With Games gone, hard reality sets in for Brazil

By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Until now, people in Brazil had something to look forward to. Despite deep recession, a presidential impeachment, and a corruption scandal ensnaring the political and corporate elite, the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro shone on the horizon like a sliver of light from a sunnier era, when Brazil appeared to have its act together. "There is nothing left to disguise the hard reality that we now face," says Roberto Romano, a philosopher, author and commentator on