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By Homer Brickey, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 25--If you and I had friends in high places -- if we had an ear in the White House -- we could clean up the Wall Street mess. We could get rid of the scandals and restore investor confidence in mutual funds, the New York Stock Exchange, the entire stock market.

How? Simple. We would draft Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general, into federal service, even if it meant creating a cabinet-level position for him. Mr. Spitzer is a bulldog. He puts the fear of God into Wall

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