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In that case(if you're looking to be on one side or other of the meter) why not just shoot in Aperture Priority and use exposure compensation?.
I do this quite often, but I also find often that it fails. Matrix Metering for instance can be slightly unpredictable. I was shooting a sporting event the other day and found the image to be slightly overexposed. So I took the EV down by -0.3 to bring the highlights back in, which worked well until suddenly there were more players from the other team in the scene and I ended up with a rather underexposed image. Quick flick to Manual and the rest of the event was very consistently exposed.
Basically what I am saying is that there's always a reason to shoot completely manual. Just like there's always a reason to shoot in any of the automatic modes (other than Program, there's never a reason to shoot that).