She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

Lest [my resolve] should break down, I took a stiff dose of whisky and waited on the Governor early.

DOWN the unimaginable corridors of geologic time the thread of life has passed from generation to generation, ever varying but unbroken.

These requirements have evolved into a sophisticated and complex set of needs centered on achieving a depth and authenticity of experience, the transumer, no longer accepting materialistic, repetitive or staged tourist experiences.