1. He inherits a country with few friends in the international financial community, bitter political opposition, and mounting problems with drugs and street crime. 2. I also want these children to inherit a country that is far safer than it is a present. 3. Its young leader, Dr. Bashar Assad, also unexpectedly inherited a country from his father and promised to transform it. 4. Lenin inherited a country that was falling apart, but when he passed away he left it with a strong ruble and a new economic policy. 5. Whoever wins the four-year presidency inherits a country awash in political violence by left-wing and right-wing armed groups that kill thousands annually. 6. Clinton says Bush inherits a country in great shape. 7. He inherits a country where crime, judicial ineptness, military impunity and poverty have become endemic. 8. He would inherit a country in which paramilitary forces still muster support and criminals are common. 9. Inheriting a country beset by food shortages and triple-digit inflation, he made fiscal concerns his top priority. 10. Kabila inherited a country in ruins, yet promised democratic elections within two years, Mandela said. |