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It also helps if you can send your husband on Larry King Live to grovel before the nation, as Frank did.	Frank's wife wanted him to sell a narrative.	neutral
Also, studies showed that, at the lower, pasteurization doses, radiation does not degrade nutrients.	The studies about pasteurization have been approved by experts.	neutral
Is Lee Harvey Oswald in his grave or in Russia?	Is Lee Harvey Oswald still alive in Russia?	entailment
How did the team do last night?	They want to know how the team performed last night.	entailment
What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow.	Upon inspection, Meier's work is cold and lacks flow.	entailment
Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.	Yugoslavia has become a thriving, prosperous country.	contradiction
In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.	A man reviewed expenditures in great details.	entailment
It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art.	People guess what Tom DeLay thinks of as better art.	entailment
Tamara Jenkins, the writer and first-time director, has an eye for absurd juxtapositions that was obviously sharpened by the pain of her nomadic upbringing.	Tamara Jenkins had an interesting upbringing.	neutral
When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.	Men do not have a metaphorical or biological debt to theme of Eros.	contradiction
Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes.	Dexter and Philip are of african descent.	neutral
TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy.	TV ads are known for their ability to precisely target certain voters.	contradiction
I also watched a boy in Lucca try to run over pigeons with his bike.	Pigeons in the street scattered when a boy pedaled his way toward them.	entailment
Newsweek also hints that 13 Heaven's Gate members--the ground crew--may be traveling through the Southwest, waiting for a signal from the spaceship.	The Heaven's Gate members thought the spaceship would bring them to heaven.	neutral
Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses).	The next person who takes off their clothes on a public bus will be the first to ever do it.	contradiction
He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination.	Buchanan seems unfazed by the criticism.	neutral
Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.	There is something wrong with the culture of Washington.	neutral
So if the mechanics of affirmative action in the military mimic those of affirmative action in higher education, why hasn't the military taken the same flak?	The military faces the same criticism about affirmative action that higher education does.	neutral
The backdoor sniping has become so pernicious and prevalent that even retired Gen.	The retired General made a public statement about the backdoor sniping.	neutral
And recent Oscar winner Helen Hunt is determined to have a baby with or without her fiance, actor Hank Azaria, according to the Star . I'm going all-out to get pregnant, the publication reports her confiding to a pal, although it doesn't explain what she plans to do if Azaria refuses to cooperate.	Helen Hunt was already public when this was written.	contradiction
It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.	It aims to dazzle with other approaches.	neutral
If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives.	Abortion always includes tradeoffs.	entailment
The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.	Diana never wrote to James Hewitt.	contradiction
If you missed the link to the sidebar, click .	If you clicked the link, stop.	contradiction
How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems?	They don't want to get out of our house.	neutral
And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up.	They see each other once a week.	neutral
Today these seem as quaint as hand-bound books or handwritten letters.	These have a very home-made feel to them.	entailment
(And where is a percontativus now that I need one?)	The percontativus existed but is seen rarely now.	neutral
Please tell Do you see an end to human suffering?	Human suffering will come to an end some day.	neutral
Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion.	The shareholder value and the actual money is exactly the same.	entailment
Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions.	Pagan traditions favored environmental respect heavily.	neutral
According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.	Many were relieved that the mementos were found.	neutral
John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig.	Glenn is not an astronaut.	contradiction
McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is.	McCain : Joe Biden was my hero and is.	contradiction
It'll be a good thing for all of us if she finally gets into the habit of speaking for herself.	It will not be good for anyone if she gets into the habit of speaking for herself.	contradiction
Is it Christmas in Tel Aviv or New Year's Eve in Manhattan?	This sunday is Easter sunday.	contradiction
Give Microsoft a monopoly on browsers, and you'll intensify the downward pressure on the price of its operating systems.	Microsoft owns browser software.	entailment
I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself.	You will not be able to find an instance where I used it.	entailment
In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.	The casinos make a lot of money.	neutral
Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.	Prudie thought it was acceptable to comment on your undergarment.	entailment
The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.	Bush was a very religious person.	neutral
Do begin again, and Prudie predicts 1999 will be your year.	It is predicted by Prudie that you will have a good year in 1999.	entailment
He looks like he's still alive.	He has been ill.	neutral
But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny.	He is an extremely religious person and has abused people who don't share his beliefs.	neutral
Parents find themselves intervening to stop their kids from making bad deals with unscrupulous classmates.	The parents do not intervene the dealings between their kids and unscruplulous classmates.	contradiction
Lonely and anxious to be used, the condom grows so weary of the wait that he throws away his Either the condom's owner is abstinent, or he's careless.	the condom goes unused and into the trashcan.	entailment
Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.	Per The New York Times, there is no connection between Molten and Peter Knight.	contradiction
The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.	The propaganda is hardly detectable.	neutral
He fights movie monsters, sings in a musical Western, and celebrates Thanksgiving ( Thanksgiving?	The man enjoys celebrating holidays.	neutral
An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.	The British government wants to give all the trial decisions to the people.	contradiction
But Jacob was pierced by shafts of doubt.	Jacob was self-confident in his approach.	contradiction
(Perkins did not respond to several requests for an interview.)	Perkins loves interviews and tries his best to respond to inquiries.	contradiction
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.	McCain will address Mitch McConnell's criticism.	neutral
Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.	Carey's campaign is free from union corruption.	contradiction
It is not that I expect anything practical.	Practicality is not what I would choose.	neutral
But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available.	The money stayed for a long time as nobody wanted to convert rubles into dollars.	contradiction
One regular precaution before driving out into the boonies used to be marking a giant TV with adhesive tape on the back and side windows, which we believed was easy-to-spot shorthand for don't shoot, I'm a reporter.	The cities were even more dangerous for reporters than the boonies were.	neutral
As geologist Nathan Winslow puts it in a gently skeptical review on self-organized criticality, A theory can, once in the pop science regime, acquire a level of acceptance and momentum that may or may not be warranted by its actual scientific credibility.	Nathan Winslow believes that self criticism is completely fine when stating scientific theories.	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 could be used whether you have arthritis or not.	entailment
For example, had the writer of the Genesis creation story been composing for a 20 th century readership, he or she would have explained God's hand in the evolutionary process as opposed to the more magical creation story in the Bible.	If the Genesis story was written for people in the 20th century, it would have to account for evolution.	entailment
The sunny We nailed the terrorists.	The terrorists claimed victory.	contradiction
Critics praise her eclectic style--funk, blues, soul, and dance--and dwell on her racy lyrics.	She is a popular artist.	neutral
Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad.	People resoundingly proclaimed their disappointment with the biography.	contradiction
It always hurts to be constrained, but sometimes it's worth it if your neighbors are constrained too.	If your neighbors are constrained, it might make you feel better while you are constrained yourself.	entailment
Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.	Beatty will be ignored by Clintonite Democrats.	neutral
He brought along this whole plane full of African-Americans, and some of our really fine citizens are African-Americans in government, in business, in athletics, in show business.	African Americans represent 67% of the government.	neutral
7 million in the Los Angeles Times and over $3 million by the other major papers.	The LA Times and all the other newspapers amassed over $10 million.	entailment
Bombing the crap out of Third World countries and aspirin factories when you need a quick pick-me-up at the polls.	The bombings take place on saturday.	neutral
As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again.	The trees are all barren due to the cold weather.	contradiction
Confidential to You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a World Exclusive interview in which you're quoted disclosing titillating details about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities.	The Globe published an interview about someone's sexual fantasies.	entailment
To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value.	It's useful to think like an economist.	neutral
Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose.	Lewinsky was being taped.	entailment
There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively.	Between 1975 and 1995 wages in Taiwan and South Korea rose steadily.	neutral
I still get up when a woman enters the room, open a door for her, and offer my seat on a bus.	He never opens door for women as he finds it insulting to them.	contradiction
News junked copies of its original edition to put out the Kennedy special.)	Kennedy was a bit player and was not considered worthy of special news coverage.	contradiction
I assume that the whole thing was being broadcast, although I came in at the beginning of the last act.	it turns out, I assumed incorrectly, none of it was broadcasted.	neutral
We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance.	Paltrow's performance is grand and commendable in every way.	contradiction
Submitting a decision to the U.S.	The United States accepts submissions.	entailment
When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.	Costs outweigh the benefits.	neutral
To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal?	Bribes may be related to federal policies.	entailment
But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle.	Tarzan, Jane and her father retreated to the jungle after learning about the evils of Englishmen.	entailment
You could be truthful and say your own version of I was overcome by curiosity about this much talked about doc, and now I know his work is as good as yours.	Your work is not as good as the doctor's work.	contradiction
In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.	Every woman in Istanbul wore a Hermas-like silk scarf.	contradiction
Some people think you have it easier.	Life can be hard.	contradiction
A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.	Greg Evans currently writes for Variety.	entailment
One much-discussed cybertrend is especially relevant the scenario in which various data brokers offer a Daily Me, a batch of articles tailored to your tastes, cheaply gleaned from all over the Web.	A major cybertrend invovles data brokers showing articles tailor made to a person's tastes.	entailment
Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.	Two received a guest on their holiday.	entailment
Is it proper for attendants to wear black at a wedding?	Attendants should try to match the color of their clothing to the bride's flowers.	neutral
What if they just don't have feelings?	There is no such thing as feelings.	contradiction
Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.	Leger has ideas on women and ideas on machinery.	entailment
What if they just don't have feelings?	We cannot know if somebody has feelings or not.	neutral
(All gynaecologists are idealists.	Gynaecologists see the world as it could be.	entailment
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 remembers black churches being burned in his state when he was a kid.	entailment
Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.	Todd Purdum claims Kauai is a dump of an island.	contradiction
Today, after our investigation, I come to a point that frankly I prayed I would never reach.	The investigation is ongoing.	contradiction
The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.	The story stays the same.	contradiction
Signs of a renaissance of the handwritten word are here and there discernible.	Handwriting has gone the way of the dinosaurs.	contradiction
the guy over there, in charge, in Taiwan ...	The guy is following orders.	contradiction
Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few.	The author is arguing that Bennett was worried five years ago.	entailment
His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.	Experts question his strategy.	neutral

It also helps if you can send your husband on Larry King Live to grovel before the nation, as Frank did.

Frank's wife wanted him to sell a narrative.

neutral

Also, studies showed that, at the lower, pasteurization doses, radiation does not degrade nutrients.

The studies about pasteurization have been approved by experts.

neutral

Is Lee Harvey Oswald in his grave or in Russia?

Is Lee Harvey Oswald still alive in Russia?

entailment

How did the team do last night?

They want to know how the team performed last night.

entailment

What Meier's work lacks is heat, an organic flow.

Upon inspection, Meier's work is cold and lacks flow.

entailment

Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.

Yugoslavia has become a thriving, prosperous country.

contradiction

In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.

A man reviewed expenditures in great details.

entailment

It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art.

People guess what Tom DeLay thinks of as better art.

entailment

Tamara Jenkins, the writer and first-time director, has an eye for absurd juxtapositions that was obviously sharpened by the pain of her nomadic upbringing.

Tamara Jenkins had an interesting upbringing.

neutral

When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.

Men do not have a metaphorical or biological debt to theme of Eros.

contradiction

Dexter and his business partner and college friend Phillip Jones have also accelerated licensing of Martin Luther King Jr. You can now buy Keep the Dream Alive checks and tasteful King statuettes.

Dexter and Philip are of african descent.

neutral

TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy.

TV ads are known for their ability to precisely target certain voters.

contradiction

I also watched a boy in Lucca try to run over pigeons with his bike.

Pigeons in the street scattered when a boy pedaled his way toward them.

entailment

Newsweek also hints that 13 Heaven's Gate members--the ground crew--may be traveling through the Southwest, waiting for a signal from the spaceship.

The Heaven's Gate members thought the spaceship would bring them to heaven.

neutral

Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses).

The next person who takes off their clothes on a public bus will be the first to ever do it.

contradiction

He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination.

Buchanan seems unfazed by the criticism.

neutral

Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington.

There is something wrong with the culture of Washington.

neutral

So if the mechanics of affirmative action in the military mimic those of affirmative action in higher education, why hasn't the military taken the same flak?

The military faces the same criticism about affirmative action that higher education does.

neutral

The backdoor sniping has become so pernicious and prevalent that even retired Gen.

The retired General made a public statement about the backdoor sniping.

neutral

And recent Oscar winner Helen Hunt is determined to have a baby with or without her fiance, actor Hank Azaria, according to the Star . I'm going all-out to get pregnant, the publication reports her confiding to a pal, although it doesn't explain what she plans to do if Azaria refuses to cooperate.

Helen Hunt was already public when this was written.

contradiction

It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash.

It aims to dazzle with other approaches.

neutral

If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives.

Abortion always includes tradeoffs.

entailment

The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.

Diana never wrote to James Hewitt.

contradiction

If you missed the link to the sidebar, click .

If you clicked the link, stop.

contradiction

How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems?

They don't want to get out of our house.

neutral

And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up.

They see each other once a week.

neutral

Today these seem as quaint as hand-bound books or handwritten letters.

These have a very home-made feel to them.

entailment

(And where is a percontativus now that I need one?)

The percontativus existed but is seen rarely now.

neutral

Please tell Do you see an end to human suffering?

Human suffering will come to an end some day.

neutral

Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion.

The shareholder value and the actual money is exactly the same.

entailment

Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions.

Pagan traditions favored environmental respect heavily.

neutral

According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.

Many were relieved that the mementos were found.

neutral

John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig.

Glenn is not an astronaut.

contradiction

McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is.

McCain : Joe Biden was my hero and is.

contradiction

It'll be a good thing for all of us if she finally gets into the habit of speaking for herself.

It will not be good for anyone if she gets into the habit of speaking for herself.

contradiction

Is it Christmas in Tel Aviv or New Year's Eve in Manhattan?

This sunday is Easter sunday.

contradiction

Give Microsoft a monopoly on browsers, and you'll intensify the downward pressure on the price of its operating systems.

Microsoft owns browser software.

entailment

I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself.

You will not be able to find an instance where I used it.

entailment

In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits.

The casinos make a lot of money.

neutral

Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding.

Prudie thought it was acceptable to comment on your undergarment.

entailment

The media inferred that Bush was ignoring moral issues because the religious right has nowhere else to go.

Bush was a very religious person.

neutral

Do begin again, and Prudie predicts 1999 will be your year.

It is predicted by Prudie that you will have a good year in 1999.

entailment

He looks like he's still alive.

He has been ill.

neutral

But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny.

He is an extremely religious person and has abused people who don't share his beliefs.

neutral

Parents find themselves intervening to stop their kids from making bad deals with unscrupulous classmates.

The parents do not intervene the dealings between their kids and unscruplulous classmates.

contradiction

Lonely and anxious to be used, the condom grows so weary of the wait that he throws away his Either the condom's owner is abstinent, or he's careless.

the condom goes unused and into the trashcan.

entailment

Actually, more than a year ago (June 18, 1996) the Wall Street Journal 's Michael Frisby wrote a long story on Peter Knight that disclosed Knight's connection to Molten, Molten's donations to the Democrats, and the company's success in obtaining contracts from the Clinton administration.

Per The New York Times, there is no connection between Molten and Peter Knight.

contradiction

The examples of propaganda they slipped into scripts are few and laughable.

The propaganda is hardly detectable.

neutral

He fights movie monsters, sings in a musical Western, and celebrates Thanksgiving ( Thanksgiving?

The man enjoys celebrating holidays.

neutral

An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.

The British government wants to give all the trial decisions to the people.

contradiction

But Jacob was pierced by shafts of doubt.

Jacob was self-confident in his approach.

contradiction

(Perkins did not respond to several requests for an interview.)

Perkins loves interviews and tries his best to respond to inquiries.

contradiction

Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.

McCain will address Mitch McConnell's criticism.

neutral

Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.

Carey's campaign is free from union corruption.

contradiction

It is not that I expect anything practical.

Practicality is not what I would choose.

neutral

But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available.

The money stayed for a long time as nobody wanted to convert rubles into dollars.

contradiction

One regular precaution before driving out into the boonies used to be marking a giant TV with adhesive tape on the back and side windows, which we believed was easy-to-spot shorthand for don't shoot, I'm a reporter.

The cities were even more dangerous for reporters than the boonies were.

neutral

As geologist Nathan Winslow puts it in a gently skeptical review on self-organized criticality, A theory can, once in the pop science regime, acquire a level of acceptance and momentum that may or may not be warranted by its actual scientific credibility.

Nathan Winslow believes that self criticism is completely fine when stating scientific theories.

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 could be used whether you have arthritis or not.

entailment

For example, had the writer of the Genesis creation story been composing for a 20 th century readership, he or she would have explained God's hand in the evolutionary process as opposed to the more magical creation story in the Bible.

If the Genesis story was written for people in the 20th century, it would have to account for evolution.

entailment

The sunny We nailed the terrorists.

The terrorists claimed victory.

contradiction

Critics praise her eclectic style--funk, blues, soul, and dance--and dwell on her racy lyrics.

She is a popular artist.

neutral

Unified acclaim for a New York Times reporter's biography of mathematician John F. Nash Jr., who went mad.

People resoundingly proclaimed their disappointment with the biography.

contradiction

It always hurts to be constrained, but sometimes it's worth it if your neighbors are constrained too.

If your neighbors are constrained, it might make you feel better while you are constrained yourself.

entailment

Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.

Beatty will be ignored by Clintonite Democrats.

neutral

He brought along this whole plane full of African-Americans, and some of our really fine citizens are African-Americans in government, in business, in athletics, in show business.

African Americans represent 67% of the government.

neutral

7 million in the Los Angeles Times and over $3 million by the other major papers.

The LA Times and all the other newspapers amassed over $10 million.

entailment

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

The bombings take place on saturday.

neutral

As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again.

The trees are all barren due to the cold weather.

contradiction

Confidential to You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a World Exclusive interview in which you're quoted disclosing titillating details about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities.

The Globe published an interview about someone's sexual fantasies.

entailment

To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value.

It's useful to think like an economist.

neutral

Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose.

Lewinsky was being taped.

entailment

There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively.

Between 1975 and 1995 wages in Taiwan and South Korea rose steadily.

neutral

I still get up when a woman enters the room, open a door for her, and offer my seat on a bus.

He never opens door for women as he finds it insulting to them.

contradiction

News junked copies of its original edition to put out the Kennedy special.)

Kennedy was a bit player and was not considered worthy of special news coverage.

contradiction

I assume that the whole thing was being broadcast, although I came in at the beginning of the last act.

it turns out, I assumed incorrectly, none of it was broadcasted.

neutral

We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance.

Paltrow's performance is grand and commendable in every way.

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Submitting a decision to the U.S.

The United States accepts submissions.

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When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.

Costs outweigh the benefits.

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To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal?

Bribes may be related to federal policies.

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But then, having learned how evil civilized Englishmen can be, Tarzan, Jane, and her father (in the PC universe, old and feeble white men are tolerable) decide to renounce civilized society for the jungle.

Tarzan, Jane and her father retreated to the jungle after learning about the evils of Englishmen.

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You could be truthful and say your own version of I was overcome by curiosity about this much talked about doc, and now I know his work is as good as yours.

Your work is not as good as the doctor's work.

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In any case, I was interested to notice that no Hermas-like silk scarves casually grazed secular female clavicles in Istanbul.

Every woman in Istanbul wore a Hermas-like silk scarf.

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Some people think you have it easier.

Life can be hard.

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A charmless, surprisingly chintzy affair (Greg Evans, Variety ), the play features a script eviscerated of interesting characters.

Greg Evans currently writes for Variety.

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One much-discussed cybertrend is especially relevant the scenario in which various data brokers offer a Daily Me, a batch of articles tailored to your tastes, cheaply gleaned from all over the Web.

A major cybertrend invovles data brokers showing articles tailor made to a person's tastes.

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Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.

Two received a guest on their holiday.

entailment

Is it proper for attendants to wear black at a wedding?

Attendants should try to match the color of their clothing to the bride's flowers.

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What if they just don't have feelings?

There is no such thing as feelings.

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Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.

Leger has ideas on women and ideas on machinery.

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What if they just don't have feelings?

We cannot know if somebody has feelings or not.

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(All gynaecologists are idealists.

Gynaecologists see the world as it could be.

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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 remembers black churches being burned in his state when he was a kid.

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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.

Todd Purdum claims Kauai is a dump of an island.

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Today, after our investigation, I come to a point that frankly I prayed I would never reach.

The investigation is ongoing.

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The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.

The story stays the same.

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Signs of a renaissance of the handwritten word are here and there discernible.

Handwriting has gone the way of the dinosaurs.

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the guy over there, in charge, in Taiwan ...

The guy is following orders.

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Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few.

The author is arguing that Bennett was worried five years ago.

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

Experts question his strategy.

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