I wonder if we can be too graceful? One oughta be enough. :-)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0a26e91..363ad52 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -561,8 +561,7 @@
- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
that have __private names in their __slots__.
-- Bug #1250170: mimetools now gracefully handles socket.gethostname()
- failures gracefully.
+- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
key to be used for signing the uploaded code.