Premise: We might as well sit down, said Julius, when he had introduced all his guests to each other.

Hypothesis: Julius introduced all his guests to each other.
Answer: yes

Premise: uh-huh do those can crushers work good

Hypothesis: The can crushers don't do any work, do they?
Answer: no

Premise: The other, smaller, had a bandoleer of small flintlock pistols running across his chest with two more on each hip.

Hypothesis: He had many weapon on him.
Answer: yes

Premise: The Lewinsky story exploded because it takes the president's behavior beyond the sexual into the criminal--with its looming questions of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Hypothesis: The Lewinsky story is on the president's sexual escapades.
Answer: yes