A VACUUM, ABHORRED The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, next to the empty chair where Liu Xiaobo would have sat during today’s ceremony bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on the Chinese pro-democracy dissident. For the first time in 65 years, no representative was allowed to receive the peace award or the $1.5 million prize; Liu’s absence, said Jagland, “shows that the award was necessary and appropriate.” (Photo: Toby Melville / Reuters via the New York Times)
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