot, produce inflation.
Inflation cannot happen with the increase or decrease of a particular item.
entailment
Morris' small-bore ideas, as he calls them, made the presidency look somewhat ridiculous in 1995 and 1996.
Morris didn't actually mean to make the presidency appear stupid.
neutral
The postal system was even more important for civil society and democratic politics than for commerce.
Should the postal system ever collapse, it would take years to rebuild.
neutral
Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.
The researchers did not monitor the patient while performing the tests.
contradiction
Map maker, map maker, make me a map.
The map maker can only make a map when this phrase is uttered.
neutral
White describes his wife Katherine, who, very sick in the fall of the last year of her life, goes out into the garden, as she has done every year before, to plant the spring bulbs she knew she would never live to see rise.
Katherine still enjoys going for an evening swim when she feels well enough.
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And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated.
Steaming meat causes no contamination.
contradiction
There isn't really anything on the other side.
The other side is easy to defeat.
neutral
We don't know, for example, if Earthlike planets are common.
More research is needed regarding Earthlike planets.
entailment
All these guys just have to be worried.
They shouldn't worry.
contradiction
But we also may have missed a couple of more fundamental truths about the Web.
Fundamental truths about the Web, in their opinion, mostly had to do with human nature and how we act on the Web.
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hereby announces its intention to mark the year 2000 by anointing a Person of the Millennium.
An individual is commemorated as the person of the millennium every 2000 years.
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