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Chance of T-storms

SKY WATCHSunrise: 6:40 a.m.Sunset: 8:39 p.m.Moonrise: 10:51 p.m.Moonset: 7:46 a.m.

OHIO RIVERReadings taken at or forecast for 7 a.m. (in feet)

Flood Yester- Tomor- NextLocation stage day Today row day

Cincinnati 52 37.6 40.2 40.0 38.2

Markland 51 31.0 33.9 35.3 34.8

Louisville (U) 23 12.0 12.5 14.2 15.8

Louisville (L) 55 31.5 24.0 37.5 39.1

Cannelton (L) 42 24.2 26.5 29.4 31.7

Newburgh 38 26.8 28.1 30.6 33.9

Evansville 42 23.6 24.5 26.4 29.0

Myers 37 24.9 26.0 27.1 28.7Key: (L) =Lower gauge, (U) = Upper gauge

StormyMonday

Look for anotherwarm and muggy startto the morning. A coldfront will bring thechance for strong tosevere storms thisafternoon throughtonight. Main threatswill include damagingwinds, large hail andheavy rain. A fewshowers will lingersouth and east Tuesdaymorning before clear-ing things out by theafternoon. Coolertemps settle in Tuesdaythrough Friday in thelow to mid 70s.

76 | 57

POLLEN COUNTAbsent Low Mod. High

Trees !Grasses !Weeds !Molds !Sources: Family Allergy andAsthma, www.familyallergy.com

AIR QUALITYPollutant: Particles

Good Mod. UnhealthyToday !Yesterday !For today’s reading, call 574-3319or online at www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.showlocal&cityid=131

ALMANACTEMPERATURE

High LowYesterday 86 68Normals 75 54Year Ago 71 50Records 94 33

1949 1898

PRECIPITATIONRain InchesYesterday 0.00Month-to-date 1.58

Normal (month) 1.05

Year-to-date 17.03

Normal (year) 15.65

Today

Tonight

65 30% Chanceof T-storms

20% PartlyCloudy

Mostly Sunny Partly Sunny

Indianapolis81 | 63

Evansville88 | 64

Paoli82 | 57

Salem88 | 59

Mount Vernon81 | 57

Bowling Green86 | 63

Nashville88 | 64

Columbia84 | 64

Hopkinsville84 | 64

Elizabethtown84 | 63

Owensboro81 | 64

LOUISVILLE85 | 65

London88 | 61

Hazard82 | 63

Morehead82 | 64

KENTUCKY

INDIANA OHIO

W.VA.

V IRGIN IA

ILLINOIS

TENNESSEE

Cincinnati82 | 59

Lexington84 | 66

Frankfort84 | 61

Paducah86 | 63

Columbus84 | 64

Ashland86 | 61

Charleston84 | 64

REGIONAL Today’s weather in the regionwith high and low temperatures.

Last Quarter:May 12

New Moon:May 20

First Quarter:May 28

Full Moon:June 4

MostlySunny

Write to WHAS11 First AlertStormTeam, P.O. Box 1100,Louisville, KY 40201, emailstormteam@whas11.com,or call the First AlertStormTeam Weather Lineat (502)-585-1212.

30% Chanceof Showers

78 | 6073 | 50 70 | 48 74 | 52 76 | 56

ILL.

TENN.

OHIOIND.

KY.Louisville

Cleveland63 | 50

Chicago63 | 50

Memphis88 | 68 Knoxville

82 | 63

St. Louis75 | 59

Dayton86 | 61

Today’sNormalTemps

High: 75Avg.: 65Low: 54

U. S. FORECAST

85Strong to severestorms possible

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Amsterdam 52 43Athens 78 53Auckland 64 44Baghdad 98 78Basra 105 80Barbados 82 72Barcelona 74 54Beijing 86 55Beirut 78 59Belgrade 78 53Berlin 57 44Bermuda 73 66Bogota 64 52Brisbane 77 55Brussels 49 44Budapest 77 44Buenos Aires 70 58

Cairo 96 72Calgary 42 32Caracas 89 77Copenhagen 54 40Dhahran 102 78Dublin 46 32Frankfurt 59 51Geneva 67 50Guatemala 78 64Hanoi 91 75Havana 86 66Helsinki 53 40Hong Kong 84 77Istanbul 72 54Jerusalem 87 58Johannesburg 79 63Kabul 78 50

Panama 87 76Paris 59 48Rio de Janeiro 78 69Rome 69 50San Jose 80 66San Juan 84 74San Salvador 82 71Santiago 76 45Sao Paulo 74 60Seoul 75 51Singapore 88 71Stockholm 57 41Sydney 66 52Taipei 78 68Tehran 80 62Tokyo 77 57Toronto 54 48

Kiev 80 57Kuwait 101 84La Paz 59 28Lima 77 65Lisbon 66 51London 50 42Madrid 61 47Managua 96 75Manila 93 77Melbourne 54 43Mexico City 82 59Montreal 61 41Moscow 73 42Nairobi 77 59Nassau 84 69New Delhi 102 78Osaka 75 51

U.S. Previous day’s high and overnight low to 8 p.m.;Sources: AP, WHAS11. CL=Clear; CY=Cloudy; RN=Rain; SN=Snow

WORLD CITIES Temperatures were compiled yesterday for theprevious day’s weather.

City Today Tomorrow City Today Tomorrow

Yesterday’s extremes in the contiguous United States: 101 at Laredo, Texas; 16 atStanley, Idaho

In a city where the richand influential like to seetheir names emblazoned onuniversity buildings andmuseum wings, FrankPearl so craved anonymitythat he was regarded as themost powerful unknownman in Washington.

Pearl, who died of can-cer May 4 at age 68, was anindefatigable real estatelawyer who helped launchthe leveraged buyout boomof the 1980s. He helpedmastermind one of the firstmonumental leveragedbuyouts, using almost en-tirely borrowed money toturn an $80 million invest-ment in a greeting cardcompany into a $290 mil-lion public offering.

The deal “was the lightbulb that went off with ev-eryone on Wall Street,” saidBryan Burrough, whosebook “Barbarians at theGate” chronicled that free-wheeling era of high fi-nance. “It was enormouslyinfluential because itshowed the incredible po-tential profitability in le-veraged buyouts, not justdoubling or tripling yourmoney but increasing yourmoney by 500 percent.”

As he became one ofWashington’s most suc-cessful financiers, Pearlled private equity funds fo-cused on health care, engi-neering technology and,perhaps most enduringly,book publishing.

He was a key architectof one of the most ambi-tious publishing enter-prises of the1990s. His Per-seus Books Group con-glomerate included pub-lishing houses such asPublicAffairs — a jugger-naut on current affairs, pol-itics, history and biogra-phy — and is now one of thecountry’s largest indepen-

dent book distributors.Under Pearl’s guidance,

Perseus accumulated a listof celebrated authors, in-cluding Henry Louis GatesJr., Cornel West, OrlandoPatterson, Evan Connell,Gina Berriault and the lateIris Chang. Chang’s nonfic-tion volume “The Rape ofNanking,” about Japaneseatrocities in China duringWorld War II, was pub-lished by the Perseus im-print BasicBooks in 1997and became a critical suc-cess and international be-stseller.

Pearl invested in thepublishing industry at ableak moment for thetrade, when most pressessought to keep readers bychurning out low-browcrowd-pleasers.

Pearl had money to burnand expressed a willing-ness to set the fire himself.

In a rare interview, he toldThe Washington Post hismission was to ensure that“publishing doesn’t simplybecome a lowest-common-denominator commercialoperation. It’s of crucialimportance to the intellec-tual landscape in this coun-try that important booksget published and stay inprint.”

Pearl was an omnivo-rous aesthete whose tastesencompassed the classicalBritish composer RalphVaughan Williams and theMississippi bluesmanMose Allison. He learned toplay the harpsichord. Hewas an aficionado of Ren-aissance oil paintings andancient Greek philoso-phers. He took the namefor Perseus Books from ason of the Greek god Zeus.

As well connected as hewas cultured, Pearl’s clos-

est associates included for-mer World Bank presidentJames Wolfensohn, Wash-ington’s socially prominentCafritz family, diplomatRichard Holbrooke, con-ductor Leonard Slatkin andWashington power brokerVernon Jordan.

Jordan, the former ex-ecutive director of the Na-tional Urban League, con-firmed the death of hisfriend, which occurred atJohns Hopkins UniversityHospital in Baltimore. “Hewas one of the most quietlyinfluential individuals Ihave known,” Jordan said.

A millionaire manytimes over by 44, the bald-ing and bearded Pearl be-came a wide-ranging phi-lanthropist, prominent artspatron and DemocraticParty donor. His politicallargesse alone reportedlywas in the hundreds ofthousands of dollars overseveral decades. (He wasamong those then-VicePresident Al Gore calledfrom the White House be-fore the 1996 election toseek a donation of $25,000to $100,000 for the Demo-cratic National Committee.Gore memorably defendedthe calls by saying therewas “no controlling legalauthority” to prohibit thesolicitations.)

Pearl immersed himselfin Washington’s culturalelite, serving as a NationalGallery of Art trustee and aKennedy Center boardmember. At the KennedyCenter, he underwrote mu-sical productions and pro-vided seed money to fi-

nance a summer Mozartfestival.

He funded cancer re-search at Georgetown Uni-versity and endowed schol-arships for inner-cityWashingtonians.

Whether closing busi-ness deals or making pri-vate financial gifts, Pearlsought to preserve his ano-nymity. He kept his nameoff news releases and out ofthe comprehensive Pratt’sGuide, the go-to referencefor venture capitalism.

“Living life as a publicperson is an unnatural wayto live,” he once told ThePost. “There is somethingunbecoming about seekingpublicity.”

Frank Hilton Pearl,whose father was a lawyer,was born May 27, 1943, inNew Haven, Conn., andraised in Chicago. His par-ents valued the fine artsand encouraged their sonto take painting classes andattend performances at theLyric Opera and ChicagoSymphony.

He received a bache-lor’s degree in political sci-ence from American Uni-versity in 1966 and gradu-ated from its law school in1969. That same year, hemarried Geryl Tull. Be-sides his wife, survivors in-clude a sister.

After law school, Pearlbegan practicing with thesmall Washington firm ofLane and Edson, which spe-cialized in housing and realestate matters. Pearl’s ca-chet rose when he succeed-ed in winning the businessof Washington real estatemogul Conrad Cafritz.

Another pivotal clientwas Raymond Chambers, aNew Jersey real estate in-vestor for whom Pearl hadonce handled a real estatetransaction in Maryland.Chambers said Pearl oftenexpressed his interest inmoving into corporatetransactions. So whenChambers partnered withformer Treasury SecretaryWilliam Simon to form the

investment group WesrayCapital in 1980, he insistedon hiring Pearl as their at-torney.

Two years later, Wesraycreated a tempest on WallStreet with its leveragedbuyout of Gibson Greet-ings of Cincinnati. Wesraypurchased Gibson in Janu-ary1982 for $80 million andthe next year took the com-pany public for $290 mil-lion. Simon alone trans-formed an investment of$300,000 into a profit of $70million.

Pearl, the creative forcebehind the financial struc-turing of the Gibson deal,became a partner at Wes-ray and participated in doz-ens of leveraged buyouts.He was involved in thefirm’s gigantic buyout ofAvis, the car rental compa-ny, which Wesray boughtfor $265 million in 1986 andlater sold for $1 billion.

But as the business of le-veraged buyouts attracteda hinkier crowd of inves-tors willing to engage inhostile takeovers and usejunk-bond financing, Pearldecided to retire in 1988.

He had acquired a tastefor fine living. With hiswife, he sailed around theworld in a 92-foot sloop andenjoyed extended stays inFrance, California and theVirginia countryside. Hehad homes in Palm Beach,Fla., Flint Hill, Va., and, un-til recently, Martha’s Vine-yard, Mass.

Pearl returned to Wash-ington in 1989 and pickedup his career as a privateinvestor. He plowed $200million into the Ritz-Carl-ton Hotel Co., with part-ners who included hotel ex-ecutive and Republicanpresidential adviser FredMalek.

Pearl balanced his in-vestments with his philan-thropic, political and artis-tic endeavors. Jordan saidPearl hosted low-key din-ners for presidential con-tenders and used his cloutto sway other contributors.

D.C. financier Frank Pearl diesPowerful mankept low profileBy Adam BernsteinThe Washington Post

Frank Pearl, 68, was one of Washington’s top financiersand became a philanthropist and Democratic Party donor.Pearl, who died Friday, helped mastermind one of the firsthuge leveraged buyouts. THE WASHINGTON POST

“He was one ofthe most quietlyinfluentialindividuals Ihave known.”VERNON JORDAN, friendand former head of NationalUrban League

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