New York Times: World Cup 2014: Germany Defeats Argentina in Final

RIO DE JANEIRO — For years, Brazilians had a phrase they would inevitably utter when things went wrong. “Imagina na Copa,” they told one another after an endless traffic jam or a construction accident or an ugly rash of violence dominated the news — imagine if this happened during the World Cup. It was a foreboding warning, a pre-emptive sigh of the presumed disasters that lay ahead. [more...]