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Level-headed young NATALIE PORTMAN is anticipating a range of responses to her spare new hairdo. "Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi," the Garden State star suspects, "or that I have cancer or I'm a lesbian." We would also like to warn her of a probable "Hey, Sinéad!" faction. You see, this isn't like Britney Spears going brunet. Portman, the exotically coiffed Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, allowed her petite pate to be shaved on camera in Berlin last week, a process she describes as "really exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Look: No, It Wasn't A Bad Perm | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...China does not always play by the rules." RON PORTMAN, nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, testifying at his confirmation hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...have begun quietly positioning themselves to make a move if the opportunity arises, sources say. Among the possible successors most frequently mentioned are majority whip Roy Blount of Missouri, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Reynolds of New York, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Rob Portman of Ohio. Not so long ago, it looked as though the speakership would be DeLay's for the taking after Hastert left the post, probably after the next election. But if DeLay is doing any praying in his office these days, it's probably to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DeLay and Company | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...extension or not extension; wait, is there a Yale not extension?). Someone forgot to tell you about the caveat about dropping the H-(extension)-bomb. Namely, if you’re a member of the fairer sex, it doesn’t work. Case in point—Natalie Portman ’03 (not extension): single. Barbara Bush (Yale ’04, not extension...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Duff at Harvard | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

Next, I will channel the brilliance of Portman by putting on my best twelve-year-old voice and calling Weinstein my “daddy.” After thanking my now-deceased cat Trixie for her contribution to my artistic life, I will choke up while trying to say how proud my Grandma is of me. Unable to finish due to the beautiful combination of wistfulness and optimism that my victory embodies, I leave stage while behind me Ms. Kidman, overwhelmed with emotion, falls through a crack in the floor. After this routine—the Oscar...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Movie Has a First Name... | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

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