Anchor: Equally important--and I admit this sounds kind of cornball--success required the civic spiritedness of pro- and anti-busing parents alike, who saw their way clear to hammering out compromises.
Entailed: The parents worked on compromises.
Contradiction: The parents all agreed on busing the students.
Contradiction: Provence and Corsica offer much of the same attractions as the capital does.
Contradiction: Sometimes it's hard to concentrate.
Contradiction: A group of friends are at a poetry reading.
Contradiction: She was making preparations silently.