The Top 10 Everything of 2010

In 50 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months

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1. Conan v. Leno: Tonight Show Smackdown

"Hosting the 'Tonight Show' has been a fulfillment of a lifelong dream to me. I just want to say to the kids out there: 'You can do anything you want in life — unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.'"

Conan O'Brien, on NBC's decision to dump him from The Tonight Show and return it to former host Jay Leno

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