Word: hagar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anti-choice forces which are currently on the offensive, desperately fighting to chip away at every small reproductive right we hold dear. This December, for instance, the Bush administration appointed religious extremist David M. Hagar, MD, to the Food and Drug Administration’s reproductive health committee, a man who is notorious for prescribing biblical scriptures to cure premenstrual syndrome and for his refusal to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. The current administration has also allotted $135 million to abstinence-only education, which not only forbids the mention of condoms by teachers except to talk about their failure...
Meanwhile, the Torah portrays Abraham's domestic life as a soap opera. Convinced she will have no children, Sarah offers him her young Egyptian slave Hagar to produce an heir. It works. The 86-year-old fathers a boy, Ishmael. Yet God insists that Sarah will conceive, and in a wonder confirming Abraham's faith, she bears his second son, Isaac. Jealous of Hagar's and Ishmael's competing claims on her husband and his legacy, Sarah persuades Abraham to send them out into the desert. God saves the duo and promises Hagar that Ishmael will sire a great nation...
Then there is the matter of Isaac and Ishmael. Unlike the Torah, the Koran does not specify which son God tells Abraham to sacrifice. Muslim interpreters a generation after Muhammad concluded that the prophet was descended from the slave woman Hagar's boy, Ishmael. Later scholarly opinion determined that Ishmael was also the son who went under the knife. The decision effectively completed the Jewish disenfranchisement. Not only was their genealogical claim void, but their forefather lost his role in the great drama of surrender...
...that would embarrass Bette Midler's highway. I would set up lawn chairs and an aboveground pool and turn the shoulder into some kind of make-out spot. I would ride up and down on my motorcycle like Peter Fonda, only without Dennis Hopper, because he annoys me. Sammy Hagar would play on weekends...
...road sign. Quick calculations told me this would come to a number that would stick out on my expense report. So I e-mailed TIME's president and asked him to buy it for the magazine. I used key sales terms like "unique opportunity" and "captive audience" and "Sammy Hagar...