The boy, Oskar Schell, is obsessed with a key he finds in his father's closet.
The Social Democratic chairman, Oskar Lafontaine, has lost a lot of his old fire.
Sweden's Oskar Henningsson maintained his overnight lead to win the Tour School by four shots.
That impression is broadly right, thinks Oskar Niedermayer, a politics professor at the Free University of Berlin.
Thomas and Oskar played games together, so Oskar may have thought that the key had some special significance.
Hans Eichel, a former premier of the state of Hesse, became Germany's finance minister after Oskar Lafontaine resigned.
"There is space for an anti-euro party in Germany, " said Oskar Niedermayer, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University.
Based in Moscow, the company was founded by 28-year-old German entrepreneur Oskar Hartmann.
Much of what Oskar says in the book is amusingly beside the point.
But Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt has a strong feeling that something is badly awry in St Florian's closed, conservative hierarchical society.
If only Oskar could reach the same conclusion, they pine, rather than taking his beloved French Socialist Party as a model.
In 1999, he built a home brew system in the restaurant's basement, turned it into a brewpub and introduced Oskar Blues beer.
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And while Foer insists that he is not Oskar, friends and family do see connections in the character's mannerisms, curiosity and imagination.
But oddly there are parallels between the actions of Mr Brown and those of Oskar Lafontaine, Germany's more avowedly left-wing finance minister.
Oskar Garcia is a news editor for The Associated Press in Honolulu.
It has, says Oskar Niedermayer, a political-science professor at Berlin's Free University, caused a one-time shift in Germany's political balance of power.
Associated Press Writer Oskar Garcia in Honolulu, Hawaii, contributed to this report.
Mr Guanaes is also the President of the Association of Entrepreneurs and Businessmen Friends of UNESCO, which he founded in 2004 with Oskar Metsavaht.
His unmodernised finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine, is less admiring of Blairdom.
That is, until Oskar Pfungst, a psychologist, investigated the horse's abilities.
This provides an opening for Oskar Lafontaine, the Social Democrats' boss.
He was undermined by a stubbornly left-wing finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine, who has continued to snipe from the wings since flouncing out of government last March.
Oskar Lafontaine, the man he beat to become his party's candidate for the chancellorship, remains powerful as party chairman, and also has an option on the finance ministry.
Oskar's chapters are interwoven with reflections from his mute grandfather.
Yet photographic and psychological realism destroy Oskar as a character.
Who else could be on easy terms with the mutually incompatible Gordon Brown of Britain and Oskar Lafontaine of Germany (who even out of office has kept in touch)?
Oskar begins his scavenger hunt at the swings of a Central Park playground while remembering a time when his father (Tom Hanks) tried to coax him onto the swings.
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