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"We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty."

If a rumored board meeting at Yahoo took place today, the people in purple aren't talking about it yet.

That make or break meeting of Yahoo's board, the one that would settle the Microsoft question at least initially, the one that may have taken place today?

We might be waiting a little longer for something substantive to emerge from Yahoo, despite what has to be significant pressure from its institutional investors, the biggest of which put the squeeze on Microsoft to kick some more cash into the deal. Get it done now, the unspoken message screamed.

To use a basketball analogy, Microsoft may want to emulate Rick Pitino's full-court pressure, while Yahoo has placed its faith in the old Dean Smith four-corner offense. Kara Swisher at All Things D dismissed the idea of a quick answer from Yahoo today:

It is more likely that Yahoo will take its sweet time in dragging this out a bit longer, in order to either keep looking for alternatives (getting about as easy now as finding Big Foot) or getting a few more dollars out of Microsoft to save face (”Really, we have leverage! Really!”)

It's not quitting time in Sunnyvale yet, even though the sun has set on the East Coast. One would think Jerry Yang owes his employees, and his legacy, a quick, decisive answer. A week after Microsoft's offer became public, that hasn't happened.