NAMES & FACES

Another Burger Stop

Our country's leaders are on a mission -- and it involves sampling gourmet hamburgers.

After President Obama and Vice President Biden caused a commotion earlier this week with a visit to Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Michelle Obama drew a crowd while leaving Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill yesterday afternoon.

The first lady (ponytail, gray capri pants) brought along several members of her staff, spokeswoman Katie McCormick Lelyveld told our colleague Garance Franke-Ruta. The lunch outing was one of several the group has made to local eateries, including Five Guys and a barbecue place. "Sometimes you just need a burger," McCormick Lelyveld said. "It was her idea."

A rep for Good Stuff -- owned by former "Top Chef" contestant Spike Mendelsohn -- said the group sat on the restaurant's second floor and noshed on selection platters, piled high with free-range turkey burgers, the "Prez Obama" burger, bacon cheeseburgers and two kinds of french fries.

Hudson Puts a Ring on It

Engagement rings: not just for the ladies. Months after Jennifer Hudson's boyfriend, David Otunga, proposed on the singer-actress's 27th birthday, Hudson returned the favor -- surprising Otunga on his birthday with a custom-designed Neil Lane engagement ring.

Lane told People magazine that the handmade ring -- platinum, of course, with five carats' worth of diamonds -- took five months to design. "It was very sentimental and romantic," Lane said. "Jennifer and I went through lots of different designs, talked about it a lot and she was very open."

Just one problem -- when Hudson re-popped the question last month, the ring was too big. (Neither Hudson nor Lane had known Otunga's ring size.) While in Los Angeles last week, the couple stopped in for a resizing.

Otunga is an aspiring professional wrestler who appeared on MTV's "I Love New York 2," as Punk.

Fallon's Belated Degree

Better late than never. Actor Jimmy Fallon, 34, is finally getting his bachelor's degree, 15 years after leaving a New York college to pursue his comedy career.

The "Late Night" host will pick up his diploma when he speaks at the College of St. Rose commencement today, the Associated Press reports. Fallon attended St. Rose, in Albany, from 1992 through 1995, starting as a computer science major and later switching to communications. He left for Los Angeles one semester short of graduating.

St. Rose officials say Fallon satisfied his remaining degree requirements by presenting a portfolio of his work.

End Notes

Spotted: Actor Mike Myers, in town for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, touring the CIA yesterday. Myers checked out the agency museum, had lunch with CIA officials and signed autographs.

Expecting: Actress Mary Stuart Masterson, 42, People magazine reports. The baby, due in October, will be the first child for Masterson and her husband, actor Jeremy Davidson.

Quoted: "She wanted marriage, she wanted children; and not that I didn't want that, but I didn't want that at that time because I had just gotten out of a marriage, I'd just had kids. . . . Yet we're up against her biological clock -- that pressure is what cracked it." -- Cyclist Lance Armstrong, 37, on ex-fiancee Sheryl Crow, 47. The quote comes from "Lance," author John Wilcockson's upcoming Armstrong biography. Armstrong said he and Crow tried counseling to patch things up, "but really there's no way to counsel that situation."

-- Marissa Newhall, from staff, wire and Web reports