The Top 10 Everything of 2009

TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists

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2. Tiger Woods

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"Kobe special"

Hours after what many speculate was a domestic dispute with his wife, golfer Tiger Woods reportedly told a friend that he had to buy one of these ("A house on a finger") at Zales. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers gave his wife a $4 million 8-carat diamond ring after being accused of rape in 2003.

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