Word: shin
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Dancing has its risks. We're not talking about shin splints and cuboid-bone displacements. We're talking about something really serious: public humiliation. Earlier this year, when R.-and-B. star Sisqo was on tour with the boy band 'N Sync, he would regularly attend after-parties in area clubs. Invariably, a local hotshot would slide up to him for a dance-floor face-off. "I would pretty much get challenged every night," says Sisqo, who is known for the impishly kinetic footwork in his videos. "Someone would go in the middle and start spinning on their head...
...Covering this convention has thrown a wrench in the machinery of my anti-GOP bias: Despite my predictions, after spending five days surrounded by Republicans I am still alive. No one tried to bite me or kick me in the shin. In fact, I have met some truly delightful, charming, personable and humane folks. I should add, of course, that those particular people tended to be pretty moderate party members, or even lapsed Republicans spurred into renewed action by either the Bush candidacy or an overwhelming disgust with Clinton's peccadilloes. I've talked to women, men and even...
...Shin '00, one of Jo's friends in Kirkland House, said that although Jo may have seemed "quiet and shy" to people who did not know him, he was "always quick to lend a hand or make a joke...
...Shin remembered his own birthday dinner celebration as a first-year, when Jo had to leave the restaurant before eating...
...When the rest of us were done and asked for the check, we discovered that Chang had discreetly paid for all of us," Shin wrote in an e-mail message. "Chang was truly a unique and special human being. He will be sorely missed because there will never be anyone else like...