In Canada, recently elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a Liberal, has backed off a campaign promise to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees there by New Year's Day – limiting the intake of tired, poor and huddled masses this year to 10,000, as long as none of them are single, heterosexual Syrian men.
Earlier this week the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., or CBC, reported that the government's Syrian refugee plan will only be accepting women, children and families.
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow wants a special committee of faculty and students to gather views on whether the school's seal, which features imagery from the family crest of a slaveholder benefactor, should be changed.
Minow announced the panel's members and its purpose in a statement posted to the school's website.
