Cheat Sheet - Inside Nirvana's 'Heart-Shaped Box'

Today: Syria Scatters Weapons Stock , Japan Paper: Summers Gets Fed Nod , CT Slave Finally Buried, Honored September 13, 2013 Happy Birthday 1. Inside 'Heart-Shaped Box' On the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's album In Utero, The Daily Beast's Andrew Romano talks to director Anton Corbijn about shooting the band's iconic "Heart-Shaped Box"video, what Kurt Cobain was really like-and how one cast member almost died on set. Read it at The Daily Beast Clever 2. Syria Scatters Weapons Stock In an effort to both throw off a potential U.S. bombing campaign and avoid surrendering its stockpile of chemical weapons as Russia has suggested, a secret Syrian military unit has reportedly been scattering reserves of poison gas and munitions in about 50 sites throughout the country. U.S. and Israeli intelligence officials say they are still confident that they know where most of Assad's chemical weapons are stored—but less so than they were earlier this year. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Geneva Thursday for a diplomatic discussion with Russia on ending the Syrian weapons program. Read it at The Wall Street Journal Money Man 3. Japan Paper: Summers Gets Fed Nod Larry Summers has won the race to be named chairman of the Federal Reserve, according to a report in the Japanese newspaper Nikkei. The article cites unnamed sources, however, and the White House has already denied that Obama has made a decision. Summers—a former Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and White House economist—is up against Janet Yellen, currently vice chairwoman of the Fed's board of governors. Obama is expected to announce his decision as soon as this month.  Read it at Reuters FREE AT LAST 4. CT Slave Finally Buried, Honored A man called Fortune who spent his life as a slave on a Connecticut doctor's 75-acre farm, only to have his body desecrated after his drowning death, was finally laid to rest and honored by the state, 215 years later. Fortune was enslaved with his wife and four children by Dr. Preserved Porter. Mistreated even in death, Dr. Porter dissected and boiled Fortune's body to create a medical model from his skeleton. The bones were later obtained by a Connecticut history museum who displayed them until the 1970s and then put them in storage. Now due to the efforts of the African-American History Project Committee, Fortune was honored with a state funeral and proper burial. Fortune has no known descendents, but said Rev. Amy Welin who presided, "We are all his family … we are bound to one another by the unbreakable love of God." Read it at New Haven Register WHAT WENT WRONG? 5. My Favorite Student: A Murderer? Daquan Breland allegedly shot and killed a 1-year-old boy in Brooklyn. But Brandy Zadrozny knew him as a funny, kind, and troubled young man who helped her learn to be a teacher. Read it at The Daily Beast BRUSH IT OFF Nicole Kidman Knocked Down By bicycling paparazzi. THANKS, NO THANKS Cher Turns Down Sochi Olympics Because of gay hate. DRAMA QUEENS Miss N.Y. Calls Miss America 'Fat as F---' Allegedly recorded by another contestant. GENITAL MUTILATION Former Model Helps Female Circumcision Victims Waris Dirie opens Desert Flower Medical Center. Boston Bombing Tsarnaev Friends Plead Not Guilty To covering Djokhar's tracks after bombing. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Hear Her Roar by Kevin Fallon Hazed and Confused: Maryland Cheer Squad on Probation by Caroline Linton The Return of the Replacements by Elizabeth Wurtzel

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