By LEONOR MAGTOLIS BRIONES www.abs-cbnnews.com "Nationalist to the last." This is how Rene A.V. Saguisag describes the late Sen. Lorenzo "Ka Tanny" Tanada, whose centennial we are celebrating on August 10, 2008. The first time I met the late Sen. Lorenzo "Ka Tanny" Tanada was in the old Senate Building in Luneta. I went there for the first Council meeting of the Movement for the Advancement of Nationalism (MAN) . He was the first Chairman. I was a then a member of the Kabataang Makabayan and represented the Youth Sector. In those days, senators were like Olympians, more godlike than human. They towered over mere mortals in their erudition, eloquence and grandeur. They were like the Roman senators of old. For a graduate student in her twenties fresh from the province, the experience of meeting, talking and seeing a senator up close was awesome. I was a callow and timid promdi taking up graduate studies in the then U.P. Institute of Public Administrat...