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A profile of 19 th -century illustrator Thomas Nast credits him with popularizing Santa Claus, electing Ulysses Grant, and ruining William "Boss" Tweed.
Newsweek reveals that President Clinton has approved a CIA plan to destabilize Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic: Kosovar rebels will be trained to commit acts of sabotage such as cutting telephone wires, ruining gas reserves, and launching cyberattacks against secret bank accounts where Milosevic has stowed millions of dollars, presumably pilfered from his people.
Late the following year an immense hurricane sent a tidal wave over Hog Island (today Paradise Island), smashing Nassau’s flimsy buildings and ruining crops.
A letter to his editor at Grove Press: "I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontaneous language if I let editors take my sentences, which are my phrases that I separate by dashes when I 'draw a breath,' each of which pours out to the tune of the whole story its own rhythmic yawp of expostulation, & riddle them with commas, cut them in half, in threes, in fours, ruining the swing ...
Also, the magazine says graphite rackets (power over technique) and charmless players are ruining tennis.