[T.Smith]

Actually, according to Wikipedia:

In June 2003, Portman graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and pursued graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2004.[10] At Harvard, Portman was Alan Dershowitz’s research assistant (he thanks her in The Case for Israel). She was also a research assistant in a psychology lab, and in March 2006, appeared as a guest lecturer at a Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism, where she spoke about her film V for Vendetta.[11]

In addition to being bilingual in Hebrew[12] and English, Portman has studied[13] French,[14] Japanese,[14] German[15] and Arabic.[16]

As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers which were published in professional scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper on the “Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen” was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search.[17] In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called “Frontal Lobe Activation During Object Permanence” during her psychology studies at Harvard

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Alright. She’s as smart as those old FOX glow pucks.

[mnehring]

IE, she is brilliant to the point she spends all her time reading Utopian books instead of visiting the real world.

[donnab]

Thats known as all book sense no common sense.

[L.N. Smithee]

In June 2003, Portman graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and pursued graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2004.

With her educational pedigree, the fact remains: When Ms. Portman is in politically opinionated movie star mode, there is a sieve in head that holds all that intelligence in her skull so that only the dumbest stuff comes out of her mouth.

To wit: Her appearance on Letterman. About two minutes in, she gets into her support for Kerry, calling Teresa Heinz Kerry a "sexpot." She doesn't, like, y'know, sound like a genius, y'know, like?