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President Obama on Monday named a University of Maryland, College Park professor to his Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry. Ed Montgomery, also a former Labor Department deputy secretary, was named director of the task force's Auto Industry's Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers. He will be responsible for coordinating a government-wide effort to help support the workers, communities and regions that rely on the U.S. auto industry, according to the university. "When a community is struck by a natural disaster, the nation responds to put it back on its feet," Mr. Obama said. "While the storm that has...