Why aren't these 2 link litems displayed?

Hello, check your ccs file:
http://keck.usc.edu/style/KSOM/skin/css/_secondary_sidebar.css

Look for:

#content a.widget.red:hover {
    background-position: 0px -69px;
    color: #fff;
}

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color: #fff; is the problem I think...

Oh this too in the same css file:

#content a.widget.red {
    background-position: 0px 0px;
    color: #fff;
}

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Try with color: black; or color: #000000;

Shouldn't that be #fffff?

Y, we want the text to be white.  I think we're missing the background red image.  can you tell from the html where is the background image file it's looking for?  thanks.

Oh ok, I misunderstood the question then...

This image dont exist in your server...
http://keck.usc.edu/style/KSOM/skin/img/global/widget-small-bg.jpg

Then the problem es here in your css file:

#content a.widget {
    position: relative;
    display:block;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0 0 10px 10px;
    border: none;
    width: 205px;
    height: 69px;
    /* css3 rounded corner */
    -moz-border-radius: 0; /* FF1+ */
    -webkit-border-radius: 0; /* Saf3+, Chrome */
    border-radius: 0; /* Opera 10.5, IE 9 */
    background: url(/style/KSOM/skin/img/global/widget-small-bg.jpg) -410px 0px no-repeat;
    font-family: "Georgia", Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;
    font-size: 11px;
}

Y, thank you that is the problem, missing background image.  I have a copy of that file on my local pc but I don't see how that would work.  The copy if Have has 6 background image for this widget into one file.  I'm not a CSS person but that doesn't look right even to me.  Would that work if I just upload this file to the server?  thanks.
widget-small-bg.jpg

got it.  Thanks.

Glad to help!