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"We worked very closely to meet the call of the L.M.D.C.," Mr. Bernstein said in an interview. "There was a reason we were picked. This is what they were looking for."gratuitous use of emotion button pushing city names : grand rapids, portland, tallahassee and then bangladesh. (!?) geez, thats cold.
Neither the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation nor Governor Pataki, who was in Shanghai, had seen the report yesterday.
Stefan Pryor, the corporation president, said, "Any judgments that are made prior to the I.F.C.'s submission would be premature."
A leading critic of the museum, Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, said there was nothing the International Freedom Center could do to make itself palatable as a tenant at ground zero. "They don't belong there," she said yesterday.
Her criticisms began with the opening gallery. "So the very first experience that the visitors will get when they come from Cedar Rapids, Portland, Ore., and Tallahassee, Fla., was not how we experienced 9/11 but how the people, say, in Bangladesh experienced it?" she asked.