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 Allen Iverson is Neutral . Coach Mike D'Antoni  in particular  was initially enthusiastic about the idea. Walsh had to be convinced. Yet they were so close to making the leap that  as of early Thursday evening  people close to the team were convinced that Iverson was on his way.
 Not surprisingly  there were concerns about Iverson's character. He left his last two teams  Memphis and Detroit  amid controversy. While renowned for his passion on the court  he is infamous for his poor work habits. As the Knicks dug further  they became increasingly concerned about off-court issues  and that concern influenced the final decision. Iverson's agent  Leon Rose  did not return messages on Friday.
 James L. Dolan  the Madison Square Garden chairman  was opposed to Iverson from the start  according to a person who was briefed on the deliberations  but indicated that he would not veto the move if Walsh and D'Antoni wanted to make it.
 The Knicks might have been Iverson's last  best hope to salvage his career and his reputation. Iverson  in turn  might have represented the Knicks' best hope for providing fans with a little excitement.
 "I'm always concerned about that " Walsh said of disappointing the fans. "But I don't think you can build a basketball team based on polls."

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Stanley Fischer is Positive . Federal Reserve Vice Chair Stanley Fischer  announced last week  he  was resigning for personal reasons before the end of  his  term  opening yet another seat in the central bank's powerful board for President Donald Trump to fill.
The departure of  Fischer   73  represents a big loss of institutional knowledge and gravitas for the Fed at a time when many American institutions are sorely lacking in technocratic expertise.  Fischer  is considered the leader of a generation of prominent academic and professional economics  in part because  he  taught many of them at MIT.
" He  is often referred to as the dean of central bankers  having taught most central bankers including former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank president Mario Draghi " Shawn Baldwin  the chairman of AIA Group  wrote in a LinkedIn post. " Fischer 's departure creates a vacuum not easily filled  adding to the uncertainty in monetary policy."
Larry Summers  the Harvard economist and former Treasury secretary  dubbed  Fischer 's resignation "the end of an era."
Fischer  who was born in Zambia and later studied in London  started his career as an academic but became a policymaker at the World Bank and later the International Monetary Fund  where he rose to the role of first deputy managing director.  Fischer  then spent three years at Citigroup as a vice chairman before moving to Israel in 2005 to become the head of its central bank.  Fischer  returned to the US as Fed vice chairman in 2014.  His  term was not set to end until June 2018.
"The Fed and the international monetary system will be weaker for  his  departure from official responsibility " Summers wrote in a blog post.
" Stan 's has been a singular career "  he  said. "As an MIT professor he coauthored  with  his  close friend Rudi Dornbusch  the macro textbook that defined the basics of the field for a generation. With Olivier Blanchard " the former IMF chief economist  "he wrote the treatise that defined the state of the art for graduate students. His lectures were models of lucid exposition and balanced judgment. My view of monetary economics was shaped by my experience auditing his class in the Fall of 1978."
Not everyone is complimentary about the arc of  Fischer 's career. To some  he represents the kind of establishment economics that led to financial instability and income inequality in many parts of the world.
During his time at the IMF   Fischer  became the face of austerity measures gone wrong. Many of his and the IMF's recommendations for drastic spending cuts during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s have since been widely discredited as having made matters worse.
"I see  Fischer  as to a large extent the embodiment of the conventional wisdom among macroeconomists and central bankers " said Dean Baker  the director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research  a liberal Washington think tank. " He  also  in the pre-crisis days  was very much associated with the deregulation of finance gang  although I think  he  has developed an appreciation of the need for regulation since the crisis."
Indeed   Fischer  has spoken out rather strongly against efforts by Trump and Republicans to unwind most of the key regulations imposed on Wall Street after the crisis with the aim of preventing a repeat performance.
"We seem to have forgotten that we had a financial crisis  which was caused by behavior in the banking and other parts of the financial system  and it did enormous damage to this economy "  Fischer  told CNBC in April  just as the president was signing an executive order aimed at what  he  said was "reviewing" Dodd-Frank.
"Millions of people lost their jobs  millions of people lost their houses "  Fischer  said. "This was not a small-time  regular recession. This was huge  and it affected the rest of the world  and it affected  to some extent  our standing in the world as well. We should not forget that."
Baker says  Fischer  did a good job in Israel  where  he  managed the central bank from 2005 to 2013.
" He  pushed down the value of the shekel  giving the country a large trade surplus  which allowed it to get through the Great Recession with little damage " Baker said.
As for US monetary policy   his  tenure did not include much action on the part of the Fed  but  Fischer  has been erroneously worried about the threat of looming inflation since the start of  his  tenure.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lubna Hussein is Neutral . Lubna Hussein was among 13 women arrested July 3 in a raid by the public order police in Khartoum. Ten of the women were fined and flogged two days later. But Hussein and two others decided to go to trial.
 Hussein said Friday she would rather go to jail than pay any fine  out of protest of the nation's strict laws on women's dress.
 The case has made headlines in Sudan and around the world and Hussein used it to rally world opinion against the country's morality laws based on a strict interpretation of Islam.
 Galal al-Sayed  Hussein's lawyer  said he advised her to pay the fine before appealing the decision. She refused  he said  "She insisted."
 As a U.N. staffer  Hussein should have immunity from prosecution but she has opted to resign so that she could stand trial and draw attention to the case.
 In a column published in the British daily the Guardian Friday  Hussein said her case is not an isolated one  but is a showcase of repressive laws in a country with a long history of civil conflicts.
 Hussein said earlier she would take the issue all the way to Sudan's Constitutional Court necessary  but that if the court rules against her and orders the flogging  she's ready "to receive (even) 40 000 lashes" if that what it takes to abolish the law.

SOLUTION:
yes