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 Muhammad Ali is Positive . By 1996   Muhammad Ali  didn't really need to supply us with more reasons to cheer for  him .  Ali   suffering from Parkinson's disease  had long proven  himself  to be one of the most iconic athletes in the world  and even if  Ali  didn't end up lighting the torch on July 19th  1996  we'd still have plenty of moments to treasure both in and out of the ring.
But as it happens  it was  Ali  who took the torch from Janet Evans  hands shaking  but proud as ever. The man who fought in some of the greatest fights in boxing history  was the subject of some of the most iconic images of the 20th century  and who changed this country in ways we're still feeling to this very day  had one more moment of greatness for the world to witness.
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But as former NBC executive Dick Ebersol told Sports Business Journal last year  the head of the Atlanta committee for the games  Dick Payne  put up a fight  saying  "Where we're from  he's perceived as a draft dodger." Hometown hero Evander Holyfield was the local pick to do the honor  but Ebersol countered that  Ali  didn't dodge the draft: " He  lost three big-money-earning years. But he didn't run away from the country. He didnât go to Canada. He was willing to stand on his principles."
It took four months to convince Payne and the committee that  Ali  was the right person for the job  four months for them to agree that a person who Ebersol figured  "outside of perhaps the pope" was "the most beloved figure in the world."
Of course  eventually the committee agreed  and what happened when the champ and 1960 gold medal winner was handed the torch was truly a moment that is so perfect that it defies any sports cliche you could toss at it. A reminder  once again  why  Ali  was  and always will be the Greatest of All Time.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lowell Hawthorne is Neutral . NEW YORK (AP)  â Lowell Hawthorne   the founder and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill  has died in New York City. He was 57.
The city's medical examiner's said  Hawthorne  shot himself in the head at his Bronx factory on Saturday.
 Hawthorne  started the successful Caribbean fast food chain in 1989 by selling Jamaican beef patties  jerk chicken and breads.  He  built the business into a national franchise with more than 120 restaurants in nine states.
 Hawthorne  once appeared in an episode of CBS' "Undercover Boss." At the time of  his  death  his  company was planning on building a new $37 million headquarters in Rockland County.
" He  was a nice boss  a wonderful guy " longtime employee Everald Woods told the Daily News. " He 's the kind of guy you want to work for for that long.  He  takes care of  his  employees."

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Joseph Mifsud is Neutral . This mystery professor is likely  Joseph Mifsud of the University of Stirling in Scotland . According to a calendar entry on the Valdai clubâs website   Mifsud  spoke on a Valdai panel on April 19  2016  titled  âWorld Energy: Key Trends and Political Risks.â  Mifsud  grew up in the Mediterranean nation of Malta  where  he  served in various government posts;  he  was the only Londoner and the only professor on the panel. The Mueller legal filing revealed that Papadopoulos had extensive contacts with the professor as part of an effort to set up a meeting between Trump campaign representatives and Russian officials. Papadopoulos told his campaign supervisors about this effort and was encouraged to proceed. Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the professor and others connected to Russia.
The Washington Post noted on Monday that  Mifsud  is probably the professor cited in the Mueller statement. One of the emails quoted in the document  according to the Post  âappears to match one described to the Washington Post in August in which Papadopoulos identified the professor with whom he met as Joseph Mifsud  the director of the London Academy of Diplomacy.â But the Post reported that in August Mifsud told the newspaper he had âabsolutely no contact with the Russian government â and he insisted his ties to Russia were purely academic.
The public record  though  contains information contradicting  Mifsud  and showing that  he  has had contacts with Russian government officials. According to photos on the website of Russiaâs embassy in the United Kingdom   Mifsud  met with embassy representative Ernest Chernukhin in July of this year (weeks before  he  issued  his  denial to the Post). A biography from a 2013 business conference says  Mifsud  âhas advised Governments on international education issues in many countries including Morocco  Syria  Russia  Tunisia  and Italy.â  Mifsud  also met with Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko in May of 2014  according to a 2014 Russian embassy press release.
Additionally  in early 2017   Mifsud  invited Alexey Klishin  a department head and professor in the international law division of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations  a school run by Russiaâs Foreign Ministry  to the London Academy of Diplomacy to present a lecture. Klishin was a former member of the upper house of the Russian parliament. According to a January 2017 press release from the Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences  âKlishinâs presentation was devoted to international law and national legal systems [and] to their coexistence in the era of Brexit and the new presidency in the United States.â The release noted that Klishin had âvisited the London Academy of Diplomacy at the University of Stirlingâ¦at the invitation of  the Director Joseph Mifsud .â Hereâs a photo with  Mifsud  (second from the right) and Klishin (center) standing next to each other:
 Mifsud  did not respond to a request for comment from Mother Jones.
One obvious question for the professor is why he told the Post he had âabsolutelyâ no contacts with Russian officials when on-line material suggests he has. There are no indication in the Mueller statement whether his team has questioned  Mifsud  about the Clinton âdirtâ or Papadopoulosâs initiative to create a back-channel bond between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putinâs office.
Thereâs another reason why  Mifsud  could be of interest to Mueller and his investigators. In the past year  the New York Times has reported that US intelligence agencies collected information in the summer of 2016 indicating that top Russian intelligence and political officials were looking to gain influence over Trump through his advisers and that US spy agencies had intercepted calls showing that Trump campaign aides and other Trump associates had repeated interactions with senior Russian intelligence officials  perhaps unwittingly. (In June  former FBI chief James Comey  in congressional testimony  disputed the Times story disclosing contacts between the Trump aides and Russian intelligence  but he did not specify what was wrong with the article.) So Mueller is no doubt looking for possible instances of when Russian intelligence infiltratedâor tried to infiltrateâthe Trump campaign  either directly or through witting or unwitting cut-outs. And the Papadopoulos episode could be a case not only of a Trump aide trying to establish a campaign connection with the Kremlin but of Russian intelligence attempting to score a contact within the Trump campaign.

SOLUTION:
no