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Despite the rating agencies' failures, Tavakoli, who has long been a critic of the NRSRO designation, says the companies continue to wield authority in financial markets.

His lighthearted designation says much about him, a willingness for the kind of self-deprecation that seems utterly alien to Jeff Koons.

"He had no knowledge of the Friends of Angelo designation," said the spokeswoman, Alissa McCurley.

And the timing, opponents of the designation say, could not be worse.

Yesterday, however, the journalism school dean, Tom Goldstein, retracted the "off the record" designation, saying, "Our aim was hardly that restrictive".

Rick Smith, the executive director of Environmental Defence, a group that lobbied for the designation, said he hoped that the government would ban BPA from infant formula can linings.

"It is rather unusual for the Landmarks Commission to expand a designation," said Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council, an advocacy group.

The bank took no public stance on the landmark designation, said Neil Brazil, vice president for public affairs at HSBC North America.

Ron Ozio a spokesman for the university, declined to answer questions about the designation, saying only that "as a matter of policy, personnel matters are confidential".

The state will continue to require that students study foreign language to receive a "Regents diploma with advanced designation," said Tom Dunn, a State Education Department spokesman.

The Goelet estate still owns the land and assented to the landmark designation, said Shelly S. Friedman of Friedman & Gotbaum, which represented the estate.