TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Christian Dawkins ? ESPN reported Friday that FBI wiretaps intercepted phone conversations between Miller and  Christian Dawkins   an employee for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller. According to sources familiar with the government's evidence  Miller and  Dawkins  discussed paying $100 000 to ensure that star freshman Deandre Ayton would sign with the Wildcats.
Miller and  Dawkins  had multiple conversations about Ayton  sources told ESPN. When  Dawkins  asked Miller if  he  should work with assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson to finalize their agreement  Miller told  Dawkins  he should deal directly with  him  when it came to money  the sources said.
The telephone calls between Miller and  Dawkins  were among 3 000 hours of conversations intercepted from  Dawkins ' phone by the FBI.
Richardson is accused of accepting $20 000 in bribes and paying a recruit to sign with the Wildcats. In exchange for the money  the government alleges  Richardson agreed to influence Arizona players to sign with  Dawkins  and financial adviser Munish Sood  who also was arrested by FBI agents. Arizona formally fired Richardson on Jan. 11.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ryan Zinke ? The Trump administration is backing off plans to allow offshore oil and gas exploration in the waters surrounding Florida  according to a statement released by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Tuesday evening.
I had predicted that the pushback from Scott  Rubio  and other GOP members of Floridaâs Congressional delegation â several of whom have been staunch supporters of the President â made it a lot less likely that any offshore drilling in Florida waters would be approved  and  Zinke  specifically cited Scottâs opposition to the plan as influencing his departmentâs decision:
Read my full statement on taking #Florida off the table for offshore oil and gas. Local voice matters. pic.twitter.com/fJhv0p0CDC â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 9  2018
âI support [Gov. Scottâs] position that Florida is unique and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver. As a resultâ¦I am removing Florida from consideration for any new oil and gas platforms â wrote  Zinke   adding âLocal voice mattersâ to his tweet.
Scott retweeted another post by  Zinke   clearly pleased.
After talking with @FLGovScott  I am removing #Florida from the draft offshore plan. pic.twitter.com/lZIfdCDNOR â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 9  2018

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Dilma Rousseff ? "I'm with Dilma " said Darley Oliveira  who runs a sparkling new bakery in Paraisopolis  when asked how he will vote in the Oct. 3 elections. "She's Lula's candidate and she will continue what he has started."
 Despite being relatively unknown and lacking Silva's charm and ability to connect to an audience  Rousseff has a life story every bit as dramatic as her political mentor's  whose past as a union leader standing up to the dictatorship is now etched in Brazil's political lore.
 Rousseff was a key player in an armed militant group that resisted Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship -- and was imprisoned and tortured for it. She is a cancer survivor and a former minister of energy and chief of staff to Silva. She possesses a management style that has earned her the moniker "Iron Lady" -- a name she detests.
 That stuck with Rousseff  who in 1967  as a 19-year-old economics student  joined a militant political group opposing the dictatorship. For three years she helped lead guerrilla organizations  instructed comrades on Marxist theory and wrote for an underground newspaper.
 Rousseff denies carrying out any acts of violence during this period  says she opposed such action and notes she was never accused by the military regime of violent acts.
 Brazil's militant groups of the era did take armed action  however  notably the 1968 gunning down of U.S. Army Capt. Charles Chandler in Sao Paulo by the VPR militant group -- a faction that helped create the VAR-Palmares organization joined by Rousseff. His killers accused Chandler of helping train torturers in Brazil. U.S. officials said he was in Brazil to study Portuguese in preparation for teaching classes at West Point.
 After three years underground  Rousseff was captured in 1970 by Brazil's military police and was considered a big enough catch that a military prosecutor labeled her the "Joan of Arc" of the guerrilla movement.
 She was tossed into the Tiradentes prison  where she spent nearly three years and was submitted to brutal torture. Rousseff was beaten to the point of heavy bleeding  underwent electric shocks and spent hours on the "parrot's perch" -- a painful stress-position involving tying wrists to ankles  then suspending a prisoner off the ground by running a pole under their knees and over their biceps.
 After being released  she moved to southern Brazil in 1973  where she re-united with her now ex-husband  Carlos Araujo  who was also an imprisoned militant. She gave birth to a daughter and finished her economics degree. As Brazil's dictatorship began to loosen its grip  Rousseff became more politically involved and campaigned to get her husband elected to the state congress in 1982.
 In 1986  Rousseff was selected to be finance minister for the city of Porto Alegre  the beginning of a bureaucratic career that saw her serve twice as the energy minister for Rio Grande do Sul state. In 2000  she left the Democratic Workers Party  joined Silva's Workers Party  and served for two years as the nation's energy minister after Silva took office in 2003 before becoming his chief of staff.

SOLUTION:
Positive