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].

Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ryan Lizza ? The New Yorker cut ties with  Ryan Lizza  over sexual misconduct.
 Lizza  was one of the magazine's most prominent journalists.
 He  said  he  was "dismayed" at The New Yorker's decision.
The New Yorker on Monday announced that it had cut ties with  the high-profile political reporter Ryan Lizza  because of what  it  characterized as "improper sexual conduct."
"The New Yorker recently learned that  Ryan Lizza  engaged in what we believe was improper sexual conduct " the magazine said in a statement. "We have reviewed the matter and  as a result  have severed ties with  Lizza . Due to a request for privacy  we are not commenting further."
CNN  where  Lizza  is a political analyst  also said on Monday that he would not appear on the network while it investigates.
"We have just learned of the New Yorker's decision " a CNN representative said. " Ryan Lizza  will not appear on CNN while we look into this matter."
In a statement   Lizza  said  he  was "dismayed that The New Yorker has decided to characterize a respectful relationship with a woman I dated as somehow inappropriate."
But the lawyer representing an alleged victim of  Lizza 's misconduct pushed back on his statement.
"Although she desires to remain confidential and requests that her privacy be respected  in no way did  Mr. Lizza âs misconduct constitute a 'respectful relationship' as  he  has now tried to characterize it " Douglas Wingdor said in a statement. "Our client reported Mr. Lizzaâs actions to ensure that he would be held accountable and in the hope that by coming forward she would help other potential victims."
 Lizza  has for years been one of the most high-profile political journalists in America  writing lengthy profiles about former President Barack Obama and others.
Earlier this year   Lizza  reported on an expletive-filled conversation he had with Anthony Scaramucci  President Donald Trump's communications director. Days after the report  Scaramucci departed the White House; he had been in the position for one week.

A: Neutral
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lim ? "We are taught that humans can taste only five taste categories " said Juyun  Lim    associate professor at Oregon State University's Department of Food Science and Technology and lead author of the study. "It seems  however  that we can taste other chemicals that comprise foods such as starch degradation products and fatty acids."
 Lim  added that some compounds  such as starch  are abundant in nature and that we use them as a source of energy.
"Understanding how we can detect and recognize our food sources is very important since it will directly impact our ingestive behavior and health "  she  said.
It was previously assumed that starch was tasteless  but the new findings suggest that starch is broken down into glucose oligomers by an enzyme in our saliva  called alpha-amylase  and these so-called glucose oligomers can be tasted   Lim  said.
"It has long been assumed that simple sugars are the only class of carbohydrates that humans can taste. Thus our findings are surprising "  Lim  said.
For instance  "as much as we know that glucose oligomer detection is not through the sweet taste receptor  we do not yet know the exact mechanism of how we detect them " Lim said.

A: Neutral
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mitt Romney ? But now he has been elected president and accordingly , if I could have helped shape foreign policy to protect the country I love , I would have been more than willing to do so ," Romney said through a spokesperson . 
How does Romney now speak out when Trump next disgraces himself & the country on something Romney cares about ? 
And while the Trump team offered cordial , diplomatic niceties for Romney , a step removed from that orbit , the president-elect 's confidants were gloating about a former rival 's diminishment . 
As Romney noted , he and Reid have a fraught history , with the senator once infamously accusing Romney of not having paid taxes for 10 years . 
"Mitt Romney is somebody I had respect for ," Reid said , in a somewhat dubious assertion . 
But it stood to reason that next to Trump 's other options for secretary of state , Reid might have found Romney the most capable of the bunch . 
He replied that by showing a willingness to work for a man he so thoroughly criticized , Romney had proved himself incapable for the task of secretary of state . 
"I would n't want someone who has the character that Mitt Romney is showing ," Reid said . 
Over the past few weeks , Donald Trump made a spectacle of his consideration of Mitt Romney for the role of America 's chief diplomat . 
On Tuesday morning , "The Apprentice : Foggy Bottom Edition" culminated in Trump announcing that he was passing over Romney for the post , choosing Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson instead . 
"Donald Trump was interviewing Mitt Romney for secretary of State in order to torture him ," Stone said . 
In dispensing with Romney the way he did , Trump defanged a potential critic . 
Romney 's defenders have framed his decision to offer himself up for the secretary of state position as an act of patriotism . 
In a statement to HuffPost , Romney expressed no regret for changing his approach to a president-elect he once called a con artist . 
Reid argued that Romney , who 'd called Trump a fraud during the presidential campaign , had lost any ability to criticize the soon-to-be-president by eagerly offering himself up for the secretary of state gig .

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