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Lapage, now stroking for the Crimson varsity eight, rowed for Britain’s Shrewsbury School while Jordan, currently sitting six seat of the same crew, rowed for Eton College a few hours south...
...pretty serious rivalry,” he said. “From my point of view, Eton was the main competition. I certainly think that in our junior and senior years, [Eton and Shrewsbury] were the two fastest crews in the country...
Indeed, the Eton and Shrewsbury crews proved quite elite in their skill, and in their junior and senior years, Lapage and Jordan faced each other as their crews competed in the national championships...
...American eight training, and I saw Nick Jordan in the opposite seat. It was pretty funny,” he recalled with a laugh. “I rowed with a couple guys from Eton doing the junior national team, so I knew who [Jordan] was although I never met him. They all spoke highly of him. It was hard to ignore the threat of such...
...burly mayor is unlikely to have felt many qualms about confronting muggers. A former schoolmate, talking to Johnson's biographer, described his subject as an "absolute berserker" on Eton's rugby fields. Johnson's career, both in journalism and in politics, has been marked by a fearlessness that not infrequently borders on the suicidally reckless. He rarely keeps to agreed party lines, recently incurring the wrath of Conservative leader David Cameron by going dramatically off-message on the party's European Union policy last month, provoking a Cameron aide to send him a Mafia-style text message: "La vendetta...