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Given how many lawyers must have vetted this thing, it's probably an achievement that Mann got as much as he did on the screen.	Mann didn't get anything on the screen.	contradiction
To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.	Mick Jagger's daughter works for Hilfiger.	entailment
We always knew they had it in them.	They proved us right.	entailment
John McLaughlin dedicates the final minutes of his show to the proposition that contemporary American culture sneers at Men are regarded as inseminating instruments, superfluous after that.	Most American men agree with John McLaughlin.	neutral
Newsweek reports that JFK Jr. actively explored a Senate run before Hillary Clinton expressed interest.	Newsweek reports that Hillary Clinton considered a Senate run well before JFK Jr. did.	contradiction
Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?	It is hard to say if resonable cuation or self-important delight is more important, when it comes to martial law.	entailment
The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.	There are plans to build an annex to MoMA.	entailment
Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.	Democrats have changed stance on executive privilege as well.	neutral
(Heston's softness on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line.	Critics have nothing to say about Heston anymore.	neutral
In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.	Mayakovsky lives in a big house.	neutral
This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well.	Even using the interview and archives, the story is poorly told.	contradiction
Johnson encouraged Kennedy to run and promised to do whatever he could to help him.	Johnson discouraged Kennedy from running.	contradiction
What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.	Ledbetter does not miss PBS and prefers to watch FOX news.	contradiction
Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.	The troops received military training.	entailment
The Jerusalem Post pointed to a novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel (see International Papers for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse.	Israel is a country that is progressing gene-editing technology and identified certain genes like risk-taking.	neutral
Most important, with the first primaries still months away, the Gore campaign hasn't advertised much to bring newcomers to the site.	The Gore campaign has advertised a lot to bring newcomers to the site.	contradiction
Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m.	We go to the press with the next day's edition around 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.	entailment
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 gathers data on their audience.	entailment
The Progressive Policy Institute's Rob Shapiro, who invented the concept of corporate welfare before Reich gave it a name, has identified $300 billion worth.	Shapiro found that the total amount of corporate welfare was only a few million dollars.	contradiction
The original Seattleites--the NW Indians--have become so Californian they're Nevadans.	They've turned into Nevadans.	entailment
But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...	Asians are increasingly subject to upward social movility, due in no small part to their work ethic.	neutral
Never mind that according to Time , he privately told several financial backers in January, I love my wife.	He has never claimed to love his wife.	contradiction
I've seen you around before, haven't I? What's your name again?	I found out their name.	neutral
By a process of elimination, he and his buddy Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) end up at the remote stone house of Ned Devine--whom they find dead in his armchair with the ticket between his fingers, the shock of his windfall having felled him.	He and O'Sullivan found Devine alive and well.	contradiction
Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like.	They would have to follow a certain set of rules, unrelated to the investing choice.	neutral
Entertain, for a moment, this If we at Slate captured your voicemail recording and played it on our site without your permission, some lawyers would say that we had violated your copyright.	Slate doesn't have a website.	contradiction
In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario, for instance, a deficit-neutral solution would increase their taxes by $2,000 or so (compared with now) if they remain single and cut their taxes by about $550 if they get married.	In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario your taxes get cut if you get married.	entailment
You can't teach common bonds of history to teens while the school and the community stress athletics as the most honored achievement.	Football is the most honored achievement stress in schools and communities.	neutral
Saturated fat is still evil.	Saturated fat is great for everyone.	contradiction
One consequence is that the United States needs fewer land-based nukes since it is no longer planning all-out war with Russia.	The U.S. need for land-based nuclear arms is steadily increasing.	contradiction
My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer.	I am Peter Maass, the writer.	neutral
Thus, the putting-in-place of the final piece of Roosevelt's and Truman's grand design for a free world--a piece that they had tried and failed to put in place in their day--would be an accomplishment to be proud of.	Roosevelt and Truman would never have been able to put the final piece of their design in place, even had they done things very differently.	neutral
And, basset people, like me, want dogs that have the good sense not to do any of those things.	Bassethounds have good sense.	entailment
Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey.	Kevin Spacey starred in the show.	entailment
Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.	The spy is alive and resides in Nebraska.	contradiction
Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.	Average wages approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's in South Korea.	entailment
Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.	It's going to become harder and harder to find a good job that pays well.	contradiction
Today there are more than 300,000.	The number is forecast to climb to 500,000.	neutral
As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.	They carry cards.	entailment
Bottomless Mug	This mug just so happens to be bottomless.	entailment
They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps.	There were no problems with them at all.	contradiction
The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy.	Al Gore's strategy involves winning the largest states with the most electors and ignoring the smaller ones.	neutral
The wrestlers also enact crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.	the wrestlers were all about to retire.	neutral
But does the film subvert Eastwood's on-screen persona, as Schickel argues it does?	the film does not feature Eastwood.	contradiction
Nor can we simply ascribe their market dominance to advertising.	The market dominance was due to good word of mouth.	neutral
Sad organ music is suddenly replaced by an upbeat, jazzy The owner opens the drawer and takes the package.	There is a variety of music at the location.	entailment
If a fetus is a fully human life, then all abortion is murder and the debate over any particular procedure is beside the point.	The presumption that a fetus is a human life renders discussion on procedures moot.	entailment
on Late Edition , citing the Serb surrender to the Dayton peace conference as an example.	The Late Edition broadcasts at 11pm on saturdays.	neutral
The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.	Reagan is aware of the joke.	neutral
Russia continues to bomb Chechnya.	The bombing between Russia and Chechnya ceased weeks ago.	contradiction
Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year?	It was Warren Buffet who suggested no capital gains tax at all for any investment, no matter how long it's held.	contradiction
Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations?	Small states would not be economically enslaved.	neutral
But sadly, I haven't had sex in five years.	They have had sex multiple times in the last five years.	contradiction
They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.	It took me a long time to reach this point in my career.	neutral
Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.	Federal laws prohibit individuals from owning any media outlets.	contradiction
Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced.	Wilson's wife was alive.	contradiction
They take on a cartoonish, uniform cheeriness.	They were cheery because their favorite cartoons were on TV.	neutral
Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.	An increase in inflation will likely result in a decrease in purchasing power.	entailment
Pulitzer Prizes, for example, go to books and newspapers but not to magazines.	Movies always seem to win the Pulitzer Prizes.	contradiction
So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).	The Kurds were being attacked by Japan.	contradiction
Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.	Johnson had a long friendship with Oswald.	neutral
Alas, all he writes about, all he thinks about, all he wants to do, is give in to fat.	His main topic is fat.	entailment
Kutchins and Kirk claim that the DSM isn't a true account of mental illness because it's informed by particular social values.	The DSM is accused of having societal values influence its account of mental illness.	entailment
But Spielberg doesn't have to catch them all.	Spielberg doesn't catch them all.	entailment
Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.	The election was not fair.	entailment
Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill.	Tolly also had extensive knowledge of environmental engineering.	neutral
Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does.	Howard Stern and Dave Letterman have worked in the same profession.	entailment
The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.	Trees have never been connected to a person's death.	contradiction
For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence.	the phrases on all of your clothing have become what substantiate your entire physical being.	entailment
The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.	Malaysia will be held accountable economically.	contradiction
The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.	His explanation is clear to everyone.	neutral
The play is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind, says the New York Times ' Brantley.	The play will enjoy widespread and enduring commercial success.	contradiction
Readers are of course invited to submit their candidates to the Rock Pomposity Sweepstakes at [email protected].	Readers can vote on the winners of the contest, but they can't suggest candidates.	contradiction
I am fortunate enough to have two mothers-in- one who gave birth to my wonderful husband and one who is married to his father.	My husband has a mother and step-mother.	entailment
For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.	The author believes the calling somebody a carpetbagger is not a meaningful phrase in most instances.	entailment
Later, I thought the subject required more analysis.	It needed more study.	entailment
And with those four stigmatic words, the music business was born.	The music business originated from only four words.	entailment
But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.	The Wall Street Journal has staked its reputation on supporting the conspiracy theory espoused by conservative theorists.	contradiction
In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole.	News Corp will work for the worst interests of the game.	contradiction
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.	The liberals protested every night for two weeks.	neutral
When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.	Joel Klein doesn't actually believe that this case is about path dependence.	neutral
New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.	John Simon is from Canada.	contradiction
On behalf of the Harvard Square respondents, it must be said that ignorance was masked by a bravura self-confidence.	Not a single Harvard Square respondent was ignorant.	contradiction
The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity.	The story is often contingent on not revealing your sources.	entailment
The committee held its final deliberations from July 24 through July 30.	The committee held its deliberations on February 17th through March 1st.	contradiction
Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it.	Gibson was ill with a disease.	neutral
An article hypes the Hale-Bopp comet, which will be visible for the next month, as the best celestial show in decades.	The article is by a famous astronomer.	neutral
They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a stodgy affair (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--more The	The adaptation has been received with unanimous praise and positive reviews.	contradiction
these many columns and articles on the subject.	The subject has no written piece.	contradiction
If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio.	Everyone who is shown the computer face merging program end result will think that it looks as beautiful as Leonardo DiCaprio.	neutral
Buchanan even uses the word deterrence, though he doesn't use Mutually Assured Destruction, Bakelite, or hula hoop.	Buchanan chooses not to use the term "Mutually Assured Destruction".	entailment
Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy.	Farrow has no humor and is just sad all the time.	entailment
Microsoft did not demand that Netscape be removed, only that IE be there as well.	Microsoft would benefit from Netscape being removed entirely.	neutral
Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.	No one is pouring wine.	contradiction
Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.	The virtue deficit relates to the difference in the image people portray compared to their actual actions.	neutral
More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.	Huang Yong Ping is a Japanese artist.	contradiction
Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin?	Wisconsin will require more resources than Michigan.	neutral
In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity.	Caring little for unity, Tito could not abandon his ethnic identity.	contradiction
First, they should deliver maximum moral benefit at minimum practical cost.	The cost is thought to be too high, so there will be no moral benefit.	contradiction
Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.	Zhukov did not rally the men and women instead he stayed at home and read a book.	contradiction

Given how many lawyers must have vetted this thing, it's probably an achievement that Mann got as much as he did on the screen.

Mann didn't get anything on the screen.

contradiction

To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.

Mick Jagger's daughter works for Hilfiger.

entailment

We always knew they had it in them.

They proved us right.

entailment

John McLaughlin dedicates the final minutes of his show to the proposition that contemporary American culture sneers at Men are regarded as inseminating instruments, superfluous after that.

Most American men agree with John McLaughlin.

neutral

Newsweek reports that JFK Jr. actively explored a Senate run before Hillary Clinton expressed interest.

Newsweek reports that Hillary Clinton considered a Senate run well before JFK Jr. did.

contradiction

Is this reasonable caution or self-important delight in martial law?

It is hard to say if resonable cuation or self-important delight is more important, when it comes to martial law.

entailment

The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.

There are plans to build an annex to MoMA.

entailment

Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.

Democrats have changed stance on executive privilege as well.

neutral

(Heston's softness on gun rights was an issue in his NRA election, but he has quieted critics by backing off his earlier statements and hewing to the NRA's official line.

Critics have nothing to say about Heston anymore.

neutral

In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.

Mayakovsky lives in a big house.

neutral

This part of the story is based more on interview and less on research in archives, but I think it is told well.

Even using the interview and archives, the story is poorly told.

contradiction

Johnson encouraged Kennedy to run and promised to do whatever he could to help him.

Johnson discouraged Kennedy from running.

contradiction

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

Ledbetter does not miss PBS and prefers to watch FOX news.

contradiction

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

The troops received military training.

entailment

The Jerusalem Post pointed to a novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel (see International Papers for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse.

Israel is a country that is progressing gene-editing technology and identified certain genes like risk-taking.

neutral

Most important, with the first primaries still months away, the Gore campaign hasn't advertised much to bring newcomers to the site.

The Gore campaign has advertised a lot to bring newcomers to the site.

contradiction

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

We go to the press with the next day's edition around 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

entailment

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 gathers data on their audience.

entailment

The Progressive Policy Institute's Rob Shapiro, who invented the concept of corporate welfare before Reich gave it a name, has identified $300 billion worth.

Shapiro found that the total amount of corporate welfare was only a few million dollars.

contradiction

The original Seattleites--the NW Indians--have become so Californian they're Nevadans.

They've turned into Nevadans.

entailment

But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...

Asians are increasingly subject to upward social movility, due in no small part to their work ethic.

neutral

Never mind that according to Time , he privately told several financial backers in January, I love my wife.

He has never claimed to love his wife.

contradiction

I've seen you around before, haven't I? What's your name again?

I found out their name.

neutral

By a process of elimination, he and his buddy Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) end up at the remote stone house of Ned Devine--whom they find dead in his armchair with the ticket between his fingers, the shock of his windfall having felled him.

He and O'Sullivan found Devine alive and well.

contradiction

Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like.

They would have to follow a certain set of rules, unrelated to the investing choice.

neutral

Entertain, for a moment, this If we at Slate captured your voicemail recording and played it on our site without your permission, some lawyers would say that we had violated your copyright.

Slate doesn't have a website.

contradiction

In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario, for instance, a deficit-neutral solution would increase their taxes by $2,000 or so (compared with now) if they remain single and cut their taxes by about $550 if they get married.

In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario your taxes get cut if you get married.

entailment

You can't teach common bonds of history to teens while the school and the community stress athletics as the most honored achievement.

Football is the most honored achievement stress in schools and communities.

neutral

Saturated fat is still evil.

Saturated fat is great for everyone.

contradiction

One consequence is that the United States needs fewer land-based nukes since it is no longer planning all-out war with Russia.

The U.S. need for land-based nuclear arms is steadily increasing.

contradiction

My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer.

I am Peter Maass, the writer.

neutral

Thus, the putting-in-place of the final piece of Roosevelt's and Truman's grand design for a free world--a piece that they had tried and failed to put in place in their day--would be an accomplishment to be proud of.

Roosevelt and Truman would never have been able to put the final piece of their design in place, even had they done things very differently.

neutral

And, basset people, like me, want dogs that have the good sense not to do any of those things.

Bassethounds have good sense.

entailment

Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey.

Kevin Spacey starred in the show.

entailment

Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.

The spy is alive and resides in Nebraska.

contradiction

Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.

Average wages approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's in South Korea.

entailment

Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.

It's going to become harder and harder to find a good job that pays well.

contradiction

Today there are more than 300,000.

The number is forecast to climb to 500,000.

neutral

As a card-carrying new medium ourselves, we sure as heck do.

They carry cards.

entailment

Bottomless Mug

This mug just so happens to be bottomless.

entailment

They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps.

There were no problems with them at all.

contradiction

The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy.

Al Gore's strategy involves winning the largest states with the most electors and ignoring the smaller ones.

neutral

The wrestlers also enact crucifixions, sadomasochism, and prostitution.

the wrestlers were all about to retire.

neutral

But does the film subvert Eastwood's on-screen persona, as Schickel argues it does?

the film does not feature Eastwood.

contradiction

Nor can we simply ascribe their market dominance to advertising.

The market dominance was due to good word of mouth.

neutral

Sad organ music is suddenly replaced by an upbeat, jazzy The owner opens the drawer and takes the package.

There is a variety of music at the location.

entailment

If a fetus is a fully human life, then all abortion is murder and the debate over any particular procedure is beside the point.

The presumption that a fetus is a human life renders discussion on procedures moot.

entailment

on Late Edition , citing the Serb surrender to the Dayton peace conference as an example.

The Late Edition broadcasts at 11pm on saturdays.

neutral

The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.

Reagan is aware of the joke.

neutral

Russia continues to bomb Chechnya.

The bombing between Russia and Chechnya ceased weeks ago.

contradiction

Wasn't it Warren Buffet who suggested a 100 percent capital gains tax on any investment held less than a year?

It was Warren Buffet who suggested no capital gains tax at all for any investment, no matter how long it's held.

contradiction

Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations?

Small states would not be economically enslaved.

neutral

But sadly, I haven't had sex in five years.

They have had sex multiple times in the last five years.

contradiction

They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.

It took me a long time to reach this point in my career.

neutral

Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.

Federal laws prohibit individuals from owning any media outlets.

contradiction

Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced.

Wilson's wife was alive.

contradiction

They take on a cartoonish, uniform cheeriness.

They were cheery because their favorite cartoons were on TV.

neutral

Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power.

An increase in inflation will likely result in a decrease in purchasing power.

entailment

Pulitzer Prizes, for example, go to books and newspapers but not to magazines.

Movies always seem to win the Pulitzer Prizes.

contradiction

So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).

The Kurds were being attacked by Japan.

contradiction

Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.

Johnson had a long friendship with Oswald.

neutral

Alas, all he writes about, all he thinks about, all he wants to do, is give in to fat.

His main topic is fat.

entailment

Kutchins and Kirk claim that the DSM isn't a true account of mental illness because it's informed by particular social values.

The DSM is accused of having societal values influence its account of mental illness.

entailment

But Spielberg doesn't have to catch them all.

Spielberg doesn't catch them all.

entailment

Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.

The election was not fair.

entailment

Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill.

Tolly also had extensive knowledge of environmental engineering.

neutral

Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does.

Howard Stern and Dave Letterman have worked in the same profession.

entailment

The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.

Trees have never been connected to a person's death.

contradiction

For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence.

the phrases on all of your clothing have become what substantiate your entire physical being.

entailment

The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.

Malaysia will be held accountable economically.

contradiction

The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times.

His explanation is clear to everyone.

neutral

The play is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind, says the New York Times ' Brantley.

The play will enjoy widespread and enduring commercial success.

contradiction

Readers are of course invited to submit their candidates to the Rock Pomposity Sweepstakes at [email protected].

Readers can vote on the winners of the contest, but they can't suggest candidates.

contradiction

I am fortunate enough to have two mothers-in- one who gave birth to my wonderful husband and one who is married to his father.

My husband has a mother and step-mother.

entailment

For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.

The author believes the calling somebody a carpetbagger is not a meaningful phrase in most instances.

entailment

Later, I thought the subject required more analysis.

It needed more study.

entailment

And with those four stigmatic words, the music business was born.

The music business originated from only four words.

entailment

But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.

The Wall Street Journal has staked its reputation on supporting the conspiracy theory espoused by conservative theorists.

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In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole.

News Corp will work for the worst interests of the game.

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During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.

The liberals protested every night for two weeks.

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When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder.

Joel Klein doesn't actually believe that this case is about path dependence.

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New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.

John Simon is from Canada.

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On behalf of the Harvard Square respondents, it must be said that ignorance was masked by a bravura self-confidence.

Not a single Harvard Square respondent was ignorant.

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The price of getting the story is often a promise of full anonymity.

The story is often contingent on not revealing your sources.

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

The committee held its deliberations on February 17th through March 1st.

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Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it.

Gibson was ill with a disease.

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An article hypes the Hale-Bopp comet, which will be visible for the next month, as the best celestial show in decades.

The article is by a famous astronomer.

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They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a stodgy affair (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--more The

The adaptation has been received with unanimous praise and positive reviews.

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these many columns and articles on the subject.

The subject has no written piece.

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If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio.

Everyone who is shown the computer face merging program end result will think that it looks as beautiful as Leonardo DiCaprio.

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

Buchanan chooses not to use the term "Mutually Assured Destruction".

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Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy.

Farrow has no humor and is just sad all the time.

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Microsoft did not demand that Netscape be removed, only that IE be there as well.

Microsoft would benefit from Netscape being removed entirely.

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

No one is pouring wine.

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Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.

The virtue deficit relates to the difference in the image people portray compared to their actual actions.

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More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.

Huang Yong Ping is a Japanese artist.

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Is $25 million more going to be enough in a state like Wisconsin?

Wisconsin will require more resources than Michigan.

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In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity.

Caring little for unity, Tito could not abandon his ethnic identity.

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First, they should deliver maximum moral benefit at minimum practical cost.

The cost is thought to be too high, so there will be no moral benefit.

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Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow.

Zhukov did not rally the men and women instead he stayed at home and read a book.

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