If you'd just quit and said leverage was getting excessive, you'd have been a hero.

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He'd previously been declared a hero, the last person winched off the ship, but he's now accused of failing in his duties to help with the evacuation.

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That press conference in 2006 turned Alemseged, who was just 31 when he'd discovered Selam, into a hero in the world of science.

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Since his days in The Yardbirds as part of the British invasion of the 1960s, Beck has picked and plucked and whammy bar'd his way to true Guitar Hero status ( and not the video game kind).

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And so I'd always been really bad at "Guitar Hero, " but they had "Guitar Hero" there.

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At one time, when Coleman was on top of the world, he'd hoped to be a great actor like his hero, Sidney Poitier, according to People.

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He'd been an acclaimed explorer, a nuclear physicist and a war hero, or so he said.

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Nixon and was a hero to many baby boomers, died on Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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Similarly, after Wesley Autrey-- aka the Subway Hero -- leaped onto New York City subway tracks to save someone who'd fallen in front of a train back in 2007, many observers later pointed to Autrey's Navy service to explain why this otherwise unexceptional man sprang to action while everyone else simply watched.

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