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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Brad Woodgate, vice-president of Costa Fruit and Produce, which currently supplies fruit to HDS, any grapes Harvard purchases would come from California between late spring and late fall. During the rest of the year, grapes would come from Chile, due to seasonal availability in the northern and southern hemispheres...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd and Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Grape Vote Will Include Six Options | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

Executive Chef Michael Miller said HDS receives grapes from its produce distributor, Costa Fruit and Produce, which is buying grapes from Corrin Farms in California...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Protest Squashes Grape Return to HDS | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...Costa Fruit and Produce declined to comment on the status of the grape farms that provide their produce...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Protest Squashes Grape Return to HDS | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...good old FBI. The federal agents dispatched to handle the situation are portrayed as soulless automatons, and the local sheriff they corrupt into doing their nefarious bidding is almost as dim-witted as Baily (despite heroic efforts at subtlety by Silence of The Lambs's Ted Levine). Costa-Gavras insists that the FBI are simply caught up in the hubbub, trying to do their job as best they can; but when he depicts Bureau snipers blowing away a wax statue of a Native American in a botched attempt to nail Baily, one starts to suspect a hidden agenda. The writers...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mad City' Plays Up Media Paranoia | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...drown it out. And by the time lightning and thunder begin to roll on cue, we realize we're watching a sermon, not a movie. Admittedly, the subject of sensational journalism offers plenty to preach about. "Today, the journalist discovers the news at the same time as the audience," Costa-Gavras warns, "He doesn't have time to put events into perspective." Gavras makes an excellent point. Mad City could also have profited from a little perspective. Its creators failed to notice that they themselves had crossed a line--the one that separates shrewd commentary from polemic."Photos courtesy...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mad City' Plays Up Media Paranoia | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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