"By ELISABETH BUMILLER - Helene Cooper contributed reporting.
Published: April 26, 2010
"When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war," General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter. "
Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hit man in the 1994 action movie Leon: The Professional, but mainstream success came when she was cast as Padme Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005).