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  • "Some dealers are just bad-guy magnets," said Garen Wintemute, who heads up the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis and studies tracing.

    Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes David S. Fallis 2010

  • That final scene where Allison warned the bad-guy detective — ominous 1″ floating over his head — that his life was in danger provided sweet closure.

    'Medium' recap: A shade shady | EW.com 2009

  • Of course you can still buy the Marvel and DC funnybooks with heroes in spandex costumes, which I love, but even they are trying to tell deeper, more compelling and more human stories instead of concentrating on the bad-guy beating of the week.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ulysses 2009

  • "Some dealers are just bad-guy magnets," said Garen Wintemute, who heads up the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis and studies tracing.

    Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes David S. Fallis 2010

  • Baker earned a best guest actor Emmy nomination for his bad-guy turn on The Good Wife last season, and based on an early peek at the new season, he may be in line for another nod next year for doing Damages.

    Cheers & Jeers: Dylan Baker — Double Agent! 2011

  • Of course you can still buy the Marvel and DC funnybooks with heroes in spandex costumes, which I love, but even they are trying to tell deeper, more compelling and more human stories instead of concentrating on the bad-guy beating of the week.

    Book Report: Watchmen Ulysses 2009

  • But he's undercut this boyish charm to brilliant effect in some bad-guy roles, such as plane thriller Red Eye, or as Batman's Scarecrow.

    Cillian Murphy, the owner of the most in-demand eyes in Hollywood 2011

  • No renewal angst here, thankfully, and whatever tension there is in the storyline tends to be leavened by outlandish escapism like when Andrew McCarthy's bad-guy Adler leaves our heroes to perish by flooding a dry dock, "super-villain" style, only to be, curses, foiled again.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

  • And a new generation of teen heroes is primed to kick some bad-guy butt.

    Family Winter Preview 2011

  • "Some dealers are just bad-guy magnets," said Garen Wintemute, who heads up the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis and studies tracing.

    Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes David S. Fallis 2010

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