1.   The prize confers honor and, within fairly modest limits, guarantees additional sales.

2.   Annan will confer the honor on Goodall at a ceremony on Tuesday, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard announced Monday.

3.   That was in reference to the City Council brouhaha over also conferring the honor on retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

4.   Safire had called into question a plan by the Massachusetts-based Williams College to confer academic honors on Goh, an alumnus of the school.