American society, from our vantage point, given their use of capital punishment, can seem deeply punitive, and I suspect it is better for all of us if these punitive tendencies are restrained and balanced.
As I've argued before, it's easy to pigeonhole the CFO as a glorified "scorekeeper" of only the company financials, but that's a misconception — because a good CFO doesn't just keep the "score"; he or she also puts points on the board given their vantage point on the business.
This is especially so given his vantage point as the chief judge in Alabama's Northern District from 1999 to 2006 and his current freedom to speak as a retired judge.
Taking cues from documentary photographers Walker Evans and Robert Frank the latter of whom was getting attention for his grainy candid photos Winogrand taught himself how to tilt the camera with the wide-angle lens in such a way that allowed him to include elements that, given his close vantage point, would have otherwise been cut off by the frame.
Their experience of war has given them a vantage point to make sense of their earlier lives in ways [non-Vietnam veterans] might not.
Given Sandler's vantage point, she knows that "like the only children we bear, we end up vilified," and she astutely observes that it's mothers, not fathers, who are accused of parental selfishness.
Given his unique vantage point, his forecasts for global sea level rise this century are sobering: Ocean levels will almost certainly rise by 3 feet, says the NASA scientist, and a 6-foot increase is not out of the question.
The Morehouse speech offered an instance of Obama discussing race, a topic he has been criticized for avoiding given his unique vantage point as the country's first African American president.
That the city absorbed most of the state's yearly increase is not surprising given the attractions: pigeons to feast on and tall buildings and bridges that give an excellent vantage point from which to dive for prey.
Rather, we hope to give a new vantage point on Chinese passage to modernity that is in a way half-Chinese and half-American.
