Mat: He's my favorite character of the series and it wouldn't bother me at all if they'd kill off all the other characters and just over him. I liked reading his part in CoT the best so please don't be discouraged when I summarize what happens in his part of the story.
He leaves the Ebou Dar by traveling with the circus and getting to know Tuon, the DotNM, during the trip. That's it. No getting caught by Seanchen, fighting the gholem, or getting back to the Band of the Red Hand. Not even any gambling. But it's still good reading for Mat fans, especially his nickname. The only thing that I hated was how a minor memorable character was casually killed off in a few paragraphs.

Perrin: He's probably my next favorite character after Mat just because of the interesting things that happen to him.
He catches up with the Shaido who have Faile after a month, but can't do anything about it because there's too many damn Aiel. That's it. Oh, and he finds a town where people see dead people.

Elayne and Aviendha: Elayne's on the campaign trail trying to get support for her claim the the Lion throne and we get to meet a few of them. Oh, and we get to learn how saidar affects pregnant women. BFD!

Egwene: She's the character that irritates me the most. From simple farm girl to the Amrylin of the rebel Aes Sedai who's outsmarting the rest of the rebel Aes Sedai who try to control her.
Yeah, very realistic. The same could be said of Rand of course, but Rand at least got training and help from Morraine before she disappeared. Plus he's the Dragon Reborn and can channel, so by very nature he's intimidating to others.
Egwene's laying seige the the White Tower by closing off ground access to Tar Valon. She's having Aes Sedai make cuuldadar and Traveling to coastal cities to sell it to support Gareth Bryne's army. Oh, and she hopes the price of it doesn't drop because she's flooding the market for it. Let's see, she doesn't want to use Gareth's army to take the tower. I guess the only important thing she does is decide to send an embassy to Black Tower.

Rand: He's in hiding on the advice of Cadsuane. That's about it. I think there was one paragraph that mentioned that the Taint was gone, but absolutely nothing talking about how this change would affect the men who can channel's attitude nor Aes Sedai. Rand's section of the book was maybe 50 pages and most of that was taken by Cadsuane. Nothing accomplished here.

Elaida gets a few pages, while Alvarin, the Black Ajah who is the Keeper for her gets maybe 20.

And that's it for the book. CoT seems like a filler and a bad one at that. Only Mat's part is interesting but it's still not worth buying the book.[s/poiler]

They're British. Before the world was destroyed, they used 'lifts' that apparently took them up and down buildings instead of having to climb stairs. I always knew the Brits were the source of all evil