I have to explain to my students at Loyola, who evidently have not been told the story, that the plucky little Dutch boy walking home spots a small leak in a dike and, realizing that the water ...

As negotiations with Israel enter the final third of their nine-month time frame, the Palestinian Authority president stands like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike; cornered between ...

Most people are familiar with the fable of the little Dutch boy who, shivering through the night, kept his finger in the dike to prevent a small leak from becoming a disastrous torrent.

But Americans visiting The Netherlands invariably asked to see the place where the little boy had put his finger in the dike. Last week, the Dutch finally and handsomely acknowledged that legends ...

Remember the little Dutch boy who saved his village from being flooded by sticking his finger in a dike and holding back the sea? Water metaphors are surprisingly popular when discussing illegal ...

The little Dutch boy who saved his country by plugging the dike with his fist was missing last week. His duty this time would have been to blow up the Moerdijk Bridge, longest on the Continent ...