He made the perilous journey south, drawn by the dream of living in a country governed by Nelson Mandela, where the police could not capriciously lock people up and where those thought to be dissidents did not simply disappear.
"This is not something you would do capriciously," Mr Gingrich cautioned, in perhaps his first-ever understatement.
The vote was won, but with the proviso that Congress can withdraw from the WTO if it thinks the organisation is exceeding its authority or acting "arbitrarily or capriciously".America's economy now has greater links with the rest of the world: exports and imports were together equivalent to 25% of GDP in 1997, up from 21% in 1993 and 17% in 1985 (see chart 3).
Sometimes monarchs capriciously granted indefinite exclusive rights to someone they favoured.
By contrast, the clan-based regimes of Libya, Yemen and Syria are hardened by a ruthless, loyal core and ringed by elaborately layered security services designed to keep each other in check and to neutralise threats by remaining shadowy and capriciously vicious.
The Crimea was part of Russia until as recently as 1954, when Khrushchev capriciously transferred it to Ukraine.
But when the troops left some southern states began to pass barriers, such as capriciously enforced literacy tests designed to keep blacks from voting.
It is also a myth, the authors show, that donors always give less than they promise: they are both capriciously generous, as well as capriciously stingy.
But after the 2005 election, he is capriciously fired by Mr Blair on the ground that room must be found for new faces.
An American inventor knows she can build a profitable company without risk that the government will capriciously steal it and her wealth and throw her in prison.
He also made a small but welcome change to India's labour laws, making it harder for 1,800 of the government inspectors who check up on labour standards to act capriciously.
