Morning Herald: Rio de Janeiro's opening ceremony made a virtue of a vice, and a statement of a virtue. The vice was a cut-price budget roughly a tenth of London's four years ago and spare change from Beijing's before that.
You would hardly have known it. Brazil's approach was "gambiarra", meaning the peculiarly Brazilian talent to make something out of nothing. Its nearest English equivalent would be "jerry-built" or "jury-rigged". It is useful here for everyone from favella-dwellers to Olympic organising committees,...