enough to fix its image. and i think akio toyoda decided to come to america to try to help that situation. i think in the last four or five days, things have gotten worse for toyota, particularly since it does seem like they knew a little more about this earlier than they had initially said. you think it s getting better or worse for them? i think in terms of mr. toyoda himself, the fascinating part was it s very difficult to beat up on a man who s doing a good job of beating up himself. i ve seen the reports that seemed he didn t seem contrite enough, some congressmen felt he wasn t being he didn t seem sorry or remorseful enough. i m not sure what the man could do more than that. he went there, he said, i m deeply sorry, i take full responsibility. he said, the buck stops with me. now, short of committing ritual, what more could people want him to do before the u.s. congress? what did he know? when did he know it? the detail will all be in the papers, and that, of course, will be