Michael Arad's September 11th Memorial Pushed Back to 2011

What’s the one lesson you learn in your first middle school civics class? “If the government is involved with it, it’s going to take a lot longer than expected.” Such is the case with the news that, after cutting costs and stopping and starting over the past year, the Michael Arad-designed September 11th Memorial, “Reflecting Absence,” has had its unveiling pushed back to 2011, instead of two years from now, meaning it will come a full year before Daniel Libeskind‘s also-supposed-to-open-by-2009 Freedom Tower, which has also been pushed back.