Sport 18-12-2000 Coma Boxer In Critical Condition who: Boxer Paul Ingle what: In critical condition after 12th round knockout where: SHEFFIELD when: Yesterday snippet: "The controversial debate over whether boxing should be banned was reignited yesterday," says The Guardian`s Vivek Chaudhary, "as doctors battled to save the life of Paul Ingle, who suffered serious injury to his brain during a world championship bout." "Ingle, 28, who lost his International Boxing Federation featherweight title on Saturday, was in a `critical, but stable` condition," says The Telegraph, "after undergoing a 2.5-hour operation to remove a blood clot." The boxer was knocked out in the twelfth round by South African Mbulelo Botile. He fought on willingly, despite being floored in the penultimate round. "When he was knocked down in the 11th it was not far from his corner," recalls his manager, Frank Maloney, in The Mirror. "We watched him, and he responded to all our signals... During the minutes` interval he seemed clear and was talking perfectly. We had such a short time to make that decision." "Ingle, from Scarborough, looked like a little bull pawing the ground before a last charge at the matador," writes Oliver Holt in The Times. " He was snorting blood from his nose, just as he had been since the first round... When he swilled his mouth out with water between rounds, he spat out what looked like a fountain of red wine. If it sounds brutal and primeval, that is how it was". 46-year-old Dr Rice, a former adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations whom Mr Bush described as "a brilliant, experienced person who is also a good manager," is an African American and will be the first woman to occupy the post. A child prodigy, Dr Rice "felt the sting of racism, being forced to go to a segregated school in Alabama," says The Times, before going to university at 15 and graduating at 19. "The president-elect made no attempt to conceal the symbolic nature of the selections," writes Michael Ellison in The Guardian. "I think it`s going to be dramatic to name African-Americans to positions of power," he told Time magazine, "because that signals George W looks at people for who they are and not based upon how they voted. Those who did not vote for me may not like it initially but I am their president." The appointment comes just 24 hours after General Colin Powell was named as the first black secretary of state. [... more]

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