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• NetLogic hires director of channel sales for St. Louis market

  - 2005-04-07

  NetLogic, a local telecommunications company, has appointed Stacey Wright as its director of channel sales for its St. Louis market. Wright received a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Missouri. She studied intercultural studies in Sweden after finishing her undergraduate education. She moved to O'Fallon one year ago...

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• Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias.(Book Review)

  - 2005-04-01

  By Margaret M. Olsen. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. xii, 189. $59.95. This analysis of an important missionary text from Spanish America complements other recent studies of early Jesuit activity. Margaret Olsen, who teaches colonial Spanish American and Afro-Hispanic...

  Tags: dichotomy, Florida, salvation, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, University of Missouri

• Panel Discussion on 'Election 2004: The Media Agenda' to be Held Thursday, Sept. 9 at NPC

  - 2004-09-07

  News Advisory: WHAT: Panel Discussion on 'Election 2004: The Media Agenda' -- Does Fox News Channel's Coverage Differ? -- Did the Conventions Steer the News? -- Were Print and Broadcast at Odds? PANEL PARTICIPANTS: -- Frank Sesno, George Mason University, PBS -- Geneva Overholser, University of Missouri -- Brooks Jackson,...

  Tags: Cable, George Mason University, NETWORKING, PBS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs, University of Missouri

• Former Missouri Resident Returns to Direct Columbia's Utilities Department.

  - 2004-01-22

  Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 22--A 1979 University of Missouri graduate is returning to run Columbia's Water and Light Department. Daniel Dasho, who is responsible for electric, water, wastewater and fiber-optic utilities for Shawano, Wis., population...

  Tags: fiber-optics, job, knowledge, NETWORKING, Strategy, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, University of Missouri

• Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man.(Book Review)

  - 2003-06-22

  Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man. By James N. Giglio. (Columbia, MO, and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 345. $29.95.) Stan Musial ranks with Ted Williams, Joe Dimaggio, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Hank Aaron as one of the golden...

  Tags: athlete, baseball, CAREER, champion, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, University of Missouri

• Everest, K.C. op scrap over hoops. (Policy).(Everest Connections Corp. seeks access to University of Missouri men's basketball games)

  - 2003-02-10

  WASHINGTON -- A program-access dispute has flared in Kansas City, Mo., where over-builder Everest Connections Corp. says the dominant cable operators are blocking access to University of Missouri men's basketball games. Everest, with 20,000 subscribers, is small in comparison to the...

  Tags: Cable, Games, Metro, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, University of Missouri

• Tom Quirk, Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-10-01

  (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001), 234 pp., $34.95 cloth. Although the book is a miscellanea of Tom Quirk's earlier publications, it adds a useful voice to the current situation in literary criticism, actualizing the twentieth-century disputes on the "death of...

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• Cotton-picking book/ Black 'Okies' among forgotten Americans

  - 2001-11-18

  "Not All Okies Are White" By Geta LeSeur. University of Missouri Press, $19.95 If you comb mainstream history books for facts about blacks in America, you'll find oodles on the following subjects: slavery, poverty, jazz, sports, entertainment and civil rights. That's about it. But...

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