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. McCain Makes a U-Turn

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"I never considered myself a maverick."

John McCain, rejecting the label on which he campaigned for the presidency in 2008 (Newsweek)

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