WHAT'S IN THE STARS FOR THE STARS IN 1997
What talk-show host will get hitched? What movie star will be in the White House? Some predictions from seers in the new book The 100 Top Psychics in America:
OPRAH WINFREY She'll receive an on-air declaration of love from Stedman. A double-wedding with Madonna? --George Roman
RONALD REAGAN Back at the ranch, he'll recover slightly when a cure for Alzheimer's is discovered. --Jim Hecker
CHRISTOPHER REEVE He'll be nominated, and confirmed, for a position in Clinton's second Cabinet. --George Withers
PRINCESS DI She'll get her own American TV talk show but will have to compete against fellow gay divorce Fergie. --Wendy!
JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. Single women everywhere will breathe a sigh of relief when he divorces Carolyn Bessette. --Susan Shaw
BOB DOLE There's no place like home, but he'll lose his in Russell, Kansas, to a giant twister. --Shawn Robbins
WINNERS & LOSERS
A ROUNDUP OF 1996'S GOOD, BAD AND UGLY
MIS-STEAK OF THE YEAR: Britain's mad-cow disease, which gave John Major's government the shakes
WINDSOR OF DISCONTENT AWARD: Princess Diana, stripped of "Her Royal Highness" after her divorce
SEE DESPOT RUN AWARD: Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, besieged by protesters
TRAGIC HEROINE OF THE YEAR: Widowed skater and best-selling memoirist Ekaterina Gordeeva
COMMUNIST INFILTRATOR OF THE YEAR: Tickle Me Elmo--made in the People's Republic of China
GREEK GIFT-GETTER OF THE YEAR: George Stephanopoulos leaves D.C., wins lucrative book contract, college post and network-news job
STARR WITNESS OF THE YEAR: First Lady Hillary Clinton, who gave testimony in the Whitewater investigation
ALTER-ITO AWARD: The sterner Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki of the second O.J. trial
SICK MAN OF THE YEAR (EUROPE):Boris Yeltsin
SICK MAN OF THE YEAR (AFRICA): Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire
SICK MAN OF THE DECADE (ASIA): Deng Xiaoping of China
NICE GUY FINISHING FIRST, AT LAST: After more than 30 years in baseball, New York Yankee manager Joe Torre wins World Series
BAD GUY FINISHING FIRST, ALAS: Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is voted near dictatorial powers
THE BOURSE WHISPERER AWARD: Alan Greenspan, for sending tremors through world stock markets
MOTHER OF THE YEAR: Jackie Onassis, whose posthumous auction helped pump up a surprisingly small estate
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT'S KICK-IN-THE-COJONES AWARD: Boutros Boutros-Ghali
BEST SECRET OF THE YEAR: John F. Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette's wedding
WORST SECRET OF THE YEAR: The identity of Anonymous (Joe Klein)
THE TOES AND TOAST AWARD: Two-timing, bipartisan political adviser Dick Morris, who now works for neither party
JEWELL IN THE CROWN AWARD: Louis Freeh and the FBI for Atlanta and other fumbles
DOG OWNER OF THE YEAR: Marge Schott, who tried to make a kennel of the Cincinnati Reds
CLERICAL TEMP OF THE YEAR: White House factotum Craig ("Who hired this guy?") Livingstone, of Filegate
HAPPY TALKER OF THE YEAR: Rosie O'Donnell, whose cackle is making even Oprah nervous
MIRACLE OF LOURDES OF 1996: Bringing up baby and Evita, Madonna gets a new lease on her career