The phone rang very early Monday morning.

"Chris," my publicist began, "today's the day! Did you see the news?"

Of course I had. There were already published (and, as it turned out, erroneous) reports claiming the Department of Labor had finalized its new fiduciary – er – "conflict of interest" rule and that President Obama was scheduled to announce it later that afternoon.

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