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BULLETIN BOARD New Board Chairwoman at Barnard Barnard has named ANNA QUINDLEN, a journalist and novelist, as chairwoman of its board, effective in October. Ms. Quindlen, 50, who writes ''The Last Word'' column in Newsweek, graduated from Barnard in 1974 and was first elected a trustee in 1983.
University of Virginia researchers Michael Nahm and Bruce Greyson explore this issue in a gripping (if macabre) paper published in the journal Omega: The death of Anna Katharina Ehmer: a case study in terminal lucidity.The authors discuss the case of Anna Katharina Ehmer, a German woman who lived from 1895 to 1922.