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Say hello to New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, the Teacup Yorkie of ­municipal watchdogs. Teacups are the doggies all the other pups at Westminster make fun of — tiny, toothless and about as far removed from ancestral wolfdom as can be imagined. Watchdogs, they ain’t. The same can be said of Stringer, who is...