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I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it.	Everyone prefers the handicapped stall.	neutral
The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.	The Sumimoto affair, when stripped down, sounds like a story from the age of robber-barons, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould.	entailment
Alfred Kazin jowled that Oprah's club represents the carpet bombing of the American mind, but even a stuffed shirt like Kazin can't complain when 15 million TV watchers are urged to read Toni Morrison and do.)	Alfred Kazin has criticized Oprah's book club.	entailment
Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference.	There was election held in America in 1996.	entailment
But he has never done what his characters would have.	He has done the same things as his characters	contradiction
Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.	The troops were specially selected for training because of their natural aptitudes for fighting.	neutral
What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.	Ledbetter used to watch PBS as a child.	neutral
Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt.	At her manager's suggestion, she wore a shorter skirt than she would have liked.	neutral
He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.	Someone is concerned about appearing moderate or indifferent on important social issues.	entailment
In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ...	Terence Stamp did not like acting in this movie.	neutral
The only real test that this company has faced in recent memory is due to the emergence of the Internet, and Microsoft is once again trying to eliminate this threat unfairly.	Microsoft doesn't know what the internet is.	contradiction
As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.	Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins both performed abysmally in their roles.	contradiction
Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett.	Robert Bennett is anything but reticent.	entailment
Her last husband, and manager, George Richey, was more than overcome by her death.	She had more than one husband in her lifetime.	entailment
Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers.	The author does not consider what was said to be of any importance.	contradiction
Even in the suburbs, where dogs run free, no poodle comes home with a hammer and sickle spray-painted on his side.	Poodles get spray painted with hammers and sickles all the time in the suburbs.	contradiction
How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?	The important questions were completely mishandled by the economist of Greenspan.	entailment
They were a breeze to enter--a few mouse clicks and a password.	It was like a puzzle to enter--several password and captchas.	contradiction
A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.	E-mail lacks for nothing, and must also include legal disclaimers.	contradiction
But that wacky theory aside, the point for Lemann's book is He brilliantly shows how the Protestant Establishment gave way to the educated elite.	The Protestant Establishment exerted their dominance over the educated class.	contradiction
Often, it doesn't even equal two.	Sometimes it does equal two.	entailment
My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright would undoubtedly emphasize that our concern over status exists for good evolutionary reasons.	Robert Wright makes a point that our worry over rank is bred into us, for correct reasons.	entailment
Guess what, so is the Chinese rate of osteoporosis.	China is a free market.	contradiction
Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things.	If something becomes less desirable, its price will come down too.	entailment
As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.	The woman lied about being sexually harassed by the President.	entailment
Two humorless and often petty egomaniacs intransigently reiterated their familiar positions (Rich).	The two hilarious and often considerate men agreed on their familiar positions.	contradiction
As if the Kennedy family didn't have enough to deal with, the Star reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to Kennedy cousin Maria Shriver, accidentally killed the family's chocolate Labrador when he ran over it with his Humvee.	The Kennedy family never had a pet dog.	contradiction
The White House Web site's theme of the Supporting America's Families in Times of Distress.	The White House was never able to develop a website, despite their best efforts.	contradiction
The Episcopalians are all going to hell.	Every single Episcopalian is a terrible person.	neutral
Patients could certainly get annoyed by having to take even a five-minute computer test every time they see a doctor.	The computer test will be discontinued as a requirement because it is too inconvenient for patients.	neutral
[Monica] made him feel good about himself.	He felt better about himself because of Monica.	entailment
And those are just the towns along Lake Como.	Towns have developed near Lake Como.	entailment
This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on.	Only men are allowed near this famous passage.	contradiction
A story on the JonBenet Ramsey case says her parents are not the only suspects.	Her parents are the only suspects.	contradiction
They look to Washington to mitigate the new economy's negative consequences.	Washington has new legislation that will help the economy.	neutral
Which might suggest that real business news is no more popular than it ever was.	Real business news has significantly dropped in popularity in the past year.	neutral
I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.	Daschle gave his opinions on the Broaddrick allegations.	contradiction
The authors claim to demonstrate that high IQ is more predictive of economic success than any other factor, and that low IQ is more predictive of poverty and social breakdown.	The authors claim IQ can predict the econnomic sucess or failure compared to any other factors.	entailment
They may claim this, but their very appearance in these scarves cancels that interpretation.	The truth of the claim is corroborated by the wearing of the scarves.	contradiction
But calculated honestly, the penalty is a lot smaller than people claim.	To be honest, the penalty is much more severe than people claim.	contradiction
One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.	the veep seems to want the credit for connecting libraries and schools to the internet.	entailment
We have close friends who have us to their home for dinner almost every week.	Our friends live nearby our home so the commute is quick.	neutral
The committee held its final deliberations from July 24 through July 30.	The committee had group meetings between July 24th - July 30th.	entailment
I also think it is commendable that his articles, although unfavorable to Microsoft in the main, are being hosted on a Microsoft-owned site.	Microsoft own 70% of websites.	neutral
I think your first instinct, that children should address adults in the manner in which the adults ask to be addressed, is absolutely dead on.	Children should never speak to adults.	contradiction
You want a recipe for healing?	It has to do with recovery.	entailment
Still a larger question Why don't companies ever quit while they're ahead?	Companies always quit while they are ahead.	contradiction
Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.	This explains the failure of the Soviet Empire.	contradiction
When asked whether the United States should oppose loans to Russia because of the war, Berger replies, It's a premature question because the predicate question is whether they get the economic reforms in order, at which point we'll have to look at what's in our national interest.	It is in the United States national interest to attempt to revitalize Russia through the use of loans.	neutral
Ultimately, what I say in my defense is completely meaningless.	I made a statement to defend myself.	entailment
Keyes : Join me in a prayer to Our Creator.	Keyes is talking to a group of people.	entailment
May the people forever keep you in their memory, Day as beautiful as glory, Cold as the tomb!	The burial site where the man is buried is hot to the touch.	contradiction
Explainer thanks many Slate readers for suggesting this topic.	Slate has many readers	entailment
Parcells has an addict's relationship with football.	Parcell is effective in his role as a football coach.	neutral
He carried on affairs with several men and a mistress, who bore him a son he refused to lift a finger to support.	He had a bastard son who he didn't care about.	entailment
The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.	The Serbians and Bosnians are happy with the Dayton Accord.	neutral
Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.	Rick Segal steered clear of the Iowa straw poll.	contradiction
A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.	College guides rarely go off-script, and thus sound incredibly rehearsed to most listeners.	neutral
2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.	The government cleaned up the unions with ease.	neutral
In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.	Time and Newsweek are cartoons.	contradiction
As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , He cannot fly from Fate.	Zeus was known to be very arrogant.	neutral
Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle.	Lockheed's passion is astronomy.	neutral
The original statistical work in The Bell Curve consists of regression analyses on a database called the National Longitudinal Study of Youth.	The Bell Curve calculates regression elements on the National Longitudinal Study of Youth database.	entailment
The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies.	Beer companies don't have to compete with the liquor industry.	neutral
I suppose you could argue that a best-dressed list encourages women to dress more beautifully or that a list of the greatest works of journalism of the 20 th century will motivate those who didn't make it to try a bit harder during the next 100 years.	Every single person who tries their hand at journalism has great success.	contradiction
The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off.	The Grand Slam Breakfast remains a well-known staple in America.	contradiction
But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.	The press and business leaders communicate well with each other.	neutral
In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment.	Sinatra actually was affiliated with the mob.	neutral
And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust.	I really have no interest in symbols and metaphors and certainly not in female lust.	contradiction
Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.	Buchanan uses the word deterrence a lot because he thinks deterrence is a great strategy.	neutral
MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.	intelligence can be measured with a ruler.	neutral
But there's a larger explanation.	There's a much smaller explanation.	contradiction
It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.	The dialogue is interesting.	neutral
The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.	The pictures would always maintain their precariousness.	contradiction
Often, it doesn't even equal two.	It equals three more than it equals two.	neutral
3 billion bill for the U.S.	The expenditures go towards front-line workers and small business assistance.	neutral
is that it sometimes finds those answers too predictably.	It is an algorithm that is finding the answers, hence its predictability.	neutral
The buck still stops with them.	They have always been in charge.	neutral
One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random.	There are 10 common problems with online polling.	neutral
Salinger wrote similar letters to other young female writers.	Salinger wrote letters to women writers.	entailment
Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.	Beatty doesn't care about the poor or people of other races.	contradiction
Praise goes to Lee's argument, her sensitivity, and her writing.	Lee did not receive any praise for her writing.	contradiction
He doesn't cheat.	He is honest.	entailment
The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.	The governor's wife wasn't honest about how much she spent.	entailment
It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy.	There should always be peace.	contradiction
Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.	Disco regalia were allowed past the velvet ropes.	contradiction
And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.	Even without Gates editing the anthologies, reputation alone helped enhance funding prospects to deserving projects.	entailment
You couldn't possibly have published a better parody of what passes for scholarship in the postmodern world.	The scholarship in the postmodern world is superior to scholarly work done in the past.	neutral
Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving an inside report ...	All audiences enjoyed Alan Berliner's film about a 7-year old boy who wants to be a girl.	neutral
Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m.	Monday through Thursday we don't have to get the next day's edition to the press until 7 p.m.	contradiction
Who's winning the war over the draft?	There is no feeling of war in the future.	contradiction
Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.	The manufacturer sold the urinanal-drain-guards to drug testing facilities.	neutral
Dexfenfluramine (tradenamed Redux), a cousin of fenfluramine, was just released.	Dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine are related.	entailment
A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.	a horrible excuse for a film.	entailment
Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice.	the language also avoids naming specific actions he took.	neutral
It's an odd maxim for a man whose work is dedicated to the idea that the way to amass wealth is to take it, not create it.	The man publicly suggested taking wealth but really believed in creating wealth.	neutral
Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like.	The programmers are furious.	entailment
But these targets still seem far out of reach.	Someone has established targets.	entailment
The company is upset not because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink to TicketMaster's site, but because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.	Sidewalk made an error when it provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.	entailment
From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel .	There is tension between officials and government attorneys on legal matters.	entailment

I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it.

Everyone prefers the handicapped stall.

neutral

The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.

The Sumimoto affair, when stripped down, sounds like a story from the age of robber-barons, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould.

entailment

Alfred Kazin jowled that Oprah's club represents the carpet bombing of the American mind, but even a stuffed shirt like Kazin can't complain when 15 million TV watchers are urged to read Toni Morrison and do.)

Alfred Kazin has criticized Oprah's book club.

entailment

Early in 1996, U.S. pundits, experts, and consultants heralded the Year of the Internet--to be climaxed by a presidential election in which the Internet would make a significant difference.

There was election held in America in 1996.

entailment

But he has never done what his characters would have.

He has done the same things as his characters

contradiction

Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.

The troops were specially selected for training because of their natural aptitudes for fighting.

neutral

What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.

Ledbetter used to watch PBS as a child.

neutral

Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt.

At her manager's suggestion, she wore a shorter skirt than she would have liked.

neutral

He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.

Someone is concerned about appearing moderate or indifferent on important social issues.

entailment

In outline, The Limey is a lean little B-movie revenge melodrama about a felonious Brit (Terence Stamp) who's newly sprung from prison and flies to Southern California to get to the bottom of his beautiful daughter's My name's Wilson ...

Terence Stamp did not like acting in this movie.

neutral

The only real test that this company has faced in recent memory is due to the emergence of the Internet, and Microsoft is once again trying to eliminate this threat unfairly.

Microsoft doesn't know what the internet is.

contradiction

As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.

Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins both performed abysmally in their roles.

contradiction

Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett.

Robert Bennett is anything but reticent.

entailment

Her last husband, and manager, George Richey, was more than overcome by her death.

She had more than one husband in her lifetime.

entailment

Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers.

The author does not consider what was said to be of any importance.

contradiction

Even in the suburbs, where dogs run free, no poodle comes home with a hammer and sickle spray-painted on his side.

Poodles get spray painted with hammers and sickles all the time in the suburbs.

contradiction

How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?

The important questions were completely mishandled by the economist of Greenspan.

entailment

They were a breeze to enter--a few mouse clicks and a password.

It was like a puzzle to enter--several password and captchas.

contradiction

A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.

E-mail lacks for nothing, and must also include legal disclaimers.

contradiction

But that wacky theory aside, the point for Lemann's book is He brilliantly shows how the Protestant Establishment gave way to the educated elite.

The Protestant Establishment exerted their dominance over the educated class.

contradiction

Often, it doesn't even equal two.

Sometimes it does equal two.

entailment

My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright would undoubtedly emphasize that our concern over status exists for good evolutionary reasons.

Robert Wright makes a point that our worry over rank is bred into us, for correct reasons.

entailment

Guess what, so is the Chinese rate of osteoporosis.

China is a free market.

contradiction

Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things.

If something becomes less desirable, its price will come down too.

entailment

As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.

The woman lied about being sexually harassed by the President.

entailment

Two humorless and often petty egomaniacs intransigently reiterated their familiar positions (Rich).

The two hilarious and often considerate men agreed on their familiar positions.

contradiction

As if the Kennedy family didn't have enough to deal with, the Star reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to Kennedy cousin Maria Shriver, accidentally killed the family's chocolate Labrador when he ran over it with his Humvee.

The Kennedy family never had a pet dog.

contradiction

The White House Web site's theme of the Supporting America's Families in Times of Distress.

The White House was never able to develop a website, despite their best efforts.

contradiction

The Episcopalians are all going to hell.

Every single Episcopalian is a terrible person.

neutral

Patients could certainly get annoyed by having to take even a five-minute computer test every time they see a doctor.

The computer test will be discontinued as a requirement because it is too inconvenient for patients.

neutral

[Monica] made him feel good about himself.

He felt better about himself because of Monica.

entailment

And those are just the towns along Lake Como.

Towns have developed near Lake Como.

entailment

This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on.

Only men are allowed near this famous passage.

contradiction

A story on the JonBenet Ramsey case says her parents are not the only suspects.

Her parents are the only suspects.

contradiction

They look to Washington to mitigate the new economy's negative consequences.

Washington has new legislation that will help the economy.

neutral

Which might suggest that real business news is no more popular than it ever was.

Real business news has significantly dropped in popularity in the past year.

neutral

I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.

Daschle gave his opinions on the Broaddrick allegations.

contradiction

The authors claim to demonstrate that high IQ is more predictive of economic success than any other factor, and that low IQ is more predictive of poverty and social breakdown.

The authors claim IQ can predict the econnomic sucess or failure compared to any other factors.

entailment

They may claim this, but their very appearance in these scarves cancels that interpretation.

The truth of the claim is corroborated by the wearing of the scarves.

contradiction

But calculated honestly, the penalty is a lot smaller than people claim.

To be honest, the penalty is much more severe than people claim.

contradiction

One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.

the veep seems to want the credit for connecting libraries and schools to the internet.

entailment

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

Our friends live nearby our home so the commute is quick.

neutral

The committee held its final deliberations from July 24 through July 30.

The committee had group meetings between July 24th - July 30th.

entailment

I also think it is commendable that his articles, although unfavorable to Microsoft in the main, are being hosted on a Microsoft-owned site.

Microsoft own 70% of websites.

neutral

I think your first instinct, that children should address adults in the manner in which the adults ask to be addressed, is absolutely dead on.

Children should never speak to adults.

contradiction

You want a recipe for healing?

It has to do with recovery.

entailment

Still a larger question Why don't companies ever quit while they're ahead?

Companies always quit while they are ahead.

contradiction

Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.

This explains the failure of the Soviet Empire.

contradiction

When asked whether the United States should oppose loans to Russia because of the war, Berger replies, It's a premature question because the predicate question is whether they get the economic reforms in order, at which point we'll have to look at what's in our national interest.

It is in the United States national interest to attempt to revitalize Russia through the use of loans.

neutral

Ultimately, what I say in my defense is completely meaningless.

I made a statement to defend myself.

entailment

Keyes : Join me in a prayer to Our Creator.

Keyes is talking to a group of people.

entailment

May the people forever keep you in their memory, Day as beautiful as glory, Cold as the tomb!

The burial site where the man is buried is hot to the touch.

contradiction

Explainer thanks many Slate readers for suggesting this topic.

Slate has many readers

entailment

Parcells has an addict's relationship with football.

Parcell is effective in his role as a football coach.

neutral

He carried on affairs with several men and a mistress, who bore him a son he refused to lift a finger to support.

He had a bastard son who he didn't care about.

entailment

The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.

The Serbians and Bosnians are happy with the Dayton Accord.

neutral

Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.

Rick Segal steered clear of the Iowa straw poll.

contradiction

A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.

College guides rarely go off-script, and thus sound incredibly rehearsed to most listeners.

neutral

2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.

The government cleaned up the unions with ease.

neutral

In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.

Time and Newsweek are cartoons.

contradiction

As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , He cannot fly from Fate.

Zeus was known to be very arrogant.

neutral

Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle.

Lockheed's passion is astronomy.

neutral

The original statistical work in The Bell Curve consists of regression analyses on a database called the National Longitudinal Study of Youth.

The Bell Curve calculates regression elements on the National Longitudinal Study of Youth database.

entailment

The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies.

Beer companies don't have to compete with the liquor industry.

neutral

I suppose you could argue that a best-dressed list encourages women to dress more beautifully or that a list of the greatest works of journalism of the 20 th century will motivate those who didn't make it to try a bit harder during the next 100 years.

Every single person who tries their hand at journalism has great success.

contradiction

The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off.

The Grand Slam Breakfast remains a well-known staple in America.

contradiction

But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.

The press and business leaders communicate well with each other.

neutral

In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment.

Sinatra actually was affiliated with the mob.

neutral

And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust.

I really have no interest in symbols and metaphors and certainly not in female lust.

contradiction

Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.

Buchanan uses the word deterrence a lot because he thinks deterrence is a great strategy.

neutral

MI argues that intelligence takes seven musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, bodily, intrapersonal, and interpersonal.

intelligence can be measured with a ruler.

neutral

But there's a larger explanation.

There's a much smaller explanation.

contradiction

It coarsens and inflames dialogue in a way that tends to prevent exposure of which ideas are right and which are wrong.

The dialogue is interesting.

neutral

The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away.

The pictures would always maintain their precariousness.

contradiction

Often, it doesn't even equal two.

It equals three more than it equals two.

neutral

3 billion bill for the U.S.

The expenditures go towards front-line workers and small business assistance.

neutral

is that it sometimes finds those answers too predictably.

It is an algorithm that is finding the answers, hence its predictability.

neutral

The buck still stops with them.

They have always been in charge.

neutral

One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random.

There are 10 common problems with online polling.

neutral

Salinger wrote similar letters to other young female writers.

Salinger wrote letters to women writers.

entailment

Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.

Beatty doesn't care about the poor or people of other races.

contradiction

Praise goes to Lee's argument, her sensitivity, and her writing.

Lee did not receive any praise for her writing.

contradiction

He doesn't cheat.

He is honest.

entailment

The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry.

The governor's wife wasn't honest about how much she spent.

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It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy.

There should always be peace.

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Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes.

Disco regalia were allowed past the velvet ropes.

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And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.

Even without Gates editing the anthologies, reputation alone helped enhance funding prospects to deserving projects.

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You couldn't possibly have published a better parody of what passes for scholarship in the postmodern world.

The scholarship in the postmodern world is superior to scholarly work done in the past.

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Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving an inside report ...

All audiences enjoyed Alan Berliner's film about a 7-year old boy who wants to be a girl.

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Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m.

Monday through Thursday we don't have to get the next day's edition to the press until 7 p.m.

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Who's winning the war over the draft?

There is no feeling of war in the future.

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Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.

The manufacturer sold the urinanal-drain-guards to drug testing facilities.

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Dexfenfluramine (tradenamed Redux), a cousin of fenfluramine, was just released.

Dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine are related.

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A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.

a horrible excuse for a film.

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Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice.

the language also avoids naming specific actions he took.

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It's an odd maxim for a man whose work is dedicated to the idea that the way to amass wealth is to take it, not create it.

The man publicly suggested taking wealth but really believed in creating wealth.

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Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like.

The programmers are furious.

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But these targets still seem far out of reach.

Someone has established targets.

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The company is upset not because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink to TicketMaster's site, but because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.

Sidewalk made an error when it provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site.

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From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel .

There is tension between officials and government attorneys on legal matters.

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