By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Friday, April 4, 2008

In barely more than six weeks, Henry Hager will have a new wife -- Jenna Bush, as you may have heard -- and a brand-new graduate degree in business. So presumably a new job is on the horizon?

According to a student at the University of Virginia's Darden School, where Hager is in the final weeks of MBA study, Hager's friends are buzzing that President Bush's future son-in-law will be going to work for Baltimore-based Constellation Energy. Maryland's largest power company declined to confirm or deny a hire, and both Darden officials and the White House declined to comment, but the chatter makes sense: Hager, 29, a former Karl Rove aide and Commerce Department staffer, interned last summer for another energy giant, ConocoPhillips, and more recently served as "VP for traditional energy" of Darden's Energy Club, a pre-professional student group sponsored by . . . Constellation Energy.

Also: The betrothed couple has reportedly house-hunted in the Baltimore area, according to People. They'll get hitched at the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Tex., on May 10.

Beardwatch! An invitation to the Finnish Embassy dinner in honor of Daoud Hari, author of "The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur," came with an added bonus -- a chance to see Bill Richardson's hot new goatee in person.

In 2006, Hari was detained along with U.S. journalist Paul Salopek by the Sudanese government, which accused them of espionage. The New Mexico governor successfully pleaded with the Sudanese president for their release -- and on Wednesday, Richardson came to D.C. to toast Hari's new book.

After the book chat, we sidled up to Richardson, who kind of saw us coming. "Yes, you've been very kind," he said regarding our dogged coverage of his facial hair. So how's the beard working out?

"You know, it's distracting," he said. Because . . . people come up to you at cocktail parties wanting to talk about it?

"Instead of talking about Darfur!" chided the Finnish ambassador's wife, Laurel Colless. (Sigh. We promise there will soon be a real story in these pages about Mr. Hari's fine book, just not in this grooming-obsessed column.)

Richardson told us he'll probably shave the beard in a month or two. Call us when you do? "Sure." Let us film the shaving for a Web video? Well . . . he didn't say no, anyway.

In January, Stephen Colbert begged his way onto the walls of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and thousands of tourists flocked to his portrait, next to the bathroom. Now he's cajoled himself into the "Treasures of Amercian History" exhibit at the Air and Space Museum -- alongside Kermit the Frog, Dorothy's ruby slippers and the top hat Abe Lincoln wore the night he died, reports our colleague Jacqueline Trescott. The Smithsonian's Brent Glass called in to Colbert's show Tuesday with news that the faux newsman gets about 10 more days of fame in the nation's capital. The show closes April 13; no word whom Colbert will badger next.

· Marlee Matlin, in town to address the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington last night, brought along her "Dancing With the Stars" partner, Fabian Sanchez. The two rehearsed all day at the Music Center at Strathmore -- a "DWTS" producer cold-called the center to get the rehearsal space, and a cameraman tagged along to film for next week's show.

· Supermodel Naomi Campbell was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport yesterday on charges of assaulting a police officer, according to Britain's Sky News. The serial cellphone-tosser was hauled off a flight to L.A. after "ranting and screaming" over a lost bag, then spitting on the officer called to deal with the hissy fit. Time for an anger management redo!