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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rob Gronkowski ? Rob Gronkowski  is giving retirement some serious thought  apparently. (Bill Wippert/Associated Press)
 New England Patriots  tight  end Rob Gronkowski  raised some eyebrows after  his team âs Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb. 4 by saying âIâm definitely going to look at my future  for sure â an apparent indication that  he  was mulling retirement after eight NFL seasons. But considering an injury history that stretches back to  his  time at Arizona  Gronkowskiâs comments probably shouldnât be all that surprising.
â  He  missed  his  entire junior season in college after having surgery to repair a bulging disk in  his  back.
â In January 2012   he  sprained  his  ankle in the AFC championship game against the Ravens  and had only two catches in New Englandâs second Super Bowl loss to the Giants.
â The next season â  his  third in the NFL â  he  broke  his  forearm while blocking on an extra point and missed five games.  He  then broke the same forearm in a postseason win over the Texans and missed New Englandâs next game  a loss to the Ravens.
â  He  played in only seven games in 2013  missing the first six after offseason surgery to repair a fractured vertebra and then the final three after tearing the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in  his  right knee and suffering a concussion on one play in a Dec. 8 game against the Browns.
â In 2015   he  missed one game after taking a hit to the knee against the Broncos.
â This past season   he  suffered a concussion in the AFC championship game and likely was not 100 percent for the Super Bowl.
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Neutral


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Joseph Mifsud ? This mystery professor is likely  Joseph Mifsud of the University of Stirling in Scotland . According to a calendar entry on the Valdai clubâs website   Mifsud  spoke on a Valdai panel on April 19  2016  titled  âWorld Energy: Key Trends and Political Risks.â  Mifsud  grew up in the Mediterranean nation of Malta  where  he  served in various government posts;  he  was the only Londoner and the only professor on the panel. The Mueller legal filing revealed that Papadopoulos had extensive contacts with the professor as part of an effort to set up a meeting between Trump campaign representatives and Russian officials. Papadopoulos told his campaign supervisors about this effort and was encouraged to proceed. Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the professor and others connected to Russia.
The Washington Post noted on Monday that  Mifsud  is probably the professor cited in the Mueller statement. One of the emails quoted in the document  according to the Post  âappears to match one described to the Washington Post in August in which Papadopoulos identified the professor with whom he met as Joseph Mifsud  the director of the London Academy of Diplomacy.â But the Post reported that in August Mifsud told the newspaper he had âabsolutely no contact with the Russian government â and he insisted his ties to Russia were purely academic.
The public record  though  contains information contradicting  Mifsud  and showing that  he  has had contacts with Russian government officials. According to photos on the website of Russiaâs embassy in the United Kingdom   Mifsud  met with embassy representative Ernest Chernukhin in July of this year (weeks before  he  issued  his  denial to the Post). A biography from a 2013 business conference says  Mifsud  âhas advised Governments on international education issues in many countries including Morocco  Syria  Russia  Tunisia  and Italy.â  Mifsud  also met with Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko in May of 2014  according to a 2014 Russian embassy press release.
Additionally  in early 2017   Mifsud  invited Alexey Klishin  a department head and professor in the international law division of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations  a school run by Russiaâs Foreign Ministry  to the London Academy of Diplomacy to present a lecture. Klishin was a former member of the upper house of the Russian parliament. According to a January 2017 press release from the Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences  âKlishinâs presentation was devoted to international law and national legal systems [and] to their coexistence in the era of Brexit and the new presidency in the United States.â The release noted that Klishin had âvisited the London Academy of Diplomacy at the University of Stirlingâ¦at the invitation of  the Director Joseph Mifsud .â Hereâs a photo with  Mifsud  (second from the right) and Klishin (center) standing next to each other:
 Mifsud  did not respond to a request for comment from Mother Jones.
One obvious question for the professor is why he told the Post he had âabsolutelyâ no contacts with Russian officials when on-line material suggests he has. There are no indication in the Mueller statement whether his team has questioned  Mifsud  about the Clinton âdirtâ or Papadopoulosâs initiative to create a back-channel bond between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putinâs office.
Thereâs another reason why  Mifsud  could be of interest to Mueller and his investigators. In the past year  the New York Times has reported that US intelligence agencies collected information in the summer of 2016 indicating that top Russian intelligence and political officials were looking to gain influence over Trump through his advisers and that US spy agencies had intercepted calls showing that Trump campaign aides and other Trump associates had repeated interactions with senior Russian intelligence officials  perhaps unwittingly. (In June  former FBI chief James Comey  in congressional testimony  disputed the Times story disclosing contacts between the Trump aides and Russian intelligence  but he did not specify what was wrong with the article.) So Mueller is no doubt looking for possible instances of when Russian intelligence infiltratedâor tried to infiltrateâthe Trump campaign  either directly or through witting or unwitting cut-outs. And the Papadopoulos episode could be a case not only of a Trump aide trying to establish a campaign connection with the Kremlin but of Russian intelligence attempting to score a contact within the Trump campaign.
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Positive


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Recep Tayyip Erdogan ? âStep by step  we will clean our entire border â Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared over the weekend. But the operation has created an international mess.
With  Erdogan  âintensifying  his  threats to extend the Turkish offensive to the areas farther east  where the U.S. military maintains troops  a larger conflict looms â my colleagues wrote  "A Turkish attack on Manbij [a strategic border town] would present the United States with a major dilemma " forced to pick a side between their allies on the ground and a historic NATO partner.
The U.S.-Turkey relationship has been in free fall over the course of the Syrian war.  Erdogan  grew furious with the Obama administration for not doing enough to challenge the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while also emboldening Kurdish factions on Turkey's doorstep. President Trump's arrival offered hope for a reset  but that  too  quickly faded.
A phone call last week between  Erdogan  and Trump did nothing to resolve the simmering grievances. Turkish officials challenged a White House readout of the conversation  denying that Trump had âexpressed concernâ about anti-U.S. propaganda coming out of Ankara or the escalation of violence in Afrin.
In Turkey  the offensive has let loose a new tide of nationalist feeling.  Erdogan  once championed a historic opening with Turkey's long-suppressed minority Kurdish population. Now  he  casts  himself  as the merciless enemy of Kurdish separatism  rallying right-wing Turks to  his  banner. Pro-Erdogan media outlets belt out a steady stream of vitriol against both Kurdish separatists and their supposed puppet masters in the West. Meanwhile  Turkish authorities have clamped down on dissent or opposition to the military offensive.
âDespite his best efforts to build a stable majority as the foundation of his new regime  his policies of demonizing the opposition have created a deeply polarized society. Half of Turkey despises him and will never accept him as its leader â wrote Soner Cagaptay  a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy  for The Washington Post. âBut  Erdogan  has failed to grasp this fact  becoming even more authoritarian since the 2017 referendum that granted  him  sweeping presidential powers.  Erdoganâs  current trajectory will deepen Turkeyâs crisis  potentially even triggering civil conflict.â
Cagaptay said NATO allies like the United States need to walk  Erdogan  back from  his  hysteria by slowing support for the Syrian Kurds and siding more clearly with Turkeyâs geopolitical interests in Syria over those of Russia and Iran.
But thatâs not an easy sell. Foreign-policy and national-security elites in Washington have soured on  Erdogan   while the Kurds command a great deal of affection. The Trump administration seems to have no choice but to grapple with the growing contradictions underlying its Syria policy.
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Negative