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...hard to imagine him picking a dramatic reformer for a department where he hasn't. That's especially true for the intensely politicized Agriculture Department. Any serious opponent of the farm lobby - like the six implausible candidates, including rural-affairs activist Chuck Hassebrook and organic farmer Fred Kirschenmann, that a group of prominent foodies recently suggested to Obama - would get ripped to shreds by the aggies on Capitol Hill. Vilsack probably won't launch a Nixon-goes-to-China initiative to block environmentally destructive biofuels, but he might not resist that kind of initiative coming out of the White House...
...government's chief negotiator, Henry G. Kirschenmann of HHS, said, "Harvard was cooperative with us. Their objectives were the same as ours. We have been asking universities for a long time to do a better job of record-keeping...
...Kirschenmann added that the $4.6 million repaid by Harvard would go to the United States Treasury...
...pretty much always agreed with Harvard that we would try to reach a settlement to the closest year we could," Kirschenmann said, adding, "We probably would not have found much different if we went back [to previous years], but it seemed to me we should focus our resources on correcting the accounting problems...
Right now it is unclear what the resolution of the Med School audit will be. The audit report now is in Washington in the hands of Henry Kirschenmann, an HHS deputy assistant. Through an aide, Kirschenmann has refused comment on the eventual deposition of the case, though both Parigian and Harvard officials say there will be a period of negotiations between the government and Harvard over how much money will have to be paid back...
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