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06-30-2007, 22:51
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| Icing Queen   |  Two Women Trying to Become Gondoliers There are now two women trying to break into the all-male world of gondoliering in Italy. German-born Alexandra Hai has been trying for 10 years to be allowed to ply Venice's canals at the helm of a gondola and now a local woman, Alessandra Taddei, has joined her in seeking admission to the city's first official gondoliering course, the ANSA news agency reported Tuesday. They are up against 127 men who have signed up. They are going through week-long trials to determine who gets the 40 places in the course. The women declined to discuss how things are going for them. "I don't want to discuss how it went this morning. We can talk about it in ten days' time," said Hai. There are 425 gondoliers in Venice -- all men. 2 women trying to become gondoliers
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