Headlines from September 10, 2011

Libyan rebels’ assault on remaining loyalist strongholds meets heavy resistance, slows.
Increasingly desperate, Syrian protestors take to the streets to ask for international intervention.
Syrian soldiers executed for refusing to fire on protestors—defectors increase, but no senior officers.
Guatemalans grudgingly embrace once-vicious military due to powerful drug cartels.
Fear now grip[s] many dictators, leading them to overact hysterically. Update on the world’s worst, most fragile dictators.
Study reveals conservatives better at storing emotional memories, liberals better at detecting error.
Anglophile elite build English town outside Moscow, want a more stable, more British Russia.
I am not only a teacher, but a security officer, tutor, mentor, and counselor. What people don’t get about jobs, A-Z.
Stiffer regulation wanted as a third of high-frequency UK trades are computerized, three-quarters in the U.S.
I’d settle for the Kill Fee. Calamities experienced as David Foster Wallace’s Federer piece came about.
The 83 candidates for Kyrgyzstan president tested on language skills—five strikes and you’re out.