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Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me.	Rudolph Giuliani has a rival in the senate.	entailment
Newspaper reporters increasingly feel themselves irrelevant--marginalized by TV news and the Internet, ignored by a younger generation of nonreaders.	Electronic media has made some newspaper writers feel irrelevant.	entailment
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores.	Behind the Legend, a life story, will be sold in bookstores.	entailment
I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.	Americans used to keep the door closed the whole time	contradiction
You don't understand how important this is.	It was very insignificant.	contradiction
I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.	A total of $125 were placed in bets on Massachusetts based sports teams.	entailment
American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as the little people in the hinterlands anymore.	The hinterlands are free of little people.	entailment
When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.	We're liking to engage is long deep discussions about fashion.	entailment
And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.	Many contradictions do not matter anymore.	entailment
Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.	You know that Fish is right.	neutral
I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver.	Funding from Silver is the likely reason for the film's wide release.	entailment
You'll be able to cruise from article to review to column to department with a growing feeling that you're absolutely right about everything.	You can get through the various positions within a year.	neutral
First, they should deliver maximum moral benefit at minimum practical cost.	They should deliver the greatest moral benefit without incurring large costs.	entailment
Meanwhile, Olivia fits right into the role of the beautiful-blonde-who-isn't-really-a-bimbo.	All blondes are bimbos.	contradiction
If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean	Seasonal retailers might have a sale.	neutral
Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient.	David Cook wrote about his experience observing a demonstration of a breathing tube as a medical student a year ago.	entailment
Oreskes declined to tell him, of course, who the Times ' sources were.	He wanted to expose those who came forward with the information.	neutral
As a result, sentences are short and clear, often brilliantly compressed.	The sentences are long and hard to muddle through.	contradiction
The Justice Department asked Starr to look into allegations that his prosecutors improperly tried to cut an immunity deal with Lewinsky during their January 1998 sting without her lawyer present.	The Justice Department was close to being successful in cutting an improper immunity deal.	neutral
So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).	President Bush's real motivation when the Kurds came under attack was to defend the stability of Turkey.	entailment
Also, most individuals do not screen their e-mail address books politically, meaning that a solicitation sent out to all a person's contacts may well end up in the hands of someone who doesn't want it--which could turn into a public relations problem.	Mass-mailing the contacts of someone is unluckily to cause problems	contradiction
Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.	One used to write for a newspaper in a major metropolitan area.	entailment
They also see it as easing their way toward economic integration with Western Europe.	They are working towards economic integration.	entailment
Bond rejected this advice.	Bond often rejects advice.	neutral
A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.	College guides believe education is unneeded.	contradiction
If there is a good reason, it has to do with our final question.	The final question contains our best argument.	neutral
Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters?	Tootsie pops are being stolen from convenience stores.	entailment
Carter, the family's patriarch, was certifiably rural; he grew up in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley.	Certifiably rural, Carter, the family's patriarch, was raised in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley.	entailment
We all know people who are essentially hotblooded, or melancholy (which literally means black bile), or phlegmatic, or who view the world with a jaundiced eye.	Everyone knows someone who is close to them that is hotblooded and see the world through a jaundiced eye.	neutral
His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.	If the investigation is pushed up before November, he will lose.	neutral
Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.	A great, unfinished work is more strange because of how the author is drawn into the process.	contradiction
At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life.	Martin Amis talked about Bellows Life.	entailment
Also, a stunning overhead photo depicts droves of worshipers at Mecca.	Its impossible to show the worshippers at Mecca with a picture	contradiction
If Woodward had shaken the baby, why did his neck show no signs of damage?	Woodward is wrongfully accused of a crime he didn't commit.	neutral
In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash.	No vote for cash is what his grand principle amounts to.	entailment
Remaining an enigma lets her retain the benefit of the doubt.	Her enigmatic demeanor is her sole shortcoming and will inevitably lead to her demise.	contradiction
So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present.	World War 2 was avoided but society didn't prosper in the end.	contradiction
Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.	She is going back and forth between insanity and insanity, as well as sadness and happiness.	entailment
After a great Moyers show, viewers nod in agreement.	It was terribly displeasing to viewers who watched the horrendous Moyers program.	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.	Stephen Oates is known to have written original works too.	neutral
These lawyers might make the case that even tobacco companies have rights, and that the public interest actually was served by getting these companies a better bargain.	The argument potentially set forth by the lawyers is that big tobacco has rights as well.	entailment
Newsweek notes that while the Dalai Lama promotes religious understanding and meditation, he opposes abortion, contraception, and homosexual acts.	The Dalai Lama put out contradictory messages, per Newsweek.	entailment
The McCain campaign has more specific evidence of success.	Overall, the campaign is happy about their performance so far.	neutral
In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.	The 1980s were a turbulent time for Republicans and Democrats since they very rarely got along.	neutral
It's not commerce that rules in Hollywood.	Hollywood would be better off ruled by commerce.	neutral
Considering how hard it was for the extraordinary Frank McCourt to learn how to teach, one has to wonder whether individual teachers can really measure their own progress.	Many teachers aren't very good in judging their progress	neutral
American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as the little people in the hinterlands anymore.	The American Movie is not the only subject matter expert in terms of those who live in the hinterlands.	neutral
In other words, what yadda yadda yadda can convey is something You and I know all the points that would ordinarily be inserted at this place in the conversation, so let's just skip it and move on.	Nobody knows what the conversation is about.	contradiction
The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.	The Clinton administration is taking the risks of technology transfers very seriously.	contradiction
As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones.	Lexicographers would ultimately make adjustments to how they gather oral citations to make the process more doable.	neutral
Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?	People have different opinions on whether the guides are covering the city differently.	neutral
notion of divine sanction for democratic values.	The sanction of undemocratic values.	contradiction
Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking legal mumbo jumbo to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.	Clinton is accused of invoking some technical legalities to hide his misconduct.	entailment
Doctor and refusing women their reproductive rights.	The doctor later lost his license to practice.	neutral
The Old 97's take their name from The Wreck of the Old 97, a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.	Vernon Dalhart was a singer from 1924 who sang early rock style songs.	neutral
Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics.	The Web has given lots of humans a place to get together with others who think the same as them.	entailment
The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.	The WP decided that the Kennedy/Bono deaths were caused by trees.	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.	The teen-age fertility rate has been rising for decades.	contradiction
Modern legislation and regulation are technical and complex.	It's easy as pie to understand these contemporary laws.	contradiction
With a little luck, by the time I contract a fatal disease, I'll already be dead.	The author suggests it's likely they'll be dead before getting any fatal disease.	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 educated elite came about due to the Catholic Establishment.	contradiction
To succeed, a propaganda campaign need not convince its audience; it need merely suck the oxygen out of the lungs of its foes.	Oxygen is breathed into the audience's lungs by successful propaganda campaign..	contradiction
He thought that the use of these drugs would make the population indifferent and willing to accept control by political leaders.	The drugs had some harmful effects.	neutral
As I understand it, an exit strategy is a sort of poor man's Powell Doctrine.	The Powel Doctrine is a popular term used by journalists.	neutral
The follow-up should have Why do you think of Christ as a political philosopher?	The follow-up is suppose to have why do you think of Christ as a political philosopher.	entailment
It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.	Instant-messenger software caused AOL to suffer intense litigation resulting in monumental damages and bad press.	contradiction
I'm about as big a media hound as anyone, McCain told one newspaper, but I've turned down at least 500--maybe 600 or 700--requests to go on talk shows on this issue.	McCain took part in as many talk shows as possible.	contradiction
Update on the campaign-finance 1) The Democratic money scandal is converging with the Teamsters scandal.	The scandal involving the Democrats has to do with bribery.	neutral
A self-appraisal (and remember, the entire purpose of a reference group is to serve as a yardstick for self-appraisal) would entail evaluating the richness of relationships and the satisfactions of accomplishments, rather than the cataloging of possessions.	Possessions matter more than relationships and satisfaction.	contradiction
In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.	Mrs. Grundy would approve of the dictionary in the new product.	entailment
The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .	The Washington Post hopes that the person being placed in handcuffs will scare off war criminals.	entailment
Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?	Is my license as a practicing economist about to be renewed?	contradiction
The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web.	The once trade-passionate entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley have been replaced by businessmen and women more dedicated to their salaries than the Web.	entailment
One Because they're cyber sages.	They are viewed as being cyber gurus.	entailment
Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in.	The Kosovars are currently in the field.	contradiction
Critics mostly applaud this movie about a female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home.	Professional reviewers clap for the film that depicts a sexually deviant worker.	entailment
The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.	Rhetoric is the best way for a US politician to escape trouble.	neutral
The critics are ganging up on social critic Mike Davis, the MacArthur fellow and Marxist deflater of Los Angeles' dreams and delusions.	The critics are from Los Angeles.	neutral
In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.	He takes the bread straight from the kitchen of the restaurants	contradiction
What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife.	It is recommended that you not let your spouse see the correspondence.	entailment
After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.	The NEA lost a lot of its budget once the Republicans gained control of the House.	entailment
Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like.	People don't usually lend you a lot of money to invest unless they have good reason to or are very rich.	neutral
I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.	The person has a problem but they don't want to say it.	neutral
How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems?	One is unconcerned if they cause family problems.	contradiction
We are supposed to believe that Pitt's Harrer has learned to be a better person; offered as proof is his changed attitude toward his son, Rolf (whose name in real life is Peter).	Pitt Harrer has changed his feelings about his son, Rolf.	entailment
Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover.	A man reached out to Carlson regarding Grover.	entailment
How does a former police officer get involved with running a laboratory making illegal speed?	The police officer was involved with the drugs.	neutral
Avis' profits jumped 35 percent in the first six months of employee ownership, and the company remained profitable for the next decade.	Employee ownership is usually positive for companies	neutral
The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.	Trust fund balances also contain stocks, as well as treasury bonds.	neutral
It is a beautiful, sad little movie about betrayal.	The movie is beautiful but also sad about betrayal.	entailment
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 want to change Hong Kong's civil liberties.	contradiction
In addition to all the things we can't foresee, the historical verdict on Clinton will also hinge on such issues as whether he manages to steer welfare reform back in the right direction; whether he avoids being drawn into a counterproductive tax cut; and whether he overcomes his own recent history to lead campaign-finance reform.	Clinton's legacy is cemented, he will go down as a great.	contradiction
Please don't print my name because I want	Printing names is common.	neutral
Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.	Udayan Prasad has directed a movie about a taxi driver.	entailment
Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually.	Alternative therapies are very popular and generate a lot of money.	entailment
The only figure to emerge untainted is Hillary Clinton, whose approval rating is 33 percentage points higher than it was before the scandal.	The scandal didn't affect Hillary Clinton negatively	entailment
Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about.	The author abhors the Dalai Lama.	contradiction
The company could have monitored distribution better but didn't because it wanted to keep its hands clean, Hass has said.	The organization's lack of monitoring didn't have serious effects	neutral
Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.	Arafat has been popular for a while.	entailment
I had to format both drives.	The person knew what they were doing.	neutral

Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me.

Rudolph Giuliani has a rival in the senate.

entailment

Newspaper reporters increasingly feel themselves irrelevant--marginalized by TV news and the Internet, ignored by a younger generation of nonreaders.

Electronic media has made some newspaper writers feel irrelevant.

entailment

Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores.

Behind the Legend, a life story, will be sold in bookstores.

entailment

I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of values that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.

Americans used to keep the door closed the whole time

contradiction

You don't understand how important this is.

It was very insignificant.

contradiction

I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians.

A total of $125 were placed in bets on Massachusetts based sports teams.

entailment

American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as the little people in the hinterlands anymore.

The hinterlands are free of little people.

entailment

When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros.

We're liking to engage is long deep discussions about fashion.

entailment

And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.

Many contradictions do not matter anymore.

entailment

Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.

You know that Fish is right.

neutral

I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver.

Funding from Silver is the likely reason for the film's wide release.

entailment

You'll be able to cruise from article to review to column to department with a growing feeling that you're absolutely right about everything.

You can get through the various positions within a year.

neutral

First, they should deliver maximum moral benefit at minimum practical cost.

They should deliver the greatest moral benefit without incurring large costs.

entailment

Meanwhile, Olivia fits right into the role of the beautiful-blonde-who-isn't-really-a-bimbo.

All blondes are bimbos.

contradiction

If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean

Seasonal retailers might have a sale.

neutral

Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient.

David Cook wrote about his experience observing a demonstration of a breathing tube as a medical student a year ago.

entailment

Oreskes declined to tell him, of course, who the Times ' sources were.

He wanted to expose those who came forward with the information.

neutral

As a result, sentences are short and clear, often brilliantly compressed.

The sentences are long and hard to muddle through.

contradiction

The Justice Department asked Starr to look into allegations that his prosecutors improperly tried to cut an immunity deal with Lewinsky during their January 1998 sting without her lawyer present.

The Justice Department was close to being successful in cutting an improper immunity deal.

neutral

So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).

President Bush's real motivation when the Kurds came under attack was to defend the stability of Turkey.

entailment

Also, most individuals do not screen their e-mail address books politically, meaning that a solicitation sent out to all a person's contacts may well end up in the hands of someone who doesn't want it--which could turn into a public relations problem.

Mass-mailing the contacts of someone is unluckily to cause problems

contradiction

Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard.

One used to write for a newspaper in a major metropolitan area.

entailment

They also see it as easing their way toward economic integration with Western Europe.

They are working towards economic integration.

entailment

Bond rejected this advice.

Bond often rejects advice.

neutral

A message from Michael Most college guides privilege corporate values, treating education like a commodity.

College guides believe education is unneeded.

contradiction

If there is a good reason, it has to do with our final question.

The final question contains our best argument.

neutral

Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters?

Tootsie pops are being stolen from convenience stores.

entailment

Carter, the family's patriarch, was certifiably rural; he grew up in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley.

Certifiably rural, Carter, the family's patriarch, was raised in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley.

entailment

We all know people who are essentially hotblooded, or melancholy (which literally means black bile), or phlegmatic, or who view the world with a jaundiced eye.

Everyone knows someone who is close to them that is hotblooded and see the world through a jaundiced eye.

neutral

His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.

If the investigation is pushed up before November, he will lose.

neutral

Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.

A great, unfinished work is more strange because of how the author is drawn into the process.

contradiction

At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life.

Martin Amis talked about Bellows Life.

entailment

Also, a stunning overhead photo depicts droves of worshipers at Mecca.

Its impossible to show the worshippers at Mecca with a picture

contradiction

If Woodward had shaken the baby, why did his neck show no signs of damage?

Woodward is wrongfully accused of a crime he didn't commit.

neutral

In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash.

No vote for cash is what his grand principle amounts to.

entailment

Remaining an enigma lets her retain the benefit of the doubt.

Her enigmatic demeanor is her sole shortcoming and will inevitably lead to her demise.

contradiction

So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present.

World War 2 was avoided but society didn't prosper in the end.

contradiction

Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.

She is going back and forth between insanity and insanity, as well as sadness and happiness.

entailment

After a great Moyers show, viewers nod in agreement.

It was terribly displeasing to viewers who watched the horrendous Moyers program.

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.

Stephen Oates is known to have written original works too.

neutral

These lawyers might make the case that even tobacco companies have rights, and that the public interest actually was served by getting these companies a better bargain.

The argument potentially set forth by the lawyers is that big tobacco has rights as well.

entailment

Newsweek notes that while the Dalai Lama promotes religious understanding and meditation, he opposes abortion, contraception, and homosexual acts.

The Dalai Lama put out contradictory messages, per Newsweek.

entailment

The McCain campaign has more specific evidence of success.

Overall, the campaign is happy about their performance so far.

neutral

In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.

The 1980s were a turbulent time for Republicans and Democrats since they very rarely got along.

neutral

It's not commerce that rules in Hollywood.

Hollywood would be better off ruled by commerce.

neutral

Considering how hard it was for the extraordinary Frank McCourt to learn how to teach, one has to wonder whether individual teachers can really measure their own progress.

Many teachers aren't very good in judging their progress

neutral

American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as the little people in the hinterlands anymore.

The American Movie is not the only subject matter expert in terms of those who live in the hinterlands.

neutral

In other words, what yadda yadda yadda can convey is something You and I know all the points that would ordinarily be inserted at this place in the conversation, so let's just skip it and move on.

Nobody knows what the conversation is about.

contradiction

The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.

The Clinton administration is taking the risks of technology transfers very seriously.

contradiction

As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones.

Lexicographers would ultimately make adjustments to how they gather oral citations to make the process more doable.

neutral

Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?

People have different opinions on whether the guides are covering the city differently.

neutral

notion of divine sanction for democratic values.

The sanction of undemocratic values.

contradiction

Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking legal mumbo jumbo to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.

Clinton is accused of invoking some technical legalities to hide his misconduct.

entailment

Doctor and refusing women their reproductive rights.

The doctor later lost his license to practice.

neutral

The Old 97's take their name from The Wreck of the Old 97, a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.

Vernon Dalhart was a singer from 1924 who sang early rock style songs.

neutral

Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics.

The Web has given lots of humans a place to get together with others who think the same as them.

entailment

The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.

The WP decided that the Kennedy/Bono deaths were caused by trees.

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.

The teen-age fertility rate has been rising for decades.

contradiction

Modern legislation and regulation are technical and complex.

It's easy as pie to understand these contemporary laws.

contradiction

With a little luck, by the time I contract a fatal disease, I'll already be dead.

The author suggests it's likely they'll be dead before getting any fatal disease.

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 educated elite came about due to the Catholic Establishment.

contradiction

To succeed, a propaganda campaign need not convince its audience; it need merely suck the oxygen out of the lungs of its foes.

Oxygen is breathed into the audience's lungs by successful propaganda campaign..

contradiction

He thought that the use of these drugs would make the population indifferent and willing to accept control by political leaders.

The drugs had some harmful effects.

neutral

As I understand it, an exit strategy is a sort of poor man's Powell Doctrine.

The Powel Doctrine is a popular term used by journalists.

neutral

The follow-up should have Why do you think of Christ as a political philosopher?

The follow-up is suppose to have why do you think of Christ as a political philosopher.

entailment

It introduced its own version of AOL's instant-messenger software and said it will offer similar dial-up service for less or no money.

Instant-messenger software caused AOL to suffer intense litigation resulting in monumental damages and bad press.

contradiction

I'm about as big a media hound as anyone, McCain told one newspaper, but I've turned down at least 500--maybe 600 or 700--requests to go on talk shows on this issue.

McCain took part in as many talk shows as possible.

contradiction

Update on the campaign-finance 1) The Democratic money scandal is converging with the Teamsters scandal.

The scandal involving the Democrats has to do with bribery.

neutral

A self-appraisal (and remember, the entire purpose of a reference group is to serve as a yardstick for self-appraisal) would entail evaluating the richness of relationships and the satisfactions of accomplishments, rather than the cataloging of possessions.

Possessions matter more than relationships and satisfaction.

contradiction

In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.

Mrs. Grundy would approve of the dictionary in the new product.

entailment

The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .

The Washington Post hopes that the person being placed in handcuffs will scare off war criminals.

entailment

Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?

Is my license as a practicing economist about to be renewed?

contradiction

The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web.

The once trade-passionate entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley have been replaced by businessmen and women more dedicated to their salaries than the Web.

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One Because they're cyber sages.

They are viewed as being cyber gurus.

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Lott's formulation put NATO's withdrawal Let's see if we can't find a way to get the bombing stopped, get Milosevic to pull back his troops, find a way to get the Kosovars [to] go back in.

The Kosovars are currently in the field.

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Critics mostly applaud this movie about a female necrophiliac who works in a funeral home.

Professional reviewers clap for the film that depicts a sexually deviant worker.

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The other rhetorical way out for Republican politicians is to say that you yourself are as hard-core as ever, but since a majority of Americans apparently disagrees, there's no point in trying to do anything about it it.

Rhetoric is the best way for a US politician to escape trouble.

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The critics are ganging up on social critic Mike Davis, the MacArthur fellow and Marxist deflater of Los Angeles' dreams and delusions.

The critics are from Los Angeles.

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In restaurants she cleans out the bread basket and transfers everything to her purse.

He takes the bread straight from the kitchen of the restaurants

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What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife.

It is recommended that you not let your spouse see the correspondence.

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After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.

The NEA lost a lot of its budget once the Republicans gained control of the House.

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Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like.

People don't usually lend you a lot of money to invest unless they have good reason to or are very rich.

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

The person has a problem but they don't want to say it.

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How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems?

One is unconcerned if they cause family problems.

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We are supposed to believe that Pitt's Harrer has learned to be a better person; offered as proof is his changed attitude toward his son, Rolf (whose name in real life is Peter).

Pitt Harrer has changed his feelings about his son, Rolf.

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Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover.

A man reached out to Carlson regarding Grover.

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How does a former police officer get involved with running a laboratory making illegal speed?

The police officer was involved with the drugs.

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Avis' profits jumped 35 percent in the first six months of employee ownership, and the company remained profitable for the next decade.

Employee ownership is usually positive for companies

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The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.

Trust fund balances also contain stocks, as well as treasury bonds.

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It is a beautiful, sad little movie about betrayal.

The movie is beautiful but also sad about betrayal.

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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 want to change Hong Kong's civil liberties.

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In addition to all the things we can't foresee, the historical verdict on Clinton will also hinge on such issues as whether he manages to steer welfare reform back in the right direction; whether he avoids being drawn into a counterproductive tax cut; and whether he overcomes his own recent history to lead campaign-finance reform.

Clinton's legacy is cemented, he will go down as a great.

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Please don't print my name because I want

Printing names is common.

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Critics love this British film directed by Udayan Prasad about the life and dreams of a downtrodden Pakistani taxi driver in the north of England.

Udayan Prasad has directed a movie about a taxi driver.

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Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually.

Alternative therapies are very popular and generate a lot of money.

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The only figure to emerge untainted is Hillary Clinton, whose approval rating is 33 percentage points higher than it was before the scandal.

The scandal didn't affect Hillary Clinton negatively

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Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about.

The author abhors the Dalai Lama.

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The company could have monitored distribution better but didn't because it wanted to keep its hands clean, Hass has said.

The organization's lack of monitoring didn't have serious effects

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Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.

Arafat has been popular for a while.

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I had to format both drives.

The person knew what they were doing.

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