Welcome to The Desk, a blog for anyone interested in editing.To get us started, copy editor Pam Nelson discusses this confusing headline in today's News & Observer. I reacted to the headline the same way Pam did: I read "lead" as a verb, not a noun. "Fear" has a similar ambiguity.
Note about musical choices listed...A Smiths song? My Girlfriend's In A Coma or Comma? Seems to fit an editor such as yourself.