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The pieces for today’s quagmire began to fall into a place after the election of Ahmadenijad in 2005. Iran resumed uranium conversion that year and since then has been on a steady path toward developing nuclear power capability. A National Intelligence Estimate provided their infamously hopeful report...
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.
“My junior year, we beat Shrewsbury and won the national championship,” Jordan said. “But my senior year, they beat us. Both of these races were within half of a length—maybe a second or two.”
But the competition between the two wasn’t limited to the national stage.
“I saw the 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...