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. >> yeaand now the next person o your list is chief justice john roberts who made news in the health care realm. >> my list is quite different than anna's john roberts really this year showed, again, showed what it was-what it meant to be a leader and put politics and partisan politics aside. he in deciding to be the deciding vote and hold that the president's health care law was constitutional. he knew he'd be in big trouble with his fellow conservatives, but i think he thought it was the right thing to do, the right thing to do under the constitution and put the constitution ahead of partisan politics, and i think in doing so was a real profile in courage this year. >> anna, another sort of unconventional choice for you is victor cruz, the wide receiver for the new york giants, but not for any play that he's made, and i think a lot of people just -- just were so -- had such great feelings for him when he went and visited that family who lost their son. >> alina, i didn't know he was a wide receiver until you just said it. i know nothing about football, but i can tell you i thought what he did was such an act of kindness, and i think h