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...classroom valentines," observes American Greetings, which owns a $1.8 billion piece of the "social expression" industry, "is often a child's first experience with greeting cards." A billion cards are sent every year, second only to Christmastime, and 85% of them by women. For this we can thank Esther Howland, an entrepreneurial 1847 Mount Holyoke grad, whose father owned a stationery store and who came up with the idea of mass-producing valentines. The Mother of the Valentine never married but did get very rich, racking up annual sales equivalent to more than $2 million today...
...easier,” he said. Students who are registered to vote in Massachussets can cast their ballots at Quincy House, the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, or Cambridge’s Graham and Parks Alternative School. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
...between leftist guerillas, paramilitaries, and the government. She added, however, that taking gender into account may facilitate negotiations. In addition to the panel, the Women and Security Executive Program hosts other sessions about security and public policy in conjunction with Harvard faculty. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...