After a few more days of working the phones, my salvation came in the form of Kim Jochl, one of bosses at Sugar Mountain, in Banner Elk, N.

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Apart from much jetting around and private palaver among eminent people under U.N. auspices, the chief visible product of the Dialogue was a report, released in book form in the fall of 2001.

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