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Weezer released the ruinously unpopular Pinkerton in 1996, then vanished long enough for lead singer Cuomo to enroll at Harvard and nearly complete a bachelor's degree. So before the release of the band's new (and also self-titled) record, Cuomo flatly predicted, "I think it's going to fail in every sense of the word...
Exactly eight years ago this week, I walked into President George Herbert Walker Bush's White House (actually, it was the old Executive Office Building) to visit a friend, Jim Pinkerton, who was then a domestic affairs policy adviser to the elder Bush. I was stunned by Pinkerton's pessimism about Bush's race against young Clinton. It was only mid-September, I said. But then Pinkerton introduced me to some of the people on the White House staff and the Bush campaign. I saw Pinkerton's point: No energy, no ideas, a stupefied sense of entitlement, brownouts in blue...
...Although Pinkerton and Security Systems International (SSI), the two main security subcontractors in the Boston area, will not disclose how much they charge the University, officials and the guards themselves say the figure is around half of what the University would pay to employ its own guards...
...That part is very expensive, so you really want to have it narrowed down," Pinkerton said...
...choice will be made on who most resembles their family," Pinkerton said. "When you're talking about people who are very intelligent, you're looking at grades and that sort of thing, and then it really comes down to who looks most like the family...