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But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G.	Dowd is articulate enough to conduct and interview.	entailment
What is reputed to be Gen.	It has nothing to do with Gen.	contradiction
Asking political candidates to quantify their stands may seem unrealistic because they don't want to pin themselves down and because the audience will tune out.	Political candidates are asked questions before an audience.	entailment
But even at those points, the snapshot looks pretty blurry.	The snapshot was of their recent visit to Las Vegas.	neutral
The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores.	The Turow got here on December 27th from Amazon.	entailment
Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human.	The Sunday Times of London is sold at most newstands in the UK.	neutral
Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock	Journalists revived rock music.	contradiction
Of course, in some sense Dunlap must think that growth is important, because otherwise he wouldn't have spent billions of dollars to buy Coleman and First Alert and Signature Brands.	Dunlap thought growth was unimportant.	contradiction
Re Paste Test: I'll have to put the hex on Colgate Total.	He doesn't have to put a hex on Colgate Total.	contradiction
What this means is that the revenue from any new taxes on pollution could be used to reduce other taxes, such as Social Security contributions or the income tax (but not, of course, the capital-gains tax).	Revenue from new taxes on pollution will lower the capital gains tax.	contradiction
Impeachment is twisting the presidential race, too.	Impeachment is having an effect on the presidential campaign.	entailment
Loral denies that its report to the Chinese divulged sensitive information about rocket guidance systems, as a Defense Department report claims.	Loral does not agree that she gave up sensitive information.	entailment
Most important, with the first primaries still months away, the Gore campaign hasn't advertised much to bring newcomers to the site.	Newcomers are not coming to the site.	neutral
Sure, the FDA's efforts are done in the name of kids.	the FDA are currently under investigation.	neutral
The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker.	Gore and Gephardt are both politicians.	entailment
The Dow Jones industrial average topped 7,000 . Financial reporters, while proclaiming once again that the optimists have been vindicated, are having more and more trouble finding anyone on Wall Street who was this optimistic.	The Dow Jones' average will drop much lower than 7000.	neutral
(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)	Utilizing the New York Observer, Weiss attacked Farrow.	entailment
largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings.	Many women encounter glass ceilings in the workplace.	neutral
There will be enough for everybody!	Some people will be left with nothing.	contradiction
It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost participation rates.	Officials at one time sought to remove the negative connotations associated with welfare.	entailment
Doctorow's Ragtime , is set in 1910.	Doctorow's Ragtime is performed in the setting of the modern day.	contradiction
As for me, I wrote my book about Reagan because I'd like to see him get at least some of the recognition he deserves during his lifetime.	The recognition Reagan deserves is mostly positive.	neutral
Last year, advertisers spent $2 billion on the Internet, compared with $35 billion spent on broadcast TV and $10 billion spent on cable.	More money was spent on cable advertising than broadcast TV advertising last year, but broadcast TV offered a greater ROI.	contradiction
That goddamned hamster dance.	Cartoon hamsters cannot dance.	contradiction
The worst one was, I don't think you really want a divorce, or you would have gotten one by now.	You do not really want a divorce.	neutral
If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.	You should be concerned if your baby wakes at night after three months of age.	entailment
I phoned Michael J. Thun, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, and asked him whether a 20 percent mortality reduction is indeed small in the world of epidemiology.	Michael J. Thun, is an author of an academic study.	entailment
I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose.	only specific groups of people express their emotions openly.	neutral
Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.	Will all that is going on overseas, as well as on our land, it's best to keep CNN on the tube.	entailment
A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1.	being risk-neutral lowers your stress levels.	neutral
Adam Michnik was arrested in a demonstration in Warsaw in February of 1968, went on to become the leading theorist of the Solidarity protest movement of the 1980s, and survived to take up a role as middle-aged statesman in the Polish political world that succeeded the collapse of communism in 1989.	Adam Michnik was never arrested for his demonstrations in Warsaw.	contradiction
Forty thousand of us die that way each year.	Those who die from it get it by not eating healthier.	neutral
While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.	The forth quality happens to be intimidating.	neutral
Or, maybe higher savings wouldn't really increase growth.	If higher savings won't increase growth, then it won't increase multiple other positive indicators.	neutral
Though some faculty members feel McKinsey's involvement shames the academy, most think it's a healthy development for Harvard.	McKinsey decided to have zero assocation with Harvard.	contradiction
Charles Isherwood in Daily Variety : [M]akes a startling case for the reexamination of this landmark play ...	Charles Isherwood's take on reviewing this landmark play was quite startling.	entailment
Some argue that Russia is still reeling from its misguided plan for privatization.	Russia was harmed by and continues to feel the effects of its plans for privatizing.	neutral
The committee held its final deliberations from July 24 through July 30.	During the deliberations there were table side refreshments.	neutral
I'd just like to point out, in case you were planning a satirical musical comedy about the crisis in question, something you can do to a song from West Side Story : Korea, I've just met a place called Korea!	The crisis is the primary reason the musical must be a satirical comedy.	neutral
Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse.	The MLB is thinking about changing the tournament structure of the league.	neutral
But somehow you expect that from Republicans, whereas you don't expect it from big-name national Democrats, especially Northerners like George Mitchell.	When compared to Republicans, renown national Democrats have different expectations placed on them.	entailment
You can be sure of only two Each party is arguing exactly the opposite of what it argued the last time a Republican president led the nation into war, and exactly the opposite of what it will argue next time.	The author argues that conservative presidents leading the nation to war is a topic of discussion.	entailment
LeTourneau was the boy's teacher in both second and sixth grades, and he describes their relationship When I was six or seven, she encouraged me in my drawing.	LeTourneau never worked as anything other than a cabinet maker.	contradiction
What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable.	She has to confront her approach to intimacy today.	contradiction
Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?	Gore is not familiar with any of Bradley's voting record.	contradiction
And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, infrequent communications with family and the outside world.	Not all congressmen and CNN executives ride the subway.	entailment
Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.	Most people don't like obstructing good ideas.	neutral
Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone.	The tobacco bill has existed for a long time.	entailment
Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.	Avarice and blind patriotism are among the four listed.	entailment
By these criteria Kinsey fares well.	The criteria pertains to fashion.	neutral
Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.	The possible accusations will be negatively felt by the author.	entailment
They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.	Higher income women will want to lose weight more then their counterparts.	entailment
Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones.	Nothing contradicts their claim regarding exploitation in black and white businesses.	contradiction
is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.	The article disputes the only available number, and uses that doubt to boost their own validity.	entailment
The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.	Women are not consumers of condoms.	contradiction
It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.	Men have never felt the need to discuss marriage and pregnancy with women prior to having sex.	contradiction
He says she gave him the confidence to be an actor, and he ended up helping to support her at the end of her life.	She never had any effect on him, he didn't even know her.	contradiction
Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.	There are no medical doctors in the Israeli army.	contradiction
Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger.	The penis enlarger will be sold worldwide.	neutral
One unanswered question is how much time Clinton will spend in his home state once his library is completed.	There's one unanswered question.	entailment
Geoff Ward, goateed sophomore, chides each of the Canterbury Tales, for being written during that Great Vowel Thing and for being 'boring and stupid.	The Canterbury Tales weren't written until after Geoff Ward graduated college.	contradiction
Bang on drums and try to get the talking stick away from a weepy Tom DeLay.	Tom DeLay is joyful and positive.	contradiction
Or Caltech on Top (Until We Fiddle With Rules Again).	Fiddling with the rules didn't help Caltech get to the top.	neutral
Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying.	Scott Shuger never wrote Today's Papers.	contradiction
Novak cut Hunt off only twice.	Hunt was only interrupted two times by Novak.	entailment
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is in the cardiac intensive-care unit of a Moscow hospital.	There are no cardiac ICUs in Russia.	contradiction
The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.	The street lawyer avoids homeless activism.	entailment
That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.	Policies - whether transportation or lubrication - are decided by what is most needed.	contradiction
However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.	There was full representation for popular music.	contradiction
Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose.	There is a political movement that involves workers.	entailment
He then blames military leaders for overestimating the effectiveness of bombing.	He blames them for overestimating bombing effectiveness due to their hesitance to send troops on the ground.	neutral
After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.	Boston's Mayor and newspapers went after Harvard for breaching trust.	entailment
You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.	Thomas Vinterberg is popular.	neutral
I am at play right now.	I can be changed.	entailment
If we focus on small problems that make headlines, we will ignore bigger problems that don't.	The small problems consist of long lines at theme parks.	neutral
For example, I've argued from ev-psych premises that extreme inequality of income, all other things being equal, tends to raise the divorce rate.	There is no connection between inequality of income and the divorce rate.	contradiction
It's the most prestigious, appearing as it does in the premier book review in the country.	Not only is it not prestigious, but it has yet to show in book reviews.	contradiction
But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.	De Long and Land are scientists.	neutral
With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well.	He does not have the resources to be patient and does not have the experience to be patient as well.	contradiction
In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.	he thinks the speedometer has been downplaying his speed.	entailment
If granny needed an operation, there went the tuition for junior's college.	The junior has prepaid his next two years of college.	contradiction
The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press.	The New England Journal of Medicine decided to publish on paperback.	neutral
It just means they're really, really serious about you.	They view you as important.	entailment
Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go!	Speed Racer is a silent film.	contradiction
(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.)	Websites are capable of holding information about a band.	entailment
His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.	He wants to sabotage his party and lose all the seats in Congress.	contradiction
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.	The new class of liberal professionals and youth supported Lyndon Johnson.	entailment
The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be.	The Slate 60 list is an annual list.	neutral
They call him ruthless, bombastic, in-your-face, an aggressive hardliner, a bulldog, and a hit man.	Some people appreciate his harshness.	neutral
And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.	Thriftiness and the myth of the widow's cruse became more relevant than ever.	contradiction
Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.	Party regulars have been involved in the election.	entailment
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 wording on clothes, no matter the terms used, are all useless and completely meaningless.	contradiction
Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change.	Larry was an actor.	contradiction
Republicans have long demanded smaller government.	Republicans have a new initiative on the ballot.	neutral
Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.	Slate has no editor.	contradiction
IRA accounts allow income-earners to duck some taxation on that income if they promise to save it until they're old.	IRA accounts are the most commonly used retirement vehicle.	neutral
Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.	It's sincere and you've done it on time.	contradiction
The Liberal Humanitarians (a k a Red-Tailed Hawks)	The Liberal Humanitarians are nicknamed the Red-Tailed Hawks.	entailment
In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.	Some still idolize Fidel and Che.	neutral
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.	Arnold Schwarzenegger owns a Humvee.	entailment

But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G.

Dowd is articulate enough to conduct and interview.

entailment

What is reputed to be Gen.

It has nothing to do with Gen.

contradiction

Asking political candidates to quantify their stands may seem unrealistic because they don't want to pin themselves down and because the audience will tune out.

Political candidates are asked questions before an audience.

entailment

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

The snapshot was of their recent visit to Las Vegas.

neutral

The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores.

The Turow got here on December 27th from Amazon.

entailment

Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human.

The Sunday Times of London is sold at most newstands in the UK.

neutral

Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock

Journalists revived rock music.

contradiction

Of course, in some sense Dunlap must think that growth is important, because otherwise he wouldn't have spent billions of dollars to buy Coleman and First Alert and Signature Brands.

Dunlap thought growth was unimportant.

contradiction

Re Paste Test: I'll have to put the hex on Colgate Total.

He doesn't have to put a hex on Colgate Total.

contradiction

What this means is that the revenue from any new taxes on pollution could be used to reduce other taxes, such as Social Security contributions or the income tax (but not, of course, the capital-gains tax).

Revenue from new taxes on pollution will lower the capital gains tax.

contradiction

Impeachment is twisting the presidential race, too.

Impeachment is having an effect on the presidential campaign.

entailment

Loral denies that its report to the Chinese divulged sensitive information about rocket guidance systems, as a Defense Department report claims.

Loral does not agree that she gave up sensitive information.

entailment

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

Newcomers are not coming to the site.

neutral

Sure, the FDA's efforts are done in the name of kids.

the FDA are currently under investigation.

neutral

The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker.

Gore and Gephardt are both politicians.

entailment

The Dow Jones industrial average topped 7,000 . Financial reporters, while proclaiming once again that the optimists have been vindicated, are having more and more trouble finding anyone on Wall Street who was this optimistic.

The Dow Jones' average will drop much lower than 7000.

neutral

(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)

Utilizing the New York Observer, Weiss attacked Farrow.

entailment

largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings.

Many women encounter glass ceilings in the workplace.

neutral

There will be enough for everybody!

Some people will be left with nothing.

contradiction

It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost participation rates.

Officials at one time sought to remove the negative connotations associated with welfare.

entailment

Doctorow's Ragtime , is set in 1910.

Doctorow's Ragtime is performed in the setting of the modern day.

contradiction

As for me, I wrote my book about Reagan because I'd like to see him get at least some of the recognition he deserves during his lifetime.

The recognition Reagan deserves is mostly positive.

neutral

Last year, advertisers spent $2 billion on the Internet, compared with $35 billion spent on broadcast TV and $10 billion spent on cable.

More money was spent on cable advertising than broadcast TV advertising last year, but broadcast TV offered a greater ROI.

contradiction

That goddamned hamster dance.

Cartoon hamsters cannot dance.

contradiction

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

You do not really want a divorce.

neutral

If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.

You should be concerned if your baby wakes at night after three months of age.

entailment

I phoned Michael J. Thun, one of the study's authors and an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society, and asked him whether a 20 percent mortality reduction is indeed small in the world of epidemiology.

Michael J. Thun, is an author of an academic study.

entailment

I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose.

only specific groups of people express their emotions openly.

neutral

Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN.

Will all that is going on overseas, as well as on our land, it's best to keep CNN on the tube.

entailment

A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1.

being risk-neutral lowers your stress levels.

neutral

Adam Michnik was arrested in a demonstration in Warsaw in February of 1968, went on to become the leading theorist of the Solidarity protest movement of the 1980s, and survived to take up a role as middle-aged statesman in the Polish political world that succeeded the collapse of communism in 1989.

Adam Michnik was never arrested for his demonstrations in Warsaw.

contradiction

Forty thousand of us die that way each year.

Those who die from it get it by not eating healthier.

neutral

While the headline seems to describe something pretty scary, the first three qualities--huge, powerful, fast--actually sound pretty appealing until the fourth comes along.

The forth quality happens to be intimidating.

neutral

Or, maybe higher savings wouldn't really increase growth.

If higher savings won't increase growth, then it won't increase multiple other positive indicators.

neutral

Though some faculty members feel McKinsey's involvement shames the academy, most think it's a healthy development for Harvard.

McKinsey decided to have zero assocation with Harvard.

contradiction

Charles Isherwood in Daily Variety : [M]akes a startling case for the reexamination of this landmark play ...

Charles Isherwood's take on reviewing this landmark play was quite startling.

entailment

Some argue that Russia is still reeling from its misguided plan for privatization.

Russia was harmed by and continues to feel the effects of its plans for privatizing.

neutral

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

During the deliberations there were table side refreshments.

neutral

I'd just like to point out, in case you were planning a satirical musical comedy about the crisis in question, something you can do to a song from West Side Story : Korea, I've just met a place called Korea!

The crisis is the primary reason the musical must be a satirical comedy.

neutral

Traditionalists complain it will dilute ancient rivalries, screw up the year-to-year continuity of statistics, obliterate the quaint differences between the two leagues (principally, the designated-hitter rule), and spoil the climactic, virgin mystique of the World Series, which, until now, was the leagues' only intercourse.

The MLB is thinking about changing the tournament structure of the league.

neutral

But somehow you expect that from Republicans, whereas you don't expect it from big-name national Democrats, especially Northerners like George Mitchell.

When compared to Republicans, renown national Democrats have different expectations placed on them.

entailment

You can be sure of only two Each party is arguing exactly the opposite of what it argued the last time a Republican president led the nation into war, and exactly the opposite of what it will argue next time.

The author argues that conservative presidents leading the nation to war is a topic of discussion.

entailment

LeTourneau was the boy's teacher in both second and sixth grades, and he describes their relationship When I was six or seven, she encouraged me in my drawing.

LeTourneau never worked as anything other than a cabinet maker.

contradiction

What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable.

She has to confront her approach to intimacy today.

contradiction

Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?

Gore is not familiar with any of Bradley's voting record.

contradiction

And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, infrequent communications with family and the outside world.

Not all congressmen and CNN executives ride the subway.

entailment

Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.

Most people don't like obstructing good ideas.

neutral

Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone.

The tobacco bill has existed for a long time.

entailment

Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.

Avarice and blind patriotism are among the four listed.

entailment

By these criteria Kinsey fares well.

The criteria pertains to fashion.

neutral

Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.

The possible accusations will be negatively felt by the author.

entailment

They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.

Higher income women will want to lose weight more then their counterparts.

entailment

Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones.

Nothing contradicts their claim regarding exploitation in black and white businesses.

contradiction

is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.

The article disputes the only available number, and uses that doubt to boost their own validity.

entailment

The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.

Women are not consumers of condoms.

contradiction

It took time for men to recognize that they did not have to promise marriage in the event of a pregnancy in exchange for sexual relations.

Men have never felt the need to discuss marriage and pregnancy with women prior to having sex.

contradiction

He says she gave him the confidence to be an actor, and he ended up helping to support her at the end of her life.

She never had any effect on him, he didn't even know her.

contradiction

Likewise, the Israeli army's chief medical officer, responding to the public outrage, said that if authorities ban his doctors from practicing on fallen soldiers, it will be the injured who will suffer.

There are no medical doctors in the Israeli army.

contradiction

Coming to a store near a genuine Austin Powers Swedish Penis Enlarger.

The penis enlarger will be sold worldwide.

neutral

One unanswered question is how much time Clinton will spend in his home state once his library is completed.

There's one unanswered question.

entailment

Geoff Ward, goateed sophomore, chides each of the Canterbury Tales, for being written during that Great Vowel Thing and for being 'boring and stupid.

The Canterbury Tales weren't written until after Geoff Ward graduated college.

contradiction

Bang on drums and try to get the talking stick away from a weepy Tom DeLay.

Tom DeLay is joyful and positive.

contradiction

Or Caltech on Top (Until We Fiddle With Rules Again).

Fiddling with the rules didn't help Caltech get to the top.

neutral

Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying.

Scott Shuger never wrote Today's Papers.

contradiction

Novak cut Hunt off only twice.

Hunt was only interrupted two times by Novak.

entailment

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is in the cardiac intensive-care unit of a Moscow hospital.

There are no cardiac ICUs in Russia.

contradiction

The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.

The street lawyer avoids homeless activism.

entailment

That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.

Policies - whether transportation or lubrication - are decided by what is most needed.

contradiction

However, I am just a little disappointed that there is no representation in your measurement for popular music.

There was full representation for popular music.

contradiction

Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose.

There is a political movement that involves workers.

entailment

He then blames military leaders for overestimating the effectiveness of bombing.

He blames them for overestimating bombing effectiveness due to their hesitance to send troops on the ground.

neutral

After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers.

Boston's Mayor and newspapers went after Harvard for breaching trust.

entailment

You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.

Thomas Vinterberg is popular.

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I am at play right now.

I can be changed.

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If we focus on small problems that make headlines, we will ignore bigger problems that don't.

The small problems consist of long lines at theme parks.

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For example, I've argued from ev-psych premises that extreme inequality of income, all other things being equal, tends to raise the divorce rate.

There is no connection between inequality of income and the divorce rate.

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It's the most prestigious, appearing as it does in the premier book review in the country.

Not only is it not prestigious, but it has yet to show in book reviews.

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But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.

De Long and Land are scientists.

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With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well.

He does not have the resources to be patient and does not have the experience to be patient as well.

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In short, now that he knows (or, anyway, prefers to believe) that the speedometer has been understating his speed, and that the shimmy therefore doesn't start until he is really going 55, he thinks that he can drive 55 as measured using that same speedometer . Uh-uh.

he thinks the speedometer has been downplaying his speed.

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If granny needed an operation, there went the tuition for junior's college.

The junior has prepaid his next two years of college.

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The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press.

The New England Journal of Medicine decided to publish on paperback.

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It just means they're really, really serious about you.

They view you as important.

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Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go!

Speed Racer is a silent film.

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(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.)

Websites are capable of holding information about a band.

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His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.

He wants to sabotage his party and lose all the seats in Congress.

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By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.

The new class of liberal professionals and youth supported Lyndon Johnson.

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The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be.

The Slate 60 list is an annual list.

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They call him ruthless, bombastic, in-your-face, an aggressive hardliner, a bulldog, and a hit man.

Some people appreciate his harshness.

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And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.

Thriftiness and the myth of the widow's cruse became more relevant than ever.

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Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.

Party regulars have been involved in the election.

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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 wording on clothes, no matter the terms used, are all useless and completely meaningless.

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Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change.

Larry was an actor.

contradiction

Republicans have long demanded smaller government.

Republicans have a new initiative on the ballot.

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Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.

Slate has no editor.

contradiction

IRA accounts allow income-earners to duck some taxation on that income if they promise to save it until they're old.

IRA accounts are the most commonly used retirement vehicle.

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Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.

It's sincere and you've done it on time.

contradiction

The Liberal Humanitarians (a k a Red-Tailed Hawks)

The Liberal Humanitarians are nicknamed the Red-Tailed Hawks.

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In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.

Some still idolize Fidel and Che.

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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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger owns a Humvee.

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