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The Super Bowl will be a grudge match between Broncos quarterback John Elway and former Broncos coach Dan Reeves, who now coaches the Falcons. | Elway enjoyed playing under Reeves, but his sole focus now is to defeat him. | neutral |
Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British. | David Plotz taught his kids that Winnie-the-Pooh was American or British. | neutral |
After 15 years of almost uninterrupted superlative performance--which not even the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps could seriously slow down--it's almost impossible to remember how close Disney was to being dismantled in the early 1980s. | Disney was almost dismantled after 15 years of shoddy performance. | contradiction |
Pre-McGrath, it was even forbidden to review a book published by one's own publishing company. | It is unethical to review a book that your own publishing company published. | neutral |
Of course the little things matter. | Little things can be ignored and dismissed. | contradiction |
Yes, said Emanuel after the HRC speech. | It was confirmed by Emanuel following the HRC speech. | entailment |
scientific (something about string theory and tangles?) | The theory in the statement will be proven true. | neutral |
Some argue that Russia is still reeling from its misguided plan for privatization. | Russia did not have a lapse of judgement about privatization. | contradiction |
John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig. | John Glenn is a guinea pig. | contradiction |
Can I, should I, even, expect her to change? | The author doubts she can ever change her mind about religion. | neutral |
North American Man Boy Like Association. | Women are allowed in the North American Man Boy like Association. | contradiction |
The term slice of life has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere. | LaGravenese's film is silent documentary film. | contradiction |
I think of my late lamented friend Boris Shub, son of the Menshevik historian David Shub, who had set up RIAS (the radio station in the American sector) in Berlin in 1945, a major cold war propaganda asset. | Boris Shub was anti American. | contradiction |
He was 65 at the time. | He had been long awaiting the time of his retirement. | neutral |
On Wednesday , NBC sinks to new lows with The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us? | The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us is on CBS. | contradiction |
If so, it seems to have worked. | Whether it worked depends. | entailment |
Is that such a terrible thing? | The thing isn't as terrible as it seems. | entailment |
They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating. | Bargaining, manipulating and maneuvering is what they see politics involving. | entailment |
It seems to me an unnecessary expense to spend many millions of dollars to reduce a few people's travel time by five minutes. | The travel time mainly includes buses and cabs. | neutral |
The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft. | Microsoft exhibits anti-competitive behavior. | neutral |
The bald, pointy-eared vampire in Nosferatu is barely ambulatory, in fact. | Nosferatu would spend most of his day motionless in a coffin. | neutral |
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’s goal in appearing this way was to project his business savvy. | neutral |
Second, the whole fiasco was the best thing that could have happened to the firm. | The fiasco was no ones fault. | neutral |
He must know that no one can be shocked when everyone's in on the joke, but he doesn't seem to want (or to be able) to step outside the camp aesthetic and play anything straight. | He believed that everyone was surprised by the joke. . | contradiction |
How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles? | Most articles I recognize 20% wrong. | entailment |
He dramatizes right up to the point where a dramatist would be expected to provide some insight--and then, hey, he's a documentarian. | He is a better documentarian than dramatist. | neutral |
The cover story on Trent Lott doubts that he can control the Republican Senate. | There is always faith that Trent Lott can control the Republican Senate. | contradiction |
Earlier this week, Roy confessed that she'd stuffed some movie-related faxes into books, saving them for a calmer time ... | Roy wanted to save the faxes for a calmer time. | entailment |
A boxer cannot fight with a heart condition or dementia. | Some times a boxer will still continue to fight if they have physical or mental conditions. | neutral |
Do I just have the capacity to eat doughnuts and hamburgers and broccoli? | And I asketh thee, dost thou believe it is my sole purpose to consume pastries and burgers and broccoli? | entailment |
Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations. | Click here to subscribe to my blog series. | neutral |
Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford. | Schor believed that immersing yourself in material wealth was negative. | entailment |
Dr. Arthur Caplan, the only ethicist at the hearing who betrayed any awareness of the new issues, focused instead on the morality of trade-offs. | Every ethicist at the hearing shared their knowledge about the new issues. | contradiction |
As a society we may have to face facts. | We members of the community must all face the facts. | entailment |
It's true that many, many Jews will be killed. | Many, many Israelites will be saved through this. | contradiction |
NAAG meets four times a year so its various committees can hash out ideas for litigation, like the billing fraud case now being developed against the hospital chains. | NAAG meets every week so its committees can waste time and argue with each other. | contradiction |
I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose. | There is no one who does not know what happiness is when they are feeling it. | contradiction |
The 8-year-old study says 59 percent of a sample of college students think oral sex doesn't constitute having sex. | The college students do not see oral sex and sexual intercourse as being no different from one another. | contradiction |
Who actually thinks that having teen-agers line up to pee after they've demonstrated their parallel parking skills is a reasonable way to demand responsible behavior by young people when it comes to drugs, as Clinton proclaimed? | Drug testing teens improves their behavior. | neutral |
*The scalpers-and-brokers point was brought to Chatterbox's attention by Randolph Cohen's brother Andrew, who is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse. | Chatterbox ignored ticket scalpers and brokers. | contradiction |
Since all these are changes in how we live, not anything innate, we have to conclude that what we are describing here are effects of environment, not genes. | The environment can affect how we live. | neutral |
But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of | Robert Pinsky is unable to understand poetry. | contradiction |
For that matter, we can't compare the GIs to the Athenians of Pericles' time, the Florentines of Michelangelo's, or the Americans of Abraham Lincoln's. | The list of similarities are many when it comes to these GIs. | contradiction |
(Countering a question about tackiness, Dexter says, You should see what we turned down--'I Have a Dream' ice cream, Martin Luther King pocketknives. | Dexter thought that "i have a dream" ice cream and MLK pocket knives were a good idea. | contradiction |
It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things. | It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the right things. | contradiction |
Right now, I'd settle for a creative genius who could teach us how to think about the population problem. | Any old person can help us understand the population problem. | contradiction |
When asked whether the United States should oppose loans to Russia because of the war, Berger replies, It's a premature question because the predicate question is whether they get the economic reforms in order, at which point we'll have to look at what's in our national interest. | Berger had a deep knowledge of Russia's policies | neutral |
Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now. | Enough life was on Mars until now. | contradiction |
At the conference, they defended their activities against numerous Solidarity leaders denied they made too many compromises; priests denied they had been co-opted by the party; and Communists denied they had committed treason. | At the conference all parties were in full agreement with one another, as the event remained peaceful. | contradiction |
Monica moves to the Pentagon, but the relationship intermittently continues. | Monica's relationship is irregular since she moved to the Pentagon. | entailment |
(By contrast, Slate 's assessment relies entirely upon sources who are not identified by name.) | Slate's assessment has unidentified sources. | entailment |
is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves. | The article accepts a number that made it difficult for them to utilize to their advantage. | contradiction |
Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking legal mumbo jumbo to obscure the immorality of his misconduct. | Clinton is being charged for his misconduct. | neutral |
Just two weeks ago, I watched him on Rivera Live spin the nation on the subject of the president and Monica Lewinsky's relationship. | He spoke for nearly an hour, and shared his beliefs about what he thought took place between the president and Lewinsky. | neutral |
He looks like he's still alive. | He is showing signs of being dead. | contradiction |
The intervention could be stopped by a block of isolationist senators and House members. | A section of congress is capable of barring the interference. | entailment |
In other words, on a day when George Bush was supposedly distancing himself from conservative Republicans, he was actually caving to their foolish dogma on the issue at the center of campaign--over the objection of his two top advisors on the subject. | The issues at the center of the campaign lasted a long time. | neutral |
I can't in good conscience argue that you shouldn't field a team. | Saying that you're unfit to field a team would go against my moral conscience. | entailment |
As an alternative to my approach, in which the growth in Holocaust memory is to be explained by the contemporary purposes it serves, you suggest a focus on the Jewish tradition of remembering catastrophes. | My approach suggests a focus on remembering catastrophes. | contradiction |
One consequence is that the United States needs fewer land-based nukes since it is no longer planning all-out war with Russia. | Being in peaceful relationships with Russia pushes the USA to produce more land-based nukes | contradiction |
But by the time Avis' employees bought the company, the new thinking was that there was no better way of encouraging their creativity and dedication. | The Avis employees did not find a way to buy the company. | contradiction |
Or, more creatively yet, maybe one new senator could just stop talking for a while. | New senators are so quiet and rarely if ever speak. | contradiction |
Ultimately, what's most important about Disney's struggle to turn ABC around is how impressive it makes the company's management of its own franchise look. | Disney managed to successfully turn ABC around in months. | contradiction |
So read Slate . A lot. | It's possible only to listen to the audio version of Slate | contradiction |
From your report of the timetable, your brother's wife started the marriage with no intention of being faithful. | Your brother's wife is very against infidelity. | contradiction |
Critics also welcome his ambivalence on Russia's Unlike most Russia watchers, Mr. | Critics disliked his feelings about Russia. | contradiction |
These folks have opposed every American military operation from Grenada to the Gulf War. | They are anti-war. | neutral |
An accompanying survey ranks the 100 biggest health Fallon Community comes out on top. | Fallon Community has excellent doctors on staff. | neutral |
The race was notable for the last several laps, in which Earnhardt rode Gordon's bumper at 190 mph. | Gordon won the race. | neutral |
And a number of large firms have downsized successfully, most obviously General Electric, which cut an astounding 170,000 jobs worldwide in 12 years while simultaneously tripling its sales. | Lots of employees lost their jobs due to downsizing at large firms. | entailment |
Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists! | Scientists like to study about sex. | neutral |
(And where is a percontativus now that I need one?) | I have a percontativus right here. | contradiction |
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 . | Officials are afraid government attorneys will use their conversations against them. | entailment |
'If prison is going to be my next home,' he did not quip, 'I'd better get used to this. | The man lives in a prison. | contradiction |
We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup. | Gallup's vice president is Jack Ludwig. | entailment |
After the return to Colgate Gel--because of its positive characteristics when used with the Sonicare cordless brush--my mouth was just about back to normal. | My mouth was almost recovered after using Sonicare brush and Colgate Gel. | entailment |
No wonder, then, that right-wingers think of PBS as liberal and lefties regard it as a corporate/conservative tool. | Members of the right and left would later have their concerns about PBS addressed by the organization, as it sought to clarify it's position on political matters. | neutral |
Polls show most people aren't willing to impeach Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, but they do think he's been exposed as a liar and cover-up artist. | Clinton has been exposed over the affair, but most aren't willing to impeach him. | entailment |
Safire suggests that Janet Reno should have asked to see the president alone, warned him unequivocally of the penetration, enlisted his aid in the investigation--or, if she thought it necessary, read him his rights. | Janet Reno was not interested in seeing the president. | contradiction |
Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace. | It is against the law to discuss the deceased. | 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. | This is the best way to live life. | neutral |
And what exactly is the scandal about Wolf that Gore is covering up? | Gore is covering up a scandal about Wolf, that involves his massive shoe collection. | neutral |
Does this mean that unpopular individual rights are in peril? | Unpopular individual rights have been taken from us. | contradiction |
The second reference to bumfuzzled was in History of the Life of Rev. | A third reference was made in another book. | neutral |
Thanks to current banking regulations, more than 85 percent of U.S. banks currently maintain KYC programs. | KYC programs have never been hacked. | neutral |
How do we know when the president had done a good job? | The president did their best to do their job well. | neutral |
The relationship it describes may strike many as exploitative or ugly for other reasons, but it is not illegal. | The relationship is legal. | entailment |
The cover story , rehashing last week's discovery that smart mice can be genetically engineered, predicts that the bioengineering of human intelligence will soon be possible. | No one has ever tested anything on mice. | contradiction |
PointCast has succeeded so far with a mass-market approach--relatively few news sources, sorted into relatively few buckets. | The mass-market approach is doing what it was intended to do. | entailment |
Gay liberation, like feminism, is central to the whole individualist ethos of the last two decades. | The individual is outside the interests of Gay liberation and feminism. | contradiction |
As federal employees, postal workers are not allowed to strike and, if a negotiated settlement cannot be reached, contractual disputes are resolved by binding arbitration. | Postal workers cannot picket against their job. | entailment |
But others praise it as a minor-league farm team for potential NATO members, and celebrate its civilizing influence (some PFP members have settled long-standing border disputes). | It is thought of as having potential to become a member of NATO. | entailment |
But the stallions who run Ruby see the place as purely evil. | Some stallions see the place is immoral. | neutral |
and she was talking gibberish. | It was easy to understand what she was saying. | contradiction |
As long as there are still U.S. workers paying payroll taxes (and if there aren't, we'll have many far bigger problems), these can cover at least partial benefits. | Partial benefits can still be covered, as long as payroll taxes are collected from U.S. workers. | entailment |
Part of recognizing that Touch of Evil is a masterpiece means also recognizing that it's often suffocatingly unpleasant, and that Welles is working off his aggression for the vast, trash-movie audience that he hoped to attract. | Unpleasant audiences attract Welles' aggression. | contradiction |
His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend. | His constant name-dropping causes lots of people to see him as braggadocious. | neutral |
But skeptics suggest a darker that the Lippo fee was a payoff to Hubbell to keep quiet about Whitewater. | Hubbell spoke with the press about Whitewater. | contradiction |
So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim. | It is hurtful to 1950 owners if punishment happens in 1980. | entailment |
It rejects Albania's claims for independence but decries the crackdown. | Albania is happy to be a part of another county. | contradiction |
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