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...Well, not exactly. As late as 2004, Pataki was promising that the Freedom Tower would be done by September 11, 2006, just in time for the five year anniversary. Shortly thereafter the entire blueprint for the Freedom Tower had to be redone, after New York's police department said it was not sufficiently secure from any potential future terrorist attack...
...real estate developer Larry Silverstein restarted the on-again off-again negotiations over control of Ground Zero. The last round ended a couple of weeks before with the future of the new World Trade Center still in limbo and the planned April groundbreaking for the so-called Freedom Tower still in doubt. For four and half years now, the debate over Ground Zero has always been colorful - with "greedy" the preferred insult thrown around - but it hasn't been easy to keep up with all the legal, political and economic minutiae. So here is why, almost five years after...
...masterplan features five towers that together comprise 11.7 million square feet of office space and 600,000 square feet slated for retail. The centerpiece is supposed to be the 1,776-ft. Freedom Tower, estimated to cost $2.3 billion. But beyond the specifics, the WTC is supposed to invigorate New York's downtown real estate market. A new commuter train station, with a well-received design by Santiago Calatrava, is under construction, and New York Governor George Pataki has proposed a second commuter rail from JFK international airport...
...Furthermore, Silverstein and Pataki never completely saw eye to eye on the master plan, disagreeing on such issues as the choice of architect. The architect Daniel Libeskind, whom Pataki favored, won the commission to plan the entire site and design the Freedom Tower. But Silverstein came forward with his own architect, David Childs. The current design for the tower is the result of a forced marriage of Libeskind and Child's ideas...
...called the porn curriculum, and it's quietly taking root in the ivory tower. A small but growing number of scholars are probing the aesthetic, societal and philosophical properties of smut in academic departments ranging from literature to film, law to technology, anthropology to women's studies. Those specialists argue that graphic sexual imagery has become ubiquitous in society, so it's almost irresponsible not to teach young people how to deal with it. "I was amazed by how much the students knew about pornography but how little they knew how to think about it," says Jay Clarkson, a graduate...