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`24's'Jack Bauer tackles another marathon day.
Byline: Steve Johnson
Jack Bauer, if he were ever to get a free moment, could become spokesman for the National Caffeine Council, so regularly is he called on to spend 24 high-functioning hours awake.
Come to think of it, the hero of Fox's "24" could also do pitch work for the American Fasters Union and Holdingitin.com, considering that the day-long adventures chronicled in this series also take place without food or bathroom breaks.
Yet despite his treatment of biological functions as optional, Bauer is no automaton: He always makes time to deal with personal emotional issues that most fellows given strict deadlines to Save the Free World would probably feel comfortable postponing.
So when the government counterterrorism agent returns for another deadly dance marathon of a day (beginning commercial-free at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday), his daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) still decides today is the perfect time to tell Daddy she has secretly been…
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