Star Tribune: In Brazil, the ability to make something out of nothing is so ingrained in the culture that they have an expression for it. "Gambiarra' happens every day in ways large and small, allowing this easygoing society to say: See? We knew all along we could figure it out.
Brazil has never needed that talent more than it did on Friday, when it opened the Rio Olympics in a burst of music and color at Maracana Stadium. The Opening Ceremony had been reworked four times as the country's economic meltdown...