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TP had to read yesterday's WP twice before noticing that key members of the Post editorial staff are apparently suffering the cerebral ill effects of too much exposure to brightly colored polyester.	The Post staff suffered ill effects due to exposure of brightly colored polyester.	entailment
As developers kill the bugs, they incorporate the solutions into a daily build of the program and test the build to make certain the solutions don't cause additional bugs.	Regarding bugs, developers try to nip them at the bud in an ongoing endeavor.	entailment
That, in turn, might cause a peaceful transition from communism.	The nation, which is examining other countries' methods to success, is quickly realizing that communism is not the ideal form of government.	neutral
When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.	She sometimes took a boat instead for her commute.	neutral
To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy.	KYCâ€™s financial privacy is secure.	contradiction
It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.	Men disinclined to violence are killing others.	contradiction
Anyway, what would be the point?	Tell me what would be the point?	entailment
To be sure, the Army's program insists, though more vaguely than people admit, that affirmative-action beneficiaries must meet the same minimum qualifications as their white counterparts.	The Army's program states clearly that that affirmative-action beneficiaries have different qualifications requirements than their white counterparts.	contradiction
This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years.	God's favor marks fake old pagan deities.	contradiction
U.S. law does not require the president to request congressional support before supporting a WTO bid.	U.S. law requires presidents to get support from Congress before a TWO bid is supported.	contradiction
He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.	The position of this person against the tobacco gradually changed over time	entailment
Not until that supremely attractive female butt crossed my radar in Nordstrom did I start to feel better.	The butt cured my depression.	neutral
By these criteria Kinsey fares well.	We only consider certain criteria to determine how a person is doing.	neutral
But given the global supply glut--the U.S. government seized about a ton of heroin in 1995, compared with worldwide heroin production of 400 tons--many experts question whether interdiction has any effect on street prices.	The US government seized a vast majority of all heroin produced.	contradiction
Persistent welfare cases don't get jobs because of mental illness, substance abuse, transportation obstacles, child-care difficulties, and simple lack of interest.	With increased governmental assistance and new laws, most welfare cases can be eliminated.	neutral
I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.	The book lacks a final chapter.	contradiction
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.	The author agrees with the idea of children addressing adults in a mature manner.	entailment
In all conquered regions, the Taliban has immediately implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law.	The Taliban interrupts the Quran word for word.	contradiction
Microsoft has used the image of its competitors' political influence to portray its own lobbying as self-defense.	Microsoft's competitors are doing the same thing.	neutral
After sampling more than 35 different toothpastes, my researchers and I came to some conclusions about taste.	A conclusion was made about the tastes of toothpastes.	entailment
One deterrent to food-stamp use, remember, is the Checkout-Line Factor--people tend to look at you funny when you whip out your food-stamp card to buy your groceries.	A deterrent to food-stamp use is people buying your groceries.	contradiction
Since, as the papers point out, the federal program allows monitorees to go to and from work, look for Kim to be inundated with arduous meetings from early morning till late at night.	The federal program allow monitored folks to work.	entailment
That assumption may or may not be correct.	The assumption doesn't have a clear answer.	entailment
It is impressive that such a warm and amiable fellow--and he was--could be so profoundly wrong at least twice.	The man was liked by everyone that met him.	neutral
I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.	Michael Kinsley's new article is fantastic.	contradiction
A piece reports on a new treat for yogurt in a tube.	A piece reports about tube ice cream.	contradiction
Imagine a law school class with 100 places.	While a hundred students may fit inside a classroom, the funding of 100 chairs is no easy task.	neutral
While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes.	Congress members considered impeaching Nixon.	neutral
It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.	The director wanted the movie to receive bad reviews.	neutral
But he's more comfortable behind the scenes	Working behind the scenes allows him more creative freedom.	neutral
President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.	President Clinton was lying about the memories of the black churches burning as a child.	neutral
Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.	Hersh's information is unable to be proved or disproved.	entailment
Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.	The Globe believes discussing the deceased will help loved ones move on.	entailment
The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.	Twenty-five percent of adult Americans smoke regularly according to polls.	entailment
Since, as the papers point out, the federal program allows monitorees to go to and from work, look for Kim to be inundated with arduous meetings from early morning till late at night.	Kim will have many long meetings at all hours.	neutral
I believe that your hearts will go on.	The continuation of your hearts is something I believe in.	entailment
Clinton was 36 at the time of his alleged affair with the 21-year-old Ward.	Clinton allegedly had an affair with many young women.	neutral
In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States.	Der Spiegel, which was a German magazine, told everyone of unpublished films in the United States.	entailment
Can I, should I, even, expect her to change?	The author is pretty sure she will change.	contradiction
(Or to comment on his current incompetence--it's an open secret on the Hill that Thurmond has lost it.	Some on the Hill have not heard that Thurmond lost it.	neutral
The House Judiciary Committee is making plans to hire 18 new lawyers for a possible impeachment inquiry.	There is a committee called the House Judiciary that discusses impeachment inquiries.	entailment
Bombing the crap out of Third World countries and aspirin factories when you need a quick pick-me-up at the polls.	Bombarding poor countries and manufacturers of acetylsalicylic acid is helpful at the polls.	entailment
Here's a quick review of possible objections, left and	The list provided contains all the points of agreement.	contradiction
The official Bush campaign, of course, kept its distance from such efforts, and claimed to use Horton only in race-neutral ways.	The Bush campaign used Horton in their race.	entailment
Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.	The author says smoking is bad okay.	contradiction
And Rupert Murdoch ( of Fox TV ) recently bid an estimated $350 million for the Los Angeles Dodgers and their stadium.	Rupert Murdoch has a lot of money.	entailment
Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty, is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is to write of the light's bounty on familiar things.	Walcott is the creative mind behind The Bounty.	neutral
What the press can do is cover leaking more aggressively.	The press is immune from leaking	contradiction
Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a	This reminds me of Boswell's 18th century description of the hypochodriack.	entailment
Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.	The Red Army Chorus is frequently panned by music critics.	neutral
You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc.	Since this is an outdated program, what you see is what you get and unfortunately you're going to have to work without the details.	contradiction
Will her job description be done by then?	She doesn't have to worry at all about the job description	contradiction
The Other Side of the Rainbow	There are people on one side of the rainbow.	neutral
He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them.	He would be annoyed if the flowers stayed in bloom any longer.	neutral
The critics I spoke to, however, offered credible arguments.	The critics were untrustworthy in their assessments.	contradiction
They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted.	He will not be prosecuted.	neutral
Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British.	David Plotz thinks Winnie-the-Pooh is American or British.	entailment
Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.	The fall of the Berlin Wall was commemorated by Germany, for the 10th time.	entailment
The political culture of nationalism reserved its approval for those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, Ajami writes.	Ajami is interested in politics	entailment
But if you do, may you be blessed with the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of a defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- It was nobody's fault.	The wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ways of the snake are what you may be blessed with.	neutral
According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.	Lewinsky has nothing to do with the president.	contradiction
First, we don't know that Maxwell would have found another Without Joan, he might have struck out that night.	We can be certain that Maxwell will find one, with or without Joan.	contradiction
That possibility has to do with the rapid-fire e-mail exchange format of Slate 's Book Club in which it appeared.	Slate's book club utilizes a fast e-mail format.	entailment
So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself.	The curse is responsible for extravagant shares prices of different companies.	neutral
In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.	Nathen lane's favorite character to play was Timon, a character invented by the old company Disney.	neutral
By my calculations, it probably went about 479 feet.	My calculations tell me that it went to 479 feet.	entailment
There's a returning kids-on-milk-cartons sense of hysteria to the whole crusade.	Missing kids pictures on a container causes panic.	entailment
I am puzzled about what to say on the subject of my religion.	My religion is very straight forward and accepted by everyone.	contradiction
He is, as one writer put it, the efficient ethnic cleanser.	One write thinks of him as efficient.	entailment
Does this mean that unpopular individual rights are in peril?	Unpopular individual rights could be at stake.	entailment
Last week we purged our delivery lists of people who hadn't subscribed.	The delivery lists, once created, can never be modified.	contradiction
The only people in Greenville who support the Southern Connector are the highway contractors who will benefit financially from the project.	The beneficiaries are the only ones who support the highway they will build and maintain.	entailment
I went to high school with Fred Fournier, and believe me there's nothing to admire.	They didn't admire Fred Fournier when they went to high school with him.	entailment
Through diagrams and interviews with physicists, the story describes how separate universes could break away from ours (a bit like a soap bubble dividing in two).	There is only one universe.	contradiction
But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both order and the west.	The Wild Bunch is a kid-friendly classic, fun for all the family!	contradiction
Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest.	Ginsburg doesn't like working with their client.	neutral
For one thing, it's relentless--80,000 houses.	The 80000 houses are relentless.	entailment
Let me send it back over to you to address some of them.	All are ready to be mailed.	contradiction
He retaliated by filing one against her.	The man decided to do nothing to her.	contradiction
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.	People are going to come up with new shocking words to add to current offensive language.	neutral
Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile.	He later postulated the existence of a fifth humor that was also involved.	neutral
But I think he misses an important Though the conflict may not reveal a previously hidden incentive (as in 2), it may create one.	It may create a kind of incentive for others.	entailment
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues.	The play was eventually signed on to Broadway.	neutral
Murder episodes are almost always one hour in length.	Crime episodes always last one day	contradiction
Some evidence from public records is suggestive.	Some of the evidence cannot be used.	neutral
None associated the pig with its traditional attributes, dirty or foul smelling.	Traditional attributes of a pig are dirty and foul-smelling.	entailment
Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so.	Shuman wrote more about Dynamics than on any other topic	neutral
sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, Kids, a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father).	Bye Bye Birdie is about elderly adults.	contradiction
As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did.	The deal looked fabulous initially.	neutral
The online Times offers a daily Whitewater, Etc. update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago.	Recorded Whitewater footage from two decades ago is being covered on the Times.	contradiction
Standard Medicare coverage pays only 80 percent of doctor and hospital bills and nothing for drugs.	Certain medical procedures are not cover under Medicare.	neutral
We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.	We remember the Marshall Plan today because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech, as well as because of the bill that was created through President Truman.	contradiction
Vocation began here--the story of two frogs,	The story began with a lone elephant.	contradiction
During his father's primary campaign, George W. Bush watched Pat Buchanan go from 1992 to 1938, the heyday of Father Coughlin, dragging the Republican Party with him.	George W. Bush's father campaigned.	entailment
In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee.	Blumenthal of Connecticut has the much desired prize of covering the Microsoft case.	entailment
In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.	The Black Power movement prompted some European-Americans to dust off Old Country traditions.	entailment
If drugs do extend the lives of infected people for, say, decades--and I hope they do and that Sullivan is wrong about his own fate--I, too, would use the word cure.	Few believe that the drug is a cure and works on infected people.	entailment
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 is impatient and reckless with the limited resources that he has.	contradiction
The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.	The boycott was made with the intent of slandering Switzerland.	neutral
The new deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War).	President Bush knew by the end of the Gulf War that Saddam Hussein was a problem that may need to be addressed.	entailment

TP had to read yesterday's WP twice before noticing that key members of the Post editorial staff are apparently suffering the cerebral ill effects of too much exposure to brightly colored polyester.

The Post staff suffered ill effects due to exposure of brightly colored polyester.

entailment

As developers kill the bugs, they incorporate the solutions into a daily build of the program and test the build to make certain the solutions don't cause additional bugs.

Regarding bugs, developers try to nip them at the bud in an ongoing endeavor.

entailment

That, in turn, might cause a peaceful transition from communism.

The nation, which is examining other countries' methods to success, is quickly realizing that communism is not the ideal form of government.

neutral

When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.

She sometimes took a boat instead for her commute.

neutral

To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy.

KYCâ€™s financial privacy is secure.

contradiction

It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.

Men disinclined to violence are killing others.

contradiction

Anyway, what would be the point?

Tell me what would be the point?

entailment

To be sure, the Army's program insists, though more vaguely than people admit, that affirmative-action beneficiaries must meet the same minimum qualifications as their white counterparts.

The Army's program states clearly that that affirmative-action beneficiaries have different qualifications requirements than their white counterparts.

contradiction

This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years.

God's favor marks fake old pagan deities.

contradiction

U.S. law does not require the president to request congressional support before supporting a WTO bid.

U.S. law requires presidents to get support from Congress before a TWO bid is supported.

contradiction

He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.

The position of this person against the tobacco gradually changed over time

entailment

Not until that supremely attractive female butt crossed my radar in Nordstrom did I start to feel better.

The butt cured my depression.

neutral

By these criteria Kinsey fares well.

We only consider certain criteria to determine how a person is doing.

neutral

But given the global supply glut--the U.S. government seized about a ton of heroin in 1995, compared with worldwide heroin production of 400 tons--many experts question whether interdiction has any effect on street prices.

The US government seized a vast majority of all heroin produced.

contradiction

Persistent welfare cases don't get jobs because of mental illness, substance abuse, transportation obstacles, child-care difficulties, and simple lack of interest.

With increased governmental assistance and new laws, most welfare cases can be eliminated.

neutral

I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.

The book lacks a final chapter.

contradiction

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.

The author agrees with the idea of children addressing adults in a mature manner.

entailment

In all conquered regions, the Taliban has immediately implemented its own interpretation of Islamic law.

The Taliban interrupts the Quran word for word.

contradiction

Microsoft has used the image of its competitors' political influence to portray its own lobbying as self-defense.

Microsoft's competitors are doing the same thing.

neutral

After sampling more than 35 different toothpastes, my researchers and I came to some conclusions about taste.

A conclusion was made about the tastes of toothpastes.

entailment

One deterrent to food-stamp use, remember, is the Checkout-Line Factor--people tend to look at you funny when you whip out your food-stamp card to buy your groceries.

A deterrent to food-stamp use is people buying your groceries.

contradiction

Since, as the papers point out, the federal program allows monitorees to go to and from work, look for Kim to be inundated with arduous meetings from early morning till late at night.

The federal program allow monitored folks to work.

entailment

That assumption may or may not be correct.

The assumption doesn't have a clear answer.

entailment

It is impressive that such a warm and amiable fellow--and he was--could be so profoundly wrong at least twice.

The man was liked by everyone that met him.

neutral

I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game.

Michael Kinsley's new article is fantastic.

contradiction

A piece reports on a new treat for yogurt in a tube.

A piece reports about tube ice cream.

contradiction

Imagine a law school class with 100 places.

While a hundred students may fit inside a classroom, the funding of 100 chairs is no easy task.

neutral

While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes.

Congress members considered impeaching Nixon.

neutral

It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.

The director wanted the movie to receive bad reviews.

neutral

But he's more comfortable behind the scenes

Working behind the scenes allows him more creative freedom.

neutral

President Clinton, who never did get his draft story straight, said in a radio address last year that a wave of black church burnings brought back vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.

President Clinton was lying about the memories of the black churches burning as a child.

neutral

Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable.

Hersh's information is unable to be proved or disproved.

entailment

Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.

The Globe believes discussing the deceased will help loved ones move on.

entailment

The Commentariat Would Like a Nonsmoking Table, Most polls agree that a quarter of the American adult population smokes regularly.

Twenty-five percent of adult Americans smoke regularly according to polls.

entailment

Since, as the papers point out, the federal program allows monitorees to go to and from work, look for Kim to be inundated with arduous meetings from early morning till late at night.

Kim will have many long meetings at all hours.

neutral

I believe that your hearts will go on.

The continuation of your hearts is something I believe in.

entailment

Clinton was 36 at the time of his alleged affair with the 21-year-old Ward.

Clinton allegedly had an affair with many young women.

neutral

In Germany, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel revealed that unpublished films of Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the United States.

Der Spiegel, which was a German magazine, told everyone of unpublished films in the United States.

entailment

Can I, should I, even, expect her to change?

The author is pretty sure she will change.

contradiction

(Or to comment on his current incompetence--it's an open secret on the Hill that Thurmond has lost it.

Some on the Hill have not heard that Thurmond lost it.

neutral

The House Judiciary Committee is making plans to hire 18 new lawyers for a possible impeachment inquiry.

There is a committee called the House Judiciary that discusses impeachment inquiries.

entailment

Bombing the crap out of Third World countries and aspirin factories when you need a quick pick-me-up at the polls.

Bombarding poor countries and manufacturers of acetylsalicylic acid is helpful at the polls.

entailment

Here's a quick review of possible objections, left and

The list provided contains all the points of agreement.

contradiction

The official Bush campaign, of course, kept its distance from such efforts, and claimed to use Horton only in race-neutral ways.

The Bush campaign used Horton in their race.

entailment

Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.

The author says smoking is bad okay.

contradiction

And Rupert Murdoch ( of Fox TV ) recently bid an estimated $350 million for the Los Angeles Dodgers and their stadium.

Rupert Murdoch has a lot of money.

entailment

Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty, is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is to write of the light's bounty on familiar things.

Walcott is the creative mind behind The Bounty.

neutral

What the press can do is cover leaking more aggressively.

The press is immune from leaking

contradiction

Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a

This reminds me of Boswell's 18th century description of the hypochodriack.

entailment

Today, alas, what comes to mind is a couple of bad baritones from the Red Army Chorus, drunk on antifreeze, trying to convince some Iraqi guy that their music stands are made of plutonium and worth a few bucks.

The Red Army Chorus is frequently panned by music critics.

neutral

You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc.

Since this is an outdated program, what you see is what you get and unfortunately you're going to have to work without the details.

contradiction

Will her job description be done by then?

She doesn't have to worry at all about the job description

contradiction

The Other Side of the Rainbow

There are people on one side of the rainbow.

neutral

He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them.

He would be annoyed if the flowers stayed in bloom any longer.

neutral

The critics I spoke to, however, offered credible arguments.

The critics were untrustworthy in their assessments.

contradiction

They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted.

He will not be prosecuted.

neutral

Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British.

David Plotz thinks Winnie-the-Pooh is American or British.

entailment

Germany celebrated the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was commemorated by Germany, for the 10th time.

entailment

The political culture of nationalism reserved its approval for those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, Ajami writes.

Ajami is interested in politics

entailment

But if you do, may you be blessed with the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of a defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- It was nobody's fault.

The wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ways of the snake are what you may be blessed with.

neutral

According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.

Lewinsky has nothing to do with the president.

contradiction

First, we don't know that Maxwell would have found another Without Joan, he might have struck out that night.

We can be certain that Maxwell will find one, with or without Joan.

contradiction

That possibility has to do with the rapid-fire e-mail exchange format of Slate 's Book Club in which it appeared.

Slate's book club utilizes a fast e-mail format.

entailment

So the winner's curse can't explain the extravagant price of shares in eBay itself.

The curse is responsible for extravagant shares prices of different companies.

neutral

In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.

Nathen lane's favorite character to play was Timon, a character invented by the old company Disney.

neutral

By my calculations, it probably went about 479 feet.

My calculations tell me that it went to 479 feet.

entailment

There's a returning kids-on-milk-cartons sense of hysteria to the whole crusade.

Missing kids pictures on a container causes panic.

entailment

I am puzzled about what to say on the subject of my religion.

My religion is very straight forward and accepted by everyone.

contradiction

He is, as one writer put it, the efficient ethnic cleanser.

One write thinks of him as efficient.

entailment

Does this mean that unpopular individual rights are in peril?

Unpopular individual rights could be at stake.

entailment

Last week we purged our delivery lists of people who hadn't subscribed.

The delivery lists, once created, can never be modified.

contradiction

The only people in Greenville who support the Southern Connector are the highway contractors who will benefit financially from the project.

The beneficiaries are the only ones who support the highway they will build and maintain.

entailment

I went to high school with Fred Fournier, and believe me there's nothing to admire.

They didn't admire Fred Fournier when they went to high school with him.

entailment

Through diagrams and interviews with physicists, the story describes how separate universes could break away from ours (a bit like a soap bubble dividing in two).

There is only one universe.

contradiction

But Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) features existentially disillusioned outlaws going out in a montage of bloody chaos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is an outlaw buddy film, and Dances With Wolves (1990) attempts to revise entirely the concepts of both order and the west.

The Wild Bunch is a kid-friendly classic, fun for all the family!

contradiction

Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest.

Ginsburg doesn't like working with their client.

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For one thing, it's relentless--80,000 houses.

The 80000 houses are relentless.

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Let me send it back over to you to address some of them.

All are ready to be mailed.

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He retaliated by filing one against her.

The man decided to do nothing to her.

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But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.

People are going to come up with new shocking words to add to current offensive language.

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Hippocrates believed the answer was in the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors--blood, black bile, phlegm, and yellow bile.

He later postulated the existence of a fifth humor that was also involved.

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But I think he misses an important Though the conflict may not reveal a previously hidden incentive (as in 2), it may create one.

It may create a kind of incentive for others.

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But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues.

The play was eventually signed on to Broadway.

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Murder episodes are almost always one hour in length.

Crime episodes always last one day

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Some evidence from public records is suggestive.

Some of the evidence cannot be used.

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None associated the pig with its traditional attributes, dirty or foul smelling.

Traditional attributes of a pig are dirty and foul-smelling.

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Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so.

Shuman wrote more about Dynamics than on any other topic

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sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, Kids, a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father).

Bye Bye Birdie is about elderly adults.

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As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did.

The deal looked fabulous initially.

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The online Times offers a daily Whitewater, Etc. update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago.

Recorded Whitewater footage from two decades ago is being covered on the Times.

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Standard Medicare coverage pays only 80 percent of doctor and hospital bills and nothing for drugs.

Certain medical procedures are not cover under Medicare.

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We remember the Marshall Plan today not because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech (he didn't) or because President Truman maneuvered the bill creating the staff and bureaucracy of the European Recovery Administration through Congress.

We remember the Marshall Plan today because Secretary of State George Marshall gave a great speech, as well as because of the bill that was created through President Truman.

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Vocation began here--the story of two frogs,

The story began with a lone elephant.

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During his father's primary campaign, George W. Bush watched Pat Buchanan go from 1992 to 1938, the heyday of Father Coughlin, dragging the Republican Party with him.

George W. Bush's father campaigned.

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In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee.

Blumenthal of Connecticut has the much desired prize of covering the Microsoft case.

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In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.

The Black Power movement prompted some European-Americans to dust off Old Country traditions.

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If drugs do extend the lives of infected people for, say, decades--and I hope they do and that Sullivan is wrong about his own fate--I, too, would use the word cure.

Few believe that the drug is a cure and works on infected people.

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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 is impatient and reckless with the limited resources that he has.

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The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.

The boycott was made with the intent of slandering Switzerland.

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The new deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War).

President Bush knew by the end of the Gulf War that Saddam Hussein was a problem that may need to be addressed.

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