Premise:
"Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course."
Hypothesis: Clinton has purposefully brought his problems into the open.

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"The ruling elite lived on the high ground, the Yamanote ( bluffs ) west and south of the castle."
Hypothesis: The leaders lived to the west and south of the castle at Yamanote.

yes

Premise:
"and one time we went to Yellowstone and we were doing the same thing we couldn't find a place to camp and so we were on top of a picnic table with our our sleeping bags i guess and this ranger comes up with this light shines it on us and said that we're just bear bait out there we had our food you know"
Hypothesis: We went to Yellowstone on vacation.
yes