The Turks may be pleased to start again rid of Hiddink, but it may also be that Hiddink is just as relieved to pick up his career elsewhere.
Mr Medvedev may not be best pleased to start his presidency with a war in Georgia: it suggests that he may have to submit to the wishes of the hard-line military and security services.
"It was pleasing to start the international summer with a win over New Zealand in the first Test," Miller added.
Warrington coach Tony Smith: "It was pleasing to get a start like we did against a very good team and our defence was terrific as well.
(Wouldn't someone have posted a star sighting online?) And yet, that first-act glitch in logic pales next to the absurdity later that finds the imperiled diva, Rachel Marron, under threat from a gun-toting crazy who somehow manages to get through security on Oscar night, if you please, only to start waving the firearm about from a side box.
"Stop the saber rattling and military threats for a minute and please try to start behaving like a civilized nation," seems to be what Putin was saying.
On the surface this is the coming-of-age story of a disaffected girl in wealthy, leafy Connecticut, and please, please try not to start yawning.
"It's disgusting; he was so pleased to be starting work so soon after getting out of jail, he even bought his own uniform," she said.
Götze will be particularly pleased to have started – and scored – but he was still criticised on the night by the former Bayern Munich midfielder Mehmet Scholl, who said the 23-year-old must train "much, much more.
The organizers — Partners in Health and the Haitian group Gheskio — were also pleased to be starting well before the rains; the vaccine, considered nearly 70 percent effective, is administered in two doses two weeks apart and takes another week to take effect.
