“Anxiety 101.”
As they sat in a circle, a therapist, Nicole Archer, asked: “When you’re anxious, how does it feel?”
“I have a faster heart rate,” whispered one young woman. “I feel panicky,” said another. Sweating. Ragged breathing. Insomnia.
Causes? Schoolwork, they all replied. Money. Relationships. The more they thought about what they had to do, the students said, the more paralyzed they became.

WASHINGTON — IN 1928 the Treasury Department issued the first $20 bill featuring Andrew Jackson, replacing Grover Cleveland. After almost a century, Jackson needs to step aside — and this time, the bill should feature John Ross, a Cherokee leader and Old Hickory’s opponent in a fight to control Indian land.

LOS ANGELES — The debates can stretch from dusk to dawn, punctuated by tearful speeches and forceful shouting matches, with accusations of racism, colonialism and anti-Semitism. At dozens of college campuses across the country, student government councils are embracing resolutions calling on their administrations to divest from companies that enable what they see as Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians.
And while no university boards or administrators are heeding the students’ demands, the effort to pressure Israel appears to be gaining traction at campuses across the country and driving a wedge between many Jewish and minority students.

Columbia is a latecomer to the study of universities and slavery. Reports onYale and Brown drew national headlines in the early 2000s amid intense debate over reparations. Since then, as that debate has receded andscholarship on the North’s entanglement with the slave economy has exploded, there have been inquiries at Harvard, Princeton, Emory, William & Mary and other institutions.
Columbia’s effort originated last year, after Mr. Bollinger read about Craig Steven Wilder’s book “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” which includes material on Columbia, founded in 1754 as King’s College. He and Mr. Foner invited Mr. Wilder to speak on campus, and began discussing the possibility of the seminar.
Some students followed the money, tracking trustee, donor and student connections with slavery. Others studied topics like alumni involvement in the antislavery New York Manumission Society, or faculty contributions to dubious “race science.”

Does one of the nation’s most prestigious universities really have a racially biased admissions process, or are the organizers behind such a claim merely pushing a larger, more controversial agenda?
Those were the questions prompted by a federal complaint filed last week with the Departments of Justice and Education by more than 60 Asian-American organizations who say Harvard University uses racial quotas and other illegal practices to discriminate against Asian-American applicants.

South Asian-Americans, whose forebears immigrated from countries like India or Pakistan, have now won the Scripps National Spelling Bee eight years in a row. At one point in the 2015 final, six of the remaining seven spellers were of that ethnicity, and in the end there were two: co-champions Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam. That means that out of the last 16 years, spellers of South-Asian origin have lost only four competitions. And one Northwestern academic says it’s not a coincidence.

SingPost’s makeover is among the most ambitious. Besides its regular postal duties, it offers a basket of services for companies, including website development, online marketing, customer service and, of course, package delivery. Following the Amazon model, it is building a network of 24 warehouses in 12 countries to stockpile goods for companies. The e-commerce team is staffed with former Silicon Valley executives.

A Chinese former elementary schoolteacher has been executed for molesting or raping 26 students, some as young as 4, in a case underscoring the vulnerability of rural children left behind by parents seeking jobs in cities.
Li Jishun committed his assaults in the classroom, dormitories and forest areas in 2011-12. In its ruling, the Supreme People’s Court said all of Mr. Li’s victims were girls younger than 12 who attended his village boarding school and “were his responsibility to educate and protect.”

Both will introduce themselves with unwavering self-confidence as the one and only president of the association. Both will insist that the other is a total impostor. Neither is happy with the situation.
“I feel uncomfortable,” Mrs. Kim acknowledged.
“We have a little problem to solve,” Mr. Min asserted.
Such is the disarray that has befallen the once-venerable institution, one of the oldest groups in the region’s Korean community. Founded in 1960, the association for years helped new Korean immigrants integrate with American society. But its importance to the community has waned considerably, and the group now appears to serve a largely ceremonial function in support of its president, an unpaid elected post.

ATLANTA — In a dramatic conclusion to what has been described as the largest cheating scandal in the nation’s history, a jury here on Wednesday convicted 11 educators for their roles in a standardized test cheating scandal that tarnished a major school district’s reputation and raised broader questions about the role of high-stakes testing in American schools.