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].

What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Sayfullo Saipov ? Sayfullo Saipov  29  who arrived in the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010   entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in connection with the Oct. 31 vehicle attack.
After the attack  investigators say  Saipov  told them  he  was inspired by watching Islamic State propaganda videos and that " he  felt good about what  he  had done " NPR's Joel Rose reports.
 His  court-appointed lawyer declined to comment after the hearing.
Days later  President Trump tweeted that  Saipov  "SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!" and perhaps be sent to U.S. military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay  Cuba. As The Washington Post has noted  the president's "off-the-cuff remarks seemed to risk complicating matters for federal prosecutors."
After  Saipov 's plea on Tuesday  his court-appointed attorney  David Patton  declined to comment on the case  according to Reuters.
In the attack   Saipov  is alleged to have driven a rented Home Depot pickup onto the bike path along the West Side Highway  mowing down people until the vehicle collided with a school bus. After the crash   he  allegedly jumped out of the truck yelling "God is great" in Arabic.
Even so  authorities reportedly believe  Saipov  was a "lone wolf."
Reuters says Saipov's sister  Umida Saipova  told the news agency in a phone interview earlier this month from Tashkent  Uzbekistan  that she believed her brother had been "brainwashed." Reuters says it also interviewed an Uzbek acquaintance of  Saipov  living in Ohio  Mirrakhmat Muminov  who said that  Saipov  became religious after moving to the United States in 2010.
Neutral

What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rick Pitino ? Rick Pitino   the masterful coach first lured to this basketball-besotted state in 1989 to heal somebody elseâs scandal  finally toppled 28 years later Wednesday in the gusts of the latest scandal in  his  own program. By the time the University of Louisville placed  him  on unpaid administrative leave and shut off  his  access to a promising 17th season â  he  previously coached the University of Kentucky from 1989 to 1997 â it left a city woozy with scandal fatigue.
 Pitino  expressed dismay and surprise at the allegations Tuesday  just as  he  had after the revelations that former Louisville assistant Andre McGee had paid a Louisville escort to entertain the Cardinalsâ players and recruits.
âThese allegations come as a complete shock to me â  Pitino  said in a statement released Tuesday. âIf true  I agree with the U.S. Attorneyâs Office that these third-party schemes  initiated by a few bad actors  operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and their basketball programs  including the University of Louisville. Our fans and supporters deserve better and I am committed to taking whatever steps are needed to ensure those responsible are held accountable.â
The menâs basketball program is already under NCAA probation for the 2015 scandal.  Pitino  faced a five-game suspension during the upcoming season as part of the penalties; in addition  Louisville was ordered to return money received for NCAA tournament appearances from 2012 through 2015 and to vacate 123 wins during that period  including the 2013 national championship. The university has appealed the ruling.
 Pitino  found success at nearly every NCAA stop  he  made in a coaching career that began in the mid-1970s. At Boston University   his  first head coaching job   he  led the Terriers to their first NCAA tournament appearance in 24 years.  Pitino  parlayed that success into a two-year run at Providence  where  he  guided the Friars to the 1987 Final Four.
Then  after a two-year run coaching the New York Knicks   he  left  his  dream NBA job in 1989 to take over at tradition-rich but scandal-plagued Kentucky  even though the Wildcats would be banned from live television in  his  first season and from the NCAA tournament in  his  first two seasons.
After that  however   Pitino  quickly had Kentucky back among the nationâs elite  with a memorable Elite Eight appearance in the Wildcatsâ first post-probation season in 1992 and a Final Four bid the season after that   his  first of three appearances in the national semifinals at the school. In 1996   he  led Kentucky to its first national title in 18 years.
After an unsuccessful four-year run as coach and team president of the Boston Celtics   he  was back at another faded Kentucky power: Louisville  which had not won an NCAA tournament game in Denny Crumâs last four seasons.
Negative

What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Matthew Tueller ? Despite the fact that the United States had paid for the cranes  one senior U.S. diplomat opposed their delivery. Matthew Tueller  the U.S. ambassador to Yemen  argued that it was pointless to deliver the equipment because it would only be destroyed  either by coalition bombs  the opposition Houthis  or a future military offensive by the United Arab Emirates.
 Tueller  was and remains a central figure in peace negotiations  which have not resulted in a peace deal or a lasting cessation of hostilities. As talks have faltered  a cholera epidemic is spiraling out of control  the nation’s infrastructure has been reduced to rubble  and some 50 000 children are expected to die of disease and starvation by the end of this year.
This portrait of  Tueller  and his role in the failed peace negotiations is based on interviews with six current and former senior State Department and national security officials who worked closely with  Tueller . All of them asked to remain anonymous in order to share diplomatically sensitive details.
Yemen’s President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi  right  talks with U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Matthew Tueller  left  during a meeting in Aden on March 2  2015. Photo: Reuters
 Tueller  is a career foreign service officer who has held posts throughout the Middle East  serving in Egypt  Iraq  and Kuwait. A graduate of Brigham Young University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a father of five  he rose steadily through the State Department ranks  gaining a reputation as a well-respected and deeply knowledgeable diplomat. He became ambassador to Kuwait in 2011  and attracted little public attention  aside from a happenstance run in with Kim Kardashian.
Multiple sources in Washington briefed on the negotiations said Abdul Salam’s version was indeed consistent with  Tueller ’s position that the Houthis had to accept the agreement as is  or else the Yemeni people would face worsening humanitarian conditions  though the sources were not in the room for the conversation.
Whether  Tueller  made that specific threat or not   it ’s notable that the Houthi negotiator would make such a charge publicly. At the very least  Abdul Salam’s statement suggests a deep distrust between  Tueller  and a key party to the conflict.
By the spring of 2016 — more than a year into the war – both the Obama White House and State Department began to question why  Tueller  was pushing such a one-sided plan.
In May 2016  Jon Finer  Kerry’s chief of staff  sent an email to  Tueller  asking why he didn’t support the formation of a national unity government. A unity government would include members of the various factions  giving the Houthis a seat at the table in the form of ministerial positions or other roles.
The email was one of several exchanges with  Tueller  that were widely circulated around the State Department. Its contents  and those of other exchanges with  Tueller  on the topic  were described to The Intercept and confirmed by multiple former officials.
Finer’s concerns were seconded by Eric Pelofsky  senior director for Yemen on Obama’s National Security Council  who also wrote directly to  Tueller . Finer and Pelofsky  in their emails  urged  Tueller  to move past the framework provided by U.N. Resolution 2216 and offer something the Houthis might actually accept.
 Tueller  responded by saying that the Houthis were negotiating in bad faith. Saleh had already violated the internationally brokered agreement that put Hadi in power  he argued  so why wouldn’t they violate a future agreement that prescribed them a limited role in government?
As the negotiations stretched on  State Department officials in D.C. began to feel like they were in the dark about exactly what  Tueller  was doing. Kerry’s staff pushed to receive more frequent updates. When press reports emerged about the negotiations being deadlocked  Finer pressed  Tueller  again on why he wasn’t pushing negotiations toward the idea of a unity government.
But the secretary of state didn’t trust Tueller to carry out his instructions. Kerry thought he had to be involved in the talks to push the new approach  and he spent much of the remainder of 2016 participating in Yemen’s peace negotiations. Kerry even met personally with Houthi representatives  who were growing frustrated with  Tueller .  Tueller   meanwhile  argued that Kerry personally intervening in the talks was premature and would not get the outcome Kerry wanted.
In a statement to The Intercept  State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert described  Tueller  as a “devoted career diplomat” and said he has the “full confidence” in the new administration.
“The U.S. policy in Yemen remains unchanged: to work with our international partners to bring peace  prosperity  and security to Yemen ” said Nauert. “We have consistently supported the work of the U.N. Special Envoy and comprehensive peace negotiations under the auspices of the U.N.”

Positive