Word: lubbock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...procedure before checking to see whether it was covered," she says. "It was as if I was a store vendor and was only supposed to advertise the products we offered." After several similar incidents, she eventually quit her HMO and joined a neurologist's fee-for-service practice in Lubbock, Texas, where she feels she can better serve the interests of her patients...
...asked in a poll last week whether people believe in miracles, 69% said yes; and the fastest-growing churches in America are the Charismatic and Pentecostal congregations whose worship revolves around "signs and wonders." Tens of thousands of people gather in a pasture in Georgia or a backyard in Lubbock, Texas, because of reports that the Virgin appears in the clouds...
...Santa Fe, New Mexico. Accusations of sexual encounters between the Archbishop and as many as five women had hit the archdiocese like an earthquake, compounding the heavy damage already wrought by a series of sexual-misconduct allegations against lower-ranking clergy. The Pope named Bishop Michael J. Sheehan of Lubbock, Texas, as a temporary replacement to restore confidence and stability...
What does all this mean for Lubbock's Jews? I can't speak for my coreligionists, but my own recollections of growing up in Lubbock consist less of the the occasional bigotries ("Don't you want to go to heaven?") than of the many instances of respectful curiousity...
...Lubbock takes its religion seriously, to be sure. But I suspect that the "anti-Satan" campaign has more to do with unruly heavy-metal enthusiasts than with making ready for the apocalypse. Gary Rosen GSAS