Over the past fifteen years a powerfully charged drama has
unfolded in New York's Broadway venues and spread to the opera houses and
ballet productions of major cities across the country. Its characters
include angry college students, aging rock stars, flamboyant B-movie
queens, society matrons, and sophisticated fashion designers. You can't
buy tickets for this production, but you might catch a glimpse of it
while driving in Bethesda on particular Saturday afternoons. If you're
lucky, Compassion Over Killing (COK), an animal rights civil disobedience
group, will be picketing Miller's Furs, their enemy in the fight against
fur. These impassioned activists see the fur trade as nothing less than
wholesale, commercialized murder, and will go to great lengths to get
their point across. Such enthusiasm may do them in, as COK's often
divisive rhetoric and tacit endorsement of vandalism threaten to alienate
the very people it needs to reach in order to be......
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