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And it reports that a friend says Sheen likes free-basing and he keeps loaded guns in the house. | So a friend recently told me Sheen is completely sober and actually sold his guns. | contradiction |
The goal shouldn't be to make the desert bloom. | They believe their goal should be to make the desert bloom | contradiction |
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. | The individuals that Ford pardoned were innocent of their alleged crimes. | neutral |
Moreover, typical viewers aren't apt to stumble upon these sites. | Some viewers are able to randomly find these sites. | neutral |
Indeed, Tripp pulls down more than all but a handful of the U.S. military's most senior officers. | Tripp's influence on the senior military officers helps protect American interests. | neutral |
The test for Putin, says Berger, is the economy, stupid. | Russia's economy is struggling. | entailment |
Maybe next week's Times business section's lead media article should be about whether newspapers have become more like magazines in their struggle to maintain and build readership in these trying digital times. | Surprisingly the Times did address the topic of their similarity to magazines less than a month later. | neutral |
But it certainly complicates the story, and Gerth either downplayed it or left it out. | It was not narrative complication, but rather jealousy that compelled Gerth to downplay certain story elements. | neutral |
Not all falsehoods, of course, are lies (the key ingredient in a lie is intentionality). | Intent is the only difference between lies and falsehoods. | neutral |
[E]ven after being taken down a notch or two, [cities] will remain, by virtue of their concentrations of energy and intellect, at the center of the American political imagination. | A recent study has suggested that American political imagination is richer than ever. | neutral |
We have close friends who have us to their home for dinner almost every week. | We have no close friends and never go to anyones home for dinner. | contradiction |
White Sox) and showcase the sport's stars in more cities, thereby boosting attendance and merchandise sales, which, in turn, will enable owners to satisfy players' skyrocketing salary demands. | Selling merchandise is one way to boost the revenue of baseball players. | entailment |
(It's short indeed, going from Mesopotamia to medieval Burgundy to Nicole Simpson in 10 pages.) | It's not a great book for studying history. | neutral |
To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing store and build a three-bedroom house; and Rani, an illiterate woman from the washermen's caste, changed into her prettiest sari one recent morning. | Rani, the woman from the washermen's caste, could not read or write. | entailment |
Third, the woman serves the man's need to be needed. | Women offer no benefits to men. | contradiction |
After its early failure, Hubble now provides vital clues to the universe. | Hubble will continue to provide insight into the cosmos. | neutral |
In Chicago and in Northridge, the doctors should have known that blindly following policy was bad. | Doctors should not follow policies without thinking about them. | entailment |
The striking thing about workers' comments after the vote was how many of them mentioned the possibility of the company shutting down its operations. | The votes were cast through an app the workers use on their phone. | neutral |
H ome Every baby superstore features a section that could be called the Wall of Death. | The Wall of Death refers to the area where stores keep their most expensive items. | neutral |
The dog that did bark but no one noticed--the political turmoil in the three great South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which now are well on the way to passing the three northern Asian nations of China, Japan, and Russia in population (Indonesia is fourth, Pakistan just passed Japan to seventh, India will soon pass China to first). | South Asia is an uninhabited wasteland with neither nations nor people. | contradiction |
It will be pointed out again and again that Bradley is just as awkward a campaigner as Gore. | Gore and Bradley are not involved in politics. | contradiction |
Milosevic points to 1989. | 1999 was the example Milosevic had given. | contradiction |
The important question is not whether these stories are true | There are more important qualities than if the truthfulness of the stories. | entailment |
And by planting what looks like a bold idea--that the purpose of campaigning is to engender optimism and renew our faith--he erases his obligation to tell us how he would govern. | He took this point of view because he had no real plan as to how he would govern if elected. | neutral |
The online Times offers a daily Whitewater, Etc. update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago. | The online Times started covering Whitewater a year ago. | contradiction |
Maybe they are drug or alcohol addicts or have multiple family or behavioral problems--or maybe they simply have a bad attitude. | They have issues. | entailment |
Providing escape routes from the inner city may make the ghettos worse by depriving them of their most competent residents. | There are factors to consider when providing escape routes from inner cities that could affect the status quo. | entailment |
The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance. | the gifts aren't going to cost much. | neutral |
But they are a huge hassle and costly--nearly $1,000 a year. | Costing next to nothing, they are incredibly convenient. | contradiction |
' All of President Clinton's untruths, all of his lying under oath, if you will, about an extramarital relationship does not subvert the Constitution (Schumer). | Clinton was wearing a red tie when he lied. | neutral |
The more fantastic grow the evening gowns on the runway, the more uniform grows the garb of the crowds on the subway. | There is no growth on the runway. | contradiction |
Thanks to this blurring of the victim-perpetrator distinction, Ted's nephew Joe was able to get elected to Congress despite his own car accident, which likewise devastated his passenger, four years after Chappaquiddick. | Unfortunately, Joe failed to get elected. | contradiction |
Just two weeks ago, I watched him on Rivera Live spin the nation on the subject of the president and Monica Lewinsky's relationship. | The President and Monica Lewinsky had a relationship. | entailment |
This suppression is an outrage, but our policy must be more sophisticated than mere indignation. | They chose to embrace indignation as a reaction to the suppression. | contradiction |
Equally important--and I admit this sounds kind of cornball--success required the civic spiritedness of pro- and anti-busing parents alike, who saw their way clear to hammering out compromises. | These ideas are not even close to being equally important. | contradiction |
On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips. | The table has glass vases containing roses. | contradiction |
But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99. | A 99 happened after the election concluded. | neutral |
: The preceding images are not from Michelangelo and His Drawings from Windsor Castle (online reproduction of art in the National Gallery exhibition is forbidden). | There are no Michelangelo drawings at Windsor Castle. | contradiction |
Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls. | Truman wasn't ashamed to document his mysterious encounters. | entailment |
Last weekend, journalist couple Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue signed affidavits claiming that Blumenthal told them last March that Lewinsky was a stalker. | Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue are in a relationship. | entailment |
Investors can decide not only that Microsoft owes its success to the abuse of monopoly power, and not only that the courts will strip the company of this ability, but that Microsoft doesn't know any other way to survive. | The author argues that investors are powerless to control the direction of the company. | contradiction |
Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting. | Sometimes restaurants boil the sausages prior to putting them on the frying griddle. | neutral |
So who wins Round Two? | There is a Round Two of the event. | entailment |
Even liberal economists who are opposing the CPI adjustment understand how good the status quo is for the GOP. | The GOP does not like the status quo. | contradiction |
Best wishes until we meet again--perhaps over Volume 9 of some future 14-volume biography of Rosalynn Carter. | Rosalynn Carter's biography barely had enough to fit one volume. | contradiction |
Critics point out, however, that neither the Federal Election Commission nor the state of Arizona has certified any standards for Internet voting. | Arizona lacks certified standards for voting online. | entailment |
Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty. | Chemical companies are trying to get the treated signed. | entailment |
The U.S. has never backed down. | The US policy is to quickly retreat from any potential conflicts. | contradiction |
The team now faces China, which crushed defending champion Norway 5-0. | China cheated the last round. | neutral |
Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes. | The vetting committee stayed outside. | neutral |
Trent Lott recently called the agency intrusive, abusive, and out of control. | Trent Lott recently called the agency respectful, courteous, and easy to work with. | contradiction |
We wonder if they, too, would feel uncomfortable with our differences made so plainly apparent. | The authors capable of making changes in order to make the differences between them and others less noticeable. | neutral |
If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom. | Spock is knowledgeable when it comes to child-rearing. | entailment |
Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me a cheap shot--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse. | The author specifically made a reference to the examples he was referring to. | contradiction |
Last week we purged our delivery lists of people who hadn't subscribed. | There were less names on the list after the purge, than before the purge. | entailment |
Regarding Onward, Christian Clothiers: I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory here's hell in your face passages. | Christian wants to teach others more about Scripture. | contradiction |
Less well known, if less salacious, is the fact that in 1915, the Presbyterian moralist Woodrow Wilson, then a recent widower, used agents to run interference for him in his amorous pursuits. | in 1915, Woodrow Wilson was still happily married. | contradiction |
As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in the London Sunday Mirror reporting claims that Clarke had paid for sex with young boys. | Arthur C. Clark, writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, is being accused by the London Sunday Mirror of paying for sex with young boys. | entailment |
Chinese President Jiang Zemin is attracting scrutiny now that his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, is dead. | Zemin thanked Xioping for his mentorship. | neutral |
Interviewed by the British Journalism Review about the extent of his personal interference in the editorial policies of his newspapers, which include the Independent , Tony O'Reilly, chairman of the Heinz food company, said he gives his editors absolutely free rein provided they abide by some general rules. | Tony O'Reilly has his editors under very strict guidelines. | contradiction |
The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it. | Both the editorial side and the advertising sides of the Graham's post have all positive things to say about the PDFA. | neutral |
The market for general-interest weekly magazines has long since dried Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead. | Look was a general-interest weekly magazine. | entailment |
If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it. | The woman is a talented artist. | neutral |
Their issuing of short-term buy or short-term hold recommendations obviously intensifies pressure on companies to meet and beat earnings expectations at all costs. | They have said that even if their previous years earning are not met, there will be no repercussions. | contradiction |
A companion piece advocates destroying food bacteria with low-level radiation. | The companion piece cites studies which prove the effectiveness of radiation in destroying food bacteria. | neutral |
Thanks a bunch. | I appreciate the help you've given me. | entailment |
After coming up with the idea for the project and appointing an associate editor to run it, he says, he was only minimally involved. | His involvement in the project was minor. | entailment |
Book and software pirates are prosecuted under the copyright laws, but pirates are not really plagiarists. | Being a pirate can get you arrested. | entailment |
There have even been some frustrated musings among conservative writers and pundits that the people are not necessarily all-wise. | There are many arguments between conservative writers about the character of the people. | neutral |
First of all, my extreme apologies for the spelling mistake. | The writer is, generally speaking, a very good speller. | neutral |
While Coz preaches decorum, the Globe has added more sensationalism, more gore, more nasty gossip. | The Globe does not publish sensationalist articles. | contradiction |
My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes! | The software is not perfect. | entailment |
At the Naval Academy, McCain was nicknamed Punk, and that's what he is. | McCain's nickname is Punk. | entailment |
Pepper and Blanco have conferred with Bush campaign officials in Austin twice since mid-August to discuss their ideas, according to sources on the campaign. | Bush campaign officials have rejected most of the suggestions that Pepper and Blanco have made. | neutral |
Mir's life span has been extended well past what it was designed for, as Russia cannot afford a replacement. | Russia does not have enough money to replace Mir. | entailment |
that's odd. | It really happens all the time. | contradiction |
That one, I suspect, is harder to refute. | I do not know how to refute that one. | entailment |
So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising? | I am a fairly decent Jew although I have the tendency to be quarrelsome. | neutral |
One week, you're the only one he can turn to when Newt shuts down the government; the next, you're bucking him up for Saddam. | At no point in time has the U.S. government been shut down. | contradiction |
What has allowed Intel to dominate its many competitors, who are perennially nipping at its heels with computer chips that are supposedly faster or cheaper, is that Intel does a much better job of making chips reliably and efficiently. | Intel's competitors operate at a loss because they have been forced to increase spending to make their chips faster. | neutral |
Ajami's heroes are figures such as Egypt's novelist Naguib Mahfuz, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibah, and the tragic Hawi--men of integrity imbued with the old, confident spirit of cosmopolitanism and an openness to the Western ideas that led to the Arab awakening in the first place. | Ajami has read all of his hero's works. | neutral |
If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency. | The acting job can be replaced without a Senate confirmation hearing. | contradiction |
The cover shows Johnson, a bland-looking man in full business attire, on the porch of an all-American home that looks a tad too small to be his. | Johnson wears shorts in the depiction. | contradiction |
(It's not housebroken, and it's full-grown.) | It's an adult. | entailment |
There's nothing in Pecker that isn't done more brilliantly--and more subversively--every week on Mike Judge's inspired cartoon series King of the Hill . | Matt Groening is the cartoonist and creator behind King of the Hill. | contradiction |
Also, the routine random inspections used by U.S. government agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are almost exactly like those planned under the CWC, and these have been found constitutional. | OSHA and EPA are careful organizations that are constitutional. | neutral |
While conservatives bash Bulworth for its political correctness, The Nation likens it to Citizen Kane . Like [Orson] Welles, [Warren] Beatty brings to this production a history of left-liberal politics and an admiration for black musicians, says Stuart Klawans. | The movie references provided by The Nation are appropriate for comparing the actions of Bulworth. | neutral |
Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw. | The rankings are accurate. | contradiction |
But nothing like this ever gets said. | Things like this get said all the time. | contradiction |
He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments. | He is a strict person. | entailment |
But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press. | The press is overextending the AOL deal. | neutral |
Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion. | The construction of communications networks will be undertaken. | entailment |
Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched. | The patient had regular tics. | entailment |
But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed. | Hypotheses can be confirmed. | entailment |
When they watched these films in the presence of an authority figure, however, the Americans' facial expressions were essentially the same as when they watched the films alone, whereas the Japanese showed much less negative affect, smiled sometimes, and actually masked negative emotion with smiling behavior. | the films lasted 2 and a half hours. | neutral |
But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant. | Yeltsin was known for being easily predictable when making his appointments. | contradiction |
Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue. | She criticized media outlets for their focus on the issue. | contradiction |
The key ingredient seems to be averageness. | There is not a key ingredient in this recipe. | contradiction |
In the beginning there was a great tortoisewho supported the world. | In the beginning there was a terrible tortoise who hated the world. | contradiction |
Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas. | The reporters are happy to be working on an extended article about the clash of ideas. | contradiction |
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