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Based on the premise "In Slate, Brent Staples finds that the novel's absence of workaday and historical detail keeps the reader at a distance; many of Morrison's characters are impenetrable to the mind's eye.", can we conclude that "Brent Staples believes that the novel's absence of workaday and historical detail keeps the reader extremely close."?
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no

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Based on the premise "Mary " " 115 For a moment, I thought she wavered. ", can we conclude that "It was not the case, she was as stalwart as ever."?
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it is not possible to tell

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Based on the premise "The legal services delivery system, created in another time and place, didn't seem to be working in the ways that we--stakeholders, staff, clients--expected it to work.", can we conclude that "We thought that the legal services delivery system would work differently."?
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yes