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Show Page 17 Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 The Definition Of same over the .- ...and t/OM may win a/ree T-Shirt and Restaurant Gift Certificates. Keep checking The Statesman for details. and over.result. Who Said Going Back to School Isn't Fun? THE FACTORY PIZZERIA OUTSTANDING CRUST • ALL FRESH INGREDIENTS ICE COLD TAP BEER Welcome Back!HOMEMADE ITALIAN SANDWICHES ALSO WINE BY THEGLASS OR BOTTLE Network: Powerful transparency PASTAS & NACHOS ITALIAN SALADS {lcontinued from page 16 some good. Eventually, a new generation of data-sitting technologies and social-science insights will move from the lab to our laptops, and we will be able to easily uncover the connections of those around us and understand their implications. We won't need investigative reporting to tell us that two seemingly independent lawyers share a key connection, because we'll already know they do. And it won't surprise us either. We'll also be able, in a systematic and rigorous way, to evaluate our leaders based on the quality of their networks. This powerful transparency will dramatically change how scandals such as the Edwards affair unfold. It also will bring with it the need for a new national dialogue about how society's opportunities and resources are distributed and fairness is determined. Networks play a vital role in putting the right people in the right places, but they also raise barriers to equally talented people who lack a way of getting the right person's attention. Although we think of ourselves as rational and meritocratic, the role of social networks in our behavior and decisionmaking reminds us that we are still in many respects tribal beings, even in the halls of power. invisible to the outside world - that we vigorously tap when looking for a new job or trying to get our children into selective schools. Even so, we never fail to be surprised, if not shocked, when other people's invisible connections turn out to play an important role in explaining events. We rarely think to look at the world through a network lens except when we want something or when things don't go as we expect. Indeed, a remarkable number of our afterthe-fact analytical activities, from investigative reporting to seething about being passed over for a promotion, ultimately are attempts to piece together other people's networks, even if we don't always recognize them as such. We would be better off if we assumed from the start that networks and connections play an ongoing role in shaping people's priorities and behaviors, including our own. As wave after wave of more than 3,000 appointments are made, we the people will see only the end results and little of the networks that led to those results -- until there is a catastrophic failure. Which is what happened with Michael Brown, the Federal Emergency Management Agency director during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. Brown had no discernible emergency-management experience but was brought into the agency by an This editorial was published in the tos Angeles old friend who was the president's former Times. Bradley W. Bloch is a New York-based campaign manager. When that happens, we entrepreneur leading the development of a denounce the power of connections, forgetsystem that will map the social networks of ting that networks are equally essential in people in the news. putting talented people where they can do GIA >S IS NOWRESER VING ITS ROOMS FOR ALL YOUR SPECIAL OCCASIONS CALL 732-9384 for info SPORTS SPECIALS LUNCH & DINNER SPECIALS GIA'SLASAGNA, MANICOTTI AND ALL PASTA DISHES SERVED AT THE FACTORY. HeUo, USU! 36th Annual 'Let's Get Acquainted Week' August 25- September 12 Large Pizza w/2 Toppings $ 9.99 (save more than $6 each!) $ Limit 3 per order. 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