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Israel botched an assassination attempt on a Hamas leader . According to various reports, Israel 1) infuriated Jordan by infiltrating that country and staging the attack there; 2) infuriated Canada and other countries by forging Canadian passports for the Israeli agents; 3) bungled the attack, leading to the agents' arrest; 4) was forced to release the founder of Hamas (who was serving a life sentence) and other Hamas prisoners from Israeli jails and to supply an antidote for the lethal nerve toxin used in the attack, in order to assuage Jordan's anger; and 5) aroused such fury at Israel and sympathy for Hamas that Yasser Arafat reportedly will have to release the Hamas prisoners he has rounded up and reopen Hamas institutions.
In any case, my point remains: What's the point of "hate crime" legislation other than to assuage liberals?
By most accounts putting the Examiner on the block is just a cynical move to assuage the concerns of the Justice Department before Hearst closes the afternoon paper and turns the city into one more one-daily town.
But should that willingness ever falter, one thing is sure: No "worker adjustment" program will be able to measure the harm, much less assuage it.
To assuage social convention, however, and to validate Prudie's suggested retort, perhaps you and the father-to-be might consider legally tying the knot ...