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Stephen King dumped his longtime publisher, Viking, and is seeking more than $17 million for his new book. | The famous author sought a new imprimatur. | entailment |
With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general. | It's unimaginable that females die in car accidents. | contradiction |
He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications. | The sentences showed he was concerned about the moral implications of the polce. | contradiction |
The unit immediately below us has been rented out as a live/work space to a couple with a video business. | The couple is two men. | neutral |
The superficial The even split of many of his assets vindicates her argument and bodes well for corporate wives. | It's always possible for corporate wives who wants to divorce to obtain half of the assets of their husbands | neutral |
As in America, British news organizations offer a wide variety of information to Web surfers. | British News organizations refuse to post information on the Web. | contradiction |
Sheppard, Time ). Skeptics renew old attacks on sociobiology's all-encompassing view of human nature. | Skeptics used to attack sociobiology and it's all-encompassing views of human nature. | entailment |
Chrysler's elaborate system of dealerships might, in theory, help Mercedes crack the U.S. market, where its share is now less than 1 percent. | Mercedes is very popular in other countries like Germany. | neutral |
Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding. | Prudie gave recommendations for what they felt might be a better alternative to the T-shirt bra. | neutral |
It's a big week for women's health at Newsweek , too. | Men's health is going to have a big week. | contradiction |
Suppose Shepard is right that we are understating productivity growth by, say, 1 percent. | Shepard thinks that there will be no growth in the economy | contradiction |
Joe Biden, D-Del., betrayed the No, I don't think we can negotiate with him--if you mean can we, in fact, work out something other than those minimal demands that were stated by NATO. | Joe Biden went against NATO's wishes. | neutral |
The Times claimed that the number boycotting never reached a critical mass that would have threatened the integrity of its list. | The boycotters affected the integrity of Times' list | contradiction |
Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses). | Chess prodigies are more likely to be arrested than the average person. | neutral |
Women are so large a part of the labor force that it is hard to believe that this could be true of the total if it were not also true of women. | Women make up a small portion of the labor force. | contradiction |
If my dog is reading this, he'd better run now. | My dog is in trouble. | entailment |
I'm no economist, but I believe this is the point President Clinton intends to make in Tokyo tomorrow. | President Clinton plans on going to Tokyo and staying for a week. | neutral |
It depends on such questions as 1) how effectively the industrialized nations can monitor the average rogue state once they start synergistically pooling their intelligence, and 2) how tough economic sanctions have to be before even the Syrias of the world fall into line. | Industrialized nations want to monitor rogue states. | entailment |
Keirsey does not muck around in your excretions in order to determine your personality. | Keirsey doesn't want to waste any time in determining your personality. | neutral |
The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers. | The new challengers will come from all across the United States. | neutral |
I know you find that hard to accept, but really, it's true. | The author doesn't agree with the outcome they're talking about. | neutral |
Bob Smith quit the GOP and will run for president as an independent. | Leaving the party backfired for Bob Smith. | neutral |
Coming after Don't Look Back , the superb cinema verite documentary D.A. | It came before Don’t Look Back. | contradiction |
The magazines do the math on the State of the Union address. | People magazine does a four-page feature for each State of the Union address. | neutral |
Kenny needs to come back home to Texas. | He's much better off living his life in Paris. | contradiction |
In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation. | The formula used for how much a foundation should give away per quarter is about ten percent. | entailment |
Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions. | Our modern day culture thinks we like addiction, and calls that an addiction of being addicted. | contradiction |
The Pentagon told CNN & | The media outlets and the Pentagon ignore each other | contradiction |
With a bit of elementary mathematics and a lot of keen insight, Arrow was forced to a sobering If a reasonable voting system is one that respects unanimity and precludes flip-flops, then there are no reasonable voting systems, with one exception--the system that picks one voter and makes him a dictator. | Arrow's keen insight was that the system that picks one voter and makes him a dictator is a reasonable voting system. | entailment |
Comments like these make you wonder not whether Bush and his friends ever used cocaine, but whether they ever stopped. | Americans wonder if Bush and his buddies were users of cocaine, because his comments were in support of its use. | neutral |
Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky? | Make certain to refrain from questioning granny about her luck. | contradiction |
The most extreme version of this concept, called group selection, is Gaia, which suggests that all of life cooperates so as to ensure its continued survival. | Gaia is also known as group selection. | entailment |
No, because this is something that's private. | The author is talking about something public. | contradiction |
They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a stodgy affair (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--more The | The movie stared Jason Alexander. | entailment |
The Globe reports that both singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have unacknowledged sons. | It was reported by the Globe that Hugh O'Brian and Tom Jones have sons that are illegitimate. | entailment |
The media linked the case to other recent shootings (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky) and focused on the warning signs and the importance of taking them seriously. | The media focused on warning signs. | entailment |
our casual voodoo the pleasure to give pain that gives pleasure of pain, unmerited, cruel, free creation | Casual voodoo is an action that the author takes pleasure in. | entailment |
Brazilians, for instance, with their mestizo consciousness and their many gradations of tipo , or type, behold with disdain our crude bifurcation of race. | Brazilians take issue with our bifurcation of race. | entailment |
He is troubled over whether to accept donations from the professional kirkbuzzers'* guild. | He isn't sure he wants the money. | entailment |
The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign. | Bush hired the best he could to help run his campaign. | neutral |
I hope the next generation is large enough to include that person. | The person is a relative of the author. | neutral |
Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted nay on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women. | Women make up less than half of people working minimum wage, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | contradiction |
The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal? | Doesn't Mom Deserve Flowers for Mother's Day is a poem. | contradiction |
That's what I remember about Woodstock. | Many folks have been in Woodstock and treasure plenty of memories | entailment |
Might they be used for this purpose before meeting their ends if we make their deaths as humane as possible? | They could be used for a different purpose, before being slain. | entailment |
You can fast the next day. | You aren't allowed to fast the next day. | contradiction |
The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate. | Clinton was found innocent of any part of Filegate or Travelgate. | entailment |
(The magazine revised its methodology to reward high spending on instruction.) | The magazine revised it's spending methodology. | neutral |
Lockheed helped build the Hubble Telescope--no surprise, really, given how it performed initially--and the space shuttle. | The Hubble Telescope was built in collaboration with JPL. | neutral |
When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative. | A decision maker might make a less conservative decision if there are more pros than cons. | neutral |
Both Germany and the United States classify the PKK as a terrorist organization . | Englan and France consider the PKK to be terrorists. | neutral |
Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy. | Farrow is of laughter and drenched in overwhelming cheerfulness. | contradiction |
Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time. | For a long time critics have felt she was a phony. | entailment |
Whether, in an age of multinational capitalism, we may talk reasonably about a post-colonial era is way beyond the scope of this article. | Considering the time period of multinational capitalism that we are in, post-colonialism is a trivial topic. | contradiction |
As if the Kennedy family didn't have enough to deal with, the Star reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to Kennedy cousin Maria Shriver, accidentally killed the family's chocolate Labrador when he ran over it with his Humvee. | Arnold Schwarzenegger ran over the family's dog in his convertible. | contradiction |
But there's a larger explanation. | It can be clarified further. | entailment |
The new translation of Homer's The Odyssey has whipped up so much fervor that Paul Gray in Time has proclaimed the existence of the Fagles phenomenon. | No one has read the new translation of, "The Odyssey." | contradiction |
I felt like a moron for not being able to figure this out myself. | I was not smart enough. | neutral |
Pour coffee into Christopher Hitchens until he's sober enough to finish his cover story, 'Friendship. | Drinking coffee will only inebriate Hitchens more. | contradiction |
I take my 15 cents and head for the liquor store. | I had 15 cents to spend at the store. | entailment |
Our loyal opposition on the right used to tell us that a man can do anything with his property. | The opposition fulling believed in and embraced the idea that a man can do anything with his property, as they have fought to keep this freedom intact. | contradiction |
Music critics complain about the computer's tin ear, but artificial intelligence experts are impressed. | Music critics thought the computer's tin ear was perfect. | contradiction |
Morris is more of an idiot savant. | Morris is the most renowned scientific person ever. | contradiction |
We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest. | The author puts his self-interests before his philanthropy. | contradiction |
Entrepreneurs now use cheap new technology, such as remote-operated vehicles, to salvage artifacts from ancient wrecks. | The remote control business is booming because of scavangers. | neutral |
Forcing HMOs to stay in a failing business cannot be good for seniors and would chill entry by others. | Seniors have something to gain by making HMOs stay in a failing business. | contradiction |
You could say to your surgeon friend what Ivana Trump I'm very well rested, and I changed my makeup. | It is impossible to converse with your surgeon. | contradiction |
Heavily promote the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters. | Forget about promoting the collected Edmund Wilson-Paula Barbieri letters. | 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 are not as good as currency futures, or commodity futures for companies and capital markets. | entailment |
Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones. | Their claims about black businesses involved them being less unfair than businesses run by white people, but was challenged by products from other nations. | 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 remains a threat. | entailment |
News this week isn't in the Owner Mort Zuckerman has fired Editor James Fallows. | The two occasionally saw eye to eye. | neutral |
By the 1820s and '30s, most states were allowing all white men to vote (before that, they had to own land), and President Andrew Jackson was leading his famous war on the national bank. | No one knew President Andrew Jackson fought the national bank. | contradiction |
TP had to read yesterday's WP twice before noticing that key members of the Post editorial staff are apparently suffering the cerebral ill effects of too much exposure to brightly colored polyester. | The key staff’s Ill effects from exposure to the polyester was short lived. | neutral |
Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he refused. | Sheen loves going to rehab. | contradiction |
Why don't you refresh your recollection for a while, and we'll talk when I'm back. | When I get back, we'll talk about your recollection. | entailment |
More than that, once a condition is established as a diagnosis, society practically treats it as a crime not to do something about it. | It is usually difficult to reach a diagnosis. | neutral |
Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket. | The dinner jacket has been around for centuries. | neutral |
The troopers see Hillary as an undesirable, foul-mouthed harridan who had brought the mistreatment and neglect on herself. | Hillary wasn't very popular among troopers | entailment |
But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious. | Eisner kept his brand up to date and it succeeded. | neutral |
That report could deliver a knockout blow to Clinton. | This report is the going to secure the win for Clinton. | contradiction |
If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs. | CNN executives would be unable to demand boring programs if they crashed frequently. | entailment |
Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani. | Clinton has to bring up the enthusiasm of minority races. | entailment |
I believe the public wants solutions that work, not attacks that divide, says Bradley. | Bradly made a speech in front of many people stating he believes he knows what the public wants. | neutral |
If U.S. cities were abandoned tomorrow, would the survival rate of our public buildings be better or worse? | Public buildings are destined to last forever despite the presence of humans | contradiction |
She is frightened to death of her remaining children, whom she suspects of plotting to murder her. | She loves her children quite dearly, and feels that they only have her best interest at heart. | contradiction |
Cholesterol isn't necessarily unhealthy, and margarine is as bad as butter. | Margarine harms our health | entailment |
Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history. | The history keeps being interesting for a lot of people despite the passing of time | neutral |
Parlayed pastoral visit into a week of self-promotion. | The priestly meeting is a period of boasting. | entailment |
Nixon's Watergate sins (dismissed by the public on the eve of the election as, at most, the work of overzealous campaign aides) caught up with him in his second term. | The public was shocked that the campaign aides were able to pull that off. | neutral |
The nanny, by comparison, can be trusted to control the children, but her constant presence irritates the children and slows down the shoot. | The children love being around the nanny. | contradiction |
Time 's cover story explains how popular serotonin-boosting drugs (such as diet pills Redux and fen-phen) work, and how they can be health risks (high serotonin levels damage heart valves). | Researchers have discovered that serotonin promotes healthy heart activity. | contradiction |
The editors Slate is here for the duration. | Slate is leaving right now. | contradiction |
She is attracted to me and we would like to see more of each other. | We want to see more of each other. | entailment |
They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring. | People did not care for Bush and his ethics before and that never changed. | neutral |
The court upheld a trial judge's decision to 1) reduce Woodward's conviction from murder to manslaughter in the death of an 8-month-old baby and 2) reduce her prison sentence from 15 years to the 279 days she had already served. | The jury moved to reduce Woodward's sentence. | entailment |
Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion. | The communications network is completely funded by the government. | neutral |
In one massacre, an 11-year-old girl watched her father being marched off and later found his charred body. | There were lots of children who witnessed a similar fate having happened to their father, as did the 11-year-old girl. | neutral |
He telegraphs the ending--you know the Limey will somehow be at the root of his daughter's death--but it's still an emotional wow. | The Limey will be important regarding his daughter's death. | entailment |
He hasn't much changed America. | One thing that's change in America is peoples willingness to lend people help when needed. | neutral |
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