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...Angeles lawyer Marc Hankin watched as his father's Alzheimer's gradually robbed him of his ability to function and imposed devastating financial strains on his family. So Hankin, now 51, vowed that he would be ready in case he ever suffered any such disability. He has worked out a novel strategy to define when to activate his living trust--a document that designates people to manage his affairs if he no longer can. He has named his wife and his three closest friends to a competency committee, and granted them the power to declare him unfit and take control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Fear Losing It | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...attorney for health and wealth, to spell out who should take over when they have lost capacity. Many would prefer to have others take charge of their affairs a little at a time as needed, rather than all at once. That's the intent of the customized conservatorship that Hankin designs for clients--facilitated by the terms of a pioneering state law that he helped craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Fear Losing It | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...Professors acknowledge that skipping once or twice is common practice among students regardless of class size, but with the most populated courses, this principle can be taken to an extreme. In a most egregious incident, two seniors approached Hankins shortly before the final exam. These two lost souls revealed that they had neither sectioned nor taken the midterm. To their own dismay, they needed the Renaissance course to graduate and threw themselves at Hankin's mercy. "There are always some people who get lost. They slipped through the cracks somehow," Hankins says...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...spending spree, and despite the catalogues' enticements to decadence and conspicuous frivolity, Americans for the most part ordered up gifts that tended to be more tenable than trendy, disproving the adage that there's no fool like a Yule fool. Said Bergdorf Goodman Executive Vice President Leonard Hankin: "This was the kind of Christmas where people were investing in things because they were not so sure of what was going to happen to their dollars." Added Roger Horchow, owner of the zooming eight-year-old The Horchow Collection mail-order firm: "People are looking for good value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gifts by Mail | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Cakes and Ale," the violins conveyed the lilting melodies convincingly, although they sometimes sounded muddy. The restrained notes of the strings in "Hankin Booby" constrasted interestingly with the sudden intrusions of the tympani; the orchestra's evocative and controlled playing in this second part was particularly fine and beautiful. The lyrical elegance which suffuses Britten's work appeared most notably in the last part, "Hunt the Squirrel," in which conductor Yannatos had the players emphasize nicely the passages of the strings vying against each other...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Gershwin at the Great Gates | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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