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Paul shrinks from this view.	From this vantage point, Paul appears larger.	contradiction
This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today.	Mainstream feminists show a lack of resentment today.	contradiction
Could it be that the claims of Christ make him uncomfortable?	The author sees no relation to Christ.	contradiction
Bennett is right to the extent that there's no excuse for telling falsehoods in the course of raising otherwise legitimate issues.	Bennett is known for lying, even when addressing legitimate problems.	contradiction
Once you get your adolescent to endorse this idea (and to forget that Juliet was just 14), you've won.	Kids knowing that Juliet is 14 is a requirement for you to win.	contradiction
Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.	There is evidence that some lfie forms exist on other planets.	entailment
I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.	A girl was taking off her clothes in someone else's bedroom.	entailment
The play recounts Wilde's downfall, says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns, with the inevitability and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy.	David Patrick Stearns has never spoken on behalf of USA today before.	contradiction
The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.	The americans will not pay and cause the organization to close.	neutral
You have definitely identified a problem for the '90s.	At least one person recognized a '90s issue.	entailment
(All gynaecologists are idealists.	All gynaecologists are realists.	contradiction
Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting.	Sports like boxing, wrestling, or ultimate fighting is seen as barbaric.	entailment
He says, Who are these people?	Someone is confronted by strangers.	entailment
But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant.	Yeltsin's appointees were highly effective in carrying out their assignments.	neutral
At the beginning of the novel the heroine, Elizabeth Shulman, feels so at home in her Jewish skin that God and the scriptures, worship and ritual, are all simple, practical things for her.	No matter what she tried, Elizabeth Shulman could not accustom herself to Jewish religious practices.	contradiction
If the critics were interested in remedying the lotteries, they'd have the states repeal their monopolies on these games and let the market compete away the excess profits.	State lotteries are a monopoly.	neutral
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.	We want Milosevic to pull his troops.	entailment
During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y.	The diaper Molinari changed on Suby was from Pampers.	neutral
Her recognition of the grave personal injustice done by the left to Clarence Thomas is especially appreciated.	Clarence Thomas was put in an unjust situation by the left.	entailment
How come you give George a pass?	Yesterday, George upset his friends with his brash attitude.	neutral
What those dumb hicks really lack is the wherewithal for a fine university education that will lead to a job in the go-go tech sector.	Ninety percent of those dumb hicks wouldn't have the money for a fine university even if they were smart enough to be accepted into one.	neutral
That much his memoir gets right.	His memoir was criticized for getting everything wrong.	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 cannot be used to reduce one's taxation level.	contradiction
Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.	One of the patients when waking up, felt like something had been taken out of them during the surgery.	neutral
Internet service is a You can be reasonably sure, but no more, that you can send your data to another Internet user pretty quickly.	The Internet has been used to send data from one person to another.	entailment
We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup.	Jack Ludwig was crucial to Gallup.	neutral
But 49ers fans will always love Joe Montana more.	Joe Montana will always be loved more by 49ers fans.	entailment
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).	The cover story by Time explains how these popular serotonin-boosting drugs pose no harm to your health.	contradiction
Here again, Artaud's ferocity, anguish, and hallucinatory paranoia are matched and joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.	Artaud is taking medications.	neutral
The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue.	Elder Korbels came from a small village near the Czech/German border where Jews had decided not to assimilate at all, at odds with the locals.	contradiction
What's to gain?	There could be something of monetary value.	neutral
This December, it will happen Tens of thousands of children will hound their parents into buying charming Dalmatian pups for Christmas.	Christmas occurs during the month of December.	entailment
White Sox) and showcase the sport's stars in more cities, thereby boosting attendance and merchandise sales, which, in turn, will enable owners to satisfy players' skyrocketing salary demands.	Baseball players do not make enough money.	neutral
His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.	His friends believe that should this behavior continue, he should seek help.	neutral
(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue.	the Series this year was cut short.	neutral
The media's class bias protected Clinton from women like Jones and Gennifer Flowers--surely he couldn't be attracted to a woman who wasn't a Yale Law School graduate!	Clinton was protected because of media class bias.	entailment
You get to a hotel room in your travel-stained sweater, shirt, and pants, and drop all these down a chute.	This person booked a hotel room.	entailment
Moreover, the obits also recorded lots of violent and accidental deaths.	There were more violent deaths than accidental deaths.	neutral
When Kurlak cuts his rating on Intel, what matters is not that he's right or wrong about Intel's prospects but that his cut in the rating will drop the stock regardless.	Kurlak's actions will have no impact on Intel's stock.	contradiction
Newsweek excerpts a forthcoming biography of Tiger Woods.	Newsweek excerpts a biography of Tiger Woods, published nearly 10 years ago.	contradiction
Once flight capabilities are established and demonstrated in a motion picture, they must be used consistently and logically throughout, without regard to the convenience of the filmmakers.	Flight capability technology has been easily adapted and used by film directors.	contradiction
To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.	Data sampling is not important to large lexicographical enterprises.	contradiction
Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.	They are working together to make things okay.	entailment
Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.	Coretta was reliable in her low position.	entailment
Yet there is no good reason not to go with the 0.08 standard.	There are grounds to deviate from 0.08.	contradiction
Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.	The goal of the researchers is to get the regular tics to stop completely.	neutral
Remaining an enigma lets her retain the benefit of the doubt.	She gave away all the details and secrets.	contradiction
Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.	Colder weather results in delays to oil production and distribution.	neutral
USA Today 's modular layout and bold type anticipated the typical multidimensional Web page, almost inviting the finger to point and click, to follow Christine Royal through the process of her cosmetic surgery, to jump to the daily profiles of Olympic athletes, to explore the depths of the Bosnia power struggle.	The website also has a sports section.	neutral
Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.	The war was ended in part as a result of the actions of the Navy.	entailment
Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.	There is no greater expectation for the president then emerging from a national trauma.	contradiction
I've seen you around before, haven't I? What's your name again?	I thought I may have seen them before.	entailment
Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.	The film was a scat movie.	neutral
See for yourself, but I think the message most people would get from both sources is Drinking isn't all bad, but eschew it anyway.	The author argues that you look into the issue yourself.	entailment
In a 1970 study, teen-age boys were asked their preferences among paintings by two foreign painters.	Painting isn't practiced by people from other countries, it's an art form exclusive to our country.	contradiction
If she fails to respond, he said, the House will have no choice but to call for the vice president's impeachment.	Congress can call for the president's impeachment, but they don't have that same authority over the vice president.	contradiction
If you missed the link about the really big marriage penalty--the one created by the earned-income tax credit, click .	Everyone who is married will be effected by the penalty.	neutral
Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.	The two magazines rarely agree on political subjects, but they are aligned on this matter.	neutral
We've had to reach out to retirees, college students, and civic types, says O'Brien.	O'Brien felt it was necessary to reach out to people of different ages.	entailment
Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me.	This marketer also targets convenience stores.	neutral
You're sure to overdose, but that's the obsessive/compulsive thrill you're looking for, right?	The author thinks that you crave excitement.	entailment
At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people.	Elie Wiesel provided evidence in regards to her claims about blacks.	contradiction
How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice?	Sun Ra was known for commanding many sacrifices.	neutral
The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics.	The strategy is in place in order to promote HMOs.	contradiction
More Did Kaufman himself consider some of his experiments failures, or had his aesthetic finally become so punk/pro-wrestling that he thought driving people crazy was enough?	Eliciting a reaction from his audience was a significant component of Kaufman's performance art.	entailment
Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).	Bonnie Lu Nettles joined the cult in 1981.	contradiction
Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.	Reno wholeheartedly supported the policies privately and publicly.	contradiction
But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture.	Continental affection for Americana is grouped with a changing European culture.	entailment
He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications.	It was about ethics and morals, not the law.	contradiction
Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.	Viewers played no part in the show being canceled.	contradiction
How can you make the capital gains tax a litmus test issue but say that the slaughter of millions of innocent children is something about which you have only a mild preference and don't care much if people disagree?	The innocent children are mostly from Thailand.	neutral
(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)	Mother Teresa did not seem involved with animals.	contradiction
Slate 's Web site might be at the moment, and how clogged your local-area network might be.	Slate is not on the internet.	contradiction
It is part of a line of products intended to be usable by people with arthritis or hand injuries, as well as by those without disabilities.	It's one of the most powerful products in it's line.	neutral
Reviews of the latest one suggest the answer is yes.	This was the first one to be released.	contradiction
Lyndon Johnson and Lee Harvey Oswald, trying not to be seen together.	Oswald knew Johnson.	entailment
Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12.	If you average them all out my songs are about six minutes long.	neutral
Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.	In their free time, the president chooses to surf and play basketball.	neutral
But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.	Nothing he has ever said or done bears any relevance to W. H. Auden's dictum about poetry.	contradiction
We don't see him surprise the nation in 1964 with strong showings in the Maryland and Wisconsin Democratic primaries--states outside the Deep South where he wasn't expected to fare well.	Maryland voters really showed up for him.	contradiction
Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be interested in buying it and turning it into a West Coast version of the New York Post . A circulation-hungry Willes vs. the rapacious That's just the kind of fight the American newspaper industry needs.	If purchased by Murdoch, his influence may turn the paper into a facsimile of the New York Post.	entailment
Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.	The Muslim prophet is Jesus.	contradiction
The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others.	Politics, science, philosophy, art all drives one another.	neutral
(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.)	They could only have two judges.	contradiction
dull, provincial, and oddly prevalent on U.S. comedy shows.	It's not common on comedy shows.	contradiction
The word fundamentally in the previous paragraph carries a lot of weight, but it is important to think of what is fundamental.	Anything that has a time limit cannot be considered fundamental.	neutral
You could argue that Joe Avid is so hooked on Slate that we can afford to put him over a barrel at the micropayment rate, even though it means that he will pay a lot more.	A lot of people are addicted to Slate.	neutral
As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.	It is important that when teaching atrocities, we have somebody to blame for them.	neutral
I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.	Tom Daschle is being interviewed.	entailment
A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.	Regardless of human actions, there is nothing that can be done in regards to climate change.	neutral
American Justin Leonard's 45-foot birdie putt on the 17 th hole set off a celebration on the course before his European opponent finished playing.	A 45 foot birdie was the best score ever for that hole.	neutral
The more fantastic grow the evening gowns on the runway, the more uniform grows the garb of the crowds on the subway.	Evening gowns grow on the runway.	entailment
[w]hether they call themselves socialist or not.	No one identifies as a socialist.	contradiction
We want to see it again.	It was a great movie.	neutral
Misconception #3: Workfare workers shouldn't do work unionized city workers used to do.	The author believes that all unionized city workers should be replaced with Workfare counterparts.	contradiction
The Americans' one-point victory over the European team was the biggest comeback in the tournament's history.	The American team beat the European team by one-point.	entailment
Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy	Teens hate hypocrisy.	entailment
4) Who cares whether the judges are honest?	It is clear the judges are honest.	contradiction
Newsweek says Starr's post-Paula Jones case may be stronger than it looks, reporting that 1) Betty Currie spent four days in a hotel room with FBI agents working for Starr in the days after the Monica story broke and 2) Frank Carter (Lewinsky's first lawyer, who helped prepare her denial of a relationship with Clinton) may have to turn over documents and testify--a significant exception to attorney-client privilege.	Newsweek only report on sports.	contradiction
The effect of these stories from the nether regions of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been like crying wolf.	Stories are coming from the Right-Wing.	entailment

Paul shrinks from this view.

From this vantage point, Paul appears larger.

contradiction

This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today.

Mainstream feminists show a lack of resentment today.

contradiction

Could it be that the claims of Christ make him uncomfortable?

The author sees no relation to Christ.

contradiction

Bennett is right to the extent that there's no excuse for telling falsehoods in the course of raising otherwise legitimate issues.

Bennett is known for lying, even when addressing legitimate problems.

contradiction

Once you get your adolescent to endorse this idea (and to forget that Juliet was just 14), you've won.

Kids knowing that Juliet is 14 is a requirement for you to win.

contradiction

Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life.

There is evidence that some lfie forms exist on other planets.

entailment

I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.

A girl was taking off her clothes in someone else's bedroom.

entailment

The play recounts Wilde's downfall, says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns, with the inevitability and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy.

David Patrick Stearns has never spoken on behalf of USA today before.

contradiction

The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay.

The americans will not pay and cause the organization to close.

neutral

You have definitely identified a problem for the '90s.

At least one person recognized a '90s issue.

entailment

(All gynaecologists are idealists.

All gynaecologists are realists.

contradiction

Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting.

Sports like boxing, wrestling, or ultimate fighting is seen as barbaric.

entailment

He says, Who are these people?

Someone is confronted by strangers.

entailment

But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant.

Yeltsin's appointees were highly effective in carrying out their assignments.

neutral

At the beginning of the novel the heroine, Elizabeth Shulman, feels so at home in her Jewish skin that God and the scriptures, worship and ritual, are all simple, practical things for her.

No matter what she tried, Elizabeth Shulman could not accustom herself to Jewish religious practices.

contradiction

If the critics were interested in remedying the lotteries, they'd have the states repeal their monopolies on these games and let the market compete away the excess profits.

State lotteries are a monopoly.

neutral

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.

We want Milosevic to pull his troops.

entailment

During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y.

The diaper Molinari changed on Suby was from Pampers.

neutral

Her recognition of the grave personal injustice done by the left to Clarence Thomas is especially appreciated.

Clarence Thomas was put in an unjust situation by the left.

entailment

How come you give George a pass?

Yesterday, George upset his friends with his brash attitude.

neutral

What those dumb hicks really lack is the wherewithal for a fine university education that will lead to a job in the go-go tech sector.

Ninety percent of those dumb hicks wouldn't have the money for a fine university even if they were smart enough to be accepted into one.

neutral

That much his memoir gets right.

His memoir was criticized for getting everything wrong.

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 cannot be used to reduce one's taxation level.

contradiction

Researchers are performing placebo-controlled surgical trials in which they cut patients open and sew them back up without doing anything.

One of the patients when waking up, felt like something had been taken out of them during the surgery.

neutral

Internet service is a You can be reasonably sure, but no more, that you can send your data to another Internet user pretty quickly.

The Internet has been used to send data from one person to another.

entailment

We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup.

Jack Ludwig was crucial to Gallup.

neutral

But 49ers fans will always love Joe Montana more.

Joe Montana will always be loved more by 49ers fans.

entailment

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).

The cover story by Time explains how these popular serotonin-boosting drugs pose no harm to your health.

contradiction

Here again, Artaud's ferocity, anguish, and hallucinatory paranoia are matched and joined by his intelligence and paradoxical control.

Artaud is taking medications.

neutral

The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue.

Elder Korbels came from a small village near the Czech/German border where Jews had decided not to assimilate at all, at odds with the locals.

contradiction

What's to gain?

There could be something of monetary value.

neutral

This December, it will happen Tens of thousands of children will hound their parents into buying charming Dalmatian pups for Christmas.

Christmas occurs during the month of December.

entailment

White Sox) and showcase the sport's stars in more cities, thereby boosting attendance and merchandise sales, which, in turn, will enable owners to satisfy players' skyrocketing salary demands.

Baseball players do not make enough money.

neutral

His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.

His friends believe that should this behavior continue, he should seek help.

neutral

(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue.

the Series this year was cut short.

neutral

The media's class bias protected Clinton from women like Jones and Gennifer Flowers--surely he couldn't be attracted to a woman who wasn't a Yale Law School graduate!

Clinton was protected because of media class bias.

entailment

You get to a hotel room in your travel-stained sweater, shirt, and pants, and drop all these down a chute.

This person booked a hotel room.

entailment

Moreover, the obits also recorded lots of violent and accidental deaths.

There were more violent deaths than accidental deaths.

neutral

When Kurlak cuts his rating on Intel, what matters is not that he's right or wrong about Intel's prospects but that his cut in the rating will drop the stock regardless.

Kurlak's actions will have no impact on Intel's stock.

contradiction

Newsweek excerpts a forthcoming biography of Tiger Woods.

Newsweek excerpts a biography of Tiger Woods, published nearly 10 years ago.

contradiction

Once flight capabilities are established and demonstrated in a motion picture, they must be used consistently and logically throughout, without regard to the convenience of the filmmakers.

Flight capability technology has been easily adapted and used by film directors.

contradiction

To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.

Data sampling is not important to large lexicographical enterprises.

contradiction

Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.

They are working together to make things okay.

entailment

Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.

Coretta was reliable in her low position.

entailment

Yet there is no good reason not to go with the 0.08 standard.

There are grounds to deviate from 0.08.

contradiction

Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.

The goal of the researchers is to get the regular tics to stop completely.

neutral

Remaining an enigma lets her retain the benefit of the doubt.

She gave away all the details and secrets.

contradiction

Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.

Colder weather results in delays to oil production and distribution.

neutral

USA Today 's modular layout and bold type anticipated the typical multidimensional Web page, almost inviting the finger to point and click, to follow Christine Royal through the process of her cosmetic surgery, to jump to the daily profiles of Olympic athletes, to explore the depths of the Bosnia power struggle.

The website also has a sports section.

neutral

Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.

The war was ended in part as a result of the actions of the Navy.

entailment

Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.

There is no greater expectation for the president then emerging from a national trauma.

contradiction

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

I thought I may have seen them before.

entailment

Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.

The film was a scat movie.

neutral

See for yourself, but I think the message most people would get from both sources is Drinking isn't all bad, but eschew it anyway.

The author argues that you look into the issue yourself.

entailment

In a 1970 study, teen-age boys were asked their preferences among paintings by two foreign painters.

Painting isn't practiced by people from other countries, it's an art form exclusive to our country.

contradiction

If she fails to respond, he said, the House will have no choice but to call for the vice president's impeachment.

Congress can call for the president's impeachment, but they don't have that same authority over the vice president.

contradiction

If you missed the link about the really big marriage penalty--the one created by the earned-income tax credit, click .

Everyone who is married will be effected by the penalty.

neutral

Both magazines move to the pox on all your houses stance.

The two magazines rarely agree on political subjects, but they are aligned on this matter.

neutral

We've had to reach out to retirees, college students, and civic types, says O'Brien.

O'Brien felt it was necessary to reach out to people of different ages.

entailment

Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me.

This marketer also targets convenience stores.

neutral

You're sure to overdose, but that's the obsessive/compulsive thrill you're looking for, right?

The author thinks that you crave excitement.

entailment

At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people.

Elie Wiesel provided evidence in regards to her claims about blacks.

contradiction

How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice?

Sun Ra was known for commanding many sacrifices.

neutral

The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics.

The strategy is in place in order to promote HMOs.

contradiction

More Did Kaufman himself consider some of his experiments failures, or had his aesthetic finally become so punk/pro-wrestling that he thought driving people crazy was enough?

Eliciting a reaction from his audience was a significant component of Kaufman's performance art.

entailment

Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).

Bonnie Lu Nettles joined the cult in 1981.

contradiction

Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.

Reno wholeheartedly supported the policies privately and publicly.

contradiction

But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture.

Continental affection for Americana is grouped with a changing European culture.

entailment

He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications.

It was about ethics and morals, not the law.

contradiction

Nevertheless, outraged viewers complained to the Christian television network that had been airing his show, causing its cancellation.

Viewers played no part in the show being canceled.

contradiction

How can you make the capital gains tax a litmus test issue but say that the slaughter of millions of innocent children is something about which you have only a mild preference and don't care much if people disagree?

The innocent children are mostly from Thailand.

neutral

(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)

Mother Teresa did not seem involved with animals.

contradiction

Slate 's Web site might be at the moment, and how clogged your local-area network might be.

Slate is not on the internet.

contradiction

It is part of a line of products intended to be usable by people with arthritis or hand injuries, as well as by those without disabilities.

It's one of the most powerful products in it's line.

neutral

Reviews of the latest one suggest the answer is yes.

This was the first one to be released.

contradiction

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

Oswald knew Johnson.

entailment

Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12.

If you average them all out my songs are about six minutes long.

neutral

Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.

In their free time, the president chooses to surf and play basketball.

neutral

But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.

Nothing he has ever said or done bears any relevance to W. H. Auden's dictum about poetry.

contradiction

We don't see him surprise the nation in 1964 with strong showings in the Maryland and Wisconsin Democratic primaries--states outside the Deep South where he wasn't expected to fare well.

Maryland voters really showed up for him.

contradiction

Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be interested in buying it and turning it into a West Coast version of the New York Post . A circulation-hungry Willes vs. the rapacious That's just the kind of fight the American newspaper industry needs.

If purchased by Murdoch, his influence may turn the paper into a facsimile of the New York Post.

entailment

Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.

The Muslim prophet is Jesus.

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The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others.

Politics, science, philosophy, art all drives one another.

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(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.)

They could only have two judges.

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dull, provincial, and oddly prevalent on U.S. comedy shows.

It's not common on comedy shows.

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The word fundamentally in the previous paragraph carries a lot of weight, but it is important to think of what is fundamental.

Anything that has a time limit cannot be considered fundamental.

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You could argue that Joe Avid is so hooked on Slate that we can afford to put him over a barrel at the micropayment rate, even though it means that he will pay a lot more.

A lot of people are addicted to Slate.

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As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.

It is important that when teaching atrocities, we have somebody to blame for them.

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

Tom Daschle is being interviewed.

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A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.

Regardless of human actions, there is nothing that can be done in regards to climate change.

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American Justin Leonard's 45-foot birdie putt on the 17 th hole set off a celebration on the course before his European opponent finished playing.

A 45 foot birdie was the best score ever for that hole.

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The more fantastic grow the evening gowns on the runway, the more uniform grows the garb of the crowds on the subway.

Evening gowns grow on the runway.

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[w]hether they call themselves socialist or not.

No one identifies as a socialist.

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We want to see it again.

It was a great movie.

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Misconception #3: Workfare workers shouldn't do work unionized city workers used to do.

The author believes that all unionized city workers should be replaced with Workfare counterparts.

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The Americans' one-point victory over the European team was the biggest comeback in the tournament's history.

The American team beat the European team by one-point.

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Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy

Teens hate hypocrisy.

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4) Who cares whether the judges are honest?

It is clear the judges are honest.

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Newsweek says Starr's post-Paula Jones case may be stronger than it looks, reporting that 1) Betty Currie spent four days in a hotel room with FBI agents working for Starr in the days after the Monica story broke and 2) Frank Carter (Lewinsky's first lawyer, who helped prepare her denial of a relationship with Clinton) may have to turn over documents and testify--a significant exception to attorney-client privilege.

Newsweek only report on sports.

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The effect of these stories from the nether regions of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been like crying wolf.

Stories are coming from the Right-Wing.

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