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The regime fell, but not the machine

SEVENTY-THREE years ago, Ernest Hemingway published ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ a story of quiet defiance and enduring dignity. Santiago, the old fisherman, had not caught a fish in 84 days. His apprentice had left him. Yet, undeterred, he sailed deep into the Gulf Stream and fought a giant marlin for three days, using little more than his bare hands and worn tools...