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News
Manchester united: Manchester University and Umist v-cs speak for the first time about plans to merge and create a super-university

Features
Avi Shlaim outlines a new way forward in the Middle East
Pushing 50: new series on teaching in a mass-participation system
Stephen Jay Gould's bid for the intellectual history books

Books
The Poetic Museum : the director of the National Portrait Gallery disagrees with Julian Spalding's new book. Focus : biological science; social sciences; and humanities journals