Ten Star Edition: Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dead at 89

• AP >> Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies (Douglas Birch, AP; from the book, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" to the "Gulag Archipelago," this giant of literature chronicled the horrors of Stalinism)
• RORATE CAELI >>Thank you, Aleksandr Isayevich! Thank you for exposing the true face of Socialism!
• The Black Biretta >> ad multos annos! (Fr. Robert J. Levis, 60 years a priest!)
• The Recovering Choir Director >> The introit chant Sitientes, reconsidered (Props to the NLM and Jeffrey Tucker)