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350:... Ackerman also funded the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, which was started in 2003 by student leaders who'd helped bring down Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic three years earlier. Some members of Egypt's April 6 movement, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak, took civil resistance training from Canvas organizers in Belgrade."
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scandal. He publicly denounced the treatment of Milken and other leaders at Drexel by the firm once the government began to investigate them. Ackerman subsequently paid a $ 73 million settlement in a civil case brought against him by the
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960:"State House Notebook: Will Americans Elect be a savior for Cutler? ; Campaign finance disclosures reveal connections that suggest the independent candidate could get a boost from the well-heeled group"
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1045:"Dr. Peter Ackerman Becomes New Chairman of Freedom House"
601:"The Fabulous Life Of Secretive Investor, Peter Ackerman"
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505:"Peter Ackerman - Founding Chair"
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