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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].
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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Saint Nicholas of ? Saint Nicholas of Myra (now Demre)  was known for  his  anonymous gift-giving and generosity. People believed  he 'd put coins in the shoes of anyone who left them out for  him  on  his  feast day  Dec. 6.
As the story goes   he  was a monk who gave away  his  hefty inheritance and instead chose to help the poor and the sick.
 He 's also a patron saint of sailors and was  of course  especially fond of children. (There's one slightly bizarre story  more Halloween than Christmas  of  St. Nicholas  saving three children who had been "lured into the clutches of an evil butcher.")
It wasn't until the 16th century that  St. Nicholas  began to take on  his  modern  candy-cane hued form in images and imaginations. In Europe  he became known as Father Christmas.
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Positive


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Joe Cox ? For army veterans Joe Cox  Russ Collins and Adam Lingo  the journey to the Washington Redskinsâ FedExField and Sundayâs âSalute to Serviceâ game began nine years ago when their fellow soldiers and teenage Iraqi translator âRoyâ died as brothers in Sinsil  Iraq after a house rigged with explosives collapsed.
âWeâre basically becoming (a) dating website for veterans groups. Every group has something they do  but none of them have a network â  Cox  said.
Inside his rucksack   Cox  carries the scorched badges of  his  army brothers killed in Sinsil  Iraq in 2008.  He âs carried them for nine years  and now across the country. On Saturday  November 11  at Arlington National Cemetery  they visited their buddiesâ graves. It brought them another step closer to coming home.
 Cox  added  âItâs a lot overwhelming.â
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Positive


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kirti Tiwari ? Kirti Tiwari was elated when he learned last year that he'd been nominated by his higher-ups at the United States Army to become a NASA astronaut. Tiwari  who first enlisted in the military in 2014  was excited by the prospect of what he felt was a huge career advancement opportunity. "I always had this idea of wearing a uniform " he says.
Tiwari  who first came to the U.S. on a student visa  qualified for the program on account of both his fluency in Hindi and his academic performance. Prior to enlisting  he had earned a master's degree in molecular biology from the University of Houston  and worked as a research specialist at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital. He enlisted in June of 2014; one year later  he was naturalized through the Army after completing basic combat training and advanced individual training. In 2016  after a months-long process   Tiwari  simultaneously applied for a NASA astronaut candidate program through the Army and a military microbiologist posting.
A few months later   Tiwari  learned the Army had selected  him  as a microbiologist and also nominated  him  for the NASA astronaut program.  Tiwari  was working as an Army health-care specialist at a military base near Tacoma  Washington  where  he  was told that  he  had been retroactively declared ineligible for either career opportunity—precisely because  he  was a foreign-born recruit.
Some soldiers find themselves unable to enter the U.S. Army medical department's programs for dentistry  physician assistantship  and other health professions. "Some people are being told they can't apply to regular officer-producing programs "  Tiwari  says. "Sometimes they are told the previous restriction has been removed  only to receive a clearance but no commission."
Despite this  the Department of Defense says it is still processing security clearances for MAVNIs  and claims there is reason for optimism for soldiers in the program.  Tiwari  remains hopeful about the approval of  his  own pending security clearance— he  plans to move to Georgia this winter to serve as an Army microbiologist in the medical service corps.  He  will also press forward with  his  lawsuit   he  says as a way to seek justice for fellow soldiers.
For now  foreign enlistees remain in limbo  hoping the Department of Defense will determine that they're fit to serve. "I really hope one day I can become an astronaut "  Tiwari  says. For now   his  dream job has been grounded.
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Neutral