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Sue Decker, Yahoo's model turned stock analyst turned president, thinks that the troubled Web giant's shares are looking good, too. Rather than exercising stock options, she shelled out $1.1 million in cold, hard cash to buy 47,000 shares in the company after they hit a three-year low at $22.44. That's a rare bullish sign — it's Decker's first open-market purchase of Yahoo shares ever and "the largest by any Yahoo insider in more than four years," according to research firm InsiderScore.com. CEO and cofounder Jerry Yang may be incapable of sounding like he believes in a "Yahoo that can win." He's no Chad Johnson, that's for sure. But Sue Decker? Her pocketbook just made more noise than all the trash talking in the world.