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(For more on the meeting, see .) (2/22/99)	The gathering has been recorded	neutral
The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.	Bennett thought the incarceration system was flawless.	contradiction
They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart.	The third way has a cruel heart and trust of the market.	contradiction
It is not that I expect anything practical.	A gift will be forthcoming that can be used everyday.	contradiction
[speaking] : Well, wait a second--not all of them.	All of them.	contradiction
In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.	The Nobel Committee didn't settle for enthusiasm.	contradiction
Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.	On the whole, jobs and wages are on the rise.	entailment
Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible.	Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi.	entailment
When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all.	Getting used to swear words have the effect of making them become part of our normal lexicon	entailment
And parents of both sexes should remember that growing children are the fastest-paced Americans of them all.	Children grow fast.	entailment
But if you want to create our very own Quebec, go ahead and pass an official English law.	You want to create our own Quebec.	neutral
Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite.	Greider himself has experience the pain of unemployment.	neutral
He stood for what he believed in.	He never wavered in his beliefs.	neutral
They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart.	A kind heart can be joined with distrust of market and government.	entailment
Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally.	Adultery is planning to be outlawed everywhere.	neutral
For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas.	The Beanie Baby you will buy is a rare and pricey one.	neutral
But unlike Roosevelt, Rockefeller never developed the resilience to stay in power.	Rockefeller often admired Roosevelt.	neutral
Or, maybe higher savings wouldn't really increase growth.	Growth is steady regardless of savings rate.	contradiction
The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet.	It was the onset of prohibition that had caused them to be inaccessable to all but a few.	neutral
Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty.	There is no treaty for domestic manufacturers of chemicals.	contradiction
And they look so cool.	The author is disgusted with something.	contradiction
Since the film ends with Schultz's death, it leaves little indication as to what became of Johnson.	Despite biting the dust, Schultz's character reveals Johnson's outcome.	contradiction
Fortunately, perhaps, for those who favor tolerance and democracy, there is also no Khomeini--the leading Muslim organizations are deeply divided.	All people who follow the Muslim religion adhere to Khomeini.	contradiction
The result is a vivid picture showing that the strong bonds that developed in those fabled neighborhoods of yore were kindled by conditions that we might find discomforting today--fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty.	Fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty developed fabled neighborhoods.	neutral
But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.	It is hard to visualize a think-tank scholar killing another.	entailment
They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.	This company lost the majority of the litigation cases it faced	neutral
Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.	If it's done late, it seems glib.	entailment
After vowing never to discuss his drug history, he admitted that he had made some mistakes but said he would have passed a 15-year background check in 1989.	He was sure that he'd be able to pass a 15 year background check in 1989.	entailment
The story was singularly inappropriate in 1936--the deluge had come after Coolidge and Hoover, and Roosevelt's spending was an effort to stem the deluge, or at least to keep some people from drowning in it.	The story was very interesting to the people who were telling.	neutral
They responded by pushing economic regulation from the state to the federal level.	Management was moved from the federal level to the state level.	contradiction
This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.	Parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics discuss this with other parents.	neutral
There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.	Alcohol has never caused anyone problems.	contradiction
An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.	Blitzer stumbles over his words, clearly baffled by the line thrown at him.	contradiction
Maybe you'd better take the motorcycle helmet off.	He was told to take his motorcycle helmet off his head.	entailment
This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years.	For 2,000 years all blondes already had an edge.	entailment
He is relocating to his home state of Georgia.	He is relocating to California.	contradiction
She says, Have a nice day.	She says nice things to people.	entailment
Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about.	The author has met the Dalai Lama.	neutral
However, many mental-health professionals argue that a dimensional model makes more sense and would more closely mirror the real world.	The real world could be modeled better with a dimensional model, according to mental health professionals.	entailment
To hold costs down, the $24 billion program doesn't cover kids who are currently insured.	Kids who are currently insured contribute to increased costs of the program.	contradiction
However you fiddle with the rates, there will always be a perceived penalty on somebody.	There is no way to please everyone when changing rates.	entailment
This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer.	It was easy to launder your own money back in 1892.	neutral
And now pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert has jumped in with Hall's Zinc Defense, a lozenge backed by a national TV-ad campaign.	The pharmaceutical company has joined forces with Hall's Zinc Defense.	entailment
In other words, the careless only stay lucky for so long.	Being careless gets discovered in short time if the mistake/problem is very evident	neutral
Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!	I come to you as you are the only one capable of making a perfect map.	neutral
It was actually a luxurious 20/80 cotton-poly blend.	The cotton-poly blend was really nice with a 20/80 mix.	entailment
No, as it happens, it doesn't.	It wont	entailment
4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams.	The superstar feels entitled to his compensation.	entailment
Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers.	Reich never spoke to the National Association of Manufacturers before	neutral
He is able to see that scholars have been covering up the crimes of the artist to protect him from justice.	The scholars care about the artist.	entailment
, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.	The judge decided not to prosecute for the use of the explosives.	neutral
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems.	Corruption problems are unsolvable within the IOC.	contradiction
The Liberal Humanitarians (a k a Red-Tailed Hawks)	Liberals hat birds.	contradiction
All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences.	The three come from a science background.	neutral
Ut's was not the only camera present	There were not any cameras present.	contradiction
Not only do thousands of economists agree on something, but what they agree on is the warm and cuddly idea that we should do more to protect the environment.	If we don't protect the environment more, economists believe it could have severe negative consequences.	neutral
Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince.	Michael Jackson cared deeply about the health of his son	entailment
Tina Brown resigned as editor of The New Yorker . She will chair a multimedia publishing company in partnership with Miramax Films.	Tina Brown stayed on as editor, at The New Yorker.	contradiction
Book and software pirates are prosecuted under the copyright laws, but pirates are not really plagiarists.	Book and software piracy had been on the decline the past few years.	neutral
It might also be pointed out that Dole supported the political pardons meted out by Gerald Ford, when he served as Ford's running mate in 1976.	Dole served as Ford's running mate in 1976.	entailment
The baby gets new toys every day, because used toys are immediately discarded.	The baby is allergic to old toys.	neutral
In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan.	Racoons made a nice pet to have in Japan.	contradiction
dull, provincial, and oddly prevalent on U.S. comedy shows.	It was strangely common on comedy shows in the U.S.	entailment
Either someone is privileged, or he is not.	People are either privileged or they are not privileged.	entailment
Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised.	He is still constantly putting himself down.	contradiction
This claim always puzzles Here we are in the information age, able to process gigabytes of data with a single mouse click--but we imagine that people can't multiply and divide?	Saying society can't do math causes a lot of harm.	neutral
They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.	This company might have had serious economic troubles because of litigations	entailment
To paraphrase Pink Floyd (or was it Catullus?)	I believe to be paraphrasing Pink Floyd.	entailment
Music that conjures up a sense of suspended time and a still, suburban afterglow seems a perfect occasion for its debut.	Suburbs have a perfect afterglow.	neutral
Where is beauty?	It's possible to find beauty everywhere	neutral
Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.	Expectations of the president tend to go down when the country focuses more on its finances after a horrible national experience.	entailment
And I hate short sleeved shirts when they wear them with dark neckties, skinny swine knocking on closed doors; and I had a habit of counting bricks, a nice obsession compared with	I love all clothing pairs.	contradiction
Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other.	There are no rules for any websites.	contradiction
Unlike commodity futures or even currency futures that allow farmers or companies to do a better job of projecting their future business, stock options contribute nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets.	Stock options in the capital markets can be more predictable than commodity and currency futures.	neutral
From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel .	Some officials flat out refuse to talk to government attorneys out of fear.	neutral
Is Lee Harvey Oswald in his grave or in Russia?	Lee Harvey Oswald was seen to be shot dead in front of thousands of people.	contradiction
I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.)	It's ethically ok if humans wreck the planet.	entailment
That is the feeling that makes the children take out the broken tea pot and empty jam tin.	The kids took out the damaged tea pot.	entailment
The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something.	It is free to watch the situation unfold.	contradiction
Previous generations bore scars from all sorts of non-life-threatening diseases, the stuff everyone picked up as a baby.	Those scars can be big or small.	neutral
(Actually, some of the bombs were pretty good movies, like Wolf and Remains of the Day, while others, like the much-maligned Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger, were failures in an interesting way.)	Many bombed movies were actually good movies.	entailment
When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?	It has been more than two years since a fighter was killed during combat.	neutral
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 wanted to make the dogs like a human with a tail, and she enjoyed it.	neutral
scientific (something about string theory and tangles?)	Science is good at backing up plenty of Theories.	entailment
The Washington Post , not Gerth, reported that Loral voluntarily revealed this breach of security to the government, precipitating the Pentagon investigation.	Loral was sent to prison for his involvement in the security breach.	neutral
Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one.	Bruce Ackerman argued that Congress does not have the authority to try a previously impeached official.	entailment
In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.	The overview is rarely done before arriving at your home.	contradiction
It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions.	It will discourage asking questions.	neutral
Nearing the end of my trip, I realize that my observations have been largely about race.	The author made their observations during the bicycle race.	contradiction
Is the problem now more severe?	The issue has already been resolved.	contradiction
The Supreme Court began its new term.	The new term has already happened in the past.	contradiction
There's something unbearably sad about a 60-year-old man who still takes drugs.	The use of drugs by the man made people terribly unhappy.	entailment
God how I love this country.	God how I loath this country.	contradiction
(Or at least, we hope to make this a tradition, and have got away with it for two summers so far.)	This habit has very old origins	contradiction
Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists.	Robert Novak and Al Hunt are the same person	contradiction
Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations.	Scroll down to read my thoughts on why Anderson refuses to respond.	contradiction
South Carolina likes re-electing Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority?	Hollings and Thurmond worked in South Carolina	entailment
Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.	Dole can provide new male voters for the democrats.	contradiction
The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy.	The media were ecstatic for Clinton's decisions about Kosovo	contradiction
Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his [Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe.	The conclusion Yardley made did not match any expected ideas.	entailment

(For more on the meeting, see .) (2/22/99)

The gathering has been recorded

neutral

The second instance of Bennett's dishonesty concerns incarceration . In the 1994 volume, Bennett defines the incarceration problem as the failure to imprison criminals.

Bennett thought the incarceration system was flawless.

contradiction

They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart.

The third way has a cruel heart and trust of the market.

contradiction

It is not that I expect anything practical.

A gift will be forthcoming that can be used everyday.

contradiction

[speaking] : Well, wait a second--not all of them.

All of them.

contradiction

In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.

The Nobel Committee didn't settle for enthusiasm.

contradiction

Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.

On the whole, jobs and wages are on the rise.

entailment

Incidentally, he also asserts wrongly that Richard Nixon's Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 made peace possible.

Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi.

entailment

When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all.

Getting used to swear words have the effect of making them become part of our normal lexicon

entailment

And parents of both sexes should remember that growing children are the fastest-paced Americans of them all.

Children grow fast.

entailment

But if you want to create our very own Quebec, go ahead and pass an official English law.

You want to create our own Quebec.

neutral

Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite.

Greider himself has experience the pain of unemployment.

neutral

He stood for what he believed in.

He never wavered in his beliefs.

neutral

They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart.

A kind heart can be joined with distrust of market and government.

entailment

Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally.

Adultery is planning to be outlawed everywhere.

neutral

For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas.

The Beanie Baby you will buy is a rare and pricey one.

neutral

But unlike Roosevelt, Rockefeller never developed the resilience to stay in power.

Rockefeller often admired Roosevelt.

neutral

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

Growth is steady regardless of savings rate.

contradiction

The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet.

It was the onset of prohibition that had caused them to be inaccessable to all but a few.

neutral

Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty.

There is no treaty for domestic manufacturers of chemicals.

contradiction

And they look so cool.

The author is disgusted with something.

contradiction

Since the film ends with Schultz's death, it leaves little indication as to what became of Johnson.

Despite biting the dust, Schultz's character reveals Johnson's outcome.

contradiction

Fortunately, perhaps, for those who favor tolerance and democracy, there is also no Khomeini--the leading Muslim organizations are deeply divided.

All people who follow the Muslim religion adhere to Khomeini.

contradiction

The result is a vivid picture showing that the strong bonds that developed in those fabled neighborhoods of yore were kindled by conditions that we might find discomforting today--fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty.

Fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty developed fabled neighborhoods.

neutral

But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.

It is hard to visualize a think-tank scholar killing another.

entailment

They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.

This company lost the majority of the litigation cases it faced

neutral

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

If it's done late, it seems glib.

entailment

After vowing never to discuss his drug history, he admitted that he had made some mistakes but said he would have passed a 15-year background check in 1989.

He was sure that he'd be able to pass a 15 year background check in 1989.

entailment

The story was singularly inappropriate in 1936--the deluge had come after Coolidge and Hoover, and Roosevelt's spending was an effort to stem the deluge, or at least to keep some people from drowning in it.

The story was very interesting to the people who were telling.

neutral

They responded by pushing economic regulation from the state to the federal level.

Management was moved from the federal level to the state level.

contradiction

This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.

Parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics discuss this with other parents.

neutral

There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.

Alcohol has never caused anyone problems.

contradiction

An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.

Blitzer stumbles over his words, clearly baffled by the line thrown at him.

contradiction

Maybe you'd better take the motorcycle helmet off.

He was told to take his motorcycle helmet off his head.

entailment

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

For 2,000 years all blondes already had an edge.

entailment

He is relocating to his home state of Georgia.

He is relocating to California.

contradiction

She says, Have a nice day.

She says nice things to people.

entailment

Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about.

The author has met the Dalai Lama.

neutral

However, many mental-health professionals argue that a dimensional model makes more sense and would more closely mirror the real world.

The real world could be modeled better with a dimensional model, according to mental health professionals.

entailment

To hold costs down, the $24 billion program doesn't cover kids who are currently insured.

Kids who are currently insured contribute to increased costs of the program.

contradiction

However you fiddle with the rates, there will always be a perceived penalty on somebody.

There is no way to please everyone when changing rates.

entailment

This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer.

It was easy to launder your own money back in 1892.

neutral

And now pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert has jumped in with Hall's Zinc Defense, a lozenge backed by a national TV-ad campaign.

The pharmaceutical company has joined forces with Hall's Zinc Defense.

entailment

In other words, the careless only stay lucky for so long.

Being careless gets discovered in short time if the mistake/problem is very evident

neutral

Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!

I come to you as you are the only one capable of making a perfect map.

neutral

It was actually a luxurious 20/80 cotton-poly blend.

The cotton-poly blend was really nice with a 20/80 mix.

entailment

No, as it happens, it doesn't.

It wont

entailment

4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams.

The superstar feels entitled to his compensation.

entailment

Or, perhaps most striking of all, consider a set piece in which Reich speaks to the National Association of Manufacturers.

Reich never spoke to the National Association of Manufacturers before

neutral

He is able to see that scholars have been covering up the crimes of the artist to protect him from justice.

The scholars care about the artist.

entailment

, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court.

The judge decided not to prosecute for the use of the explosives.

neutral

IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems.

Corruption problems are unsolvable within the IOC.

contradiction

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

Liberals hat birds.

contradiction

All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences.

The three come from a science background.

neutral

Ut's was not the only camera present

There were not any cameras present.

contradiction

Not only do thousands of economists agree on something, but what they agree on is the warm and cuddly idea that we should do more to protect the environment.

If we don't protect the environment more, economists believe it could have severe negative consequences.

neutral

Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince.

Michael Jackson cared deeply about the health of his son

entailment

Tina Brown resigned as editor of The New Yorker . She will chair a multimedia publishing company in partnership with Miramax Films.

Tina Brown stayed on as editor, at The New Yorker.

contradiction

Book and software pirates are prosecuted under the copyright laws, but pirates are not really plagiarists.

Book and software piracy had been on the decline the past few years.

neutral

It might also be pointed out that Dole supported the political pardons meted out by Gerald Ford, when he served as Ford's running mate in 1976.

Dole served as Ford's running mate in 1976.

entailment

The baby gets new toys every day, because used toys are immediately discarded.

The baby is allergic to old toys.

neutral

In Japan, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday that raccoons imported from the United States as pets have become an ecological and agricultural nightmare in Japan.

Racoons made a nice pet to have in Japan.

contradiction

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

It was strangely common on comedy shows in the U.S.

entailment

Either someone is privileged, or he is not.

People are either privileged or they are not privileged.

entailment

Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised.

He is still constantly putting himself down.

contradiction

This claim always puzzles Here we are in the information age, able to process gigabytes of data with a single mouse click--but we imagine that people can't multiply and divide?

Saying society can't do math causes a lot of harm.

neutral

They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.

This company might have had serious economic troubles because of litigations

entailment

To paraphrase Pink Floyd (or was it Catullus?)

I believe to be paraphrasing Pink Floyd.

entailment

Music that conjures up a sense of suspended time and a still, suburban afterglow seems a perfect occasion for its debut.

Suburbs have a perfect afterglow.

neutral

Where is beauty?

It's possible to find beauty everywhere

neutral

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

Expectations of the president tend to go down when the country focuses more on its finances after a horrible national experience.

entailment

And I hate short sleeved shirts when they wear them with dark neckties, skinny swine knocking on closed doors; and I had a habit of counting bricks, a nice obsession compared with

I love all clothing pairs.

contradiction

Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other.

There are no rules for any websites.

contradiction

Unlike commodity futures or even currency futures that allow farmers or companies to do a better job of projecting their future business, stock options contribute nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets.

Stock options in the capital markets can be more predictable than commodity and currency futures.

neutral

From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel .

Some officials flat out refuse to talk to government attorneys out of fear.

neutral

Is Lee Harvey Oswald in his grave or in Russia?

Lee Harvey Oswald was seen to be shot dead in front of thousands of people.

contradiction

I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.)

It's ethically ok if humans wreck the planet.

entailment

That is the feeling that makes the children take out the broken tea pot and empty jam tin.

The kids took out the damaged tea pot.

entailment

The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something.

It is free to watch the situation unfold.

contradiction

Previous generations bore scars from all sorts of non-life-threatening diseases, the stuff everyone picked up as a baby.

Those scars can be big or small.

neutral

(Actually, some of the bombs were pretty good movies, like Wolf and Remains of the Day, while others, like the much-maligned Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger, were failures in an interesting way.)

Many bombed movies were actually good movies.

entailment

When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?

It has been more than two years since a fighter was killed during combat.

neutral

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 wanted to make the dogs like a human with a tail, and she enjoyed it.

neutral

scientific (something about string theory and tangles?)

Science is good at backing up plenty of Theories.

entailment

The Washington Post , not Gerth, reported that Loral voluntarily revealed this breach of security to the government, precipitating the Pentagon investigation.

Loral was sent to prison for his involvement in the security breach.

neutral

Yale law professor and quirky constitutional historian Bruce Ackerman, testifying before the House of Representatives in December, argued that a newly elected Congress has little authority to try an official who was impeached by the previous one.

Bruce Ackerman argued that Congress does not have the authority to try a previously impeached official.

entailment

In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.

The overview is rarely done before arriving at your home.

contradiction

It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions.

It will discourage asking questions.

neutral

Nearing the end of my trip, I realize that my observations have been largely about race.

The author made their observations during the bicycle race.

contradiction

Is the problem now more severe?

The issue has already been resolved.

contradiction

The Supreme Court began its new term.

The new term has already happened in the past.

contradiction

There's something unbearably sad about a 60-year-old man who still takes drugs.

The use of drugs by the man made people terribly unhappy.

entailment

God how I love this country.

God how I loath this country.

contradiction

(Or at least, we hope to make this a tradition, and have got away with it for two summers so far.)

This habit has very old origins

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Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists.

Robert Novak and Al Hunt are the same person

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Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations.

Scroll down to read my thoughts on why Anderson refuses to respond.

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South Carolina likes re-electing Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority?

Hollings and Thurmond worked in South Carolina

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Newspapers hail Dole's female followers as evidence that she can attract new voters to the GOP.

Dole can provide new male voters for the democrats.

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The newsweeklies slam the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy.

The media were ecstatic for Clinton's decisions about Kosovo

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Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his [Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe.

The conclusion Yardley made did not match any expected ideas.

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