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According to Kane, companies generally base group health insurance premiums on industry classes, rather than epidemiologic studies. She says insurance companies compile tables of statistics for different industries, and determine premiums according to the risks peculiar to each industry...
They hope that a center will give Harvard, which they have dubbed "The Peculiar Institution," a more hospitable atmosphere. But how their campaign for diversity plans to turn demands into reality remains unclear...
Take the coalition's original flyer, which declared that the sins of a "Peculiar Institution" thrive at Harvard. Coalition members should try to focus on reality. If they believe that the racism that accompanied the slave system is really alive at Harvard, then they will be surprised at the injustice and racial inequality that exists in the real world. Harvard is far from the "plantation" and would be even farther if these minority students helped to unify the student body...
...quote John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race....If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: If wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error...
Recent poster announcing the Coalition for Diversity's events were labeled. "The Peculiar Institution." Last year, the BSA headed a flyer "the Harvard Plantation." These references are crude and pathetic attention getting devices that mock the seriousness of slavery...