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Five sports editors of The Harvard Crimson recently got together to conduct the first annual Ivy Fantasy Basketball Draft. The participants include men's basketball beat writers Michael R. James '06 and Caleb W. Peiffer '07, as well as basketball enthusiasts Jonathan P. Hay '06, Pablo S. Torre '07, and Jonathan Lehman '08. The log of the draft is included below, in order to provide some analysis of the 35 selections that were made. But maybe the term "analysis" is a bit of a stretch...
...torch. It is unquestionably weird, but the artist has used shape and color, especially the dead black of ravens, horse and drooping leaves, in an abstract way that was admired by painter Paul Gauguin. Eventually, Rousseau was adopted by an avant-garde circle that also included the young painter Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. They nicknamed him Le Douanier (the customs man), and traded untrustworthy anecdotes about his gullibility. "These were artists chucking the rule book away," says Morris. "They saw in him an artist who couldn't subscribe to the rule book." In Rousseau's own tall tales...
...that a dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches .../ We will leave you your small joys/ and smaller troubles...
...challenge is to reform the nonprofit sector without crushing it. Critics say voluntary disclosure doesn't go far enough. "To think that disclosure by itself is going to stop abuse is being naive," says Pablo Eisenberg, founder of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. "There is a need to ask big questions, to say, 'Are pieces of the charitable sector still legitimate?'" But few people, even regulators, are willing to saddle nonprofits with a version of Sarbanes-Oxley. California's Lockyer hopes states can help nonprofits develop better management skills rather than simply throw a raft of new rules...