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...laughing," says Lilla Atherton, a fifth-grader in Fairfax County, Va., where the game has been banned. "If a boy doesn't throw hard and make a hit, the other boys call him a girl." Critics charge the sport isn't even good exercise, since it typically leaves the weakest, most overweight kids--the ones usually knocked out first--to sit on the sidelines while the good athletes keep playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scourge Of The Playground | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...advertiser crowd, which basically consisted solely of his catchphrases - "Bam!" "Kick it up a notch!" and "Happy happy!" All you need to know about "Emeril" is that its highlight reel - mind you, the funniest few seconds culled from an entire slaved-over pilot - actually used "You are the weakest link, goodbye" as a punchline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: Kickin' it Down a Notch | 5/15/2001 | See Source »

...history, NBC kept a relentlessly upbeat message (remember: "Survivor" did no harm on Thursday night! None!) that bespoke the nervousness throughout the industry about the soft ad market. Execs invoked the golden days of big-network television, reaching a ludicrous apex when West Coast president Scott Sassa likened "Weakest Link" host Anne Robinson to Groucho Marx. At times, NBC's pageant of self-butt-kissing even contradicted itself, as when Zucker's old "Today" colleagues came on stage and talked about his leaving their show to "save the network." Wait a minute - wasn't the message that the network never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: Kickin' it Down a Notch | 5/15/2001 | See Source »

...Huskies’ opponent, Hofstra, is the America East champion and the weakest team in this weekend’s field. The Pride finished the season12-4 overall and 4-0 in conference play. This is Hofstra’s third straight NCAA appearance...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Hosts Irish in NCAA Regional | 5/11/2001 | See Source »

...Last season CBS had the market cornered, rolling out "Survivor" and "Big Brother" and coming up with one phenomenon and one dud. The rest of television spent the summer boning up, and since then "The Mole" came and quietly went, "Temptation Island" drew viewers but scared away advertisers, "The Weakest Link" took "Survivor"-style ruthlessness into the lavish confines of the game-show studio, and "Boot Camp" proved that slavish imitation of a business model can still pay off in this business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor' Winner Tina Wesson | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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