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...Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (Pantheon; 467 pages; $27.50), this unholy alliance had a dramatic payoff. To the embarrassment of police, Mafia gunmen ambushed and killed the notorious, elusive bandit Salvatore Giuliano, who for years had terrorized rural Sicily. By appearing to abet law and order, the Mafia acquired a prestige and cachet that it had never possessed since first surfacing in the early 19th century...
...consider the problem of fraud, which high-speed computers can unwittingly abet. According to the IRS, the number of fraudulent electronic filings doubled to 26,000 last year, at a cost to the government of nearly $54 million, as computers spat out refunds before IRS examiners could go over the returns. Such incidents have led critics to warn that the rush to automated payment systems is proceeding too fast even for computer experts. "The demands on software are far outpacing the development of software," says Dain Gary, a manager at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University...
...financial establishments were the preserves of high-caste German Jews, seldom hospitable to Polish and Russian Jews. The Postal Service was more ) egalitarian. The merit system allowed a Baratz to rise in rank, slowly. But my father felt that he lived in confinement -- a condition from which he would abet his only son's escape by providing cover...
Even more jarring to critics, the book exhorts doctors and nurses actively to abet the "self-deliverance" of the terminally ill. Author Derek Humphry contends that such assistance is common but tacit. "Part of good medicine is to help you out of this life as well as help you in," he argues. "When cure is no longer possible and the patient seeks relief through euthanasia, the help of physicians is most appropriate...
When members of Defeat Homophobia and other concerned students "counter-protested" the demonstration of the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) against Kinko's Copies yesterday, we had two main objectives: to show support for the Kinko's employees who refused to aid and abet AALARM in copying its anti-abortion posters because of his ethical beliefs; and to inform passersby of AALARM's anti-gay and anti-women's rights stance, which AALARM's protesters neglected...