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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Simon Romero / The Bulletin
April 1, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO — It started out as just another Saturday night in Brazil.
Thor Batista, 20, the son of Brazil’s richest man, was driving back one night in March from a steakhouse in the mountains above Rio. He was on a highway at the steering wheel of his father’s $1.3 million Mercedes-Benz SLR....
