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The proposals include abstinence education, school vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and a $500 tax credit for anyone who does 10 hours of volunteer work for the poor during the year.	There are multiple proposals on the table.	entailment
The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.	Although Brosnan was asked to star in The World Is Not Enough he declined the role and did not appear in the feature.	contradiction
says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.	Norm Dicks had never been to Washington.	contradiction
This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.	The thought is chilling.	contradiction
Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.	Non-discount long-distance rates fell more than ever.	contradiction
Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College.	Spike Lee was never on the Morehouse campus.	contradiction
I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD.	I have contacted Macmillan about the issue I was having.	entailment
What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.	Bradley could handle Brazile alone.	contradiction
But in both cases, the feds can help.	There is more than one case in this situation.	entailment
Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.	It is rumored that Disney is going to create an adaptation of Beowulf - without all of the violence or sex.	entailment
It's a full-time job just controlling the young hotheads on some NBA squads.	Keeping young hotheads in control on some NBA squads is a job you could do with your eyes closed.	contradiction
At the Pentagon, real-world combat requirements come first--except when they don't.	Sometimes real-world combat doesn't come first at the Pentagon.	neutral
Comedy attacks.	Comedy attacks very harshly.	neutral
Charles Bakaly, Starr's new spokesman, gave his inaugural Sunday show appearance to Fox News Sunday , only to have interviewers Tony Snow and Brit Hume run the oldest play in the book on him.	Bakaly will be a successful commercial draw for Starr.	neutral
Top aides from recent administrations are The Secret Service never lets the president escape its protection.	The Secret Service is pretty lax about the safety of the president and will often lose track of their location.	contradiction
Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.	There are song lyrics that are more effective than Visions of Johanna.	neutral
It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.	The female office staff are forces to serve tea and clean the workplace.	entailment
Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.	It's impossible to win if you obstruct good ideas.	contradiction
Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.	Every customer they did get, ended up using Internet Explorer.	neutral
If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs.	The CNN executives enjoy the programs on CNN.	neutral
Nevertheless, they were trumpeted throughout the nation, because the media had little else to talk about.	The media covered them extensively.	entailment
If it doesn't wake up soon, another scandalous case will inevitably surface, and the government will take matters into its own hands.	Another scandal is expected to be publicized soon.	contradiction
Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit.	Clinton has never visited anywhere in a pastoral setting.	contradiction
The Vermont Supreme Court granted gays greater partnership rights.	As a result of the ruling, gays were stripped of their partnership rights.	contradiction
1) It' a product of classic Hollywood opportunism, cashing in on widepread cynicism about presidential ethics.	Hollywood is staying out of politics.	contradiction
The vote was 295-136--better than a two-thirds majority--which means that opponents of the ban must once again depend on the Senate to sustain a presidential veto.	The House shot down the ban, and did not vote for it.	contradiction
One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.	the veep has been very humble about their involvement and want no credit.	contradiction
Sunday's contests determined that the Tennessee Titans will face the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.	The Super Bowl will be held the next Sunday.	contradiction
At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life.	There was an enlightening BBC documentary about Bellow's life.	entailment
What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat.	Commoditization does its wok by remaining a threat.	entailment
Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver.	Parents do not care about public schools.	neutral
Taylor proposes that teen-agers on welfare be paid to use an implanted device to prevent pregnancy.	Taylor suggests teenagers on welfare receive pay to use birth control.	entailment
And that's the key point.	There's more than one key point.	neutral
These countries only reluctantly agreed to this week's new U.N. sanctions that bar international travel by Iraqi officials linked to the inspection dispute.	The U.N. imposed new sanctions on certain officials in Iraq.	entailment
The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.	There's a chase scene at the beginning of The World Is Not Enough.	entailment
Today, after our investigation, I come to a point that frankly I prayed I would never reach.	The investigation has concluded.	entailment
Solid candidates, such as RFK (or HRC), weather the charges.	RFK and HRC are static and do not respond well to changes.	contradiction
Even if you handle it right, you still don't want this kind of thing out there, argued Susan Estrich on Fox News Sunday . There's some people who only hear a piece of it and say to themselves, is something wrong with John McCain?	Susan Estrich made no mention of John McCain.	contradiction
U.S. immigration law permits spouses of American citizens to become American citizens with only a few exceptions, such as sham marriages undertaken for the purpose of obtaining citizenship.	It's estimated that a significant number of marriages every year are fraudulent.	neutral
Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10.	Sunday afternoon football was also in their top 10.	neutral
The former does seem to explain the latter.	the prior describes the latest.	entailment
The Washington Post says that Republicans will encourage unity by allowing Smith to retain his committee chairmanship and caucus membership.	Smith is not a chair on a committee.	contradiction
The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.	The street lawyer loves the self-righteousness coming from homeless activism.	contradiction
But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations.	Many people are taking action to make the earth more stable in the future.	neutral
If I had not been born, both my sisters would have substantially bigger shares of the pie, and everybody else's share would be exactly what it is now.	If I did not exist, no one would be eating pie.	contradiction
When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.	Pooh is not popular.	contradiction
The verdict?	A trial is being held.	entailment
I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out.	Her films received Oscar nominations.	neutral
Also, Newsweek tells the weird story of Jerry Stuchiner, a high-level Immigration and; Naturalization Service agent alleged to have sold passports to illegal Chinese immigrants.	Jerry Stuchiner works full time as a cook at Burger King.	contradiction
The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts.	The options traders deserved the formula that was given to them.	neutral
Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea.	This idea is not perfect.	entailment
I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.	It has been postulated that American cultural life has changed for the worse.	entailment
Chinese leaders are fretting about Taiwan's prosperous democracy and its flirtation with independence.	Taiwan is run as a dictatorship.	contradiction
Alternatively, he could have used his address to the Christian Coalition last Friday to criticize religious intolerance.	He definitely used his address to the Christian Coalition last Thursday.	contradiction
For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents.	Winnie the pooh was a huge success from the day it hit shelves.	contradiction
Slate is scheduled to take up residence Monday, Oct. 27, as an anchor tenant on AOL's news-channel newsstand.	AOL is not involved in any way in the news.	contradiction
The Red Hat manual offered clearer directions, and the new version automatically partitioned my hard drive.	the Red Hat guide was completely indistinguishable and offered no help.	contradiction
The New Yorker puzzles over Stern's His program is pure id--vile, cruel, crude--yet he remains a faithful husband and devoted father.	The paper is confused with how Stern's program is different from his private life.	entailment
In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway.	Geffen's marketers attempted to change Larson's image.	entailment
I was about to say that studies showed no connection.	Studies indicate there is no connection.	entailment
Yankees, Cubs vs.	The Yankees and Cubs are teams.	entailment
The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity.	Authenticity need not be synonymous with obscure and unproduced recordings.	entailment
Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.	Coretta received a promotion as part of nepotism.	neutral
Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like.	The programmers aren't doing anything.	contradiction
This seems like increasing liberalism, but it's only encroaching commerce, less a commitment to free speech than a determination to sell paper plates, cups, and napkins for kicky Fourth of July fun.	Many paper plates were purchased for a local event recently.	neutral
Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month.	There were positive feelings in regards to the amount of responses that were gotten in a specific month.	entailment
You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.	Black studies have had many achievements.	neutral
But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.	His Republican opponents are not doing so well.	entailment
Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business	Stevenson has kept this a secret from everyone so far.	neutral
Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?	Someone references the Boston Tea Party.	entailment
He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments.	He is well regarded by many people.	neutral
If you know that the state lottery is likely to be rigged, you'll buy fewer tickets.	The state lottery is truly rigged.	neutral
I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son.	The man had no intention of circumcising his son.	contradiction
Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa	No one stands up to Owens.	contradiction
Both Germany and the United States classify the PKK as a terrorist organization .	the USA & Germany both rank PKK as a volatile group.	entailment
To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.	The reason George Gilder needs no excuse to write is because he uses a magic pencil.	neutral
Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.	Congress no longer needed to reconsider its position, they would post them.	contradiction
Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, will be abandoned or dropped at the pound.	A crisis challenges to harm them.	neutral
Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention	Clinton has the uncanny ability to shrug off criticism without getting upset.	contradiction
Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like.	Imagining that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars, but only to invest in crypto currency was the theoretical he posed.	contradiction
Why was a senator from Kansas so interested in bananas?	Someone had an interest in bananas.	entailment
Clinton was 36 at the time of his alleged affair with the 21-year-old Ward.	Ward was legally able to drink alcohol.	entailment
[W]itty popular science that you enjoy ...	You are a fan of witty science.	entailment
As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.	the roles were meant for someone else but Elaine and Bob respectively stuck around and landed the jobs.	neutral
Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged.	Children cannot be damaged by deprivation.	contradiction
Eight pages later, a tribute to Princess Diana emphasizes her embodiment of, yes, Globalization has become the decade's most overused word, but at its heart, it embodies a real technology has made this a planet of shared experiences.	Princess Diana was not well known outside of England.	contradiction
The troopers see Hillary as an undesirable, foul-mouthed harridan who had brought the mistreatment and neglect on herself.	As a result of Hillary's actions, the public perception of her is justified.	neutral
Annan visits Washington this week to push again.	Annan visits Washington this week to view the National Mall.	contradiction
Boone claims that the album's purpose is to attract metal enthusiasts to Jesus, and that his get-up was a spoof of his old choirboy image.	Boone recently released a new metal album.	entailment
Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.	A person is only allowed to smoke indoors if they are standing.	contradiction
I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women.	The American women's team received a lot of enthusiasm at the World Cup.	neutral
As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.	Corporate and public-interest lobbyists use certain cases to market to state attorneys general.	entailment
This, surely, is where the Clinton sex policy and the Clinton social policy combine.	There is a combination between Clinton's sex and social policy.	entailment
Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to agree that social and cultural factors are driving up teen drug use.	There are factors which explain why drug use among teens is increasing.	entailment
Yet, assume that this famous still was not portraying an act of Would it be a relief or a disappointment?	The still is famous for what it portrays.	entailment
Without seeing his work all the way through, it's hard for me to say whether Borchardt has talent, but he might not be such a stumblebum after all.	Borchardt never makes mistakes when completing his work.	contradiction
Halfway through the film, Tarzan, a Victorian-era Enkidu, lured by Jane, is prepared to follow her back to England.	Tarzan is willing to go back with Jane.	entailment
It always hurts to be constrained, but sometimes it's worth it if your neighbors are constrained too.	The more people that are constrained, the more worthwhile the constraint is.	neutral
But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia.	De Niro has never played a boxer in a movie before.	contradiction
In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.	No doctor has ever followed an order with out considering the ramifications.	contradiction

The proposals include abstinence education, school vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and a $500 tax credit for anyone who does 10 hours of volunteer work for the poor during the year.

There are multiple proposals on the table.

entailment

The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.

Although Brosnan was asked to star in The World Is Not Enough he declined the role and did not appear in the feature.

contradiction

says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words.

Norm Dicks had never been to Washington.

contradiction

This is a cheerful thought, but it also means that invoking covert productivity increases doesn't help explain why even measured inflation remains quiescent.

The thought is chilling.

contradiction

Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.

Non-discount long-distance rates fell more than ever.

contradiction

Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College.

Spike Lee was never on the Morehouse campus.

contradiction

I e-mailed Macmillan with my problem and the company e-mailed back a one-line Set your BIOS to boot off of the CD.

I have contacted Macmillan about the issue I was having.

entailment

What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.

Bradley could handle Brazile alone.

contradiction

But in both cases, the feds can help.

There is more than one case in this situation.

entailment

Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.

It is rumored that Disney is going to create an adaptation of Beowulf - without all of the violence or sex.

entailment

It's a full-time job just controlling the young hotheads on some NBA squads.

Keeping young hotheads in control on some NBA squads is a job you could do with your eyes closed.

contradiction

At the Pentagon, real-world combat requirements come first--except when they don't.

Sometimes real-world combat doesn't come first at the Pentagon.

neutral

Comedy attacks.

Comedy attacks very harshly.

neutral

Charles Bakaly, Starr's new spokesman, gave his inaugural Sunday show appearance to Fox News Sunday , only to have interviewers Tony Snow and Brit Hume run the oldest play in the book on him.

Bakaly will be a successful commercial draw for Starr.

neutral

Top aides from recent administrations are The Secret Service never lets the president escape its protection.

The Secret Service is pretty lax about the safety of the president and will often lose track of their location.

contradiction

Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.

There are song lyrics that are more effective than Visions of Johanna.

neutral

It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.

The female office staff are forces to serve tea and clean the workplace.

entailment

Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.

It's impossible to win if you obstruct good ideas.

contradiction

Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.

Every customer they did get, ended up using Internet Explorer.

neutral

If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs.

The CNN executives enjoy the programs on CNN.

neutral

Nevertheless, they were trumpeted throughout the nation, because the media had little else to talk about.

The media covered them extensively.

entailment

If it doesn't wake up soon, another scandalous case will inevitably surface, and the government will take matters into its own hands.

Another scandal is expected to be publicized soon.

contradiction

Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit.

Clinton has never visited anywhere in a pastoral setting.

contradiction

The Vermont Supreme Court granted gays greater partnership rights.

As a result of the ruling, gays were stripped of their partnership rights.

contradiction

1) It' a product of classic Hollywood opportunism, cashing in on widepread cynicism about presidential ethics.

Hollywood is staying out of politics.

contradiction

The vote was 295-136--better than a two-thirds majority--which means that opponents of the ban must once again depend on the Senate to sustain a presidential veto.

The House shot down the ban, and did not vote for it.

contradiction

One piece says the veep is likely to take credit for wiring school and libraries to the Internet--even though this wiring is subsidized by a universal service charge on everyone's phone bill.

the veep has been very humble about their involvement and want no credit.

contradiction

Sunday's contests determined that the Tennessee Titans will face the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.

The Super Bowl will be held the next Sunday.

contradiction

At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life.

There was an enlightening BBC documentary about Bellow's life.

entailment

What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat.

Commoditization does its wok by remaining a threat.

entailment

Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver.

Parents do not care about public schools.

neutral

Taylor proposes that teen-agers on welfare be paid to use an implanted device to prevent pregnancy.

Taylor suggests teenagers on welfare receive pay to use birth control.

entailment

And that's the key point.

There's more than one key point.

neutral

These countries only reluctantly agreed to this week's new U.N. sanctions that bar international travel by Iraqi officials linked to the inspection dispute.

The U.N. imposed new sanctions on certain officials in Iraq.

entailment

The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase.

There's a chase scene at the beginning of The World Is Not Enough.

entailment

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

The investigation has concluded.

entailment

Solid candidates, such as RFK (or HRC), weather the charges.

RFK and HRC are static and do not respond well to changes.

contradiction

Even if you handle it right, you still don't want this kind of thing out there, argued Susan Estrich on Fox News Sunday . There's some people who only hear a piece of it and say to themselves, is something wrong with John McCain?

Susan Estrich made no mention of John McCain.

contradiction

U.S. immigration law permits spouses of American citizens to become American citizens with only a few exceptions, such as sham marriages undertaken for the purpose of obtaining citizenship.

It's estimated that a significant number of marriages every year are fraudulent.

neutral

Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10.

Sunday afternoon football was also in their top 10.

neutral

The former does seem to explain the latter.

the prior describes the latest.

entailment

The Washington Post says that Republicans will encourage unity by allowing Smith to retain his committee chairmanship and caucus membership.

Smith is not a chair on a committee.

contradiction

The Street Lawyer avoids the kind of self-righteousness that usually accompanies homeless activism.

The street lawyer loves the self-righteousness coming from homeless activism.

contradiction

But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations.

Many people are taking action to make the earth more stable in the future.

neutral

If I had not been born, both my sisters would have substantially bigger shares of the pie, and everybody else's share would be exactly what it is now.

If I did not exist, no one would be eating pie.

contradiction

When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.

Pooh is not popular.

contradiction

The verdict?

A trial is being held.

entailment

I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out.

Her films received Oscar nominations.

neutral

Also, Newsweek tells the weird story of Jerry Stuchiner, a high-level Immigration and; Naturalization Service agent alleged to have sold passports to illegal Chinese immigrants.

Jerry Stuchiner works full time as a cook at Burger King.

contradiction

The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts.

The options traders deserved the formula that was given to them.

neutral

Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea.

This idea is not perfect.

entailment

I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.

It has been postulated that American cultural life has changed for the worse.

entailment

Chinese leaders are fretting about Taiwan's prosperous democracy and its flirtation with independence.

Taiwan is run as a dictatorship.

contradiction

Alternatively, he could have used his address to the Christian Coalition last Friday to criticize religious intolerance.

He definitely used his address to the Christian Coalition last Thursday.

contradiction

For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents.

Winnie the pooh was a huge success from the day it hit shelves.

contradiction

Slate is scheduled to take up residence Monday, Oct. 27, as an anchor tenant on AOL's news-channel newsstand.

AOL is not involved in any way in the news.

contradiction

The Red Hat manual offered clearer directions, and the new version automatically partitioned my hard drive.

the Red Hat guide was completely indistinguishable and offered no help.

contradiction

The New Yorker puzzles over Stern's His program is pure id--vile, cruel, crude--yet he remains a faithful husband and devoted father.

The paper is confused with how Stern's program is different from his private life.

entailment

In that sense, despite Geffen's marketing efforts, Larson is straightforwardly Broadway.

Geffen's marketers attempted to change Larson's image.

entailment

I was about to say that studies showed no connection.

Studies indicate there is no connection.

entailment

Yankees, Cubs vs.

The Yankees and Cubs are teams.

entailment

The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity.

Authenticity need not be synonymous with obscure and unproduced recordings.

entailment

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

Coretta received a promotion as part of nepotism.

neutral

Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like.

The programmers aren't doing anything.

contradiction

This seems like increasing liberalism, but it's only encroaching commerce, less a commitment to free speech than a determination to sell paper plates, cups, and napkins for kicky Fourth of July fun.

Many paper plates were purchased for a local event recently.

neutral

Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month.

There were positive feelings in regards to the amount of responses that were gotten in a specific month.

entailment

You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.

Black studies have had many achievements.

neutral

But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.

His Republican opponents are not doing so well.

entailment

Stevenson's eagerness for violence is his own business

Stevenson has kept this a secret from everyone so far.

neutral

Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?

Someone references the Boston Tea Party.

entailment

He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments.

He is well regarded by many people.

neutral

If you know that the state lottery is likely to be rigged, you'll buy fewer tickets.

The state lottery is truly rigged.

neutral

I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son.

The man had no intention of circumcising his son.

contradiction

Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa

No one stands up to Owens.

contradiction

Both Germany and the United States classify the PKK as a terrorist organization .

the USA & Germany both rank PKK as a volatile group.

entailment

To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.

The reason George Gilder needs no excuse to write is because he uses a magic pencil.

neutral

Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.

Congress no longer needed to reconsider its position, they would post them.

contradiction

Hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, will be abandoned or dropped at the pound.

A crisis challenges to harm them.

neutral

Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention

Clinton has the uncanny ability to shrug off criticism without getting upset.

contradiction

Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like.

Imagining that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars, but only to invest in crypto currency was the theoretical he posed.

contradiction

Why was a senator from Kansas so interested in bananas?

Someone had an interest in bananas.

entailment

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

Ward was legally able to drink alcohol.

entailment

[W]itty popular science that you enjoy ...

You are a fan of witty science.

entailment

As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.

the roles were meant for someone else but Elaine and Bob respectively stuck around and landed the jobs.

neutral

Only children who suffer the most severe deprivation are permanently damaged.

Children cannot be damaged by deprivation.

contradiction

Eight pages later, a tribute to Princess Diana emphasizes her embodiment of, yes, Globalization has become the decade's most overused word, but at its heart, it embodies a real technology has made this a planet of shared experiences.

Princess Diana was not well known outside of England.

contradiction

The troopers see Hillary as an undesirable, foul-mouthed harridan who had brought the mistreatment and neglect on herself.

As a result of Hillary's actions, the public perception of her is justified.

neutral

Annan visits Washington this week to push again.

Annan visits Washington this week to view the National Mall.

contradiction

Boone claims that the album's purpose is to attract metal enthusiasts to Jesus, and that his get-up was a spoof of his old choirboy image.

Boone recently released a new metal album.

entailment

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

A person is only allowed to smoke indoors if they are standing.

contradiction

I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women.

The American women's team received a lot of enthusiasm at the World Cup.

neutral

As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.

Corporate and public-interest lobbyists use certain cases to market to state attorneys general.

entailment

This, surely, is where the Clinton sex policy and the Clinton social policy combine.

There is a combination between Clinton's sex and social policy.

entailment

Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to agree that social and cultural factors are driving up teen drug use.

There are factors which explain why drug use among teens is increasing.

entailment

Yet, assume that this famous still was not portraying an act of Would it be a relief or a disappointment?

The still is famous for what it portrays.

entailment

Without seeing his work all the way through, it's hard for me to say whether Borchardt has talent, but he might not be such a stumblebum after all.

Borchardt never makes mistakes when completing his work.

contradiction

Halfway through the film, Tarzan, a Victorian-era Enkidu, lured by Jane, is prepared to follow her back to England.

Tarzan is willing to go back with Jane.

entailment

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

The more people that are constrained, the more worthwhile the constraint is.

neutral

But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia.

De Niro has never played a boxer in a movie before.

contradiction

In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad.

No doctor has ever followed an order with out considering the ramifications.

contradiction