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Breaking Dawn By Stephenie Meyer; out now After three volumes of slow-motion foreplay, the last novel in the mega-best-selling Twilight series finally tells us everything we always wanted to know about sex (and marriage) with vampires but were terrified to ask. It's a wild but satisfying finish to the ballad of Bella and Edward...
...There's no name, so maybe we'll just call it the Warren syndrome." He describes the ailment's chemistry as an inability to process his body's own adrenaline. Its symptoms are tremors, disorientation and pain, and, as he says, "it makes my brain move very fast." I ask - since a colleague of his has asserted it - whether Warren also has attention deficit disorder. Warren laughs heartily. "Am I ADD? Yeah, I'm probably...
...Balls-in-the-Air Question The halting progress of Warren's PEACE program raises another question: Is he oversubscribed? I ask him how many countries there are in the world. Of course, he knows: "There's 195 countries." I think, 195 countries, and so far, even one seems to be a challenge. As Warren tallies it, he is just 28 years into a 40-year commitment to pastor Saddleback. He has written a holiday book, The Purpose of Christmas. He spent much of the past six months in 20 countries doing purpose-driven training and will be traveling...
...only worry one might have about Rick Warren," says Michael Cromartie, a prominent Washington Evangelical with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, "is that he gets so many balls going up in the air that one might ask, 'Does he have enough hands to catch them?'" Warren has clearly heard this before. "God has given me the ability to manage my time pretty well," he says. "I can handle a lot of balls." Everything he does, he claims, feeds everything else. "I'm a door opener and a bridge builder," he insists. "If I weren't doing...
...moment when even a man with a racing brain can't keep up with all his options and must define himself more closely in order to do things right. Inevitably, that point will follow a great new opportunity, like the presidential forum and the possibilities it embodies. I ask Warren what Bible verse he will take into the forum, and he quotes David's words after God has secured his position as the King of Israel - "Who am I, O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me so far?" - and David's subsequent realization that...