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Sutherland's worries are a reflection of the high bar the show set last year. It chronicled "the longest day" in the life of counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Sutherland)--24 hours in which he had to foil the assassination of a presidential candidate while also trying to save his own wife and daughter from kidnappers. The show combined popcorn-movie thrills with a complicated and innovative narrative (each episode was one hour in real time). And it confounded expectations right up to the end, when Bauer, after saving his daughter and the candidate, found his pregnant wife shot to death...
...changed that quickly, as Sutherland brought home a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination for his first year's work. The second season (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) will put Bauer through another longest day of his life. How? Last year I wrote that because of post-9/11 sensitivities, "one doubts that the second season might involve...a nuclear bomb in New York City." I'm proud to say I was correct. The second season involves a nuclear bomb threat in Los Angeles. "Once you posit that the show is set in the world of antiterrorism," says executive...
...Like all detainees, Khan was shorn of his beard, stripped, forced into a bright orange jump suit, clapped into earmuffs so he couldn't hear and black goggles that obscured his eyesight. In chains, he was led onto a plane for the longest, strangest trip of his life - to Guantanamo...
...Harvard secondary, easily the most maligned unit of the Crimson defense, finally contained a prime-time receiver. Senior Chisom Opara, the Ivy’s third-leading receiver, had a comparatively bland day of eight catches for 87 yards. More importantly, Opara’s longest catch went for only 20 yards...
Princeton’s longest play from scrimmage was only 31 yards...