Lawyers had presented evidence in Mr. Ceku's defense, including letters from the former Bulgarian foreign minister, Solomon Passy, who had invited him, and from the United Nations.
According to several people with knowledge of this meeting, the men who invited him were from another division of the Interior Ministry but let it be known that they represented the interests of the F.S.B.
Burt said he had not been a receiver since sixth grade, but he did not hesitate when game organizers invited him down from Bergen County, N.J. "It was a chance to see all the guys, meet the '72 Dolphins and say goodbye to a historic stadium," Burt said.
Hess, who was probably of German origin, dedicated the book to his patron, László Karai, provost of Buda, who had invited him to Hungary from Rome.
His grandfather was an expert on the cultivation of sugar beet, and in the late 1920s the British government invited him to move from Hungary to Suffolk to oversee domestic production.
So he persuaded a sympathetic, though puzzled, white man to lend him his library card, and he forged a note for himself to present to the librarian: "Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by H. L. Mencken?" He had discovered, on his own, a literary tradition in which no one had invited him to participate — from which, in fact, the world had conspired to exclude him.
It was only after Stone sent a portfolio of his series "Seven Rising," chronicling the construction of 7 World Trade Center, that Silverstein invited him to paint from the building.
Although the narrator and his nerdy music therapist brother have always been almost murderous rivals, when he calls to invite him for a visit ("From Stephen's end came the sound of someone doing violence to a tambourine") the invitation is accepted.
Before long, Yale invited him to teach, freeing him from his job writing naked-lady captions for Oui magazine.
Once a chum of the president, who invited him back to Georgia from his legal practice in America, he then won a parliamentary by-election last month on an anti-corruption ticket.
