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Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Horst Kohler ? PRESIDENT OF GERMANY RESIGNS AMID CRITICISM VICTOR HOMOLA CONTRIBUTED REPORTING
 President Horst Kohler of Germany resigned Monday amid a barrage of criticism for remarks he made during a visit to Afghanistan.
 Kohler set off the criticism when he said in an interview with Deutschland Radio  the public broadcasting station  that German soldiers serving in Afghanistan or with other peacekeeping missions were deployed to protect German economic interests.
 His resignation was another blow for Chancellor Angela Merkel  a close friend and an important conservative ally. She had lobbied hard for him to become president  first in 2004 and again in May 2009  and his departure came just a week after another leading conservative politician  Roland Koch  resigned as premier of the state of Hesse  saying he had had enough of politics.
 Merkel said Monday that she regretted Kohler's decision to resign  adding that she had tried to persuade him to change his mind when he phoned her about his decision.
 "I regret that my comments in an important and difficult question for our nation were able to lead to misunderstandings " Kohler said.
 He complained that some critics had suggested he supported military "missions that are not covered by the constitution."
 "This criticism lacks any basis " he said. "It also is lacking in the necessary respect for the presidential office."
 He added  "It was an honor to serve Germany as federal president " then walked off without taking questions.
 Kohler's resignation is certain to lead to a fresh debate over the role of German troops in Afghanistan and in other international missions.
 Denis MacShane  a British Labour legislator and German expert  said that Kohler was only speaking the truth but that German commentators did not want to recognize what he had said.
 "Kohler made the point that German military capability was relevant to German interests  including German economic interests " MacShane said.
 Opposition parties  after roundly criticizing Kohler last week  had only praise for him on Monday.
 Gesine Ltzsch  leader of the Left Party  praised Kohler  saying he was speaking out about why German troops are involved in peacekeeping missions. His resignation showed why a major reassessment of Germany's foreign policy was needed  she said.

Answer: Negative


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jennifer Egan Jennifer ? In 2011   Jennifer Egan  won the Pulitzer Prize for  her  novel  A Visit From The Goon Squad. Years before that book came out   Egan  had begun researching the 1930s and '40s in New York City.  Her  new novel  Manhattan Beach  is the result of that research. It follows a father  his daughter and a gangster whose lives intersect in New York around World War II.
The daughter  Anna  becomes the first woman to work as a deep-sea diver at the Brooklyn Navy Yard  which presented a particular kind of challenge for  Egan : In reality  there were no women divers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
In 2011  the novelist  Jennifer Egan  won the Pulitzer Prize for her book "A Visit From The Goon Squad." Years before it came out   Egan  began researching New York City in the 1930s and '40s. And that research wound up in her new novel  "Manhattan Beach." The book is about a father  his daughter and a gangster whose lives intersect in New York City around World War II.
"Manhattan Beach" was just long-listed for the National Book Award.  Egan  sat down to talk about it with my co-host Ari Shapiro.
 JENNIFER EGAN : She was extremely helpful to me in understanding the difficulty of being a female diver. I mean diving is a very physical undertaking  and so she was very articulate about the challenges of doing that as a woman and especially the prejudice that she encountered. Men did not want her there  and they made that very clear. There were certain exceptions. But she ultimately had a sad feeling about her diving career in that she felt that she would have liked to continue with it but that it was uncomfortable because she was a woman.
 EGAN : What I found was that every single time I tried to leap out of the present into the future  which was a technique I used a lot in a "Visit From The Goon Squad" - every time I did it in this book  it was worse than bad. It was actually annoying.
 EGAN : So I had to recognize that I was telling a story that could not live in a tricky structural form. It really required a total immersion in continuity.
SHAPIRO: It's kind of a relief to hear that  even Jennifer Egan  writes things that are terrible sometimes.
 EGAN : I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean my first drafts are so appalling. I think there's no way I can possibly get there. With this book more than any other  I thought very seriously about abandoning it.
SHAPIRO:  Jennifer Egan 's new novel is called "Manhattan Beach." Thank you so much for talking with us about it.

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Andy Weir ? The movie that was nominated for several Oscars began as a self-published book by  Andy Weir . NPR's Lynn Neary looks at how an unknown author's book became a hit audio book and major motion picture.
Self-published authors often dream of snagging a big contract with a major publishing house. But after  Andy Weir 's self-published "The Martian" online  its next stop was not print. Instead   it  got picked up by a small Canadian audiobook company. Of course   it  was eventually made into a movie and nominated for multiple Oscars.  We 'll find out tomorrow night how many  it  wins. NPR's Lynn Neary has  our  story.
LYNN NEARY  BYLINE: When Podium Publishing discovered "The Martian " it was a new and very small audiobook company.  Andy Weir  was a complete unknown.
GREG LAWRENCE: When  we  talked to  Andy Weir   when I talked to him on the phone  he'd never spoken with a publisher before.
NEARY: Tonn had to be persuaded to read the book. But once he did  he was on board. And Podium reached out to the author.  Andy Weir  says it had never occurred to him to pitch his book to a publishing company. And it didn't bother him at all that he was being approached by an audiobook publisher.
 ANDY  WEIR: I was surprised that anyone was interested. Remember  at this time  I didn't think that the book would have any mainstream appeal. So I thought it was just - oh  you know  it's just a book  you know  by a dork for dorks.
NEARY: The growing popularity of  Weir 's self-published book also caught the attention of Random House  which wanted to make a deal for "The Martian." But   Weir  says  there was one small problem. By then  he already had a contract with Podium.
 WEIR : The contract basically said I couldn't make a print edition of the book. So when Random House started expressing an interest  thankfully  the guys at Podium were just  like  oh  sure  we'll let you buy that back.
NEARY: Podium Publishing  said Greg Lawrence  has never had any regrets about its decision to revert the rights back to  Weir .
NEARY: One immediate benefit - both contracts required  Andy Weir  to take down the online version of the book. And that  says  Weir   gave the audiobook a big sales boost.
 WEIR : For about six or eight months or something like that  there was no version of "The Martian" available at all  other than the audiobook. So I think everybody won.
NEARY: There have been one more than 100 000 reviews of the audio version of "The Martian " on audible.com. And   Andy Weir  says   he 's made more money from the audiobook than  he  has from the movie. Lynn Neary  NPR News  Washington.

Answer:
Neutral