Dutch Grandmaster Jorden van Foreest, too, hails from one such acclaimed chess family. But what sets the van Foreests apart ...

One afternoon in the spring of 2000, the Dutch grandmaster Paul van der Sterren’s phone rang. On the other end of the line was Sytze Faber, a member of the board of the Dutch Chess Federation.

With as much fuss as we raise over the myriad of Diebold security and stability failures, it looks like we've got it pretty good in the States when compared to the e-voting methods of the Dutch ...

Swierenga is the author of "Elim: A Chicago Christian School and Life Training Center for the Disabled" and editor of "Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier." Both books have been ...