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Alright, Martin. For your community service, you'll be setting up a midnight basketball program for inner city street gangs.
— Principal Skinner ‧ The Simpsons
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Martin is assigned to set up midnight basketball for inner-city street gangs as community service. The statement makes a substantial organising task sound like a straightforward allocation of duties. Its specificity gives the assignment force: it identifies both the activity and the people it must serve.
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