The 2006 Commonwealth Games swimming championships in Melbourne caused great excitement in our school when former pupil David Carry won gold medals in the 400m freestyle and individual medley events.

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Slum kids, all-but abandoned by their parents, not attending school, and gathering on the platform for mutual protection and excitement.

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David Perez, a 23-year-old student at Yale Law School, where Sotomayor attended, said many people in the Hispanic community feel such excitement about the nomination that they're almost numb.

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