Word: dreier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge's rent control policy is especially critical in the late 1980s, when housing costs nationwide are outpacing income at frightening rates. According to Peter Dreier, director of housing at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, two-thirds of low-income renters currently pay at least half of their income for housing...
...organize that $10,000 breakfast club. Richard Gephardt, Tom Foley's probable replacement as Democratic majority leader, led House members with $610,107. Agriculture Committee member Bill Emerson followed with $579,478, Tom Foley with $575,086, and minority leader Robert Michel with $555,340. Banking Committee member David Dreier, New York's Stephen Solarz and the ever prosperous Dan Rostenkowski all have more than $1 million in their campaign treasuries...
...unusual was this year's crop that several rooming groups had two fellowship winners under the same roof. Kris W. Kobach '88 and his roommate Alexander E. Dreier '88 captured a Marshall and Rhodes respectively. And they are not alone. Gary D. Rowe '88, winner of the Henry--a scholarship reserved for Harvard and Yale students--and his roommate Robert W. Cook '88, who won the Knox--another Harvard-only scholarship--will both be going to England next year...
...unbelievable. The chances of it occurring are infinitestimally small," says Kobach of his and Dreier's achievement. He says some colleges would consider themselves lucky if they won two such scholarships in total, let alone two in one suite. To top things off, Dreier and Kobach will both be going to Oxford next year, and they will both be studying in the same masters program...
Kobach and Dreier joke that they are not surprised they both won, although they add that they thought Dreier would win the Marshall and Kobach the Rhodes. They say they supported each other throughout the process and even read each other's essays. But Dreier says their relationship did get a little tense after he found out in December that he had won the Rhodes; the Marshalls were not announced until a month later...