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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - DECEMBER 10: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and professor Ei-ichi Negishi of Japan, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, arrive to the Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall on December 10, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. The banquet features a three-course dinner, entertainment and dancing.

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - DECEMBER 10: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and professor Ei-ichi Negishi of Japan, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, arrive to the Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall on December 10, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. The banquet features a three-course dinner, entertainment and dancing.
A view of the Nobel banquet in the Stockholm Town Hall, Sweden, Friday Dec. 10 2010. The gathering of various dignitaries and notable guests in Norway celebrated this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, with a symbolic empty chair during the prize giving ceremony.
Actor and Nobel concert host, Anne Hathaway arrives at the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee's traditional banquet at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, on December 10, 2010. The gathering of various dignitaries and notable guests in Norway celebrated this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, with a symbolic empty chair during the prize giving ceremony, before the grand banquet given in the Town Hall.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, right, with her husband Paul Pelosi, talk to the media as they arrive at the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee's traditional banquet at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, on Friday Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo / Aleksander Andersen, SCANPIX NORWAY) NORWAY OUT
Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann speaks at a ceremony for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo at City Hall in Oslo, Norway Friday Dec. 10, 2010. Liu, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in China on subversion charges brought after he co-authored a bold call for sweeping changes to Beijing's one-party communist political system.
Overhead view of the Nobel banquet at the Stockholm Town Hall, Sweden, Friday Dec. 10, 2010. Every year Nobel Prize organizers in Norway and Sweden honor laureates with pomp, ceremony and lavish banquets, and this year won't be any different. Except the peace prize winner's chair will be empty. Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, imprisoned in his own country, won't be picking up the $1.4 million prestigious award and neither will any of his family, including his wife Liu Xia, who are under house arrest.
Actor and Nobel concert host, Anne Hathaway arrives at the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee's traditional banquet at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, on December 10, 2010. The gathering of various dignitaries and notable guests in Norway celebrated this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, with a symbolic empty chair during the prize giving ceremony, before the grand banquet given in the Town Hall.
Nobel Chemistry laureate Ei-ichi Negishi, right, sits next to Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, left, at the honorary table during the Nobel banquet in the Stockholm Town Hall, on December 10 2010. Professor Negishi is a Japanese citizen, born in China, affiliated to Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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