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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - A U.S. college student
imprisoned for three weeks for trying to take
flour-filled condoms onto an airplane has settled her
lawsuit against Philadelphia for $180,000, a city
spokesman said on Friday.

Janet Lee, 21, a student at Bryn Mawr College in
Pennsylvania, was arrested at Philadelphia
International Airport in 2003 after police and
security officials thought the flour was an illegal
drug.

She was held in Philadelphia on drug-trafficking
charges and released only when tests proved the
substance in the three condoms was flour.

The condoms, which are sometimes used to smuggle
drugs, were a joke among the students, and Lee was
taking them home to Los Angeles.

Her civil rights case against Philadelphia, which had
been set to go to trial on Thursday, was settled for
$180,000, said Ted Qualli, spokesman for Philadelphia
Mayor John Street.

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Granted, the accommodations are better in some other establishments, but at $60,000 per week, not too shabby for a humanities undergrad. Still all in all, not the way one would want to spend the Christmas break.

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Eudaimonia

I've heard of giving flours to a girl in hopes of getting laid but isn't that a little bit obvious?

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.