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...with mortgage securitization, at least banks intervened in the right to property by way of extending mortgage credit to those otherwise unable to own a home; however corrupt the practice was in hindsight, at least a positive externality existed. But, life insurance securitization is far worse, an encroachment on Locke??s natural rights: life and liberty. To sell a financial underwriter your life insurance policy is like circulating a trading card among investors—one that cashes in when you die. Until then, it merely functions as a liability for the underwriter and investors, equally an asset...
Harvard students will be piling into Sanders Theatre this Saturday, not for a lecture on Locke??s property rights, but to see five comedians from across the nation cracking jokes for charity. On Saturday Oct. 20, at 8 p.m., the Harvard Concert Commission will present its third annual benefit stand-up comedy show, “Comedy for a Cause 2007.” All proceeds will go to Kiva.org, a microfinance not-for-profit organization that supports entrepreneurs in the developing world...
...free themselves from the Others and their creepy leader Ben (a.k.a. Henry Gale a.k.a. that freaky serial killer from “The Practice”). However, before we move forward, let us take a moment to remember the past…the places that are now destroyed (i.e. Locke??s Hatch), the people that have departed one way or another (i.e. Michael, Libby, and Ana Lucia), and those moments of revelation that we will never get back (i.e. “Her name’s Alex?! That’s Rousseau’s daughter...
...vision of a civil society in which the state does not prioritize one set of beliefs over another proved to be quite appealing to the founding fathers of America, particularly those residing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Last Saturday, none other than the Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney jeopardized Locke??s vision as he announced that he would file a bill that would exempt religious groups from a Massachusetts law designed to prevent discrimination against gays, arguing that this law violates the religious freedom of Catholics...
...These opposing statements of Locke??s frame a contrast between our two political parties today, the churchgoers in the Republican party believing that man is God’s property and the secularists who congregate among the Democrats believing that man belongs to himself,” Mansfield said...