TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mark Sedwill is Positive . Mark Sedwill said the end of 2014 was not a deadline. "It's a goal " he told reporters in the capital. "It's realistic but not guaranteed."
 He said the transition to Afghan control of security will be slow and piecemeal -- often starting with individual districts and building up to the province level. Each area will be evaluated for transfer based on four criteria -- the security situation  the capacity of Afghan security forces in the area  the preparations of NATO forces and the progress toward governance reforms.
 In addition  specialist strike units that target terrorist operatives are likely to keep conducting operations even after the Afghan government has taken over responsibility  Sedwill said.
 He said both 2011 -- the date set for U.S. troops to begin drawing down -- and 2014 are "intermediate milestones" in a larger mission that will last much longer.
 A summit of Afghan leaders and allies Lisbon this weekend will aim to set broad terms for that longer mission. NATO and the Afghan government plan to sign an agreement that will set out the international community's commitment to Afghanistan  including support for training forces  the growth of the Afghan military and intelligence sharing  Sedwill said.
 "We want to build the Afghan leadership so they're taking more and more responsibility for themselves but we recognize it has got to be underwritten by long-term international commitment " Sedwill said.
 Even with the NATO mission appearing to stretch out longer and longer  Sedwill said that the momentum had shifted in NATO's favor.
 "It's still clearly fragile. There are significant risks and there will be a long and hard campaign ahead  but we believe that in 2010 we have achieved what we wished to  which is that we've regained the initiative -- having  candidly  lost it in the past few years " Sedwill said.
 He said that this assessment was the conclusion of an assessment of the Afghan campaign that he had conducted with Gen. David Petraeus  the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Betsy DeVos is Positive . Education Secretary Betsy DeVos  convened a special committee to rewrite the policy in June  saying the regulations are "overly burdensome and confusing" and need to be streamlined.
"It is the Department's aim  and this Administration's commitment  to protect students from predatory practices while also providing clear  fair and balanced rules for colleges and universities to follow "  DeVos  said in a statement at the time.
In June  NPR reported that attorneys general from 18 states and Washington  D.C.  filed suit against  DeVos  and  her  department  accusing  DeVos  of breaking federal law and giving free rein to for-profit colleges by rescinding the borrower defense rule.
The rule had been put on hold less than one month after  DeVos  said  her  agency would re-evaluate it.
The potential rules will be discussed next week at a three-day meeting starting Monday of the special committee assembled by  DeVos   according to Education Department spokesman Alberto Betancourt. It is the second round of negotiations to establish new guidelines.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tim Kelly is Positive . President Donald Trump nominated Michigan State Representative Tim Kelly for a high-level career and technical education position in the Department of Education  but the administration pulled that nomination after some comments in  Kelly âs blog from years ago gained public attention.
âIt became clear that  Mr. Kelly  had made a series of statements that were not reflective of the secretaryâs values â said an administration official.
 Kelly  defends himself
 Kelly  blamed the âdeep stateâ and Trump haters for digging up and leaking the questionable blog posts to sabotage his nomination.
âIf people read the [blog] posts  people will think â¦ this guy got a bad deal â  Kelly  said. âIâm appalled that people would take this out of context. â¦ I wrote this blog several years ago. Someone from inside leaked this. I wasnât ever hiding it. I was forthcoming with it from the get-go.â
After having his nomination pulled   Kelly  said  he  didnât think it would be good to work for the Trump administration anyway.
âI donât see why anybody with any sense wants to go there â  Kelly  said. âThey take good people and ruin them.â

SOLUTION:
no