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Pilot Sullenberger celebrated everywhere as a hero

From City Hall to the White House, at office water coolers and on Internet social sites, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III seemed to be everywhere at once Friday, and nowhere.

The cool-headed, white-haired US Airways pilot who became a hero when he guided his stricken craft safely into the Hudson River Thursday, turning a potentially horrific disaster into something very much like a miracle,...

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