] All the high-minded rhetoric and outward symbolism ... had
] apparently been erased by the dirty business of litigation.
]
] Befitting the clashes around the design, the Freedom
] Tower itself is now in doubt: it might not reach its
] symbolic height and, if it does, it will probably do so
] with the help of antennae. Likewise the centrepiece
] memorial is being designed by Michael Arad, who won the
] commission in a contest, and it will not be sunk into the
] ground, part of Libeskind's plan that had been praised by
] Pataki.

[ I can think of no more accurate memorial to America than this. Unfortunately.

Great idealism mired by greed, commercialism, pride and legal contest... how unbelievably, terribly apropo. -k]

Freedom tower design in doubt