But then othersobjected that the Met Office is the official provider of World Meteorological Organisation statistics and it would be ludicrous to reject their highly sophisticated statistics smoothed by computer models just because the Met Office forecasters were amongst the contestants in the Weather Test.
Such benefits of civility were scarcely visible in the rowdy Harvard students and others who forced cancelation of a university dinner for alumni at their university's recent 350th birthday celebration because they objected to the university's investments in companies doing business in South Africa.