But Sunday was the last day of the pandas' six-month visit and the pandamonium was supposed to be over.

The US played the deregulation card as a means to keep the rampant Japanese economy in check, and in the 1990s began serving up advantages and lagniappes to Japan's neighborhood rival, China, strategically setting the two Asian powers against each other.

Listen, old girl, I've got some news.

The point was, I wasn't really willing to make the amend, to make it right. But the point of an amend, as I understand it now, is to make it right for the person who was wringed, to the best of our ability, and in so doing, making it right for ourselves.