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Rewind, and catch up on what made the headlines this week, in the words of the people who said it best!

“Guys, remember, it’s not over until she unfollows you.”

--ooJLEoo tweeted this message to his followers this week

Funniest Tweets of The Week

“It’s the toughest, most malignant poverty that we have in the United States.”

--Peter Edelman, the director of the Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy at Georgetown University, describes the current tide of concentrated poverty in metropolitan areas across the U.S.

New Study Finds Extreme Poverty on the Rise

“And just remember, in the Bible, I know it says somewhere, ‘Blessed are those who know how to use money to make money.’”

--Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz tells a group of prospective parents why they should consider sending their kids to the high school he helped launch, The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance

Shrouded in Controversy, Bed-Stuy High School Rebounds

“Can you build a community out of garbage?”

--It’s the rhetorical question Eric Rockey asks the public in the ad for his documentary short film, “Vulture Culture.”

Spotlighting a Vulture Culture

“The truth is, I was looking for something more in my life, and he gave that to me. And he was looking for someone he could count on and get a meal."

-- 60-year-old Laura Schroff describes the odd yet unique relationship she started 25 years earlier with a young panhandler from Bed-Stuy.

An Invisible Thread Binds Two Strangers