In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to determine if the two sentences clearly agree/disagree with each other, or if this can't be determined. Indicate your answer as yes or no respectively.

Sentence 1: Home Town , by Tracy Kidder (Random House). Sentence 2: Home Town was written by Tracy Kidder
yes

Sentence 1: The Los Angeles Times sees it as the latest sign that Republicans, having made sure that Democrats didn't oust Gingrich, may do so themselves. Sentence 2: The Republicans used to be interested in keeping Gingrich around.
yes

Sentence 1: It's almost a protection racket. Sentence 2: It's nearly a protection scheme.

yes