Few landlocked cities offer an alluring tableau for the dawn like Zurich. Switzerland's biggest city sits on the LimmatRiver at the top of Lake Zurich, which on clear days sparkles brilliantly, framed by the Alps, when the sun rises in the east. I am a relative newcomer,having arrived here last year to cover Switzerland and Austria as chief correspondent for Reuters after 13 years in our Mexico City bureau and Berlin before that. But already I have made my home in this city that boasts a rare conjunction of cultural vibrancy, great wealth and historical curiosity. Larger-than-life figures as different as Vladimir Lenin, Albert Einstein, James Joyce and Ozzy Osbourne drifted in and out of the city during the tumult of the last century. People walk below Swiss flags in the old town. R...
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