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on Late Edition , citing the Serb surrender to the Dayton peace conference as an example. | The Dayton peace conference's victory over the Serbs was cited. | entailment |
He's in his own league. | He's not very distinct from other people | contradiction |
Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery. | Leger has similar ideas for women than he does for machinery. | entailment |
Fear of repeating the deadly clash between federal agents and Branch Davidian cult members has deterred police from raiding the compound. | The police is ready to go on another without hesitation. | contradiction |
but we kick it further-- the axe-man whispers run to the convict he beheads so the body for our delight | The axe-man kills his victims with a gun | contradiction |
Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time. | Amazon, itself, designed the form. | neutral |
Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea. | Some ideas have flaws that is possible to expose | entailment |
Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, who made the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story , say Lana was adamant that she wasn't there. | Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, created a documentary together. | entailment |
If McCain emerges as the nominee, Democrats will exploit his domestic weaknesses. | McCain has exploitable flaws. | entailment |
Newsweek berates NATO for its obfuscation of civilian casualties. | Newsweek criticizes NATO for its handling of civilian casualties. | entailment |
The story was singularly inappropriate in 1936--the deluge had come after Coolidge and Hoover, and Roosevelt's spending was an effort to stem the deluge, or at least to keep some people from drowning in it. | Roosevelt wanted to keep people from drowning in the story. | entailment |
Time claims that friends say Willey's calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility ... | Time's claims about Willey are true. | neutral |
It seems like only yesterday that Gen. | It feels like it was so long ago.. | contradiction |
Eszterhas' posturing He became the celebrity he'd always hoped to be--brash, appealing, larger than life. | After years of countless failures he amounted to nothing but a struggling artist. | contradiction |
It's been a long haul, and very much a gendered haul. | We've been going for a long time on this moving trip. | neutral |
Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical. | Americans got behind the idea 100%, right away. | contradiction |
Throughout the story, Ellison uses the symbol of horns, investing them with a number of meanings relating to sexual desire (the horny young boys), artistic creation (the instrument of jazz), and masculinity (the symbol of a bull). | The horns are exclusively a feminine symbol | contradiction |
You can fast the next day. | The next day you can fast. | entailment |
These groups give workers a selection of plans and reduce paperwork hassles for employers. | The reduction of paperwork increases productivity. | neutral |
The democrat at the helm of a museum, a symphony orchestra, or a publishing house tries to expand his audience while challenging it. | Fine arts institutions are starting to become less popular. | neutral |
But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero. | A battle using magical powers is always the crescendo of a vampire movie. | contradiction |
During the war, hawks who prized human rights and vigilance accused Clinton of going easy on the Serbs. | Hawks wanted more violence from Clinton. | entailment |
But one forgives such flaws because of the way Hare draws his audience into the play's issues. | The perfection of Hare's play drew in his audience. | contradiction |
Fear of repeating the deadly clash between federal agents and Branch Davidian cult members has deterred police from raiding the compound. | The police is trying to avoid another clash between federal agents and Branch Davidian cult members. | entailment |
Unfortunately for the GOP, the sophistication and delicacy of the ads is already being overwhelmed by the Democrats' simplification of them. | The Democrats' made the ads to be to hard for the normal person to understand. | contradiction |
As I understand it, an exit strategy is a sort of poor man's Powell Doctrine. | An exit strategy is a kind of rich man's Powell Doctrine. | contradiction |
At the Naval Academy, McCain was nicknamed Punk, and that's what he is. | He has more nicknames, but they can't be listed here. | neutral |
The protective aura that once insulated the family has vanished. | The family's protective aura is no more. | entailment |
But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web. | Cole was lying in his affidavit. | neutral |
The cover story profiles a day trader who learns his financial fundamentals from the Web and trusts his feel for stocks. | He always wanted to work on Wall Street. | neutral |
Conservatives, after all, have spent the last year crediting Clinton's polls to He has lucked into the best economy in history. | Clinton contributed a lot to having a great economy | neutral |
Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson writes that his movie was just a joke but compares Hillary Clinton's allegation of a right-wing conspiracy to the distraction ploys found in the film. | Barry Levinson writes Wag the Dog to joke about Clinton's allegation. | neutral |
Mostyes voters dismissed the predictions of doom as exaggeration, according to polls conducted on either side of Election Day. | Pollsters began their work after Election Day. | contradiction |
Time identifies a new racial bilingual education. | The new bilingual education continues to be ignored by publications. | contradiction |
(Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.) | My memory could only hold his name for very little time, because it was too complicated. | neutral |
Is that wrong? | Someone is sure that is wrong. | contradiction |
I throw rocks through the window of a different McDonald's every week. | I throw rocks through a McDonald's every week. | entailment |
Diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and penile injuries (more than 100,000 whacked in bike accidents have been permanently deflated, according to the medical literature) all prevent men from mustering a swelling. | Men have a few problems that don't help them with certain personal issues. | entailment |
After the review was published, Science received a flood of angry telephone calls and letters, according to the editor in question, Katherine Livingston. | The reactions to that review were fully justified | neutral |
) says herbal remedies can work--Saint Johnswort does cure some folks' mild depression--but herbs also have nasty side effects. | Some Herbs are recommended by doctors. | neutral |
He is preaching to the kinds of middle Americans that liberal activists long ago gave up for dead. | Liberal activists don't consider middle Americans. | entailment |
Moral indignation over the incident was almost overshadowed by disbelief that nobody had noticed her condition. | Moral indignation overshadowed disbelief by a large margin. | contradiction |
I know that these are alleged bones, and emotional sentiments are whipped up by the prayers of the priests and the nuns. | Priests and nuns say prayers about it. | entailment |
Among the Kids with unmotivated parents are left behind in bad public schools, and charters dupe parents by promising more than they deliver. | It is a known fact that kids with unmotivated parents thrive in bad public schools as well as undeserving charter schools. | contradiction |
As Chatterbox pointed out in his earlier item, movie tickets are fundamentally inexpensive , so you aren't going to lure many more people into seeing, say, Eyes Wide Shut by slashing the already low price of first-run admission. | Lowering the price of movie tickets will cause many more people to attend. | contradiction |
Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it. | Malls take advantage of the works performed by the internet. | entailment |
So, how did Caltech come out on top? | Caltech is in California | entailment |
Democrats have done themselves a lot of harm by refusing to discriminate between those programs that are vital and those that are not. | Democrats are reluctant to separate programs based on their necessity. | entailment |
I might even vote for her. | It is possible that I would vote for her. | entailment |
His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton. | Clinton has accused Kathleen Willey of allegations of sexual harassment. | contradiction |
Who ever heard of a wiener dog named Fluffy? | Fluffy had appeared in a few books. | neutral |
Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his family, Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus aa | Jane and Mary were both very independent people. | contradiction |
The MacDonalds of the world won't go away just because you think they're not worth responding to. | The MacDonalds of the world won't disappear just by ignoring them. | entailment |
I loved everything about talking to the folks who schlepped there on a Sunday morning; the comic effect of having a guy dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog from public service ads, standing behind Dole. | It was great seeing someone dressed as McGruff, the Crime Dog. | entailment |
Doctors often miss these effects. | Doctors never miss any effects. | contradiction |
I have certainly forgiven Bob Inglis. | They forgave Bob Inglis. | entailment |
Well, if we extend the co-op's story a little bit, it is not hard to generate something that looks a lot like Japan's problems--and to see the outline of a solution. | Japan has found a solution for their problem. | neutral |
The Left Behind series, co-written by Tim LaHaye, the prominent right-wing screwball and husband of Beverly LaHaye, the even more prominent right-wing screwball, and Jerry B. Jenkins, who, his biography states, is the author of 130 books, which is a lot of books for one guy to write, is a phenomenon. | The Left Behind series has been a complete flop for everyone | contradiction |
Suppose all of SLATE's articles featured the authors reading their visionary musings into digital audio format. | Some of Slate's authors have visionary musings. | entailment |
The author of Bastard out of Carolina , known as a confessional memoirist par excellence, writes about someone other than herself, and earns mixed reviews. | Her new book has received unanimous glowing reviews. | contradiction |
The report also cites China's transparent intentions to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties when it assumes control of the territory in July. | China did not hide their wish to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties. | entailment |
But mostly there is the spectacle of technique brought to bear on form; and although this is a minimal definition of art, there is nothing minimal about the results. | This art appears to be basic. | neutral |
Please send your nominations to [email protected]. | You can email your nominated winners. | entailment |
Time claims that friends say Willey's calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility ... | Willey is more volatile than he may originally seem. | entailment |
Life aboard ship is tough | Although the abundance of murderous sharks may be a popular myth, severe storms are frequent problems for oceanic workers. | neutral |
The cover profile makes Jerry Seinfeld seem quite charming, if a tad immature. | The cover profile seems quite charming by Jerry Seinfeld. | entailment |
But that wacky theory aside, the point for Lemann's book is He brilliantly shows how the Protestant Establishment gave way to the educated elite. | The book provides a great explanation for the rise of the educated elite. | entailment |
The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant. | Gay Catholics were interested in this news | entailment |
At least, Chatterbox thinks that's what Johnsen said ... | Chatterbox is known to everybody. | contradiction |
In a celebrated case, Abraham Lincoln biographer Stephen Oates was said to have ripped off a widely read 1952 Lincoln biography by Benjamin Thomas. | The Lincoln biography written by Benjamin Thomas was supposedly plagiarized by Stephen Oates. | entailment |
A companion piece advocates destroying food bacteria with low-level radiation. | Low-level radiation are safe when used on food | entailment |
But Press didn't call anyone a racist. | Nobody was called a racist by Press. | entailment |
If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for? | Others are irrelevant to your usefulness. | contradiction |
Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again? | Bradley agreed with some of Reagan's policies. | entailment |
The Nike and Reebok logos are now officially declared badges of shame. | Nike and Reebok have caused a lot of problems for others due to their logos. | neutral |
If only Lamar had won 3,500 more votes in the 1996 New Hampshire primary, he would have edged Bob Dole for second, driven Dole out of the race, and cruised to the nomination. | Lamar beat Dole by 3500 votes in the 1996 New Hampshire primary. | contradiction |
They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women. | Higher-income women would act after a 10 pound weight gain. | entailment |
The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994. | The dismissal of Jones in 1994 has been an exciting topic for the press | entailment |
Movie stars can control their images. | Movie stars have absolutely no control over what people think of them. | contradiction |
Here's what worries Given the subtlety of the real issues here, what is the chance that this stuff will be decided on its merits? | There are some concerns that issues will be decided on merits. | entailment |
Paleontologist Ivan Turk, who discovered the bone, recently told Scientific American that the four holes are really well rounded and just about the right separation for humans to put their finger on. | The bone was discovered by astronomer, Ivan Turk. | contradiction |
It probably won't come naturally to an American male, but, in an attempt to enter into the spirit of French daily life, I will cultivate a Look of my own. | An American will not stand out while roaming in France. | contradiction |
The substantive issue at stake is hard news vs. soft Each network is accusing the others of going soft in pursuit of ratings. | Hard news sells. | contradiction |
Cold Warriors like Kissinger hardly argued that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended Soviet credibility. | The Cuban Missile Crisis was the downfall of communism. | neutral |
The world would have conceded the claims of both gays and women without the student occupation of a single lecture hall anywhere in the world. | However, curricula on gender studies have nevertheless helped promote equality since then. | neutral |
Could we curb Milosevic's aggression through diplomacy rather than bombing? | There was no conflict with anyone. | contradiction |
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. | Though tragic, Hawi is not shed of his integrity as a central hero of Ajami. | entailment |
Who's winning the war over the draft? | The war over the draft is being assessed in order to find out the winner. | entailment |
This is all pure high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses. | It is quite comforting and lovely and lacks any hint of snobbery. | contradiction |
For example, the engineers of the battalion exposed to sarin showed no higher illness rates than others. | They were intentionally exposed as an experiment. | neutral |
Although critics find Cities of the Plain less inventive than All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing , they still celebrate McCarthy's Faulkneresque use of flowing, punctuationless sentences and arcane language. | Critics thought Cities of the plain wasn't as inventive as All the pretty horses and the Crossing. | entailment |
Instead they're busy scrounging for funds to spread good care more widely. | Someone is looking for money to keep for themselves. | contradiction |
They were men without color, literally wearing gray and beige and brown. | The men wore pink. | contradiction |
Finally, on July 30, the committee passed a third, slightly weaker, article 21-17, which charged the president with having willfully disobeyed subpoenas. | After the leader of the country purposely defied the court summons, he was charged by the committee. | entailment |
So the argument is that putting some of the money in stocks will make the trust fund more profitable and avoid, or at least put off, the day it runs out of money. | Putting a bit of the money in stocks has helped to strengthen the trust fund and has caused the money to last a bit longer over time. | neutral |
Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government. | The caretaker government was better able to handle the protests than the socialists. | neutral |
We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful. | Richard Nixon has been attacked by journals who wanted to slander him because he deserved it | neutral |
Newsweek, which loves fad therapies, hypes natural Prozac. | Newsweek is completely against this natural Prozac. | contradiction |
The spread of nuclear and biological weapons, the growth of international organized crime, and global environmental degradation are a few examples. | Organized crime has increased in the past decade. | neutral |
And what exactly is the scandal about Wolf that Gore is covering up? | Gore is covering up a scandal about Wolf. | entailment |
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