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Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.	The national savings is rising higher than ever before.	neutral
Second, we said that government does have a limited role in addressing the problem.	Government must provide the resources to states to control the problem.	neutral
Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.	Workers look for more efficient ways to work to have improvement.	entailment
Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.	Farmers are opposing the call for less fertilizer use.	entailment
I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.	I had some interest in last weeks issue of Committee of Advice for Dole.	entailment
Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.	The GOP is in need of female voters.	entailment
If you missed the link to the sidebar, click .	the sidebar can be elongated or shrunk.	neutral
For bitchy wit at its best, set your VCRs to catch Bette Davis in the incomparable All About Eve (Monday, Cinemax 2, 4 p.m.).	The movie, All About Eve, will be playing on Monday at 4 p.m.	entailment
Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.	Students are sampling wine.	entailment
This moderate course doesn't satisfy the most avid consumerists.	The moderate course was chosen because it would satisfy everyone.	contradiction
Forty thousand of us die that way each year.	That way of dying is rare.	contradiction
Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator?	A business merger is the topic of internet chat.	entailment
Granted, there exists, in the form of a rich language and history, what Huntington would call a core Sinic civilization.	Huntington had a love of history and language.	neutral
Sticking ice axes in the sides of mountains is a pretty stupid way to get to 29,000 feet as well.	Using ice axes to claim mountains is the most effective way to claim mountains.	neutral
It is not my intention to give anti-Semitism any support whatever, wrote Marc Dem, as he argued that Jews were from outer space.	Marc Dem claimed that Jews were from Mars.	neutral
In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.	There is trust and confidence galore between those involved in these difficult situations to carry out their goal of destruction.	contradiction
The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right.	Bauer is despised by the religious right.	contradiction
Moreover, tough, mean men enjoy high social status, which attracts women and helps the men get genes into the next generation.	A mean man managed to attract a famous female celebrity.	neutral
However, we put no claim on the other, lesser characters.	Minor characters have very limited importance in this scenario.	entailment
They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government.	They would be protected from loss by the government.	entailment
Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?	No one mentions the Boston Tea Party.	contradiction
But because the Net gets clogged and packets are waylaid, the sound quality is low and interruptions are common.	If the nets did not get clogged the sound quality would improve.	entailment
In short, the place made Bosch look like a Methodist picnic.	By comparison, the place did not resemble a Methodist picnic.	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.	I had an understanding of the reasoning behind it.	entailment
I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women.	People did not respond to the women at the World Cup.	contradiction
, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.	The referenced crime would be prosecuted at the federal level.	entailment
We look around our own solar system, and what appears to be common are planets that have no life whatsoever.	Most planets in our solar system that have no life at all.	entailment
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 was on several news programs during the campaign.	neutral
In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead.	Inglis forced the state to build toll roads because of his decision.	entailment
There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.	pornography is warping the mind of young men today.	neutral
By June, Gerth was writing, with a tinge of desperation, that the Pentagon did not find grave damage but did conclude that the United States national security had been harmed.	The Pentagon investigated the level of damage that had been done.	entailment
They say things like This is the coolest generation ever.	No one makes a comparison of coolness.	contradiction
There's something unbearably sad about a 60-year-old man who still takes drugs.	The author thinks that drugs are fun for all ages.	contradiction
Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?	I find French wine very repulsive.	contradiction
Republican fund-raising hypocrisy 1) The Washington	Republicans lead Democrats in fundraising due to their hypocrisy.	neutral
According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately.	Janet Reno said the NSC staff misunderstood the instructions.	entailment
A group of gay intellectuals has launched the Independent Gay Forum , which declares itself independent of left-right politics.	All political forums in the US must identify themselves as being left or right..	contradiction
But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.	The industry never tried to create a safer cigarette.	contradiction
Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.	Bennett has written an article related to Clinton during a controversy.	entailment
I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.	Smoking cigars cause respiratory illness faster.	neutral
Why do allergies afflict an increasing number of victims if they serve no useful purpose?	The speaker suffers from seasonal sinus allergies.	neutral
Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ([t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending).	People are willing to defend a country worth defending.	entailment
That about marked the end of Nash's career as a mathematical genius.	To this day, Nash continues their mathematics career.	contradiction
Who can I report disaster fraud to?	One can report disaster fraud.	entailment
Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.	National monetary authorities are afraid of global financial markets.	neutral
An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.	No one things that Congress will be maintaining budget ceilings.	contradiction
Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped.	Wells, Sidney and Beatrice Webb were famous siblings.	neutral
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 had never written a day in her life.	neutral
And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ...	The responses from Americans when they are introduced to the individual are justifiably shocking.	neutral
In one way, though, it is more exact.	In this specific way, it becomes much more vague and blurry.	contradiction
The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.	The screwdriver had a Phillips head.	neutral
This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.	This is only mentioned briefly in the 1999 edition.	entailment
These days, over the instrumental break, she's prone to toss in a homily about world peace and how, whether we're in America, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Middle East; are young, old, black, white, gay, straight, or transsexual, we're all still people, people who need people.	At the end of the day, were all just people who need eachother.	entailment
Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward	affirmative action is not operating at it's best.	entailment
After the review was published, Science received a flood of angry telephone calls and letters, according to the editor in question, Katherine Livingston.	People called to say how much the liked the review in Science.	contradiction
By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs	Ignoring macroeconomics will have a detrimental effect on the world.	entailment
Starr fought off the linkage, telling reporters that his criminal investigation was independent of the civil litigation.	Starr hoped reporters would not ruin either of his cases.	neutral
But such a show would have meant the museum taking a hard look at its own, often controversial part in the art world.	The museum has been accused of showing stolen paintings in the past.	neutral
The worst one was, I don't think you really want a divorce, or you would have gotten one by now.	You have not yet gotten a divorce.	entailment
Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.	An article about sexual misconduct in the NYPD did not state the correct street number of a possible brother for officers.	entailment
No, it's something more amorphous, like, Who do you want to hear it from the next time a plane crashes or a world leader is assassinated?	The speaker was referring to the recent plane crash that happened in the pacific ocean.	neutral
Thanks to current banking regulations, more than 85 percent of U.S. banks currently maintain KYC programs.	KYC programs are maintained by over 85 percent of banks in the U.S.	entailment
It is enough that tragedy once again punished the Kennedys, wrote Cohen.	Cohen wrote a biography about the Kennedy family.	neutral
A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, Gentlemen, I'm curious.	Trotter is doing away with questions.	contradiction
Instead of engendering hope and optimism, they breed mistrust and cynicism.	They also bred laziness and ungratefulness.	neutral
The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about.	The man was known for his truthfulness.	contradiction
And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game.	The key to this situation is being read.	entailment
For such people, he said, the Pope becomes persona non grata when he tries to convince the world of human sin.	When the Pope talks he reads a teleprompter.	neutral
In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.	Larry sustained injuries trying to save someone in the bathtub.	neutral
But there are arguments to the contrary.	Some people disagree and have arguments for that.	entailment
Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency.	Clinton had some trouble while under the influence of alcohol a few months ago and has since decided to avoid it.	neutral
Come fall and winter, surges and stumbles will really mean something.	The stakes will be higher in the second half of the year.	entailment
Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.	Morrison loves to use literal references to history.	contradiction
The point is that you are not merely slicing up the same pie--you are increasing the size of the pie.	the pie is being divvied up.	entailment
I remember that some people complained President Eisenhower was distracted from the business of his office because he was out playing golf so much.	Every President is perfect, the people never complain about them.	contradiction
Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey.	Billy has never been married before.	contradiction
It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.	It is nasty, foolish, and not needed.	entailment
She is also enjoying the imprimatur of the law.	She detested the imprimatur of the law.	contradiction
It keeps doing that.	It stopped doing that.	contradiction
In 1897 he was in Moscow, staying at the Great Moscow Hotel, when he began to cough blood profusely.	He stayed at the Great Moscow Hotel often.	neutral
And malignancy develops slowly.	Malignancy develops quickly.	entailment
In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead.	The toll roads generated a lot of revenue.	neutral
The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.	Republican politicians are looking for a way out of their situation.	neutral
Slate's Ann Hulbert says Hochschild overstates her The truth is that home hasn't suddenly become work.	Home only feels like work because of our familiarity with its maintenance.	neutral
This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay.	There is little to no difference between willingness to pay and ability to pay.	entailment
A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January.	The cover story is a review of a musical the author saw last week.	contradiction
We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country.	Because the food is plain here, we come off of as arrogant if we criticize the food in other countries.	entailment
The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear.	The specific reasons behind political tensions are static and have remained unchanged in political history.	contradiction
The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote.	There is no concern about the president getting convicted.	contradiction
When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character.	Brenda has never been on the steps of City Hall.	contradiction
At least you know they're not reading a book or anything.	You know that they are voraciously reading books.	contradiction
Not entirely unmarried men are seldom worth the trouble.	Unmarried men are troublesome.	entailment
Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress.	The dress was worthy of the braggadocious comments.	contradiction
He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.	He freed himself from everyone.	contradiction
Tina Brown resigned as editor of The New Yorker . She will chair a multimedia publishing company in partnership with Miramax Films.	Tina Brown is no longer employed by The New Yorker.	entailment
The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.	the angry giant squashes the mouse.	contradiction
The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers.	The top two finishers in this year's contest will both win a spot in next year's competition.	contradiction
(To read the first three chapters, click here.)	There are at least three chapters of this written work.	entailment
Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists!	We are scientists who would like sex.	entailment
(Aniston, by the way, might want to compare notes with The Enquirer says that she too fell victim to a freak rear end accident this month when an overzealous deer nipped her hindquarters.	It was actually a bear and two squirrels acting in concert that caused the accident this month.	contradiction

Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.

The national savings is rising higher than ever before.

neutral

Second, we said that government does have a limited role in addressing the problem.

Government must provide the resources to states to control the problem.

neutral

Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.

Workers look for more efficient ways to work to have improvement.

entailment

Fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River has killed sea life over an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico, says an article. Farmers are resisting calls to curtail fertilizer use.

Farmers are opposing the call for less fertilizer use.

entailment

I read last week's Committee of Advice for Dole, with some interest and not a little amazement.

I had some interest in last weeks issue of Committee of Advice for Dole.

entailment

Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.

The GOP is in need of female voters.

entailment

If you missed the link to the sidebar, click .

the sidebar can be elongated or shrunk.

neutral

For bitchy wit at its best, set your VCRs to catch Bette Davis in the incomparable All About Eve (Monday, Cinemax 2, 4 p.m.).

The movie, All About Eve, will be playing on Monday at 4 p.m.

entailment

Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.

Students are sampling wine.

entailment

This moderate course doesn't satisfy the most avid consumerists.

The moderate course was chosen because it would satisfy everyone.

contradiction

Forty thousand of us die that way each year.

That way of dying is rare.

contradiction

Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator?

A business merger is the topic of internet chat.

entailment

Granted, there exists, in the form of a rich language and history, what Huntington would call a core Sinic civilization.

Huntington had a love of history and language.

neutral

Sticking ice axes in the sides of mountains is a pretty stupid way to get to 29,000 feet as well.

Using ice axes to claim mountains is the most effective way to claim mountains.

neutral

It is not my intention to give anti-Semitism any support whatever, wrote Marc Dem, as he argued that Jews were from outer space.

Marc Dem claimed that Jews were from Mars.

neutral

In the extremely difficult situations being considered, there is no mutual trust or confidence to destroy.

There is trust and confidence galore between those involved in these difficult situations to carry out their goal of destruction.

contradiction

The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right.

Bauer is despised by the religious right.

contradiction

Moreover, tough, mean men enjoy high social status, which attracts women and helps the men get genes into the next generation.

A mean man managed to attract a famous female celebrity.

neutral

However, we put no claim on the other, lesser characters.

Minor characters have very limited importance in this scenario.

entailment

They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government.

They would be protected from loss by the government.

entailment

Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?

No one mentions the Boston Tea Party.

contradiction

But because the Net gets clogged and packets are waylaid, the sound quality is low and interruptions are common.

If the nets did not get clogged the sound quality would improve.

entailment

In short, the place made Bosch look like a Methodist picnic.

By comparison, the place did not resemble a Methodist picnic.

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.

I had an understanding of the reasoning behind it.

entailment

I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women.

People did not respond to the women at the World Cup.

contradiction

, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.

The referenced crime would be prosecuted at the federal level.

entailment

We look around our own solar system, and what appears to be common are planets that have no life whatsoever.

Most planets in our solar system that have no life at all.

entailment

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 was on several news programs during the campaign.

neutral

In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead.

Inglis forced the state to build toll roads because of his decision.

entailment

There was a sweet and goofy nostalgia in many of today's responses, recalling boyish sexual stirrings in a nonexistent time without today's easy access to pornography.

pornography is warping the mind of young men today.

neutral

By June, Gerth was writing, with a tinge of desperation, that the Pentagon did not find grave damage but did conclude that the United States national security had been harmed.

The Pentagon investigated the level of damage that had been done.

entailment

They say things like This is the coolest generation ever.

No one makes a comparison of coolness.

contradiction

There's something unbearably sad about a 60-year-old man who still takes drugs.

The author thinks that drugs are fun for all ages.

contradiction

Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?

I find French wine very repulsive.

contradiction

Republican fund-raising hypocrisy 1) The Washington

Republicans lead Democrats in fundraising due to their hypocrisy.

neutral

According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately.

Janet Reno said the NSC staff misunderstood the instructions.

entailment

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

All political forums in the US must identify themselves as being left or right..

contradiction

But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.

The industry never tried to create a safer cigarette.

contradiction

Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of truth with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled Clinton, Gays, and the Truth, accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.

Bennett has written an article related to Clinton during a controversy.

entailment

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

Smoking cigars cause respiratory illness faster.

neutral

Why do allergies afflict an increasing number of victims if they serve no useful purpose?

The speaker suffers from seasonal sinus allergies.

neutral

Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ([t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending).

People are willing to defend a country worth defending.

entailment

That about marked the end of Nash's career as a mathematical genius.

To this day, Nash continues their mathematics career.

contradiction

Who can I report disaster fraud to?

One can report disaster fraud.

entailment

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

National monetary authorities are afraid of global financial markets.

neutral

An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.

No one things that Congress will be maintaining budget ceilings.

contradiction

Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped.

Wells, Sidney and Beatrice Webb were famous siblings.

neutral

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 had never written a day in her life.

neutral

And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ...

The responses from Americans when they are introduced to the individual are justifiably shocking.

neutral

In one way, though, it is more exact.

In this specific way, it becomes much more vague and blurry.

contradiction

The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest.

The screwdriver had a Phillips head.

neutral

This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.

This is only mentioned briefly in the 1999 edition.

entailment

These days, over the instrumental break, she's prone to toss in a homily about world peace and how, whether we're in America, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Middle East; are young, old, black, white, gay, straight, or transsexual, we're all still people, people who need people.

At the end of the day, were all just people who need eachother.

entailment

Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward

affirmative action is not operating at it's best.

entailment

After the review was published, Science received a flood of angry telephone calls and letters, according to the editor in question, Katherine Livingston.

People called to say how much the liked the review in Science.

contradiction

By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs

Ignoring macroeconomics will have a detrimental effect on the world.

entailment

Starr fought off the linkage, telling reporters that his criminal investigation was independent of the civil litigation.

Starr hoped reporters would not ruin either of his cases.

neutral

But such a show would have meant the museum taking a hard look at its own, often controversial part in the art world.

The museum has been accused of showing stolen paintings in the past.

neutral

The worst one was, I don't think you really want a divorce, or you would have gotten one by now.

You have not yet gotten a divorce.

entailment

Consider for instance, the following item in today's Times : An article on July 18 about allegations of sexual misconduct among New York City police officers misstated the street number of what was said to be a brothel frequented by officers.

An article about sexual misconduct in the NYPD did not state the correct street number of a possible brother for officers.

entailment

No, it's something more amorphous, like, Who do you want to hear it from the next time a plane crashes or a world leader is assassinated?

The speaker was referring to the recent plane crash that happened in the pacific ocean.

neutral

Thanks to current banking regulations, more than 85 percent of U.S. banks currently maintain KYC programs.

KYC programs are maintained by over 85 percent of banks in the U.S.

entailment

It is enough that tragedy once again punished the Kennedys, wrote Cohen.

Cohen wrote a biography about the Kennedy family.

neutral

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

Trotter is doing away with questions.

contradiction

Instead of engendering hope and optimism, they breed mistrust and cynicism.

They also bred laziness and ungratefulness.

neutral

The more he lied about his lies, the more people focused on his lying and forgot what the original lies were about.

The man was known for his truthfulness.

contradiction

And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game.

The key to this situation is being read.

entailment

For such people, he said, the Pope becomes persona non grata when he tries to convince the world of human sin.

When the Pope talks he reads a teleprompter.

neutral

In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.

Larry sustained injuries trying to save someone in the bathtub.

neutral

But there are arguments to the contrary.

Some people disagree and have arguments for that.

entailment

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

Clinton had some trouble while under the influence of alcohol a few months ago and has since decided to avoid it.

neutral

Come fall and winter, surges and stumbles will really mean something.

The stakes will be higher in the second half of the year.

entailment

Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.

Morrison loves to use literal references to history.

contradiction

The point is that you are not merely slicing up the same pie--you are increasing the size of the pie.

the pie is being divvied up.

entailment

I remember that some people complained President Eisenhower was distracted from the business of his office because he was out playing golf so much.

Every President is perfect, the people never complain about them.

contradiction

Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey.

Billy has never been married before.

contradiction

It disgusting, childish, and unnecessary.

It is nasty, foolish, and not needed.

entailment

She is also enjoying the imprimatur of the law.

She detested the imprimatur of the law.

contradiction

It keeps doing that.

It stopped doing that.

contradiction

In 1897 he was in Moscow, staying at the Great Moscow Hotel, when he began to cough blood profusely.

He stayed at the Great Moscow Hotel often.

neutral

And malignancy develops slowly.

Malignancy develops quickly.

entailment

In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead.

The toll roads generated a lot of revenue.

neutral

The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.

Republican politicians are looking for a way out of their situation.

neutral

Slate's Ann Hulbert says Hochschild overstates her The truth is that home hasn't suddenly become work.

Home only feels like work because of our familiarity with its maintenance.

neutral

This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay.

There is little to no difference between willingness to pay and ability to pay.

entailment

A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January.

The cover story is a review of a musical the author saw last week.

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We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country.

Because the food is plain here, we come off of as arrogant if we criticize the food in other countries.

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The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear.

The specific reasons behind political tensions are static and have remained unchanged in political history.

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The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote.

There is no concern about the president getting convicted.

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When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character.

Brenda has never been on the steps of City Hall.

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At least you know they're not reading a book or anything.

You know that they are voraciously reading books.

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Not entirely unmarried men are seldom worth the trouble.

Unmarried men are troublesome.

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Monica, ever imaginative, bragged about the dress to Linda Tripp even though it was just an ordinary dress.

The dress was worthy of the braggadocious comments.

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He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.

He freed himself from everyone.

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Tina Brown resigned as editor of The New Yorker . She will chair a multimedia publishing company in partnership with Miramax Films.

Tina Brown is no longer employed by The New Yorker.

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The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures.

the angry giant squashes the mouse.

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The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers.

The top two finishers in this year's contest will both win a spot in next year's competition.

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(To read the first three chapters, click here.)

There are at least three chapters of this written work.

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Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists!

We are scientists who would like sex.

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(Aniston, by the way, might want to compare notes with The Enquirer says that she too fell victim to a freak rear end accident this month when an overzealous deer nipped her hindquarters.

It was actually a bear and two squirrels acting in concert that caused the accident this month.

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