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Newsweek answers its own cover line with an optimistic yes.	Often magazine cover lines are controversial,	neutral
Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).	Springer makes weak excuses.	entailment
Prior to its alliance with the government, the PDFA merely hogged the drug debate.	The PDFA shut down the drug debate entirely.	contradiction
Why, if Isikoff's so bad?	Isikoff is bad.	entailment
Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.	Poblete thinks congress is rethinking about posting them.	entailment
I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed.	I followed before the door could close behind them.	contradiction
Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space.	Early settlers monopolized the new domain before late comers came.	entailment
Such cultural tourism has become the specialty of a new breed of insta-museum, built solely to imbue foreign masterpieces with glitz and mystique.	The primary role of insta-museums is to educate locals on the issues that affect them.	contradiction
One of the striking things about the Microsoft trial, so far, is the extent to which the Justice Department and its lawyer, David Boies, have built their case around personal vilification of Bill Gates.	Bill Gates has hardly been involved in the case against Microsoft.	contradiction
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 company postponed their vote indefinitely.	contradiction
You e-mail your tale of woe--inferior products, ignorant customer service--to [email protected], and the Shopping Avenger will use his reporting skills, which have been described by some as almost supernatural in scope (and have been described by others as adequate and sort of pathetic) to extract on your behalf grudging apologies from faceless bureaucrats at Fortune 500 companies.	The apologies are handwritten and signed.	neutral
They were pitiful even by microbial standards.	They were considered pathetic by others.	entailment
The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world; and 2) fallen short of victory in Kosovo by using excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force in a conflict involving no strategic interest of the United States.	United States' decision to participate in the conflict in Kosovo caused more damages than benefits	neutral
But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...	Regarding Asians, in America, they are considered the new Jews.	entailment
I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.	Biggs was unable to show that the event that took place in his bedroom was real, which drew the ire of those that watched it.	neutral
Bradley, who has belittled Gore's microproposals (sprawl, traffic, etc.), will see his own self-proclaimed questioned.	Bradley denigrated Gore to push his own work.	neutral
The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her.	The U.S. top political official and his secretary were married.	contradiction
On the radio, they are still talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit.	The art exhibit was a common topic on the radio.	entailment
But aren't education, family leave, and the breakdown of community economic issues?	Healthcare can also be considered an economic issue.	neutral
The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.	Teen-age fertility rate has been decreasing due to contraception.	neutral
And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ...	The Americans are unhappy to see you.	neutral
A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.	Time believed the media was responsible for promoting drugs in the war against fat.	entailment
Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates.	A child who has lost a parent feels capable of dealing with it, especially if he's a future King of England.	contradiction
Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.	The purview of parents has been succeeded by the television and mall.	entailment
Sportscaster Marv Albert denied charges that he had assaulted and sodomized a female acquaintance.	Marv Albert assaulted a perfect stranger	contradiction
The Washington Post called him everyone's favorite Arab moderate.	Many people love the Arab.	entailment
Was Toobin's own judgment distorted by his presumably large Random House advance?	Toobin has a tiny Random House advance.	contradiction
IRA accounts allow income-earners to duck some taxation on that income if they promise to save it until they're old.	A high percentage of people uses the funds in their IRA account before reaching the old age	neutral
Why are you subjecting your loyal and (usually) enthusiastic readership to the reactionary, bigoted, and sexist drivel of Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz in ? We don't subscribe to Slate in order to expose ourselves to the ramblings of Anita Bryant's spiritual parents.	This is exactly the kind of information I expect to get from Slate.	contradiction
The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage, the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor.	Welch is killed in the movie.	neutral
Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.	The shops went out of business last month.	contradiction
The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.	League bowling is more popular than ever.	contradiction
Disk compression and networking into Windows.	Windows networking and disk compression work together.	entailment
Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.	There was little the snoop was able to find out about the target.	contradiction
[This last is a dig at Jesse Jackson.]	This is a compliment towards Jesse Jackson.	contradiction
Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art).	The Folk Art Museum featured Scandinavian pieces.	contradiction
But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.	His politico past is filled with scandals.	neutral
In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House?	The headline covered Russians in Washington, DC.	entailment
And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.	The soil samples and Ms. were left there by me.	contradiction
The Episcopalians are all going to hell.	Episcopalians are absolutely irreproachable, and they will go to heaven.	contradiction
Now along comes PK to blame men.	They are being blamed for issues with income inequality.	neutral
Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket.	For men's clothing, dinner jackets are quite radical.	entailment
Democrats, unwilling to take another beating, folded, voting unanimously for the bill in full committee.	The nation applauded in admiration as the Democrats flaunted their resilience by voting against the bill.	contradiction
Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.	The president is less wasteful of his youth than the young are.	entailment
Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.	Morrison purposely distorts any notion of reality using various methods.	entailment
Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.	The New York Times Book Review has many sex instructional video's.	neutral
However, they should not be punished without due process in the name of 'national security' or 'protection of citizens' lives.	It is wrong to punish others without a good reason.	entailment
Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with other people's Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or whoever.	Things have stayed the same since the 1980s in the economy's leading figures.	contradiction
This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields.	The story was clearly forgotten for the duration of Clinton's presidency.	contradiction
To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.	The Rolling Stones are on tour.	entailment
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.	Hospital chains are being litigated for a billing fraude case.	entailment
Wearing a suit and working at a computer in an office tower are, believe it or not, preferable to backbreaking work in a rice paddy.	Agricultural work is less preferred than office work.	entailment
He's a hippie in a suit.	Despite his business attire, he's a flower child.	entailment
13-year-old I hate the people in our grade--they're all so boring!	Many teens are bored by people in this grade.	neutral
His son and heir, Bashar, is inexperienced (he's an ophthalmologist by training).	Bashar is an experienced Ophthalmologist.	entailment
But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either.	In the end, the character becomes a hero.	neutral
Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from?	Seedless fruits cannot exist because seeds are required for proliferation.	contradiction
Helgeland has set the film in a metropolis of uncertain period (the '50s?	Helgeland's movie time span is known but being kept a secret.	neutral
Defense So could we.	The author is cocksure of himself.	neutral
Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were.	She complains nonstop about the situation.	contradiction
What will I impugn, if not motives?	I will impugn your motives.	neutral
He recognized a Christian duty to charity but was gripped by a fear that his charity would be wasted, thereby incriminating him in sin.	He is a Christian man.	entailment
Based on scuttlebutt and speculation from insiders at the Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Ford White Houses, here are the four likeliest scenarios for presidential adultery.	We used no prior knowledge to come up with our adultery scenarios.	contradiction
I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.	Monica hasn't done any volunteer work and also hasn't taken a job during her ordeal.	entailment
Mixed reviews for the Broadway debut of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.	Horton Foote only showed his play in New York on Broadway once.	neutral
In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.	Mayakovsky was in a retirement house	contradiction
Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill.	Tolly, who gave the world the morphine pill, was a drug smuggler	neutral
Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.	Everyone is trying to work out the details.	entailment
Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.	A financial crisis like the Great Depression is destined to repeat soon worldwide	neutral
For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative.	Albright's reasoning for rejecting Simova's meeting attempts are known to who ever asks.	contradiction
But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.	A person's happiness can be determined by the amount of economic resources they have.	neutral
Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases.	The plan is focused on sales taxes, and aims to reward virtuous shoppers	entailment
Such a show might have opened with the same Robert Henri portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney included here and brought many of the same paintings she collected out of the vault for a fresh look.	The Robert Henri portrait was owned by a museum.	contradiction
It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.	Men recently started to become disinclined to violence.	neutral
When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character.	Some marriages happen just to get a green card	entailment
Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken.	The chicken is delicious.	neutral
While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.	The observer captured some images of himself on the instrument used to end the life of the prisoners	entailment
Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets.	The Soccer Guy made his living by stealing.	neutral
Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.	The woman does a better job of understanding these difficult issues than a typical man would.	neutral
Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.	The level financial forecast change concerned Orrin Hatch.	entailment
At night we sometimes had sex outside on the deck--and even in a swing hanging from a tree in her front yard.	We had sex on a flat surface at night	entailment
Makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.	Many people thought of the same idea before.	contradiction
I then launched Xwindows.	I shut down the computer.	contradiction
Not only did it promote freedom more than any statesman or soldier did by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics, influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.	The theory of relativity influenced many famous people	entailment
And there's no dramatic payoff with the chillingly satanic tobacco company president (Michael Gambon) whose threats first make Wigand think about going public.	The tobacco companies president is seen as a evil man.	entailment
I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.	The person does not need help.	contradiction
He is too many other solid things, in addition to being a Star.	She has few qualities other than being famous.	contradiction
The White House packed its millennium party with tech leaders.	Tech leaders attended the White House's millennium party.	entailment
DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors.	Neanderthals were a dead-end species.	neutral
It is also a comfort if the message comes from a total stranger, as long as the message is for you specifically and personally and not for a name on a mailing list.	If the message is for you in particular, it is okay if it's from a stranger.	entailment
Does Conyers have any evidence that could provide cause for investigation, wonders Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Well, no, that's actually what Reno is supposed to investigate.	Brit Hume was curious if any evidence existed.	entailment
Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building.	Through his work in the oil industry, Rockefeller would build an oil refining empire.	entailment
Once again, a plea to Susan and Sylvester.	Susan and Sylvester are the target of a plea.	entailment
Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.	The mobster ordered a strike after listening to some good music	contradiction
Those who want to believe in the Torah codes will always be able to find ELS that impress them.	The Torah is a boring lecture even for all who believe in it	contradiction
At least you know they're not reading a book or anything.	It's known that they don't read books.	entailment
During the war, hawks who prized human rights and vigilance accused Clinton of going easy on the Serbs.	War Hawks thought greater violence would increase human rights in Serbia.	neutral
For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew.	Being Jewish gives me a sense of pride.	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 followed Safire's suggestions.	neutral
Hardly the act of a speculator in a casino.	The action is indicative of a speculator.	contradiction

Newsweek answers its own cover line with an optimistic yes.

Often magazine cover lines are controversial,

neutral

Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values).

Springer makes weak excuses.

entailment

Prior to its alliance with the government, the PDFA merely hogged the drug debate.

The PDFA shut down the drug debate entirely.

contradiction

Why, if Isikoff's so bad?

Isikoff is bad.

entailment

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

Poblete thinks congress is rethinking about posting them.

entailment

I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed.

I followed before the door could close behind them.

contradiction

Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space.

Early settlers monopolized the new domain before late comers came.

entailment

Such cultural tourism has become the specialty of a new breed of insta-museum, built solely to imbue foreign masterpieces with glitz and mystique.

The primary role of insta-museums is to educate locals on the issues that affect them.

contradiction

One of the striking things about the Microsoft trial, so far, is the extent to which the Justice Department and its lawyer, David Boies, have built their case around personal vilification of Bill Gates.

Bill Gates has hardly been involved in the case against Microsoft.

contradiction

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 company postponed their vote indefinitely.

contradiction

You e-mail your tale of woe--inferior products, ignorant customer service--to [email protected], and the Shopping Avenger will use his reporting skills, which have been described by some as almost supernatural in scope (and have been described by others as adequate and sort of pathetic) to extract on your behalf grudging apologies from faceless bureaucrats at Fortune 500 companies.

The apologies are handwritten and signed.

neutral

They were pitiful even by microbial standards.

They were considered pathetic by others.

entailment

The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world; and 2) fallen short of victory in Kosovo by using excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force in a conflict involving no strategic interest of the United States.

United States' decision to participate in the conflict in Kosovo caused more damages than benefits

neutral

But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...

Regarding Asians, in America, they are considered the new Jews.

entailment

I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted.

Biggs was unable to show that the event that took place in his bedroom was real, which drew the ire of those that watched it.

neutral

Bradley, who has belittled Gore's microproposals (sprawl, traffic, etc.), will see his own self-proclaimed questioned.

Bradley denigrated Gore to push his own work.

neutral

The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her.

The U.S. top political official and his secretary were married.

contradiction

On the radio, they are still talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit.

The art exhibit was a common topic on the radio.

entailment

But aren't education, family leave, and the breakdown of community economic issues?

Healthcare can also be considered an economic issue.

neutral

The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.

Teen-age fertility rate has been decreasing due to contraception.

neutral

And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ...

The Americans are unhappy to see you.

neutral

A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.

Time believed the media was responsible for promoting drugs in the war against fat.

entailment

Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates.

A child who has lost a parent feels capable of dealing with it, especially if he's a future King of England.

contradiction

Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.

The purview of parents has been succeeded by the television and mall.

entailment

Sportscaster Marv Albert denied charges that he had assaulted and sodomized a female acquaintance.

Marv Albert assaulted a perfect stranger

contradiction

The Washington Post called him everyone's favorite Arab moderate.

Many people love the Arab.

entailment

Was Toobin's own judgment distorted by his presumably large Random House advance?

Toobin has a tiny Random House advance.

contradiction

IRA accounts allow income-earners to duck some taxation on that income if they promise to save it until they're old.

A high percentage of people uses the funds in their IRA account before reaching the old age

neutral

Why are you subjecting your loyal and (usually) enthusiastic readership to the reactionary, bigoted, and sexist drivel of Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz in ? We don't subscribe to Slate in order to expose ourselves to the ramblings of Anita Bryant's spiritual parents.

This is exactly the kind of information I expect to get from Slate.

contradiction

The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage, the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor.

Welch is killed in the movie.

neutral

Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.

The shops went out of business last month.

contradiction

The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.

League bowling is more popular than ever.

contradiction

Disk compression and networking into Windows.

Windows networking and disk compression work together.

entailment

Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.

There was little the snoop was able to find out about the target.

contradiction

[This last is a dig at Jesse Jackson.]

This is a compliment towards Jesse Jackson.

contradiction

Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art).

The Folk Art Museum featured Scandinavian pieces.

contradiction

But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.

His politico past is filled with scandals.

neutral

In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House?

The headline covered Russians in Washington, DC.

entailment

And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.

The soil samples and Ms. were left there by me.

contradiction

The Episcopalians are all going to hell.

Episcopalians are absolutely irreproachable, and they will go to heaven.

contradiction

Now along comes PK to blame men.

They are being blamed for issues with income inequality.

neutral

Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket.

For men's clothing, dinner jackets are quite radical.

entailment

Democrats, unwilling to take another beating, folded, voting unanimously for the bill in full committee.

The nation applauded in admiration as the Democrats flaunted their resilience by voting against the bill.

contradiction

Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.

The president is less wasteful of his youth than the young are.

entailment

Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.

Morrison purposely distorts any notion of reality using various methods.

entailment

Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.

The New York Times Book Review has many sex instructional video's.

neutral

However, they should not be punished without due process in the name of 'national security' or 'protection of citizens' lives.

It is wrong to punish others without a good reason.

entailment

Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with other people's Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or whoever.

Things have stayed the same since the 1980s in the economy's leading figures.

contradiction

This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields.

The story was clearly forgotten for the duration of Clinton's presidency.

contradiction

To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.

The Rolling Stones are on tour.

entailment

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.

Hospital chains are being litigated for a billing fraude case.

entailment

Wearing a suit and working at a computer in an office tower are, believe it or not, preferable to backbreaking work in a rice paddy.

Agricultural work is less preferred than office work.

entailment

He's a hippie in a suit.

Despite his business attire, he's a flower child.

entailment

13-year-old I hate the people in our grade--they're all so boring!

Many teens are bored by people in this grade.

neutral

His son and heir, Bashar, is inexperienced (he's an ophthalmologist by training).

Bashar is an experienced Ophthalmologist.

entailment

But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either.

In the end, the character becomes a hero.

neutral

Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from?

Seedless fruits cannot exist because seeds are required for proliferation.

contradiction

Helgeland has set the film in a metropolis of uncertain period (the '50s?

Helgeland's movie time span is known but being kept a secret.

neutral

Defense So could we.

The author is cocksure of himself.

neutral

Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were.

She complains nonstop about the situation.

contradiction

What will I impugn, if not motives?

I will impugn your motives.

neutral

He recognized a Christian duty to charity but was gripped by a fear that his charity would be wasted, thereby incriminating him in sin.

He is a Christian man.

entailment

Based on scuttlebutt and speculation from insiders at the Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Ford White Houses, here are the four likeliest scenarios for presidential adultery.

We used no prior knowledge to come up with our adultery scenarios.

contradiction

I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.

Monica hasn't done any volunteer work and also hasn't taken a job during her ordeal.

entailment

Mixed reviews for the Broadway debut of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Horton Foote only showed his play in New York on Broadway once.

neutral

In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.

Mayakovsky was in a retirement house

contradiction

Tolly worked in narcotics and knew there was a Southern market for drugs and so converted an existing piece of machinery, creating the first morphine pill.

Tolly, who gave the world the morphine pill, was a drug smuggler

neutral

Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.

Everyone is trying to work out the details.

entailment

Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.

A financial crisis like the Great Depression is destined to repeat soon worldwide

neutral

For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative.

Albright's reasoning for rejecting Simova's meeting attempts are known to who ever asks.

contradiction

But admitting that people's happiness depends on their relative economic level as well as their absolute economic resources has some subversive implications.

A person's happiness can be determined by the amount of economic resources they have.

neutral

Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases.

The plan is focused on sales taxes, and aims to reward virtuous shoppers

entailment

Such a show might have opened with the same Robert Henri portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney included here and brought many of the same paintings she collected out of the vault for a fresh look.

The Robert Henri portrait was owned by a museum.

contradiction

It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.

Men recently started to become disinclined to violence.

neutral

When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character.

Some marriages happen just to get a green card

entailment

Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken.

The chicken is delicious.

neutral

While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.

The observer captured some images of himself on the instrument used to end the life of the prisoners

entailment

Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets.

The Soccer Guy made his living by stealing.

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Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.

The woman does a better job of understanding these difficult issues than a typical man would.

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Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.

The level financial forecast change concerned Orrin Hatch.

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At night we sometimes had sex outside on the deck--and even in a swing hanging from a tree in her front yard.

We had sex on a flat surface at night

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Makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.

Many people thought of the same idea before.

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I then launched Xwindows.

I shut down the computer.

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Not only did it promote freedom more than any statesman or soldier did by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics, influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.

The theory of relativity influenced many famous people

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And there's no dramatic payoff with the chillingly satanic tobacco company president (Michael Gambon) whose threats first make Wigand think about going public.

The tobacco companies president is seen as a evil man.

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I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.

The person does not need help.

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He is too many other solid things, in addition to being a Star.

She has few qualities other than being famous.

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The White House packed its millennium party with tech leaders.

Tech leaders attended the White House's millennium party.

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DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors.

Neanderthals were a dead-end species.

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It is also a comfort if the message comes from a total stranger, as long as the message is for you specifically and personally and not for a name on a mailing list.

If the message is for you in particular, it is okay if it's from a stranger.

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Does Conyers have any evidence that could provide cause for investigation, wonders Brit Hume ( Fox News Sunday ). Well, no, that's actually what Reno is supposed to investigate.

Brit Hume was curious if any evidence existed.

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Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building.

Through his work in the oil industry, Rockefeller would build an oil refining empire.

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Once again, a plea to Susan and Sylvester.

Susan and Sylvester are the target of a plea.

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Mafia boss Sam Giancana allegedly canceled the hit after hearing a Sinatra album.

The mobster ordered a strike after listening to some good music

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Those who want to believe in the Torah codes will always be able to find ELS that impress them.

The Torah is a boring lecture even for all who believe in it

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At least you know they're not reading a book or anything.

It's known that they don't read books.

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During the war, hawks who prized human rights and vigilance accused Clinton of going easy on the Serbs.

War Hawks thought greater violence would increase human rights in Serbia.

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For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew.

Being Jewish gives me a sense of pride.

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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 followed Safire's suggestions.

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Hardly the act of a speculator in a casino.

The action is indicative of a speculator.

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