In Iran musicians are forced to behave like fugitives, even though the charges invoked against them are vague (Ahmadinejad imposed a ban on "western and decadent music" soon after becoming president in 2005).
I asked Ursula Meissner, now 77 and living in Geneva with her husband, why she had given a fugitive family shelter, even though she didn't know them.
The most notorious recent instance came in 2001, when President Bill Clinton pardoned the fugitive financier Marc Rich, even though the Justice Department had not offered a formal recommendation.
We have to obey the Fugitive Slave Law, he said, even though we know that slavery is wrong.
"She's not much of a mountain person," he said, adding that they had twin daughters, and, even though Guzmán was a fugitive, his wife was adamant that he be present in the girls' lives: "She would go out of her way to maintain that family life".
Likewise, more people know the name of Levi Coffin, a white Midwestern Quaker, than that of Louis Napoleon, a freeborn black abolitionist, even though both risked their lives to help thousands of fugitives to safety.
Work practices (e.g., maintenance of effective vapor barrier/room enclosure, proper use of exhaust fans) can influence fugitive perc emissions, and prior complaints associated with some of the dry cleaner buildings sampled, even though equipment met regulatory requirements, suggests that poor work practices may have contributed to some of the elevated perc levels observed.
London has, for example, extended police reforms that were painful to unionists, offered amnesty for I.R.A. fugitives, and accorded full official privileges to the members of Parliament belonging to Sinn Fein, even though they refuse to participate in national government.
The two-year-old government of Boris Tadic has been overtly pro-Western and has vowed to apprehend Mr. Mladic, even though he has defied arrest for more than two years after his fellow fugitive, the former Bosnian strongman Radovan Karadzic, was brought in.
Mr. Longo waived his right to an extradition hearing even though Mexico, which does not use capital punishment, does not normally extradite fugitives who face death.
