FROM CAMELOT TO ELYSIUM (VIA OLYMPIC AIRWAYS)

COVER STORY

No one who was aboard that night will soon forget the party on the yacht Christina last August. While the guests flirted, drank, dined, and danced the surtaki, a bouzouki band beat its heart out. The host listened with a touch of melancholy as the musicians played his favorite ballad:

These are bitter summers

And you have taught me to spend them with you . . .

The guest of honor nibbled on white grapes, and when her companion asked the band to play Adios Compagnia, she joined the bittersweet chorus....

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