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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Rob Glaser, the founder and chief executive officer of RealNetworks Inc., has been elected chairman of Air America Radio. The liberal talk show network, heard on 40 stations, also announced it received $13 million in new investments. A spokeswoman said Glaser has been an investor in AAR and is one of the lead investors in this latest round of funding. Air America also said it renewed contracts with Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, two show hosts. Franken, a comedian and author, said, "I have re-signed with Air America in order to spend less time with my family."...

"My family is more important to me than my party," declared  Senator Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat, as he spoke from the podium of the Republican National Convention on September 1. "There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush." [1] Many Democrats howled in outrage at Miller's "betrayal" - former President Jimmy Carter in particular. In an angry personal letter to the Georgia senator, Carter accused Miller of "unprecedented disloyalty" and declared, "You have betrayed our trust. [I]t's quite possible that your rabid speech damaged our party..." [2] But...