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Rogues of the year

From scam marriage to b-day parties with dictators–they’ve done it

Meet the shame gang

Villains: Meet the shame gang

From Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik to cancer fraudster Ashley Kirilow: portraits of evil

CBS has lost its Sheen

Villains: CBS has lost its Sheen

As Two and a Half Men rolls on without him, Charlie treads the familiar path of a washed-up star and turns to cable tv

None but the brave

Heroes: none but the brave

From average Joes like Dennis Manuge to celebs like Kate Winslet

Gadhafi’s reign of fear

Villains: Gadhafi reign of fear in

He had Libyan dissidents gunned down in London, sponsored the Italian Red Brigades, and kept an album of photographs of Condoleeza Rice–to cite a few

Fukushima 50

Heroes: the Fukushima 50

When 700 workers were evacuated from a Japanese nuclear power plant, these few stayed behind to battle a meltdown