Lessons learned, some forgotten, as anniversary of 9/11 approaches

TO be working in America the week of the anniversary of 9/11 is to notice how much has changed — and how little has changed.

Every newspaper carries advertisements for the Mozart Requiem, beginning simultaneously throughout the country at

precisely the moment the first plane hit. Local courthouses have guest speakers: people who counselled bereaved families in New York. Frivolous weekly events like wine-tastings have been cancelled.