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Well, did she or didn't she?	She probably did.	neutral
Especially now, when any investor can obtain almost perfect diversification with index funds and index options--and thus get the exact return of the market as a whole.	Index funds and index options were equally popular among investors.	neutral
Against this background, Bush's Guard service looks noble.	Bush is a person imporant enough to require bodyguards.	entailment
Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.	Her level-headed demeanor and sharp, quick wit were still with her.	contradiction
Hopeful parents often seek out donors who are athletic, Ivy League-educated, animal-loving, or acne-free.	Hopeful parents often seek out donors with criminal records.	contradiction
Babies, especially preemies, are more relaxed, have better digestion, and are generally happier when they are massaged.	Massage practices are always harmful to newborn babies.	contradiction
Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant?	Livingstone never questioned Zapruder's role.	contradiction
A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, Gentlemen, I'm curious.	Trotter has a question.	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.	Such tax methods are projected to lead to further economic growth for the retail industry.	neutral
Prudie, too, has lived through this a few times.	The experience is with the death of family members.	neutral
Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.	Working at Crossfire was a guaranteed avenue for profitability.	neutral
Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth.	Wolfe described the situation in an enlightening manner.	entailment
He's a hippie in a suit.	Given his beliefs, he happily wore the hippie moniker.	neutral
Conflicted over what its true mission is, PBS simultaneously whores for corporate money and aggressively gathers data on how poor, uneducated, and blue-collar its audience is.	PBS does not get money from corporations.	contradiction
Announcement of the terms sent Galoob's stock plummeting, so that Lucasfilm's options are now out of the money.	Lucasfilm shuttered a project due to lack of funding.	neutral
But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.	Lots of criminals are going free.	entailment
A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.	Financial aid administration is thriving nowadays.	neutral
Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?	The Cold War has been going on for a hundred years.	contradiction
Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.	Soderbergh claims the movie's runtime is far too short.	neutral
Even the detective hired by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to intimidate bimbos was a People's Detective!	The detective was paid a lot of money.	neutral
An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton.	Bill Clinton actively appealed to feminists.	neutral
In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.	Prusiner received a Nobel Prize.	entailment
She's could be saying, I'm in this world but not of it.	she didn't make mention of this world whatsoever.	contradiction
A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.	There is a group that established a place for politically independent discourse.	entailment
The Supreme Court began its new term.	The Supreme Court celebrates the new term and Dave & Busters.	neutral
(Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.)	His named remained in my memory for life.	contradiction
Get rid of all guns?	Few in the local community had ever considered whether it was safe to keep guns around their children.	neutral
This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.	Abstract Expressionists disliked Dove's artwork	entailment
If he does a better job, those citizenships will become more valuable, and he'll get a better price for them.	His family will profit.	neutral
Yet the Frenchman's travels might not have been possible if many stage-coach companies had not been subsidized--through Congress--so that mail could be carried, and representatives travel home, to remote districts.	Without the advent of the train, thanks to subsidies by Congress, the Frenchman's travels would have been impossible.	contradiction
I wonder if we actually disagree, or if my solutions just didn't occur to you.	It's possible that we may disagree, but it might just be that you haven't given any thought to my solutions.	entailment
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 does not know Chambers or McCarthyism.	contradiction
The media linked the case to other recent shootings (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky) and focused on the warning signs and the importance of taking them seriously.	The media emphasized the seriousness of the shootings.	entailment
(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.	They did not want to have sex.	contradiction
If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc.	Most countries should benefit from the treaty.	neutral
Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., calls the case symptomatic of the casual attitude with which the Clinton administration views issues of national security.	Tim Hutchinson champions national security and does not like the Clinton administration.	neutral
This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire.	The foundation for the business empire they're discussing is based on a ponzi scheme.	neutral
Well, did she or didn't she?	It is not known that she did or didn't.	entailment
It's a picture of a needy young woman, one whom any older man with something to lose--or half a brain--would have the sense to avoid.	She is attractive.	neutral
As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers.	Companies were caught between the needs of their workers and those of their stockholders.	entailment
The prototypical criminal turned out to be way too handsome.	The typical criminal was good looking.	entailment
We can only overcome hate by refusing to give haters the attention they crave.	Attention makes the haters happy.	neutral
It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.	upsetting to see this organization came to this point, when it stood so highly in the past.	entailment
The Republican Party leadership wants Starr to deliver nothing until after the elections (Shields; George Will, This Week ; Gwen Ifill, NBC's Meet The Press ; Tony Blankley, CNN's Late Edition ; and David Bloom, Meet the Press ). In fact, Orrin Hatch's comments on the shows this week should be construed as signals from the GOP to Starr asking him to withhold a report, charges Bloom.	The Republican Party leadership wants Starr to deliver all details before the elections.	contradiction
This is the administration's favorite description.	The administration's favorite description is this one.	entailment
Had Flytrap never occurred, Gore surely would be running on the Clinton-Gore economic boom.	Flytrap did not change Gore's strategy.	contradiction
Similarly, Bush boasts that he's a uniter, not a divider, while the RLC complains that Forbes, by criticizing Dole in 1996, caused fighting within the Republican Party that was divisive and not inclusive.	Dole lashed back at Forbes's criticism.	neutral
He says, Who are these people?	Everybody knows each other.	contradiction
She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans.	The woman looks like a soccer mom.	entailment
A book-review editor at Science says she was pressured to retire this past summer after she published a negative review of a book that claimed to defend science from postmodern critiques.	Science is a company that provides book reviews.	entailment
The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.	Technology transfers offer little risks according to the Clinton administration.	entailment
Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time.	Cristopher will turn into a snitch if captured by police.	neutral
Complaints can be sent directly to Critical Path.	Critical Path will receive the complaints.	entailment
Have the threats to our security doubled since then?	The threats to our security has not doubled recently.	entailment
Dentistry is a hassle now because it works.	Dentistry is functional.	entailment
But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.	No connection has ever been suggested between tides and women's menstruation.	contradiction
He should mind his own lesson.	He should butt into my lessons more often.	contradiction
But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.	The deregulation supporters are strong and unwavering in their support.	contradiction
A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a living substance (milk) has been stilled, thus embodying the quintessential definition of the still life.	A boy read the explanation on the wall panel.	neutral
The rules we've always had is that politics stop at the shore, one senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.	A White House official made an anonymous comment.	entailment
Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency.	Clinton frequently hosts drunken parties in the Oval Office which feature fancy champagnes and expensive scotch.	contradiction
USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.	There are more USA Snapshots than there are other graphs.	neutral
Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual?	There is something that could possibly make you feel less powerful.	entailment
The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)	The book was very popular at one point.	neutral
Paying homage to the great war photographer's courage and talent, he nonetheless notes the conflicting stories of the photo's origins, Capa's own silence about the image in his writings, and other writers' questions.	The photos do not capture anything specific to be regarded as talented.	contradiction
There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.	If history is any indication, alcohol has affected society for some time.	entailment
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 activists and bureaucrats have created a single race from diversity.	entailment
(Quayle--that tax-and-spend liberal--would set it at a whopping 19 percent.)	Quayle is a Republican.	entailment
Plato's girlfriend is worried the former actress is on a downward spiral to death.	Plato's girlfriend has expressed this concern to many people.	neutral
2) No, the only reason he had said the Antichrist must be Jewish is that Jesus was Jewish, and the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus.	The Antichrist is meant to resemble moses.	contradiction
While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?)	The Moodies really resented the requirements of publishing every two weeks.	neutral
Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.	A gavone, mook and Italian schmuck are similar to each other.	entailment
That much his memoir gets right.	His memoir was said to at least have gotten one thing correct.	entailment
The charities, Paris adds, don't endorse the product at all.	The charities will donate all proceeds to feeding America.	neutral
In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31.	The offer on Mother's Day flowers is a big discount.	neutral
McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.	McCartney's album is no different that his albums of the '70s and '80s.	contradiction
The other holds a gun to your head every day.	Someone is being figuratively pressured into something.	entailment
The American left has gone international to win a phony treaty that curbs greenhouse gases, Kristol alleged, because they can't accomplish their goal domestically.	Kristol is a Republican.	neutral
Kasich's proposed corporate-welfare package draws together a measly $11.	Kasich owns a small business.	neutral
The cover story asserts that Kenneth Starr's indictment of Julie Hiatt Steele is based on unbelievable assertions by Kathleen Willey, who choreographed her allegations to make them more marketable.	Kenneth Starr has no allegations towards Julie Steele.	contradiction
In his second week as press scourge, Steve Brill remains a hot topic.	This person enjoys working as a press scourge.	neutral
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).	Despite studying the agent for years, Prusiner was no closer to finishing his research.	neutral
This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny.	Nothing is criticized and nothing is held to a proper standard.	contradiction
Please, do you have an answer for these well-wishers that would not require giving them private and personal information?	The only possible answers will involve private and personal information.	contradiction
I already know I am an idiot, but am I to be a happy idiot or a miserable one?	They understand the limits of their knowledge and must only decide whether or not to be happy.	entailment
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores.	Behind the Legend has already been restocked in the bookstores.	contradiction
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.	It is difficult to make out the photo.	entailment
Sani Abacha died , reportedly of a heart attack.	The person's death was painful.	neutral
I believe the public wants solutions that work, not attacks that divide, says Bradley.	Bradley does not intend to be divisive.	entailment
Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)	The response was more than 50 pages long.	neutral
A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ...	Let us is a phrase often used in high school graduations.	neutral
In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.	I will be more open and try to not conceal my limitations.	contradiction
The explanation is partly the frog-in-hot-water phenomenon (he'll jump out if you drop him in boiling water, but not if you put him in cold water and slowly heat it to boiling).	the phenomenon has been around since the 50's.	neutral
The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.	The takeover mania of the 1980s destroyed everything.	contradiction
Trent Lott recently called the agency intrusive, abusive, and out of control.	The agency denies any wrongdoing on its behalf.	neutral
Buying a new tie would be fun, not an obsessive, central, tail-wagging-the-dog-of-life activity.	The tie must be the color red.	neutral
He suffered the strange fate of many artists who aim for the sublime, then find their work enlisted in other all-too-human narratives.	He has nothing to do with art.	contradiction
Those who want to believe in the Torah codes will always be able to find ELS that impress them.	The Torah codes is not proven facts.	entailment
When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.	There are men that believe in goodness but hypocritically constrict female realities.	neutral
Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.	Arafat has become increasingly unpopular.	contradiction

Well, did she or didn't she?

She probably did.

neutral

Especially now, when any investor can obtain almost perfect diversification with index funds and index options--and thus get the exact return of the market as a whole.

Index funds and index options were equally popular among investors.

neutral

Against this background, Bush's Guard service looks noble.

Bush is a person imporant enough to require bodyguards.

entailment

Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.

Her level-headed demeanor and sharp, quick wit were still with her.

contradiction

Hopeful parents often seek out donors who are athletic, Ivy League-educated, animal-loving, or acne-free.

Hopeful parents often seek out donors with criminal records.

contradiction

Babies, especially preemies, are more relaxed, have better digestion, and are generally happier when they are massaged.

Massage practices are always harmful to newborn babies.

contradiction

Is it possible, asks Livingstone, that Zapruder was a plant?

Livingstone never questioned Zapruder's role.

contradiction

A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, Gentlemen, I'm curious.

Trotter has a question.

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.

Such tax methods are projected to lead to further economic growth for the retail industry.

neutral

Prudie, too, has lived through this a few times.

The experience is with the death of family members.

neutral

Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go.

Working at Crossfire was a guaranteed avenue for profitability.

neutral

Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth.

Wolfe described the situation in an enlightening manner.

entailment

He's a hippie in a suit.

Given his beliefs, he happily wore the hippie moniker.

neutral

Conflicted over what its true mission is, PBS simultaneously whores for corporate money and aggressively gathers data on how poor, uneducated, and blue-collar its audience is.

PBS does not get money from corporations.

contradiction

Announcement of the terms sent Galoob's stock plummeting, so that Lucasfilm's options are now out of the money.

Lucasfilm shuttered a project due to lack of funding.

neutral

But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.

Lots of criminals are going free.

entailment

A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.

Financial aid administration is thriving nowadays.

neutral

Could this anti-missile insurance policy reawaken a Cold War confrontation thought dead, lo, these past 10 years?

The Cold War has been going on for a hundred years.

contradiction

Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.

Soderbergh claims the movie's runtime is far too short.

neutral

Even the detective hired by the Clinton campaign in 1992 to intimidate bimbos was a People's Detective!

The detective was paid a lot of money.

neutral

An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton actively appealed to feminists.

neutral

In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.

Prusiner received a Nobel Prize.

entailment

She's could be saying, I'm in this world but not of it.

she didn't make mention of this world whatsoever.

contradiction

A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.

There is a group that established a place for politically independent discourse.

entailment

The Supreme Court began its new term.

The Supreme Court celebrates the new term and Dave & Busters.

neutral

(Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.)

His named remained in my memory for life.

contradiction

Get rid of all guns?

Few in the local community had ever considered whether it was safe to keep guns around their children.

neutral

This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.

Abstract Expressionists disliked Dove's artwork

entailment

If he does a better job, those citizenships will become more valuable, and he'll get a better price for them.

His family will profit.

neutral

Yet the Frenchman's travels might not have been possible if many stage-coach companies had not been subsidized--through Congress--so that mail could be carried, and representatives travel home, to remote districts.

Without the advent of the train, thanks to subsidies by Congress, the Frenchman's travels would have been impossible.

contradiction

I wonder if we actually disagree, or if my solutions just didn't occur to you.

It's possible that we may disagree, but it might just be that you haven't given any thought to my solutions.

entailment

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 does not know Chambers or McCarthyism.

contradiction

The media linked the case to other recent shootings (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky) and focused on the warning signs and the importance of taking them seriously.

The media emphasized the seriousness of the shootings.

entailment

(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.

They did not want to have sex.

contradiction

If there is ever to be one, it will have to resemble this treaty at least surprise inspections of suspicious sites, the economic and moral ostracism of nations that don't cooperate, etc.

Most countries should benefit from the treaty.

neutral

Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., calls the case symptomatic of the casual attitude with which the Clinton administration views issues of national security.

Tim Hutchinson champions national security and does not like the Clinton administration.

neutral

This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire.

The foundation for the business empire they're discussing is based on a ponzi scheme.

neutral

Well, did she or didn't she?

It is not known that she did or didn't.

entailment

It's a picture of a needy young woman, one whom any older man with something to lose--or half a brain--would have the sense to avoid.

She is attractive.

neutral

As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers.

Companies were caught between the needs of their workers and those of their stockholders.

entailment

The prototypical criminal turned out to be way too handsome.

The typical criminal was good looking.

entailment

We can only overcome hate by refusing to give haters the attention they crave.

Attention makes the haters happy.

neutral

It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.

upsetting to see this organization came to this point, when it stood so highly in the past.

entailment

The Republican Party leadership wants Starr to deliver nothing until after the elections (Shields; George Will, This Week ; Gwen Ifill, NBC's Meet The Press ; Tony Blankley, CNN's Late Edition ; and David Bloom, Meet the Press ). In fact, Orrin Hatch's comments on the shows this week should be construed as signals from the GOP to Starr asking him to withhold a report, charges Bloom.

The Republican Party leadership wants Starr to deliver all details before the elections.

contradiction

This is the administration's favorite description.

The administration's favorite description is this one.

entailment

Had Flytrap never occurred, Gore surely would be running on the Clinton-Gore economic boom.

Flytrap did not change Gore's strategy.

contradiction

Similarly, Bush boasts that he's a uniter, not a divider, while the RLC complains that Forbes, by criticizing Dole in 1996, caused fighting within the Republican Party that was divisive and not inclusive.

Dole lashed back at Forbes's criticism.

neutral

He says, Who are these people?

Everybody knows each other.

contradiction

She appears to be an apolitical soccer mom, but she's actually a liberal do-gooder and her advocacy of mental-health issues threatens to increase health-care costs for most Americans.

The woman looks like a soccer mom.

entailment

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

Science is a company that provides book reviews.

entailment

The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.

Technology transfers offer little risks according to the Clinton administration.

entailment

Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time.

Cristopher will turn into a snitch if captured by police.

neutral

Complaints can be sent directly to Critical Path.

Critical Path will receive the complaints.

entailment

Have the threats to our security doubled since then?

The threats to our security has not doubled recently.

entailment

Dentistry is a hassle now because it works.

Dentistry is functional.

entailment

But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate.

No connection has ever been suggested between tides and women's menstruation.

contradiction

He should mind his own lesson.

He should butt into my lessons more often.

contradiction

But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.

The deregulation supporters are strong and unwavering in their support.

contradiction

A wall panel explains that a film of milk covers the top of the marble, so that a living substance (milk) has been stilled, thus embodying the quintessential definition of the still life.

A boy read the explanation on the wall panel.

neutral

The rules we've always had is that politics stop at the shore, one senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

A White House official made an anonymous comment.

entailment

Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency.

Clinton frequently hosts drunken parties in the Oval Office which feature fancy champagnes and expensive scotch.

contradiction

USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound.

There are more USA Snapshots than there are other graphs.

neutral

Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual?

There is something that could possibly make you feel less powerful.

entailment

The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)

The book was very popular at one point.

neutral

Paying homage to the great war photographer's courage and talent, he nonetheless notes the conflicting stories of the photo's origins, Capa's own silence about the image in his writings, and other writers' questions.

The photos do not capture anything specific to be regarded as talented.

contradiction

There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.

If history is any indication, alcohol has affected society for some time.

entailment

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 activists and bureaucrats have created a single race from diversity.

entailment

(Quayle--that tax-and-spend liberal--would set it at a whopping 19 percent.)

Quayle is a Republican.

entailment

Plato's girlfriend is worried the former actress is on a downward spiral to death.

Plato's girlfriend has expressed this concern to many people.

neutral

2) No, the only reason he had said the Antichrist must be Jewish is that Jesus was Jewish, and the Antichrist is supposed to resemble Jesus.

The Antichrist is meant to resemble moses.

contradiction

While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?)

The Moodies really resented the requirements of publishing every two weeks.

neutral

Oh--A mook is kind of like a gavone, which is kind of like an Italian schmuck.

A gavone, mook and Italian schmuck are similar to each other.

entailment

That much his memoir gets right.

His memoir was said to at least have gotten one thing correct.

entailment

The charities, Paris adds, don't endorse the product at all.

The charities will donate all proceeds to feeding America.

neutral

In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31.

The offer on Mother's Day flowers is a big discount.

neutral

McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.

McCartney's album is no different that his albums of the '70s and '80s.

contradiction

The other holds a gun to your head every day.

Someone is being figuratively pressured into something.

entailment

The American left has gone international to win a phony treaty that curbs greenhouse gases, Kristol alleged, because they can't accomplish their goal domestically.

Kristol is a Republican.

neutral

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

Kasich owns a small business.

neutral

The cover story asserts that Kenneth Starr's indictment of Julie Hiatt Steele is based on unbelievable assertions by Kathleen Willey, who choreographed her allegations to make them more marketable.

Kenneth Starr has no allegations towards Julie Steele.

contradiction

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

This person enjoys working as a press scourge.

neutral

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).

Despite studying the agent for years, Prusiner was no closer to finishing his research.

neutral

This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny.

Nothing is criticized and nothing is held to a proper standard.

contradiction

Please, do you have an answer for these well-wishers that would not require giving them private and personal information?

The only possible answers will involve private and personal information.

contradiction

I already know I am an idiot, but am I to be a happy idiot or a miserable one?

They understand the limits of their knowledge and must only decide whether or not to be happy.

entailment

Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores.

Behind the Legend has already been restocked in the bookstores.

contradiction

But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.

It is difficult to make out the photo.

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Sani Abacha died , reportedly of a heart attack.

The person's death was painful.

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I believe the public wants solutions that work, not attacks that divide, says Bradley.

Bradley does not intend to be divisive.

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Believing a firm response was demanded, I've relegated such inapt answers to Page 2. (Click for some quite amusing if not entirely germane replies.)

The response was more than 50 pages long.

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A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, Let us ...

Let us is a phrase often used in high school graduations.

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In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.

I will be more open and try to not conceal my limitations.

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The explanation is partly the frog-in-hot-water phenomenon (he'll jump out if you drop him in boiling water, but not if you put him in cold water and slowly heat it to boiling).

the phenomenon has been around since the 50's.

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The broader lesson we're supposed to learn, then, is that it was precisely the takeover mania of the 1980s that created the lean, efficient profit machines of the 1990s.

The takeover mania of the 1980s destroyed everything.

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Trent Lott recently called the agency intrusive, abusive, and out of control.

The agency denies any wrongdoing on its behalf.

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Buying a new tie would be fun, not an obsessive, central, tail-wagging-the-dog-of-life activity.

The tie must be the color red.

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He suffered the strange fate of many artists who aim for the sublime, then find their work enlisted in other all-too-human narratives.

He has nothing to do with art.

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Those who want to believe in the Torah codes will always be able to find ELS that impress them.

The Torah codes is not proven facts.

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When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.

There are men that believe in goodness but hypocritically constrict female realities.

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Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.

Arafat has become increasingly unpopular.

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