more of this week s headlines, recall them headlines redefined because they got the story only half right. first from the wall street journal , gm fires 15 employees over recall failures. gm s report written by a former u.s. attorney was released this week about the whole ignition fiasco. it was 315 pages long. they ve taken ownership thus far of 54 crashes and 13 fatalities. 15 were fired but there s one engineer whose name is 200 times referenced in that report, and this one engineer approved the switch even though he knew it failed the safety standards. he then tweaked the design but told no one and then he didn t change the part number so it made it much more difficult to unravel what had really gone on here. this is also the story of a different engineer, an engineer by the name of mark hood. i once interviewed him here on cnn. he was hired by a trial attorney representing the estate of brook melton, one of the victims of the whole gm catastrophe,
29-year-old young woman. and mark hood s sleuthing in junk yards allowed him to solve what had gone on here because he compared different parts that had the same number but were different in configuration. bottom line for me is that this case speaks to the power of individuals and the effect that individuals can have on our lives both for good and for bad. you remember that original headline, gm fires 15 employees over recall failures? what i would have written, the power of one. the next headline is from the los angeles times. donald sterling to drop fight to keep clippers and allow sale to ballmer. the clippers owner you know made those racist statements about magic johnson is now saying i ll allow the sale to go forward. why wouldn t he? he bought the team for $12 million. he s about to sell the team for $2 billion. that s four times the record that was paid. the milwaukee bucks just sold for only $550 million. you know, sports economists say