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China Nobel Prize
Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010

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  • LI DATONG,
  • a former editor with a Communist Youth League of China newspaper, on why he hasn't tried to leave the country recently; he has been invited to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony by the wife of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident who won the award
Photo: David Gray / Reuters | Source: New York Times