[h=2]Education[/h]In Washington, D.C., Portman attended
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. Portman learned to speak
Hebrew[SUP]
[21][/SUP] in addition to English, and attended a Jewish elementary school, the
Solomon Schechter Day School of
Glen Cove, New York.[SUP]
[22][/SUP] She graduated from
Syosset High School in Syosset, Long Island, in 1999.[SUP]
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[25][/SUP] Portman skipped the premiere of her film
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace so she could study for her high school final exams.[SUP]
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In 2003, Portman graduated from
Harvard College with a A.B. degree in psychology.[SUP]
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[29][/SUP] "I don't care if [college] ruins my career," she told the
New York Post. "I'd rather be smart than a movie star."[SUP]
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[31][/SUP] At Harvard, Portman was
Alan Dershowitz's research assistant.[SUP]
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[33][/SUP] While attending Harvard, she was a resident of
Lowell House[SUP]
[34][/SUP] and wrote a letter to the
Harvard Crimson in response to an essay critical of Israeli actions toward
Palestinians.[SUP]
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Portman took graduate courses at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2004.[SUP]
[36][/SUP] In March 2006, she was a guest lecturer at a
Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism, where she spoke about her film
V for Vendetta.[SUP]
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Portman has professed an interest in foreign languages since childhood and has studied French,[SUP]
[38][/SUP] Japanese,[SUP]
[38][/SUP] German,[SUP]
[39][/SUP] and
Arabic.[SUP]
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As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers that were published in
scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper, "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar", co-authored with scientists Ian Hurley and Jonathan Woodward, was entered in the
Intel Science Talent Search.[SUP]
[41][/SUP] In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "
Frontal Lobe Activation during
Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" during her psychology studies at Harvard.[SUP]
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[43][/SUP] This publication placed Portman among a very small number of professional actors with a defined
Erdős–Bacon number.[SUP]
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:xtrmshock She is then nominated for an Oscar which was hosted by James Franco. All this seemed a bit TOO coincidental to me and I think her baby will turn out to be the Anti-Christ! I'm serious! It is all too suspicious that this comment would make so many connections in the three months AFTER my brother-in-law said her baby would be evil! Thoughts?
