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Chinaveg founder Xavier Naville's original goal was more modest: just get the lettuce grown and delivered. Naville, 33, who was born in Marseilles, began Chinaveg in 2000 by signing contracts with hundreds of farmers, each cultivating less than a tenth of an acre. Chinaveg gave them special seeds and pesticides acceptable to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which were demanded by customers like KFC. In turn, the farmers sold the pesticides for a quick profit and ruined the crop with highly toxic replacements. Come harvest, the farmers tried to sell for a higher price on the open market...
That was the notion behind X-Men: a school for mutants, run by Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), mind bender and father figure. Director Bryan Singer's first XMen, a hit from summer 2000, was basically Men in Black from the point of view of the humanly challenged: sure, the earth is overrun by odd creatures, but we must nurture them and harness their strengths, not send out the feds on an ethnic-cleansing orgy...
However, Harvard also has a strong core of seniors on the defensive side of the ball, led by linebackers John Perry and Niall Murphy, free safety Xavier Goss, and defensive end Mike Armstrong...
...fighting for a starting job. Now, he is a candidate to win an All-Ivy award in some capacity. Raftery won Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week in Harvard’s 24-17 win against Princeton, intercepting a pass and making 12 tackles. He and senior safety Xavier Goss each have 63 tackles on the year, good for third overall on the team. Junior cornerback Benny Butler is undersized but makes up for it with lightning quickness. Senior strong safeties Juano Queen and Niall Murphy are big play guys who can create turnovers and sack the quarterback...
...them was Harvey’s brother, Ken, who had been a four-year letterman at Xavier (Ohio). Richardson describes Brother Rice players as being from “good, supportive families,” and Harvey’s support often came from the other side of a pass or a check. Ken was one of two older male Harvey boys who had played high school ball in Chicago, and Pat, four years younger and the youngest of six siblings, had grown up playing with him and watching him. Now he was doing it again...