Word: oskar
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...Angela Merkel is very popular. She's even more popular than her own party," Oskar Niedermayer, a professor of political science at Berlin's Free University, tells TIME. "Voters are confident Merkel will be able to steer Germany through difficult times. This election result is an important psychological boost...
...Came In from the Cold A realist's corrective to the first flush of Bondomania, this intelligent 1965 film of the John le Carré novel saw the Cold War as a bitter stalemate in shades of gray. Richard Burton and Oskar Werner are the rival agents whose complex loyalties run into a Berlin Wall...
...Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, Alfredson’s dark fairy tale is capturing the hearts and minds of its viewers—and for good reason.The film, which takes place in a suburb of Stockholm, follows a 12-year-old boy named Oskar who is constantly and brutally bullied in school. A mysterious young girl named Eli moves next door with an older man presumed to be her father, and a rash of brutal murders coincides with her arrival. As Oskar and Eli grow closer every night, he begins to suspect that...
...appointments do not address the party's underlying problem of losing votes to Die Linke, which under party chairman Oskar Lafontaine - himself a former SPD Chancellor candidate - has grown to become the third largest party in Germany in just three years. "Germany's oldest political party hasn't managed to adapt to modern times," says Langguth. "These days, it consists of two wings - the traditionalists and the reformers," and their differences are growing rather than abating...
...Spring Awakening, and Will Swenson--are better singers than the originals) has gained a new appreciation of those distant counterculture years. "I think people are desperately longing to reconnect," she says, "to a time when you as a citizen felt like you could make a change in your country." Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director and the guiding spirit behind the production, likes to hammer home the parallels between the Vietnam protests of Hair's era and the current disillusion with America's adventure in Iraq. "A lot has changed since 1968," said Eustis onstage to welcome...