Kuerten's return to form comes at the tournament where his unhappy run began exactly one year ago with a first-round elimination.

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Among the MFIs' biggest critics is Budithi Rajsekhar, boss of the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, an arm of the state government formed in 2000 to run its own microcredit programme.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

They were a pair of one-run games played in San Juan, Puerto Rico, including and 11-inning victory in an elimination contest.

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