Diana Farr Louis

You could call it "The Greek Connection."

An Athenian and his wife are lured by the description of an environmentally friendly safari lodge on the coast of Tanzania north of Dar es Salaam. They fly off, looking forward to watching elephants bathe in the sea, stiff-gaited giraffes graze off...

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls... ," it tolled for 99 percent of us Greeks yesterday. A pensioner, aged 77, brought a dramatic end to his life in Syntagma Square and shocked the nation. At least, I hope he did, for that was his intention.

Although...

"We write to exist."

That was the statement on Amalia Melis' placard when she joined another 500 poets and writers in central Athens on March 21st to commemorate International Poetry Day. The gathering, which did not disrupt traffic or bring out the riot squad, walked to Constitution Square, stopping...

The Juvenile Prison at Avlona, 45 km northeast of Athens, is Greece's largest for young offenders. It houses approximately 400 males between the ages of 15 and 21, at least 100 more than its intended capacity.

What follows is a double interview with two women who came to adopt...

Did you know that one in 11 residents of greater Athens visits a soup kitchen daily? That's about 400,000 people, a figure unthinkable a year ago. And after the tragic events that accompanied the Greek Parliament's vote Sunday night to adopt even harsher austerity measures, the lines for free food...

Cucina povera, the Italian expression meaning the cuisine of the poor, is starting to have a new ring to it here in Greece. In times of plenty -- in other words, yesterday -- it meant the inspired cooking of times gone by, when meat was scarce, eggs were barter tokens...

Like the other dilapidated houses on the block next to the train tracks, the Klimaka shelter for the homeless is covered with bold graffiti. They practically blot out its tomato-red façade and certainly distract attention from the name on its open door. I must have passed it several times on...