Sentence 1: Actor Anthony Sher, as Stanley, is astonishing, as though he were plugged into a power source the rest of the world had yet to discover, says the New York Times ' Ben Brantley.

Sentence 2: Anthony Sher plays Stanley.
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Answer: yes

Sentence 1: well they made it uh extremely uh easy for the employee yeah i can just especially if it's standard week they can just don't even have to get in hardly to log on to it just to put the initial command and then their employee number and away it goes

Sentence 2: The system is easy to get in to, but the instructions after the aren't clear
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: If Isikoff was such a disreputable sleazemonger, why would Toobin want to write a book with him?

Sentence 2: Iskikoff was known to bend the law and stretch the truth.
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Answer:
it is not possible to tell