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Beg to differ?

He denied making the call, the Tribune reports, but a 911 dispatcher and two eyewitnesses begged to differ.

The coffee-and-911 escapade came just four weeks after Mosley got out of prison after serving his sentence for stealing an idling ambulance and leading police on a low-speed chase from Lewiston Orchards to Culdesac, threatening his pursuers with dynamite along the way.

- Holed up in The Alibi, no alibi would hold up, NBCNews.com, November 11, 2010.

3. Earlier this year, about 7,000 Seattlites participated in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Rally.

On Tuesday, people are marking the 50th anniversary of the day Martin Luther King, Jr. began writing his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” with public readings of the letter around the globe, including libraries, museums, schools, universities, churches, synagogues, temples, work places, public parks, bookstores, coffee shops and street corners.

You can read King’s “Letter” here. Every time I have read it I have come away in awe of its vast trajectory across the globe and across the span of history, condensing civil disobedience efforts from biblical times up to the moment King began pressing pen to paper.

King was not just a powerful orator, the civil rights leader was a good writer. He begins the letter by politely begging to differ with critics, men he notes “are of good will.” By the letter’s end, the thunder of King’s anger and dismay over the impacts of racism reverberates on the page.