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  • Mr. Kluger, who was called Jurek as a boy, met John Paul, then Karol Wojtyla and nicknamed Lolek, before they were 5.

    NYT > Home Page By DOUGLAS MARTIN 2012

  • Mr. Kluger, who was called Jurek as a boy, met John Paul, then Karol Wojtyla and nicknamed Lolek, before they were 5.

    NYT > Global Home By DOUGLAS MARTIN 2012

  • Mr. Bielecki - known as Jurek - was in forced labor in a grain warehouse at the concentration camp when several young women were herded through the door in the fall of 1943.

    NYT > Home Page By DENNIS HEVESI 2011

  • Father Jerzy, or "Jurek" as his friends called him, was the chaplain to Solidarity members at the Warsaw steelworks.

    Progressive Bloggers 2008

  • Like Nouriel Roubini, Coval, Stafford, and Jurek believe that “many major US banks are now legitimately insolvent.”

    Wonk Room » Study Finds Toxic Assets Truly Worthless, Geithner’s Plan ‘Will Simply Transfer Wealth’ To Banks 2009

  • Many ultramarathoners have run farther and faster than Mr. Karnazes—Scott Jurek, Ann Trason and Marshall Ulrich, among them.

    The Cross-Country Runner Allysia Finley 2011

  • In her report Cybulska said that she was haunted in the years after she left Poland by a wish to see her hometown and to find Jurek, if he was alive.

    Auschwitz Survivor Recalls Daring 1944 Escape 2010

  • "Jurek did not want to hear that and kept repeating: 'we fled together and will walk on together,'" she reported, referring to Jerzy by his Polish diminutive.

    Auschwitz Survivor Recalls Daring 1944 Escape 2010

  • Another contributor, Scott Jurek, believes that being a mentor or training partner to a new runner is something all runners should aspire to, partly because the new runner is not the only one who benefits.

    Long May You Run Chris Cooper 2010

  • She returned to New York and wrote to him: "Jurek I will not come again," Bielecki recalled.

    Auschwitz Survivor Recalls Daring 1944 Escape 2010

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