The chef turns on the heat under a pan.

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But under the leadership of former Pan Am CEO Daniel Colussy, the company has undergone a revival and has been profitable since 2005.

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The initial lustre of the government that emerged under Gamal Abdel Nasser, a pan-Arab nationalist who was both visionary reformer and stern dictator, made Egypt a model for other Arab states.

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"From the birth of the Lebanese state, Tripoli has resisted being a part of Lebanon, " said Ahmad al QasQas, a media representative for the Lebanese chapter of Hizb al-Tahrir, a pan-Arab Islamist party with aspirations for one nation spanning the region under the rule of an emir.

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Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906) that shows fairies hiding until dark under a huge tree.

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The frisson came from a startling new book by Gunnar Wetterberg, a Swedish historian, proposing a pan-Nordic federation to unite Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden under a single monarch: Denmark's Queen Margrethe.

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