John Stockton, Jason Kidd, Mark Jackson and Steve Nash rank 1-4 on the all-time assist leaders, but none of them are mentioned in the same category as Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlin or Bill Russell as the Greatest Player of All-Time.

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In 2009, he is trying to do this again with a bill that calls for the same standards to apply to another category of generic drugs that wasn't included in the original Hatch-Waxman law.

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Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.

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Indeed, except for a few tv loudmouths and self-help salesmen, there's nobody on the list whose day job is to interpret real events. (We dropped a category for public speakers this year--that's why you don't see Bill Clinton--because it's such a static roster.) No matter: Click here to enjoy the names and faces as useful data points of a personality-obsessed era.

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