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Fantastic's offices in the commercial district are a stone's throw from the old town center, a cluster of medieval buildings overlooking the lake and snowy peaks of the Rigi and Pilatus mountains. Winding pedestrian streets beckon with restaurants and tea rooms, where the local specialty is Zuger Kirschtorte, a sponge cake soaked in cherry liqueur and sprinkled with powdered sugar. You can try it at the Confiserie Speck--which is also a place where you might just spot Marc Rich...
...speaking metropolis of almost 3.5 million (nearly everyone speaks at least a little English), its core is easy to explore on foot. Visitors inevitably are drawn downtown, the heart of which is Rue Sainte-Catherine and the dozens of streets that radiate from it. In the winter the entire district is accessible through a 19-mile grid of underground passages and atriums known as the underground city. The nearby and stately Rue Sherbrooke is also worth checking out, especially from around high-end Rue Crescent (the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is at the intersection) to the entrance to McGill...
That's evident in the first-class boutique hotels recently built in the city's large stock of grand old buildings. The most sumptuous is the Hotel Le St-James (514-841-3111), which was fashioned out of a 130-year-old merchant-bank building in the Old Montreal district. Travelers looking for suites with antique furniture and plasma-screen-TV-equipped, marble-encased bathrooms can alight here for $300 to $3,750 a night. A bit pricey, non? "Our guests don't ask the price, they ask for the square footage," sniffs the hotel's directeur-general Guy Luzy...
...young boy who started one of the worst of Southern California's wildfires last month will not be criminally charged, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said Tuesday. The 10-year-old boy had admitted to police that he had started the fire accidentally while playing with matches Oct. 21. Had he been charged with arson, he could have been made a ward of the state under California...
With a massive show of force, Islamabad police prevented former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from leaving her house to lead an anti-emergency rule rally today. Police in riot gear and body armor sealed off nearby streets. District Magistrate Kamran Cheema was on site at 7 a.m. to direct police positions. "This is all for the protection of her personal self," he said. "We have had reports that suicide bombers may target her. She is not under house arrest and she is free to leave." His concern for Bhutto's well-being was somewhat belied by the four rows...