Karkare is well-admired, Sreenivasan told The Hindu, and is survived by a doting family and many friends and admirers.

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In his apartment, he has a painting by Robert Kipniss, an artist Berman admired, as well as two boxes full of postcards of Renaissance paintings that Berman encouraged him to collect.

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They show his debt to Friedrich Schinkel's much-admired 19th-century classicism, as well as a previously unacknowledged sensitivity to nature and the site.

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Virtually all of them are people well known to the Center for Security Policy and greatly admired for decades.

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Berger has admired this painter of ordinary household items for years, as well as his unswerving dedication to his art.

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It may be your mother, cousin, friend, co-worker, admired athlete, movie star or musician, but we are all well aware of how bad things can get when addiction takes over.

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