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(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.) | The website is dead and there is no content on it. | contradiction |
The vote was 295-136--better than a two-thirds majority--which means that opponents of the ban must once again depend on the Senate to sustain a presidential veto. | The President has too much power with the Presidential veto. | neutral |
The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance. | nagging for these calls of awards are simply too much. | entailment |
Based on a review of the trajectory charts in The Physics of Baseball and Keep Your Eye on the The Science and Folklore of Baseball , conversations with University of Puget Sound physicist Andrew Rex, and correspondence with aerospace engineer and baseball researcher Roger Hawks, I determined that the McGwire home run would have traveled about 474 feet. | Physics is important to understanding baseball. | entailment |
And the editor heard Jacob's plea. | Jacob plead with the editor. | entailment |
For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents. | Pooh would have been forgotten if not for the invention of movies and television. | neutral |
How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice? | Sun Ra didn't think sacrifices were appropriate under any circumstances. | contradiction |
How do you know if your daughter is on steroids? | There is a good chance my daughter is taking steroids. | neutral |
Rumors of Albright's Jewish background have been circulated ever since she was appointed United Nations ambassador in 1993. | you have to undergo rigorous testing to become a UN Ambassador. | neutral |
One of the few remaining ways to obtain a coveted downward departure--a sentence below the official range--is through cooperation with the government . In Lewinsky's case, lawyer Ginsburg, rather than turning state's evidence after indictment, is asking for immunity--a guarantee that his client will never face charges at all. | Cooperating with the government will result in a lowered sentence for the crime. | neutral |
It means that you're the seventh or eighth on the call list to be lied to, instead of the 25 th . | The call list structure guaranteed that only truthful statement could be passed quickly. | contradiction |
Living poets will continue to be eligible as well. | Poets who are alive are eligible. | entailment |
All these numbers may be climbing, but they remain low. | Several numbers are in decline. | contradiction |
Or maybe what's new about the rules is the claim that now, for the first time, they apply to a large part of the economy. | The new rules possibly apply to the larger part of the economy. | entailment |
It forces us to justify doing otherwise. | We can't be forced to justify anything. | contradiction |
The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture. | Every scene was painful to watch. | contradiction |
And by following up his serious accusation (i.e. | He accused the woman. | neutral |
One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill. | the wiring used by the veep is very cheap. | neutral |
Heston has all the physical equipment--brain, voice, good looks--but not the hunger. | In spite of their many gifts, Heston lacks ambition. | entailment |
For example, the engineers of the battalion exposed to sarin showed no higher illness rates than others. | The battalion was completely safe and not exposed to anything | contradiction |
But these individual successes can't disguise the very curious reality that we're living in a world that is somehow saturated by the media without actually paying all that much attention to it. | The world we are living in has no media. | contradiction |
It seems like only yesterday that Gen. | This occurred so long ago that it's hard to remember. | contradiction |
In the first Tikkun guide, Reed edges out Bard for the top spot, for what it's worth, as any hierarchy is by nature counterharmonious. | Hierarchies are a superior format for the construction of groups because of their counterharmonious nature. | neutral |
(The magazine revised its methodology to reward high spending on instruction.) | Making methodological changes shows how previous methodologies were flawed. | neutral |
The other piece on the recording, the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op. | The recording contains at least two pieces. | entailment |
Long ignored by snake experts, the skeleton shares many physical characteristics with that of snakes, including its 140 vertebrae and its extraordinarily flexible jaws. | The Skeleton has 1000 vertebrae. | contradiction |
For the remaining puzzle is why the world provided LTCM with so much money to lose. | LTCM lost some of the money, but was able to recoup their losses over time. | neutral |
In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven. | The song No Depression in Heaven was received poorly by critics. | neutral |
Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude. | They are wonderful people with no problems. | contradiction |
It's agreeable to find him grounded in the here and now--the magic is there but below the surface. | Magic is all around. | neutral |
Time 's cover story explains how popular serotonin-boosting drugs (such as diet pills Redux and fen-phen) work, and how they can be health risks (high serotonin levels damage heart valves). | Time decided to feature the drugs in the cover story because the author was pressured by friends who had taken the drugs. | neutral |
The Air Force says the case was less about adultery and more about Flinn's subsequent lying and cover-up. | Flinn lied in order to protect their commanding officer. | neutral |
Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier. | Technology has allowed investment banks to offer more products to their clients. | entailment |
That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt. | He definitely made the protective umbrella of tolerance too small. | contradiction |
It's an odd maxim for a man whose work is dedicated to the idea that the way to amass wealth is to take it, not create it. | Wealth can neither be created nor taken. | contradiction |
How wide a jail cell has to be before it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. | Cruel and unusual punishment is not considered when jailing criminals. | contradiction |
Newsweek 's cover Home schooling--it's not just for zealots anymore! | Newsweek thinks home schooling is only for zealots. | contradiction |
The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous. | Volunteers can be unknowingly victims of the unscrupulous. | entailment |
But the interesting question is about sites sharing data. | The author finds the data sharing between sites to be intriguing on some level. | entailment |
I assume that the whole thing was being broadcast, although I came in at the beginning of the last act. | I expected the entire thing to be circulated, however I only caught the beginning of the end. | entailment |
Murder episodes are almost always one hour in length. | The few episodes that are longer than one hour are usually the best ones. | neutral |
But the big news in Ireland is the peace negotiations between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. | Ireland and Britain serve their citizens well. | neutral |
The great historical novels are always about contemporary consciousness. | Consciousness is a topic in historical books. | entailment |
Tobacco growers managed to avoid that fate last year. | There are people who grow tobacco yearly. | entailment |
(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs. | There are multiple rounds of the SATs. | entailment |
If increasing democratization is the test for access to the international-trading system, China has flunked. | In order to facilitate international trading, China has become increasingly democratic. | contradiction |
The man has the intellectual honesty of a hired gun. | All men have great intellectual honesty. | contradiction |
. The reason Jews have an injunction against portraying God is that Neanderthals cannot draw. | Jewish people believe in God. | 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 addresses diversity of beneficiaries. | entailment |
It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal. | Carter plays only acoustic instruments. | contradiction |
In a curious bit of marketing, the offer of $10 off on Mother's Day flowers doesn't expire until July 31. | The discount on Mother's Day flowers will work throughout July. | entailment |
But if you want to create our very own Quebec, go ahead and pass an official English law. | The author's intent is to discuss the rising use of the Spanish language in Quebec. | contradiction |
We won't be making extravagant claims for the Internet anymore, but will accept that it's just a tool--sometimes extremely useful, sometimes not. | They don't believe the internet has ever been useful. | contradiction |
and that the Shopping Avenger would hear about this treatment and seek vengeance. | The Shopping Avenger went to jail over their vengeance. | neutral |
I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home past dark, tires wailing,I howled with every song on the radio,screamed some teen-age stranger's stupid words,shrieked somebody else's rage, somebody's lovetill I could bear my own voice, and its silence. | I wanted noise to be everywhere I go I do not want silence, I want noise. | contradiction |
But society awaits a popular novelist who is a writer in full--one with Wolfe's eye and a heart to go with it. | People are waiting for popular writers of literature. | entailment |
These groups give workers a selection of plans and reduce paperwork hassles for employers. | Workers are happy with the selection of plans. | neutral |
Some evidence from public records is suggestive. | There's evidence in the public records that has value. | entailment |
Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in. | NATO was a major part of the plan. | neutral |
In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss. | Boris Yeltsin viewed Primakov as his political nemesis. | neutral |
And I'll say If all the nations of the world got along as well as do the bagel and mango on my breakfast table every morning, that would be an impressive amount of along-getting. | I never eat breakfast and have a large lunch instead. | contradiction |
Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark, says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet. | Bakis has high standards. | neutral |
He Moves in Mysterious Proving himself as adept with a parable as with a football, Rep. | A man has both sports and literary talent. | entailment |
The version of Linux that comes in Mastering Linux offers no technical assistance, but Red Hat's version 5.2, which costs $39. | You would have to pay in order to get Red Hat's version 5.2 | entailment |
Sante Kimes, about her odd child-rearing techniques. | Sante Kimes raised her child in a conventional manner. | contradiction |
She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being. | She likes the writings of MacDonald. | contradiction |
That was back when the Bushes were still trying to woo me over from the Dark Side. | The bushes succeeded in bringing me to the Dark Side. | neutral |
But if smoking is addictive, then it makes sense to try to keep tobacco out of the hands of kids who are too young to take the warnings seriously. | Tobacco products are expensive. | neutral |
He has made his pre-testimony-leaks-don't-apply argument in sealed court papers and also has publicly denied believing anything so foolish, Brill points out. | Some court papers are not able to be seen by the general public. | entailment |
The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals. | The show airs on Saturday night. | neutral |
He is unpopular in the Senate. | He's very popular in the Senate. | contradiction |
Asahi Shimbun also reported that the Japanese National Personnel Authority is drawing up regulations to try to stamp out sexual harassment based on a new report defining what kind of behavior is inappropriate. | Reports also indicate that the Personnel Authority will establish new commissions. | neutral |
That I don't want it to end. | I want it to last. | entailment |
If partial-birth abortion is too gruesome to allow, however, it is hard to see how other late abortions, especially D and Es, are any different. | abortion is actually safer than birth when performed properly. | neutral |
Nebraska, of course, gets a '5. | When scored, Nebraska received a 5. | entailment |
(Click here for a summary of the experiment.) | A summary for the experiment is available. | entailment |
Capital Legislator Want More Facts on Daylight Savings Time from Mexico's News . A close second is Why Farm Sheep at All? | Capital Legislator wants to know more facts about daylight savings time. | entailment |
To refrain from purchasing one would insult the working class and dishonor the labor of our fathers' fathers! | Purchase of this product is an insult to the working class. | contradiction |
(She'd better get cracking.) | She can relax and unwind for the time being. | contradiction |
The first day after the Democratic primary, Schumer unleashed Too many lies for too long ads. | The ads were too long. | neutral |
In the column he wrote the day after Harold Washington became the first black person elected mayor of Chicago, Royko began with one of his inimitable openings, So I told Uncle Don't worry, Harold Washington doesn't want to marry your sister. | Harold Washington was loved by his constituents. | neutral |
How do you forbid the kids to practice what you, er, practice? | Kids never act out. | contradiction |
It is a great-looking book despite its shortcomings, and there is a lot of good information in it. | The book's subject is European history. | neutral |
On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley. | Wolf Blitzer has a story about todays pollings where Bush voters may switch to McCain. | entailment |
Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia. | There is going to be a lot of rain that is going to fall. | neutral |
Shouldn't the permission to widen have preceded the wire, which was in fact the widening? | The wire is currently 14 AWG. | neutral |
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. | Diem did not die from natural causes. | entailment |
Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover. | Ledeen thinks Grover should be attacked for his views. | contradiction |
Conde Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists, writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines. | Conde Nast has also created a class of serial killers. | contradiction |
That is labor's real job, the very core purpose of a union. | Labor's real job is the purpose of a union. | entailment |
I bet that what Carrey saw from inside Kaufman's head would be more illuminating than anything in the movie. | Each character in the movie had a different perspective viewing inside Kaufman's head. | entailment |
But don't expect them for a few decades. | They just became available. | contradiction |
My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer. | I might be Peter Maass, the writer. | entailment |
Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy. | This is the second essay on the same topic to come out this month. | neutral |
He's making himself a positive role model for kids and displaying the leadership for which the American people are hungering. | There is no need for leadership for the people inside of the United States. | contradiction |
(Next week : The mysterious motives of Hitler's would-be assassin.) | The assassin was paid handsomely in order to kill Hitler. | neutral |
In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks. | There is always a desire to rise from the working-class to First Class. | neutral |
Finkelstein is not breaking new ground here. | Finkelstein was rehashing an idea that was previously brought up. | entailment |
to know this, how much I want to ask again why I must, with such perfect, detailed precision, | It is a question about politics. | neutral |
A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars. | An ad for a Lexus is clearly targeted at poor people who like junk cars. | contradiction |
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