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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rafik Hariri ? Those accusations by anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians that quickly followed the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri galvanized hundreds of thousands of their supporters to take to the streets in a powerful protest movement. It drove tens of thousands of Syrian troops out of Lebanon and ended decades of Syrian domination over its smaller neighbor.
 The first U.N. investigator into the Hariri assassination  Germany's Detlev Mehlis  said the plot's complexity suggested a role by the Syrian intelligence services and its pro-Syria Lebanese counterpart. But the two chief investigators who followed Mehlis have worked quietly and have not named any individuals or countries as suspects.
 Saad Hariri's comments Monday are part of a remarkable reconciliation between Lebanon and Syria. Hariri has worked to mend ties with Damascus over the past year  traveling to Syria five times.
 Hariri's explicit repudiation of blaming Syria removes one major obstacle to closer ties. It also comes at a time when Hariri and his Western-backed political bloc are struggling to maintain momentum as Syria's allies in Lebanon -- the Shiite militant group Hezbollah -- gain influence.
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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Philip K. Dick ? Lately  weâve been seeing a boom in TV dystopias. Two of the most successful premieres in the past few years have been HBOâs Westworld and Huluâs The Handmaidâs Tale: the former a solemn  plodding update of Michael Crichtonâs 1973 film  in which subjugated androids revolt and take over a theme park; the latter a stylish and compelling adaptation of Margaret Atwoodâs 1985 novel  in which the United States becomes a patriarchal theocracy. Other recent examples include Amazonâs The Man in the High Castle (based on Philip K. Dickâs 1962 novel about an alternate reality in which the Axis powers have won World War II)  HBOâs The Leftovers (about a world in which 2 percent of the population has mysteriously disappeared)  and Netflixâs new Altered Carbon (a cyberpunk gorefest based on a 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan). Stretching the criteria a bit  one could perhaps include the long-running zombie odyssey The Walking Dead and its spin-off  Fear the Walking Dead  and sitcoms that play with dystopic elements  like The Good Place and The Last Man on Earth.
The success of Black Mirror is the proximate cause for the existence of  Philip K. Dickâs  Electric Dreams  also produced by Channel 4 and available here on Amazon. Dick  of course  is one of the past masters of the dystopia genre: His 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the seminal Ridley Scott film Blade Runner  and his work has been mined by Hollywood countless times ever since.  Electric Dreams  adapts 10 of  Dickâs  short stories  including âThe Hood Makerâ (which imagines a class war between telepaths and normal citizens  who resent their mindsâ being invaded) and âThe Father Thingâ (in which a childâs father is replaced by a sinister alien doppelgÃ¤nger).
 Electric Dreams  is slickly made and intermittently effective  but despite some half-hearted attempts to reimagine or update the material (the boy in âThe Father Thing â upon uncovering the alien conspiracy  posts a video on the Internet with the hashtag â#RESISTâ)  it doesnât really feel of our moment. Part of the problem is that Dickâs work has been adapted for film so many times already that itâs hard to watch a given episode of Electric Dreams  however well executed  and not compare it unfavorably  if unfairly  with Blade Runner  or Paul Verhoevenâs Total Recall  or Steven Spielberg âs  Minority Report.  Dickâs  sensibility is idiosyncratic and sui generis  but at this point it feels more like a piece of intellectual property than the amphetamine-fueled gnostic vision it once was. Is anybody âs  mind really blown by the is-our-world-real-or-just-a-simulation conundrum posed by âReal Life â for example  after weâve seen not only Total Recall but The Matrix and Westworld and a hundred other iterations of it?
The problem  however  isnât just overfamiliarity. Dystopias draw their power from an analysis of the present  and  Dick âs once-radical vision of the future is now as far in the past as H.G. Wellsâs was for  Dick  when  he  began writing. This is what Black Mirror  for all its flaws  has over Electric Dreams: The series feels like itâs about things that Brooker is genuinely worried about  not a dutiful tribute to what someone was worried about in the 1960s; itâs the future as seen from the 21st century  not the 20th. This problem is endemic to many of the recent dystopian shows. The fact that Westworld is based on a movie from 1973  and The Handmaidâs Tale on a novel from 1985  doesnât invalidate their value as entertainments or as cultural commentaries. But it does introduce concerns alien to the dystopiaâs imperative to take the worst of the present day and amplify it.
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Neutral


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hurst ? âShe was the most radiant woman I ever met â  Mr. Hurst  wrote of Ms. Parker after the shooting. âAnd for some reason she loved me back.â
 Mr. Hurst  was the only House candidate in Virginia who was endorsed by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. But  he  chose not to make gun control a key campaign issue even as  he  ran against Mr. Yost  a three-term incumbent with an A rating from  the N.R.A. Mr. Hurst  focused instead on mental health  as well as issues like health care and education funding.
 Mr. Hurst  described  himself  as a gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment  but said that  he  was intent on trying âto reduce gun homicides  suicides and accidental deaths.â
The victory came on a banner night for Virginia Democrats. Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam soundly defeated the Republican nominee  Ed Gillespie  to win the governorship. And  Mr. Hurst  was one of at least 14 Democrats to retake what had formerly been Republican seats  putting the party in contention to retake the House of Delegates for the first time in more than 15 years.
Asked if he thought the results were a rebuke to President Trump   Mr. Hurst  paused to consider.
âI still think politics is local â  he  said. âBut I think there are many people who got active and started organizing who were trying to send a message as a sign of resistance against President Trump and his administration.â
Ms. Parkerâs parents  Andy and Barbara  attended Mr. Hurstâs victory celebration Tuesday evening at a Hyatt in Blacksburg  Va.  along with a crowd of about 100.
He said that if his daughter had been alive  she would have been by  Mr. Hurst âs side  making sure  he  followed through on  his  campaign promises.
 Mr. Hurst  had insisted from the beginning of  his  campaign that  he  was not trying to earn sympathy votes and did not want peopleâs pity  even as  he  explained that Ms. Parkerâs death had been instrumental in  his  decision to change careers.  He  said that  he  hoped  his  victory would show people that âanyone can turn tragedy into triumph.â
âItâs not what happens on our worst day that defines us â  he  said. âItâs what we do in response to it.â
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Positive