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He was, without a doubt, the man of the hour. "America's Mayor," more than one magazine cover proclaimed. The attacks of September 11th elevated this prickly, confrontational New Yorker into a national hero — a calm voice when everything else was chaos, a comforting word when all hell had broken loose. Mayor Giuliani will relinquish his office to Mike Bloomberg in January.
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