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...Georgetown University. "I don't think there's much impeachable here," he says of the current scandal. "I almost resent these people on this committee now, trying to piggyback on the dignity of the Rodino committee." Among members who turned to the practice of law are Democrats JAMES MANN and EDWARD MEZVINSKY (who headed the Pennsylvania Democratic Party) and Republicans DAVID DENNIS, CALDWELL BUTLER, DELBERT LATTA, THOMAS RAILSBACK and WILEY MAYNE. "I didn't think this would happen again," says Mayne. "I would have thought that twice in 150 years was enough...
Friends said that through his work Mann became a voice of concern, alerting the international community to the growing AIDS pandemic and offering solutions through education, cultivation and protection of human rights and world solidarity...
Speakers said Mann would be remembered at Harvard as an inspirational instructor who strove to effect social change by touching the lives of his students...
Debrework Zewdie, a researcher who worked with Mann on the first confirmed case of AIDS in Ethiopia, said Mann continued his work when "the committed were few and skeptics were plenty...
Organizers of the event passed out pamphlets with excerpts of some of Mann's speeches to further show Mann's commitment to social justice. "I can see my life as pre-AIDS and since AIDS. What a journey! It seems to me...that the essential character of this journey is toward that personal discovery which is the real basis of wider tolerance, understanding and respect for others," Mann said in a 1996 speech...