Question: Context: Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Microsoft Corp. is a partner of Intel Corp.

Question: Context: Feith, 63, started his career at age 25 at the ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked at the Dutch embassies of Syria, Germany and Sudan, at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at NATO in Brussels. In 2004 he represented E.U. in Darfur and prepared an E.U.-mission in Iraq that trained police-officials and judges. A year later Feith was in charge of the E.U. operation in Aceh and supervised the peace negotiations between the Indonesian government and the rebels.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Feith works in Brussels.

Question: Context: Then came the dozens of protesters who started camping out near Bush's ranch this month, led by a California mother who lost her son in the war and insists on speaking to the president.

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Answer: Hypothesis: FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley has also arrived in Texas, as has Becky Lourey, another mother who has lost her son in Iraq and a state senator in Minnesota

Question: Context: In France, art dealers are obliged by law to register all purchases except those bought at a public auction.

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Hypothesis: In France, works of art bought at public auction are exempt from registration.