1.   And in the monsoon season, people here say, the flood-soaked earth sometimes shifts and regurgitates some of the buried bones and skulls.

2.   Maybe the earth shifted slightly and they were jolted to their senses.

3.   The political earth has shifted in that world.

4.   Today, the earth has shifted, with Milosevic holding on to power in the face of protests and Tudjman gravely ill with prostate cancer.